Participating artists:

Ana Likar (SLO)
Florian Berger (AUT) & Sara Bissen (KAZ)
Gabriele Edlbauer (AUT)
Jiyoon Lee (KOR)
Laura Hatting (GER)
Lukas Dworschak (AUT) & Sebastian Doringer (AUT)
Sophie Vitovec (AUT)
Stefan Wirnsperger (AUT)

Based on archival documents from the photo-collection of Austrian Film Museum I will challenge the question in how far FILM as an event, hence as an experience can be traced/documented/re-animated outside the darkness of the cinema. Through pairwise comparison of singular artifacts in various medias, correspondences and oppositions might shed light of what - and in which fashion - can be reflected and illuminate the state of mind from the past.  And equally important, which questions they might still conceal.

Date: April 8, 2019; 16:30–16:45
Workshop duration: 09:00–17:30 

Workshop with contributions by:
Eva Horn, Michael Wagreich, Colin Waters, Matt Edgeworth, Jürgen Renn, Manfred Laubichler, Christoph Rosol, Katrin Hornek, Franz Mauelshagen, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

What is reality, how can we believe what we see, and what are the conditions of art have been recurring questions in Ernst Caramelle’s work since he first began exhibiting in the mid-seventies. "Art is a fake" has been his creed ever since. 

memoiré et doublier is the title of an exhibition Katrin Mayer developed for the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in 2013. The title indicates relevant procedures of her site-specific practice. Derived from the terms ‚Moiré‘ et ‚Doublierware‘ it describes an unforeseen shift within a pattern or raster which occures during printing or weaving processes.

As part of the course, we will talk about Artistic Research. Alongside my own research project, we will follow the digitization process of the anthropogenic Viennese underground into a 3D-modeled landscape through excursions, texts and talks. From the physical sample to its data record, from terrestrial body to avatar, from location to geo-location.

"Whether inside the white cube or out in the Nevada desert, whether architectural or landscape-oriented, site-specific art initially took the ‘site’ as an actual location, a tangible reality, its identity composed of a unique combination of constitutive physical elements...” This is one of the first sentences of Miwon Kwon's seminal text "One place after another: Notes on Site Specificity" (1997), which suggests that the 'site' has been interpreted in many ways since the beginnings of (explicitly) site-specific art.

1. Salty, Smoky, Oily: Mold making for gourmets and beginners
The class is an introduction to mold making and casting with diverse materials (silicone, plaster, alginate, acrylic resin, concrete etc) for building both lost and re-usable molds.

2. Moulage dynamique - project based mold making
The course takes place in a project-oriented way and with consideration of the interests of the participating students. The aim is to collectively find and realize casting solutions.

The work Brace grasped at the threads coming loose from the fabric of concise interpretation of the self as the result of an upbringing, and a formal education as an artist.

Etymology:

From the Ancient Greek αủ (aû, “back, again, other”) +‎ τόν (tón, “the”). AYTOS is the Latin script transliteration for the Ancient Greek term AUTOS. (from dictionary.com)

auto-1,
 a combining form meaning “self", “same", “spontaneous", used in the formation of compound words:
autograph, autodidact.

Also especially before a vowel, aut-.

Origin of auto-1
 Greek, combining form of autós self

Katrin Hornek’s work playfully engages with the strange paradoxes and convergences of living in the age of the Anthropocene, that is, the new geologic epoch where the effects of capitalism, colonialism, and extractivism are written into the body of the earth.

This Round Table #3 was accompanied by interventions and exhibitions developed during the courses Activate the Shadows by Johanna Tinzl and Territories of Art after the Anthropocene by Mechtild Widrich within the summer semester 2018.

How can geographical concepts that incorporate the impact of humans be understood aesthetically and politically? How do artists deal with territories and demarcation attempts by states and political entities? How do they discover territories or activate them in their imaginations, be they rural, urban, or virtual (or even extraterrestrial or microscopic)?

From Heavenly Maneuvers to Atmospheric Turmoil.
Aesthetic, Political, and Ecological Dimensions of Sky Art and Space Art

Imaginary Islands. A Journey Around Andreas Gursky’s Dubai World

Can the High Modernism of Yugoslav Monuments Be Viewed as a Trojan Horse of Capitalism in Socialism?

Territory of Care.
A Planetary Perspective in Architecture and Urbanism

Excursion: October 25th, 2018
Visiting the Weltmaschine
and Styrassic Park

Over the course of four years, the artist Katrin Hornek cooperates with Michael Wagreich, a member of the Anthropocene working group, in order to develop an interdisciplinary project that maps, quantifies and contextualises the Viennese underground. The project is based at the Department of Site-Specific Art and aims to develop different formats of exchange between artistic research, practice and teaching.

1. Salty, Smoky, Oily: Mold making for gourmets and beginners
The class is an introduction to mold making and casting with diverse materials (silicone, plaster, alginate, acrylic resin, concrete etc) for building both lost and re-usable molds.

2. Moulage dynamique - project based mold making
The course takes place in a project-oriented way and with consideration of the interests of the participating students. The aim is to collectively find and realize casting solutions.

The "perspectives" of the photographers or the graphic designers do not always correspond to those of the artists. On the one hand the artist is required to articulate precisely his/her "point of view" or to bring the different components (image-text layout) into a form by themselves.

Künstlerische Herangehensweisen an das digitale Arbeiten #1:
Grundlagen

Künstlerische Herangehensweisen an das digitale Arbeiten #2:
Vertiefende Kenntnisse
 

Do you computer? And if yes, how and what? If this course was a Digital Arts Programme, #1 would be the Bachelor, #2 the Master.

The focus will be site specific strategies in terms of intervention into and disruption of the social use of public space. We will talk about the self-organisation of space and language in relation to: setting up autonomous spaces for meeting and exchange (Education); setting up autonomous channels of the audio-visual communication (Television), and setting up autonomous channels of oral and sonorous communication (Radio). The gallery will be used as a space to develop and experiment with diverse related strategies of self-organisation.

As a writer I'm interested in the translation of images into language, either in simple or complex descriptions, metaphors or new word creations. As artists, you often have to deal with the reverse problem: You have to find words for the images or ways how to integrate text into the artistic piece you're working on.

Excursion from July 3rd - 6th, 2018
Visiting the Manifesta12 in Palermo

Site-Specific Art class present
 

A new format of fest with the art touch ...

The city where most of us live is considered to be an international capital of culture and the arts. This is also reflected in the touristic marketing of Vienna. In this talk, on the one hand, I want to look at another Vienna: that of science and its popular representations and its public places. On the other hand, I’d like to discuss how site-specific art could help to make science in the city more visible.

MAUVE is a artist-run space based in Vienna, Austria. Since its inaugural show in 2012, MAUVE’s mission has been to explore various ways of exhibition making. MAUVE investigates the possibilities of the exhibition as an art form. Always closely collaborating with the artists involved in the exhibitions, MAUVE strives to bring artistic production, discourse and experimental modes of curating closer together.

Tietchens: “No studies, no academic education, no scholarship, just pure learning by doing = self-taught appropriation of creative skills and handling of analogue and digital studio technology. I am my own Tonmeister.”

Paul Knight will talk through ideas concerning two main working areas of his practice, photography and weaving. Knight makes works which extend out of the domestic sphere, using quotidian objects and situations to engage with broader and narrowing ideas of politics and the sublime. Knight will discuss the intimate potential of both these forms and their shared inversion between perceived flatness and spatial volume.

200 years ago Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein“ was published – perhaps the first modern myth. Ever since, the story of Victor F. and his monster has haunted our imagination and informed discussions about artificial life and the relationships of nature, technology, and society. A key moment in the story describes the monster hiding in a small dark room, where it listens to voices and sounds, and observes human behaviour. The monster is recording.

We all need to get the balance right, between action and reflection ... With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock, be it through contemplation, prayer or even keeping a diary. Many have found the practice of quiet personal reflection surprisingly rewarding …
(extract from The Queen’s Christmas message. Queen Elizabeth. 2013) 

The course deals with the phenomenon of landscape and in particular with the forces behind the visual appearance of individual landscapes. What exactly is “landscape”? How do landscapes evolve? Why do certain cultural landscapes have certain characteristics - or in other words, why do they look like they look? What natural conditions are they based on and what economic, social and political circumstances and developments have shaped them? 

In the more recent Viennese architectural history, the Loos-House at the Michaelerplatz is of particular interest. Its determined renunciation from Historicism and Secessionism is an early example for radical reduction - no decor, no embellishments.
The architect Adolf Loos even wrote a polemic pamphlet in 1908 with the programmatic title 'Ornament und Verbrechen'.