Practices - Intervention/ Participation (Introduction) 2.0 SemStd

Location: DKT_02 im 2.OG/VZA7 (Room 225)
Dates: Wed, 10:00-12:30 am
            starting on Oct.9, 2024.

coupled course with:

Practices - Intervention / Participation II (Workshop): 1.0 SemStd.

Number of participants: max. 10 p. // no previous knowledge necessary

In WS 2024/ 2025 (and SS 2025), the seminar and workshop will focus in particular on topics of the EU project "SPACEX - Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange" (https://www.spacex-rise.org/), in which the Angewandte (under the direction of Barbara Holub) is a partner.
In October 2025, a "Townhall Event" will take place at the Angewandte Innovation Lab as a final event of SPACEX, which we will prepare in the summer semester as part of the seminar and workshops.

Special guest + collaborations with:

Susanne Prinz (Director of the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz/ Berlin):
Susanne Prinz, as curator and partner of SPACEX, will lead the workshop together with Barbara Holub as part of her residency at Angewandte.

Lucie Strecker (Angewandte Performance Lab):
The course will take place in cooperation with Lucie Strecker and her students, who will give an input on Oct.16. (before the workshop) and on Dec.11 on breathing, listening, voices.

The course teaches and discusses key artistic positions and practices from the 1960s to the present day (from Allan Kaprow, Situationists, Suzanne Lacy to Alexandra Pirici), whose innovative interventionist and performative practices are of major importance for current art production.
What is an artistic intervention?
What does "participation" mean?
_What does context mean?
How do artistic practices that engage in social criticism relate to "artistic autonomy"?
What framework conditions determine socially engaged artistic projects and how can they intervene in social processes?

We will focus specifically on the topic of "empathetic exchange" - also in preparation for the SPACEX "townhall event". We will discuss the following questions:
_With whom do I want/can I exchange?
Am I as an artist "obliged" to talk to everyone?
How does "empathetic exchange" relate to artistic "care" work?

In "Amor Mundi", Hannah Arendt states that "there is a difference between solidarity, which means the acceptance of differences and the welcoming of plurality, and empathy and equality, which attempt to flatten and condense". (see text by Samantha Rose Hill "What does it mean to love the world? Hannah Arendt and Amor Mundi" : https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/what-does-it-mean-to-love-world-hannah-arendt-and-amor-mundi [09.07.2024].)

 

 

Active participation in the seminar and the workshop:

_Discussion on "empathetic exchange"
_Conceiving and testing of small interventions/exercises in Vienna
_Drawings and sketches on artistic-urban intervention
_Documentation of the project
The skills are taught in the course.

_Concluding discussion + presentation:
The students will show the interventions of the workshop as well as their  contributions to "empathetic exchange" in the final presentation in VOZ 7.

Anrechenbar: für Studienfach KKP (Bachelor), sowie für andere Studienfächer:
Seminar (Bachelor), 2 ECTS; Workshop, 1 ECTS

This course is open for all students - not only for KKP students. According to the experience / background of the students, the content will be adapted.

The course is designed for students of KKP, but open to all students - especially to exchange ideas and learn from each other across disciplines.
It takes place in cooperation with the courses of Lucie Strecker (APL).

The topic "empathetic exchange" will be continued in the summer semester 2025 in order to prepare and design the SPACEX "Townhall Event" in Oct. 2025. Students are invited to play an active role in this and to enter into an exchange with the international SPACEX network.