Description
Opened in the fall of 2020, the department of Artistic Strategies offers interdisciplinary courses to students affiliated with departments of the ‘Institute of Arts and Society’ and across the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Our teaching approaches artistic strategies as a result of thorough examinations of how research, methods, artistic discourses and practices are in interrelations, focusing on the complex process of defining, experimenting and implementing specific artistic strategies. We investigate how artists provide innovative methods and practices to envision new forms of civic imaginations, subjectivities, communities, knowledge production and dissemination, offering new perceptions and a comprehension of the challenges of our time. For the years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023, the department engages with notions of representation, self-representation, agency and strategies of public visibility of groups subjected to social and political exclusions. Originating from the research of our students, this editorial platform offers a visual and textual examination of their projects developed, presented or produced within the framework of the courses, seminars and workshops of Artistic Strategies during the academic year 2021-2022. We extend our warmest thanks to our students and colleagues and express our deepest gratitude for their support with the development of our teaching.
