This course is research-based, project-based, site-specific and collaborative.

It will be co-taught by Anne Faucheret and Thomas Geiger. For administrative purposes, it is necessary to register for both LVs with their respective course numbers

  S05664 (Thomas Geiger) + S05663 (Anne Faucheret)

It will take place exclusively in RoomingInn in Hirschstetten, a social hub located in a former kindergarten, which will host us for the duration of the semester. It explores how artistic strategies can be implemented within social structures and everyday contexts, and how they can truly interact with the dwelling communities.

The course centers on art as social research and art as social practice, explored through walking as a performative medium and bannering as a form of publishing. Building on the knowledge of the region developed in previous workshops, students will activate their understanding of its histories, geographies, and social dynamics through situated encounters and collaborative actions.

We will delve into the history of walking performances and combine it with experimental publishing strategies. While the Rooming Inn serves as our headquarters, thinking space, and heart-chamber, we will move outward to physically connect it with its surroundings.

We will develop walking performances that deliberately generate situations for social encounter in public space. Publishing will emerge directly through the act of walking—in and out of these interactions. As traces, collaborative gestures, and collectively articulated expressions, public statements will materialize during the movement itself. Movement thus becomes a method of collective production, of publi(c)shing. Back at the Rooming Inn, a growing archive and living reflection of the processes set in motion outside will gradually take shape.

The course will provide the conceptual and methodological framework for the development, contextualization, reflection, production and realization of a collective project, that will be presented in public on June 25th. 

Students will not only learn the principles and impact of art as social practice, but also take responsibility to organize a collective project for the dwelling communities around. They will gain hands-on experience in every step of the process—from conceptualization and planning to execution, communication, and dismantling. 

Attendance, engagement and participation during the course will be evaluated.

Assignments as preparations before and during the course will be regularly given. They can take the shape of material preparation, scores' writing and artworks' and texts' presentations.

The involvement in the production and realization  of the collective project will be evaluated as well. 

The two courses of Transdisciplinary Project Work are complementary. Please register for both courses.

Both courses represent 10 ECTS, each 5 ECTS : Students will be expected to do a substantial amount of work beyond the sessions.  

Attendance is key in these courses. Absences should be excused. 

The course is a collective endeavour – it will demand reliability, engagement, respect and mind-openness. Also, it will demand an intensive engagement in June, as we will be working on finalizing the project(s), on the rehearsals and set-up.

The public showing will take place on June 25.