Perspectives of Professional Practice

Terms like marketing, project implementation, entrepreneurial self-employment hover over you like a sword of Damocles - you know you might need them at some point, but you're unsure if you want to dive deep into the subject matter?
Our course will provide an introduction and overview of the above concepts in twelve units. Colleagues and alumni of the Angewandte will give a first insight into the conceptual matter, talk about their own professional practice and be available for questions in a subsequent discussion. In the context of this course there will be two excursions in the Vienna area.

ATTENTION: This course is a co-teaching format. In order to receive all ECTS points, please attend both seminars with the title "Perspektiven beruflicher Praxis" (Lecturers: Alexandra Graupner and Angelika Zelisko, course numbers: S04219 and S04221).
Dates

This course will be held in English

Prerequisites for grading:
regular participation (unexcused absence in maximum 1 session)
active participation
punctual handing in

1. Session 13.03. 10:30 - 12:30
Intro and Lecture Overview: the Why, How and Who

2.Session 20.03. 10:30 - 12:30
“The Big Picture” - Themes & Contents: Introduction to project management, financing your idea and the institutional landscape (who can help me with what I'm doing?)

3. Session 10.04. 10:30 - 12:30 
WOLFGANG FIEL on perspectives of artistic empowerment (https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2023W/S04232/)

4. Session 17.04. 10:30 - 12:30
Guest: ALEXANDER DAMIANISCH - Artistic Research in Practice (https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2024S/S70159/ + https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2024S/S04982/)

5. Session 24.4. 10:30 - 12:30
Guest: ANTOINETTE RHOMBERG on entrepreneurial self-employment. Price calculation, tax, new self-employment or which business form do I choose? Accounting, social security... Antoinette gives a short insight into the contents of her course (https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2024S/S03014/) and is happy to answer your questions.

6.Session 08.05. 10:30 - 12:30
KARL SALZMANN on artistic project implementation as a professional practice (https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2023W/S04231/)

7. Session 15.05. 10:30 - 12:30
ALUMNI Session: Each semester we invite different alumni from the Angewandte who talk about their practice, their approach to make a living as an artist. In this session we welcome PHILOMENA STRACK (https://www.philomenastrack.com) alumna of the design studio Stefan Diez.

8. Session 22.05. 10:30 - 12:30
PRACTICAL UNIT: Vienna Business Agency Vienna Business Agency about their offer for self-employment and funding opportunities (funding for the self-employed, support in application processes, good practice examples, workshops on all aspects of self-employment).

9. Session 29.05. 10:30 - 12.30
Guest: STEPHAN HILPOLD on communication and press work

10. Session 05.06. 10:30 - 12:00 
ELSY LAHNER, curator for contemporary art at Albertina,  on curatorial practices 
https://www.albertina.at/forschung/malerei-skulptur/kurator_innen/

11. Session 12.06. 10:30 - 12:30
Review Session and on creating a proposal