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If monuments are public expressions of what societies care to remember, they also have to be understood as evidence to what societies choose to forget. Deadly colonial imperialism and patriarchal power glorified in stone or metal are the memory infrastructure of our cities. Can public space be freed from the violence of monuments? Can a democratic public space become the site for representing monumental worries?  We argue for an activist ethics of im/permanent material articulations, spatial and visual solidarity, shared concerns, and planetary care. 

Margot Pilz (*1936 in Haarlem (NL), raised in Indonesia, lives in Vienna) belongs to the very first concept and media artists.

Sara Ghalandari erhält den Vanessa Preger-McGillivray-Preis 2022 der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien und der Stadt Wien.

Circle as Space wird im Rahmen der Sponsionsfeier am 10. März 2021 gezeigt, wo auch der Vanessa Preger-McGillivray-Preis seiner Preisträgerin übergeben wird.

Gentrifizierung is marching on Gruppe Bussi ditto! Still one step ahead we just moved in to where city development ist planning its next attack on the ornaments of autonomous spaces.
 

We bring the fireworks, you bring the dinosaurs.
 

PS: All the donations at the event will go to an organisation supporting people affected by the war in Ukraine. 
 

PPS: Please be tested as usual. 

Mechtild Widrich joins us as guest professor in the Department of Site-Specific Art for the summer semester 2022.
She will offer the course “Monumental Cares”.

Amidst public debate concerning problematic monuments, we are in urgent need of a geographically broad and historically deep understanding of monuments and memorials. We will look at the complicated relationship between monuments, history, the public, and free speech; the various endeavors by artists and activists to democratize public art, the rise of counter-monuments, living memorials, performance as a site of memory and resistance, as well as various practices of vandalism, parody, and subversion. 

How do we view the city from the pasture and the pasture from the city? What will happen if we blur the borders between them as shepherds do between the states? Where can we find shepherds these days? Do they have answers to our climate troubles? This 3 day symposium of shared knowledge, cinema and music will prepare us for collective imagination about our pastoralist future on the grazelands around the city Bratislava, Slovakia.

The mural »Nobility of Labor« by the artist Franz Kralicek, perhaps realized in collaboration with the artist Elisabeth Benedikt, at the corner of Faulmanngasse/Operngasse in Vienna's 4th district, presumably in 1937 or 1938, is the starting point for my course.

We will build a world. This is very easy: Every story creates a world. This is also very hard: As story-telling, story-believing and story-sharing animals, we are not satisfied with just any other world. We want to collectively imagine stories, maps, figures, gestures, languages, games that help us to think and think with. We say: "We need new stories!" We ask: Why? How? Which ones?

Der Kurs setzt sich mit performativen Formaten auseinander, die unser Zusammenkommen problematisieren und dabei aktuelle ästhetische und politische Diskussionen fokussieren. 
 

Die Studierenden entwickeln einzeln oder in Gruppe eigene Arbeiten – die Präsentations- und Dokumentationsart ist offen. Performative Scores, Skripte, Skizzen, Szenarien etc. werden in der Gruppe besprochen, um dann zu einer Form-Finalisierung beim Angewandte Festival 2022 zu kommen.

Artistic Practice
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Online Registration and Submissions
of Application 12.01. - 28.01.2022

Exam week 
21.02. - 25.02.2022

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"Circle as Space" is an installation made of circular forms, dealing with the perception of the human body in space through the fluid relation between its individual fragments. From the very beginning – even as a fetus in a womb – until the end of our life, we claim space through our growth and existence. According to the circumstances, we expand or contract the physical and the mental space we claim in a room. 

In 2015 Andrea Lüth and Gerald Roßbacher founded the artist-run-space KLUCKYLAND in the 20th district Brigittenau in Vienna. The art space has two glass fronts and is therefore maximally directed outwards. Alongside solo- and group-exhibitions, they organize various events in KLUCKYLAND, which form the basis of the social function of the space.

https://kluckyland.com

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The department's OPEN House will take place on Wednesday, December 15, 2021. Students, lecturers and the team of the department will be at Zoom at 10 am and 4 pm to answer all of your questions concerning our program.

We built this space for us, closed the doors and protected our site with transparency. You can go through without coming, feel without touching, have without taking. Stay for us in self reflection. Share the care of perfectionism, breaks, anxiety, сonfidence, time passing, identity, breeding and disruption.

Image: Andrei Lumpan

At the very core of Nora Turato’s practice is language. In her work she translates information absorbed from her daily intake of articles, conversations, subtitles and advertising slogans into linguistic-visual scripts for videos, installations, artist books, murals and spoken word performances.

Sharing similar biographies in their education both as photographers and artists, Lisa Rastl and Claudia Rohrauer observe aspects of the photographic from within their applied working practice in order to turn them into the motifs of their artistic work. The technical and sociocultural foundations of the medium, but also Rastl and Rohrauers individual and personal working experiences serve as a pool of potential contents and tools to research photography and to photograph research at the same time.

Excursion: October 14, 2021
Visiting the exhibition
„Land, Ownership and Commons“

„A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably“, wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his work Philosophical Investigations. This course is dedicated to the „inexorable language“: the private, maybe even secret language - the mother tongue.

Ortsspezifische Performances hinterfragen – im Wiederstand gegen einen neoliberalen performativen Leistungsbegriff – ihr eigenes Potenzial, indem sie ihre medialen Grenzen performativ abschreiten und dadurch sichtbar machen: Spekulation statt Spektakel. Sie entwickeln Aufmerksamkeit für performative Situationen, untersuchen Möglichkeitsbedingungen, Orte selbst als Medium zu nützen. Künstlerische Formen wie Situationismus, Aktionismus, Postmodern Dance, Performance Art, zeitgenössischer Tanz denken – in all ihren Differenzen – Kunst in spezifischen raum-zeitlichen Ökonomien.

With your feet on the air and your head on the ground - Try this trick and spin it, yeah ... (Pixies: Where is my mind?)

Artistic Practice
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Künstler_innen: Francesca Aldegani, Alice von Alten, Hanna Burkart, Ursula Gaisbauer, Lukas Gritzner mit Aaron/Nora Scherer und Nikita Zhukovsky, Ana Likar und Christoph Voglbauer

Kuratorin: Nora Mayr 
Assistenz: Nathan Cha

What used to be the largest warehouse complex in then Yugoslavia, grew in the early ̓90s into a “living, dynamic commercial organism”, a shopping centre called City.

Deal With It. 
 

Raum/Buch

Performance and/as Site-Specific Art

Extracting volume from domestic space, or compressing found materials into sculptures have been some of the artist's applied strategies. Michael Strasser’s work investigates the shifting relationship between space and human. Through the appropriation of found spaces and architectural situations, he initiates the exposure of cultural and institutional systems of representation. 

Rosa Andraschek, Raphael Reichl,
Sara Ghalandari

Curated by Tsai-Ju Wu

“I went to the cinema with my mother when I was only 4 years old, because she was alone at home with a little kid and wanted to go out and be entertained.” Along concrete and fictional places in her work, Marlies Pöschl explores the question how temporary communities are being formed at filming locations, how cinema becomes a place of shared concerns.

Nicole Six is ​​visiting professor at the Department for Site-Specific Art in the summer term 2021.

By an experimental approach to public space, we want to look at the intersections of inherent social norms and the personal and political desires of each individual.
Within the course, we will define a certain public space, that will serve us as a stage for performative interventions and individual projects. The body and it`s current ambivalent state, will play a central role.

A forest is not just a place with many trees. The concrete surfaces of cities and exposed soil after timber and coal extraction heat the planet. Let's sunbathe together on a coal mining heap or a parking lot and let experts tell stories about the world that once was a forest and what happened next and continue this story now ourselves … From May 24–27 we will listen together to lectures, walk through the coal industry city of Ostrava and perform a film on a piece of a naked land.