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.