After the closing of the hotly debated documenta14 at both its sites, let’s dicuss an exhibition that has been a singularly risky enterprise: with a highly subtle curatorial stance renouncing signature works that has questioned documenta’s role as a showcase for contemporary art, an anthropologisation of artistic practice that has been critizied as re-colonisation, and a somewhat elusive, but highly politicized romanticism asking for a reinstitution of the body in conceptual and post-conceptual art while often hovering under individual radars of perception. What can we learn from the failures and successes of documenta14?

1. Salty, Smoky, Oily: Mold making for gourmets and beginners
The class is an introduction to mold making and casting with diverse materials for building both lost and re-usable molds.

2. Sticky, Tricky, Dodgy: Advanced mold making for the motivated and sophisticated
The course takes place in a project-oriented way and with consideration of the interests of the participating students. For participating in the course, a basic knowledge of mold making and casting is advantageous.

The seminar discusses interventions, works, monuments, Percent-for-art programs and public exhibition situations in Vienna. Typologies of passage to central squares of monuments as well as their implicit requirements but also the concrete everyday life beyond protected art spaces will be analysed. 

Holzarbeiten für Fortgeschrittene

Die LV ist als Fortsetzung des Grundkurses, oder für Studierende mit handwerklicher Vorbildung gedacht. In der LV soll das Umsetzen von Projekten im Bereich Holz möglich sein. Die LV wird geblockt im Anschluss an den Grundkurs abgehalten.
Base Angewandte
 

Foto: Nikolaus Fuchs

If this course was a Digital Arts Programme, #1 would be the Bachelor, #2 the Master, but since it is just a course within the curriculum of Ortsbezogene Kunst, the first hashtag covers the basics, the second explores the deeper layers of how to computer. Kind of: Pflicht vs. Kür. 

Unsound ecologies – performative assemblages:

We will discuss current theories & positions on the relation of nature and technology, of ecologies beyond biological systems and post-humanism. Employing methods of performative research and auditive settings, the course will play and enact a sound studio environment to trigger, record and process Frankenstein’s monsters as radio pieces.