Research Catalogue

Clarissa Thieme is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher based in Berlin, DE and Vienna, AT. Her films, installations, and performative interventions focus on the fissures between individual memory and its translation into processes of historical objectification. Since the early 2000s, several collaborations have taken her to the post-Yugoslav space. Her upcoming work explores a living archive as a new commons and vulnerability as an artistic strategy of resistance and solidarity. Thieme co-founded ARchipelago, a site-specific archiving platform, and the open-archive initiative Između Nas/Between Us at the Sarajevo Video Archive. She studied Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and Cultural Studies at the University of Hildesheim, DE. She is a Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS) alumna. Currently, she is a PhD candidate (Dr. Artium) at the Artistic Research Center (ARC) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw). www.clarissathieme.com