After successful completion of the course, students are able to..After positive completion of the course, students are able to...
• apply the basics and basic skills of visual communication (photography, video).
• name the theoretical foundations of contemporary artistic methods, strategies and production methods.
• implement small independent projects.
• critically examine the role of art in society by jointly developing alternative forms of action in public spaces.
• know the history and current forms of art in public space.
The courses will be held in German.
Summerterm 2020:
Qu[e]erField+Many - Donaufeld Vienna
Introduction: monday, 9.3.2020 at 12 a.m.,
Seminar room AC0440, Karlsplatz 13, 4. Floor, Stair 4
In the summer semester, the former greenhouse at Nordmanngasse 60, 1210 Vienna, is the focus of our activities. It is still located in the middle of fields, which will soon give way to residential buildings. The urban planning approach to this very special part of Vienna, which is also endowed with the most fertile soil in Austria, gives rise to the feeling that the existing is not perceived, despite all the commitment to participation.
The greenhouse itself is to be demolished and replaced by a school campus. The idea now is to integrate the greenhouse into the school campus as a place of learning and local community.
From October 2018 to October 2019, the artist collective Club Real realized the project in and around the greenhouse: JENSEITS DER NATUR_Volksherrschaft im Garten. The aim was to implement a garden democracy as an artistic-political experiment and growing monument in public space.
(See: https://www.koer.or.at/projekte/jenseits-der-natur/)
We take this work as a starting point, both in terms of content and location, to deal with questions of - not only human - coexistence. Is there really only this one possibility for the development of the area, whose special character would be lost once and for all? Shouldn't we think and develop many alternatives in the face of the disasters (heating, extinction of species, etc.) that threaten the common habitation of the earth? What can this mean for a particular local place?
To this end, we will - as an extension of the Club Real project - take a closer look at various artistic positions and examples that deal with this topic, as well as examine their theoretical background. Posthuman theories as well as approaches of (queer)feminist political ecology will be discussed. The focus will be on activist, community-oriented practices in art and their role in urban development. Art as research as well as research as means and strategy in art will be part of our approach.
From this intensive, content-related engagement, smaller, artistic projects will be developed, which together will address the potential and significance of preserving the greenhouse.
Contact & Informations: i.manka@tuwien.ac.at
Kernfächer (10 ECTS)
264.115 | Kunst und Autonomie (Art and Autonomy)| Barbara Holub | 1,0 h VO / 1,0 ECTS
264.114 | Kunst und öffentlicher Raum (Art and Public Space)| Michael Zinganel | 1,5 h VO, 1,5 ECTS
258.034 | Methoden der Implementierung (Methods of Implementation) | Inge (Ingrid) Manka | 2,0 h VU, 2,5 ECTS
264.113 | Offene künstlerische Konzepte und Praktiken (Open Concepts and Practices in Art)| Christine Hohenbüchler | 2,0 h VU, 2,5 ECTS
264.126 | Phänomene der Zweckästhetik (Phenomena of Every Day Aesthetics)| N.N. | 2,0 h VU, 2,5 ECTS
Ergänzungsfächer (+5 ECTS)
264.116 | Konzeptuelle Fotografie (Conceptual Photography)| Michaela Schwentner | 2,0 h VU, 2,5 ECTS
264.117 | Videokonzeption und - produktion (Conception &-production of Video Films)| Isa Rosenberger | 2,0 h VU, 2,5 ECTS
Contact & Questions: Inge Manka / i.manka@tuwien.ac.at
