Melissa Logan

Melissa Logan ist im Bundestaat New York aufgewachsen, wo sie auch ein Kunststudium begann. Nach einem Aufenthalt in London gründete sie 1997 an der ­Münchner Kunstakademie mit Alex Murray-Leslie das Performance-Kollektiv Chicks On Speed. Bislang sind sechs Alben erschienen.Nonkonform, feministisch, partizipativ - Chicks on Speed ist ein multimodal, multi- nationales Kollektiv.
Die Chicks on Speed haben mit zahlreichen Künstlern und Institutionen verschiedener Bereiche wie Douglas Gordon, Francesca von Habsburg, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Peaches, Karl Lagerfeld oder Peter Weibel vom ZKM in Karlsruhe zusammengearbeitet. In den letzten Jahren waren ihre Live-Art Performances weltweit bei wichtigen Festivals wie der Biennale in Venedig und in renommierten Museen wie dem Centre Pompidou in Paris, dem MoMA in New York und dem Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney zu erleben.
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Teaching and Lectures:
2015
Berlin Weissensee, Lecture.
2015
HKS Hochschule für Künste und Sozialen Ottersberg. Performance Theory, fall/winter symester 2015
Workshop and Performance. Kunstakadamie Düsseldorf, March 03- April 19. Performance concept development, theory and practice with Keren Cytther class. The resulting performances too place at NADA, Art Cologne, April 15-19 and in Venice for the Finnish Pavillion opening celebrations of the Venice Biennale. I
Lecture. “An introduction to Objektinstruments and the project Chicks on Speed” Green Papaya Artist Space, Manila, Ph
Panel discussion Art and Science with Lynn Hershmann Leeson, PS 1 MoMA, New York, USA (22.02.2015)
Lecture ‘Women under Surveillance’. KHM Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Cologne, D
Lecture “The University of Craft, Action, Thought” Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, D

2014
HAW Hamburg/Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Department: Design
Blockseminar: Theory
Titel (Thema) der LV:
Subversion & Guerilla Tactics in Art & Culture
SCREAM, Design Hub, RMIT University, Melbourne, AUS
Summer of Surrealism, Deutsches Filminstitut Frankfurt
RMIT University, Melbourne, AUS. summer symester workshop on creative concepts, building group ideas for performance and presentation, Theory, Performance and object design.
Lecture. “Surrealism and DADA in the work on contemporary art and culture”. Summer of Surrealism, Deutsches Filminstitut Frankfurt,
2013
Caberet Voltair, Zurich, S
2012
Performance Lecture with curator Milovan Farronato, MiArt,Milan Art Fair, I
Lecture, University IUAV, Venice, I
Lecture & Workshop with Sabine Seymour, Hangar, Barcelona, E
Gruntvig, European Union initiative, Lecture series, Kyseri, TR
Raum Blau, Hamburg, D on Humor in Art
2011
Chicks on Speed, don’t Art, fashion, Music, book launch & lecture, Corso Como 10, Milan, I
Chicks on Speed, don’t Art, fashion, Music, book launch & lecture, Gallery Mutt, Barcelona, E
2010
Lecture, Prototype, Symposium, convened by the Victoria & Albert
Museum & Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, UK
2009
Objektinstruments, Kuala Lumpur lecture in a furniture shop.
Objektinstruments, Taipei, Taiwan.TLecture and demo.
2008
“Fashion as Song”, performance lecture, L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, AUS
Centre for The Moving Image (ACMI) Melbourne, AUS
“Play It Loud” Panel discussion, Adelaide Arts Festival, AUS
Women in Research, workshop and residency, Monash University, AUS
“Art Rules” lecture Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, J (Melissa)
Elisava School of Art and Design, lecture, Barcelona, E (Alex)
2007
'Building Fashionabel Machines ' Rotterdam ( fashion & circuitbending)
Aachen
2006
The Influencers, CCCB, Barcelona, E
2004
Book Launch “Chicks on Speed, It’s a Project” CFA Gallery, Berlin, D
Book Launch “Chicks on Speed, It’s a Project” Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Book Launch “Chicks on Speed, It’s a Project” Foyals Book shop London, UK
2003
The Art of Pop, Goldsmiths Collage of Art, London