Research Catalogue

Currently working from Beirut, Lebanon, Mona Kriegler is a researcher in Middle Eastern art and politics with a focus on political writing through poetic frameworks. Her doctoral project is based on a series of dialogues with artists from Iraq and Iraq Kurdistan investigating how artistic practices deal with the precariousness and absences of freedom(s) (unfreedoms) while negotiating the plural conditions and contexts of their research, making and display. As part of her research she developed the ongoing collaborative project The Autonomy Of Pain which is based on multiple conceptions of brokenness and suture in the context of the city (Baghdad and Beirut). 

She is interested in: 

- research as an external and outside(r) activity and a continuous, incomplete and fractured work in progress

- the politics of mediation: the question of autonomy in the relationship between mediator and mediated

- dialogue and the activity of listening 

- the ethics of collaboration and the question of authorship and hierachies of voices

- the shift from theory to practice: the necessity of going through the process of making

- how do artistic practices, and processes, lead to new advances in knowledge? 

- the idea as a travelling concept: faciliating connections between researcher and research subjects, between here and there (the place or space research originates from)

- the artist studio as a space where new advances in knowledge are produced, negotiated and discussed 

- the absence of knowledge: if we don't know, is responsibility then absolved? 

- the responsibility of knowledge: once we know we are responsible