OPEN CIRCLES

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3 June 2025, 19:30 OPEN CIRCLES – A CONVERSATION ABOUT ARTISTIC RESEARCH AND SUSTAINABILITY How can art and research work together to open up new perspectives on sustainability? In this live dialogue at MQ Summer Stage, Main Courtyard, Vienna we will explore the question of what constitutes artistic research: Who shapes it? What does it need? What topics does it address? And how can it influence our perception? Especially with regard to ecological challenges, art opens up new ways of thinking and feeling. It also helps us to develop a sensitivity for the non-human – for plants, animals or other life forms. Current threats not only lead to an environmental crisis, but also to a crisis of perception: the emotional connection to nature is weakening. The artistic researchers Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond, Ernst Logar, Jeanette Müller and Paul Divjak as well as Christoph Weber present their perspectives in this dialogue. Together with members of the Shaken Grounds research project, they will provide insights into their methods – from sounds and words to objects, scents and performative interventions. At the end, we invite you to a film screening of ‘Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies’. The film by Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Victor Jaschke, Peter Kozek, Werner Moebius und Lucie Strecker in cooperation with Arno Böhler, Nicolas Freytag, und Sylvia Scheidl impressively shows how our environment resonates in our bodies and documents art-based seismographic research. Moderation: Alexander Damianisch, University of Applied Arts Vienna. Open Circles is an event organised in cooperation with the Support Art and Research of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, free entry.

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