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!

Painitz’ Planierung der Alpen (1968-1971) questions the relation of culture and nature and suggests the pouring of concrete and the leveling of the alps in order to emphasize the artificial and the human-made against the naturally grown. His interest in logic and systematic image shaping processes led to this clear demand that nature should not have any impact anymore, as art and nature are contraries and furthermore, nature, especially mountains, is preventing from movement and flexibility.

Landscapes of the Anthropocene
Humans make Nature

The thesis of the anthropocene — which argues that we have changed our planet and its ecosystem so irreversibly that the idea of an intact landscape has become invalid and that we have become a geological factor — demands a new definition of the relation between humans and nature, as well as a fundamental revision of our concepts.

Queer Ecologies, Unintentional Aesthetics and Other Conundrums of the Plastic Age

Plastic is one material that scientists are currently considering as a ‘golden spike’ for the Anthropocene.

The Archaeosphere: Beyond the Surface of Anthropocene Landscapes

Landscapes have depth. They have vertical as well as horizontal stratigraphy. In mapping the densely-wrought terrain of the anthropocene, we must do more than merely chart the surface. The depth to which the material trace of human influence extends downwards is as important as the lateral extent of surface features.

Touched Nature

Since Eugene Stoermer and Paul Crutzen proposed to rename our current geological epoch in the year 2000 in an attempt to reflect man-made changes to planet Earth, the idea of an “Anthropocene” is going viral. Natural scientists, humanities scholars, artists, politicians, environmentalists and others are trying to grasp and explore the significance of this new concept and to understand its implications.

Black Paradises of the Anthropocene.
A Critique of Calculability

The Anthropocene, whose onset Paul Crutzen locates in the late eighteenth century, regards the world as a closed system, to be understood in terms of its limits. At about the same time as the Anthropocene’s beginnings, the economist Thomas Malthus also attempted to calculate the limits of the world.

Statement by Matt Edgeworth

It was quite amazing to find that, in participating in the roundtable discussion on ‘Mensch Macht Natur’ (Humans Make Nature) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, we were also helping to make a work of art. In preparation for the event, the floor of the entire room had been tiled with an unusual polystyrene-like or soft plastic material by members of the Landschaftskunst department.

The class meets Susan Philipsz to talk about her work "War Damaged Musical Instruments (Pair)".

Klaffen, Glotzen, Gähnen – gape: Folgen wir der Sprache, vor allem ihrem Sinn (untrennbar vom Nonsense), über Landesgrenzen hinaus. Dann ist the Land´s Gape ziemlich nah bei the Landscape. Dann steht die Landschaft der Wirtschaft, der Herrschaft und anderen Schaften nicht näher als dem Klaffen des Grundes, dem Gähnen des Bodens und dem Glotzen des Landes. 

Das Seminar widmet sich ausgehend von exemplarischen Diskursen den Utopien von Landschaft. Künstlerische Strategien der 1960er-Jahre werden auf ihr Verhältnis zu Natur sowie Wahrnehmung und Mediadisierung hin untersucht. Zur Diskussion gestellt werden Aneignungen von Wüste und deren thematische Bezüge auf Topoi wie Entropie oder der Natur als Museum etwa bei Robert Smithson. Die Blockveranstaltung bereitet auf den Round Table vor, der Methoden anderer wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen vorstellt, sich dem Phänomen Anthropozän zu nähern.

Mute witness, 2015

Christian Mayer invites visitors to share his focus on a palm tree located at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. At 170 years, this tree is one of the oldest living things in Los Angeles that can be evidenced with photographs.

Johanna Kirsch lives and works in Vienna. Her work deals with the search for freedom: exploring the extent existing ties, norms, regulations and borders are directly relevant or real to individuals and social needs, and how these realms of desires, and their phantoms are defined. Kirsch tests both concrete needs and the corresponding regulations, often physically. http://www.schrik.info

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Filmmaker James Benning visits the class to talk about his artistic background and strategies. He presents older works as well as his newest series "Two Cabins".

Guided tour through the Museum of Natural History with Stefanie Jovanovic, followed by a screening of „Natural History“ by James Benning.

Curator und art historian Claudia Slanar is head of the Blickle Kino at 21er Haus, Vienna. In 2003 she co-edited the first monography on James Benning. We will screen and discuss the film "El Valley Centro"

Chronologie eines Denkmals

1984: Seit damals existiert ein Gedenkstein im Donaupark - beim ehemaligen Militärschießplatz.
Oktober 1998: Die Arge Wehrdienstverweigerung u. a. errichten ein temporäres Deserteursdenkmal am Wiener Maria-Theresien-Platz.
1998/99: Studierende an der Uni Wien greifen das Thema auf.

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Abteilung für Ortsbezogene Kunst

Leitung Paul Petritsch (Six/Petritsch)

Team
Gabriele Edlbauer
Katrin Hornek
Ralo Mayer
Claudia Slanar
Maria Stepanek
Alena Urbankova

List of students and graduates