Kilian Jörg works at the multimedia interfaces between art and philosophy. Academically trained in both fields, he employs the expression of text as well as those of installation, performance, and music. He works as a DJ, is the founder of the collective philosophy unbound and operates in Berlin, Vienna and Brussels. His main field of research is that of ecological epistemology and life forms, as well as the trans-disciplinary borders between arts, philosophy and science. He is part of the performance research clusters Stoffwechsel – Ökologien der Zusammenarbeit and im_flieger and his PhD was titled Affirmation of Ecological Reasonings – What to do with Reasonability in the Anthropocene. He has published books about club culture, Die Clubmaschine (Berghain), Textem 2018 – with Jorinde Schulz; our micro-political involvement in the current political backlash, including scores for a more ecological relating to our modern environments Backlash – Essays zur Resilienz der Moderne, Textem 2020; and the invention of a speculative religion of waste and pollution Toxic Temple, Edition Angewandte / de Gruyter 2022 – with Anna Lerchbaumer. Currently he is working at the SFB Affective Societies of FU Berlin to write a book about the car as a metaphor for our toxic entanglement with modern lifestyles.
10.04.2022
