Diann Bauer is an artist and writer based in London. She studied both art and architecture at the Cooper Union in NY and Goldsmiths College, London. Much of her current work is collaborative and interdisciplinary, projects include:
- Laboria Cuboniks, a working group redefining a feminism adequate to a global 21st century with whom she wrote and published Xenofeminism, A Politics for Alienation in 2015.(laboriacuboniks.net). Most recently they have participated in a collaborative project with H.A.U.S. (robotics lab, TU, Vienna) towards a performative event call Alien Introspection.
- A.S.T. (the Alliance of the Southern Triangle http://a-s-t.co/#Home) is a working group of artists, architects and a curator that use the art field as a platform to broaden interdisciplinary collaboration about cities and climate change. The focus of the project is to conceive possible futures that are both reactive and propositional with regard to the shifting set of legal, economic, cultural and environmental forces that currently confront the globe. The work takes a range of forms than include video installations, publications and workshops. They recently completed works for Tamawuj, Sharjah Bienalle 13 curated by Christine Tohme and Memory Lab at the History Miami Museum.
Bauer has screened and exhibited internationally at Tate Britain, The ICA and The Showroom, London, Deste Foundation, Athens, The New Museum, and Socrates sculpture park, New York. She has taught and lectured widely at universities and cultural institutions including: Cornell University, Yale University and Cooper Union (US), HKW (Germany), DAI (Netherlands), Ashkal Alwan (Lebanon), The Tate and the ICA London.