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

Anwesenheit, aktive Mitarbeit, die sorgfältige Ausführung der gestellten Aufgaben sowie die Präsentation der Inhalte sind wesentliche Bestandteile der Benotung.

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