Senior Professor_in Mag. M.A. Ashley Hans Scheirl
Ashley Hans Scheirl (*1956 in Salzburg, lives in Vienna) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (diploma 1980). Between 1978 and 1986 Scheirl was involved in the performative music experiments of the groups 8 oder 9 and Ungünstige Vorzeichen. Between 1979 and 1996 Scheirl made over 50 Super-8 short films. From 1981-82 they lived in New York and worked for Arleen Schloss' weekly art and performance evening Wednesdays @ A's. Scheirl became known for the two experimental feature films Flaming Ears (1992) and Dandy Dust (1998). Scheirl lived in London for 16 years, where they became part of a scene of queer and transgender artists. In 2003 Scheirl completed a postgraduate degree in Fine Arts (M.A.) at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. After Scheirl's return to Vienna in 2005, he_she was awarded the Austrian State Scholarship for Visual Arts in 2006, the Art Prize of the City of Vienna in 2012 and the Austrian Prize for Visual Arts of the Federal Chancellery in 2019. From 2006 to 2022 Scheirl was head of the department 'Contextual Painting' at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. 2018-19 Artist-in-Residence of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in Berlin. In 2022 Scheirl represented Austria at the Venice Biennale together with Jakob Lena Knebl. In preparation: Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2023, Deichtorhallen 2024
Publications
Monographies (incl. exhibition catalogs):
Knebl, Jakob Lena; Scheirl, Ashley Hans; Kraus, Karola (eds): Softmachine, Biennale Arte Venezia 2022
Trummer, Thomas D. (ed): Seasonal Greetings, Kunsthaus Bregenz 2021
Droschl, Sandro (ed): Ashley Hans Scheirl, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz 2020
Stangl, Gerhild; Hofmann-Sewera, Katharina (eds): Scheirl, Hans: h_ dandy body_parts. Wir Zeigen, Vienna 2014
Braidt, Andrea B. (ed): [cyborg.net/z] - Catalogue on Dandy Dust (Hans Scheirl 1998), Vienna 1999
Anthologies
Steinbock, Eliza: “Shimmering Multiplicity: Trans*Forms in Dandy Dust and I.K.U. from Dada to Data to D@D@” in: Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004509-004
Steinbock, Eliza: “Groping Theory: Haptic Cinema and Trans-Curiosity in Hans Scheirl's Dandy Dust” in: The Transgender Studies Reader Volume 2, 2013, pp. 101-118
Mostegl, S., Ratzinger, G. (eds): Matrix. Geschlechter, Verhältnisse, Revisionen, Springer, Vienna/New York 2008
Dertnig, Carola; Seibold, Stefanie (eds.): Let's twist Again - Historic and contemporary positions of performance in Austria, Vienna 2006
Scheirl, Ashley Hans: “Manifesto for the dada of the cyborg-embrio” in: Dr.Golding, Sue (author, ed): The Eight Technologies of Otherness, Routledge 1997
Articles
Michon, Alex: “Daring Dionysian and Dandy” in: Garageland - art, culture and ideas, Issue 18: Sex; Transition Editions, London 2015
Reiche, Claudia: “Transmediale Netze - Zur Geschlechtlichkeit des 'Fernsehrauschens' in Hans Scheirl's Dandy Dust” in: Frauen + Film Magazine No. 65, Celluloid & Co, 2006