The focus of our program is to understand a site and its context as a driving force, a material to work with, as a place of activity, and a field for action. The students concentrate on approaches that make a site the point of departure for the artistic process.

Items are understood as impulses for memories within the work. The installation explores their symbolic and anecdotal features. The installation explores the subject-object relationship – via the interaction between subject and object in the installations’ setting, dialogs occur, the boarder between active and passive positions are dissolved.

Starting with the summer term 2016, the Department of Site-Specific Art is situated at a new location. A former dairy factory in Vienna's 3rd district will accommodate our new studio and workspace. To further the transdisciplinary exchange we will share space for exhibitions, seminars, lectures, wood and metal workshops, and for recreation with the department Sculpture and Space.

The search for characteristics, secrets, connections and relations of constructed, urban spaces. The collection of qualities, the photography of shapes, the imagination of structures and in turn the investigation of all this.

In her artistic work, Isa Rosenberger is particularly interested in political upheaval and both its social as well as economic consequences.

Hannes Zebedin´s practice explores political consciousness through the language of conceptual art and embraces a broad range of media including objects, installations, text works, performance and interventions often in relation to national monuments, as well as the acts of civil society and grass roots protest movements.

Raoul Bukor
Matt Edgeworth
Nikolaus Fuchs
Philipp Haupt
Nina Herlitschka
Katrin Hornek
Krassimira Kruschkova
Gabriele Mackert
Karin Raith
Claudia Slanar

Ausgehend von Satellitenaufnahmen und GIS-Daten gehen wir ins Format 1:1 - mit Maßband, Nivelliergerät und Distomat.

Artificial Islands

Our landing point for explorations will be several public fire pits on the Donauinsel. In BBQ meetings we will develop and discuss site-specific projects while thinking about our intimate interconnections with oily dinosaur bones, ice cream and Waluliso.

Künstlerische Herangehensweisen an das digitale Arbeiten im Medienverbund Audio, Video, Computer

What are the artistic issues involving digital technology today? What about the historical traditions of the „Aufschreibesysteme“ we work with?

Modernity is based on industrialisation and urbanisation, on faith in social and technological progress and the will to dominate nature. Yet, the most sensitive landscape paintings en plein air were produced in the early phase of Modernism.

Archaeological ways of seeing

Archaeologists have a distinctive way of seeing landscapes and cityscapes. The ground is more than just surface appearance. It has both actual and ontological depth to it.

1. „What to do with emotions?“ would be an alternative title to this seminar pointing to a problem in writing and talking about works of art: How to express or deal with an artwork that immediately affects us with a specific feeling, be it joy, anger, sadness or confusion? How can this affect be described without playing off the academic against the lyrical?

Performances
Projections, Installations
Concert, Sound
Pinboard Bar, Ice Bar

The work relocation/ a formation is about space and its order. It consists of contradictions which create a tension in between. The inside and the outside, the space and the void, the subject and the observer become entangled.

The installation deals with the analog parts in the digital world. Water. For the digital Cloud, a network of servers, water is needed to guarantee fast streaming times cooling the data center’s servers.

square dancing

If you use the search term “Guang Chang Wu” (Chinese for “square dancing”) on Baidu (China’s version of Google), you will get about 184 million items of news, 4,665 hits in music, 777 dancing groups, and of course numerous comments either supporting or disapproving. Guang Chang Wu is a collective public dance, which has been estimated to have 100 million participants in China. It has become a social phenomenon and cultural focus in China since years.

In August 2014 I: project space, one of the first off-spaces in Beijing, was founded by the German curators Anna-Viktoria Eschbach and Antonie Angerer.

The second edition of the art and research project Dark Ecology takes place from 26 to 30 November 2015. The Dark Ecology Journey begins in Kirkenes in Norway’s northern extremes and travels via Nikel and Zapolyarny (Russia) to Murmansk, the largest Russian city above the polar circle.

The debate on climate change is highly complex and goes far beyond our imagination, even though we continually invent new words, images, figures and graphs to grasp its complexity. But how do these images and metaphors work? And what imagery lingers?

Körpererfahrung

In contrast to the church, the theater and the cinema, the art exhibition provides a format for individualized viewers who decide themselves how they move around, what they spend time on and when they leave.

Excursion from Nov. 2nd - 6th
Visiting the Biennale di Venezia, Val Canale, architecture by Carlo Scarpa, Trieste, Ilirska Bistrica, Ljubljana, Vitanje

Ideas of Landscape and Film

Landscape is a notoriously vague term but architect Carl Sauer’s description of the material landscape as „an iconographic index of the mind“ seems a good starting point in many respects: It defines landscape as an expression of ideas, ideologies, cultural values and actions inscribed in a place.

Der Weltraum als reale und spekulative Landschaft

The course will explore space (as in "outer") in relation to the exploration of its physcial reality, its impact on the public's imagination in popular culture and visual art, as well as rather earthly political, social and economic implications.

BU-CON was founded in 2004 by artists in Detroit, MI, USA in an effort to inhabit the form of an infrastructure development company and effect an authorial position with respect to the troubling situation between technology and life systems in the world.

Oh, you are so full of references!

Through the lense of landscape and place we will explore various theoretic, essayistic and poetic texts  (among them Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze/Félix Guattari, Chris Kraus, Anna Mitgutsch, George Perec, Robert Smithson, Rebecca Solnit, etc. ...) and how they approach these contested topics.

Some places on earth obviously don't offer comfortable milieus to live in: the pole regions, deserts, windswept high plateaus and mountains, swamps etc. Nevertheless mankind has developed a large variety of strategies to cope even with the most unpleasant environments. 

As part of the Session „Contemporary Arts Practice and Outer Space: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach“ Ralo Mayer presented his paper „Space and Ecology“ at the 66th International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem.

Barbara Schröder is a publisher and editor at Dancing Foxes Press, founded in 2012 in New York. She will be talking about her practice of developing books with artists.

Courses by

Christian Falsnaes
Phillip Furtenbach
Krassimira Kruschkova
Gabriele Mackert
Ralo Mayer
Barbara Pichler
Karin Raith
Claudia Slanar

Konzept: Hanna Burkart, Ursula Gaisbauer, Christina Gruber, Marlies Gruber, Nora Gutwenger, Katharina Körner, Arvydas Umbrasas, mit Unterstützung von: Francesca Aldegani, Friedrich J. Engl, Elisabeth Falkinger, Natalia Gurova, Nadine Hirschauer, und Roland Plachy; Foto: Natascha Unkart

In this work I concentrate on the relationship between human and object and how this two consort and communicate during interacting. After repeated efforts, how, where and in what I see landscape, it was the equipment I was drawn to. The equipment which is forming and structuring landscape, it is my fetish in the broad field of visual perception of landscape.

A portrait of an ephemeral place.

The artists' book analyses ephemeral urban spaces that are unused and located at an intermediate stage and questions their role in an otherwise functional and use-oriented urban fabric.

Biolumonescence (Greek. Bios for life and lat. Lumens for light) is the ability of living organisms to produce visible light alone or with the help of symbiontic organisms by converting biochemical energy into light. The best known cases of biolumonescence are probably fireflies (Lympyris noctiluca), various fungi such as Armillaria and diverse marine organisms in deep sea.

Ursula Hansbauer, Wolfgang Konrad und Clemens Stachel reden über ihren Dokumentarfilm "Goldene Gene", der sich produktionsmäßig in der Zielgeraden befindet.

Vom Lift aus begangen liegt alles im Parterre. 2015

Eine Geschichte von horizontalen und vertikalen 1:1 Verhältnissen.

Eröffnungsfest am Schwendermarkt:
Samstag 6. Juni, 14:00-20:00 Uhr

Im Rahmen seiner Lehrveranstaltung „Land´s Gape: Öffentliches, angedacht im Kino“ zeigt Drehli Robnik am Montag, 1.6. das folgende Programm im Österreichischen Filmmuseum. Eintritt frei!