Heads: Univ. Prof. Dr. phil. Sofia Bempeza and Univ.- Prof. Dr. Annette Krauss
The
lynx’s tail is scratching the love pan. Posthumous creature is silent. Just follow its gestures, plant the words in your mouth,
shallow all big theories, salivate your food, learn how to chew. Your sweat is a memory. Your production is cursed. Nothing
is broken, except linearity. Unruly parts are not b-r-o-k-e-n. Tiny parts are broken, but no more comparisons. No bodyguards,
just bodies defending dirty words, engine fluids, and water.
Sofia Bempeza
Keine Bildung und
Kunst ohne Streben nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit.
Diesem Erbe sehe ich mich
verpflichtet.
Annette Krauss
Studying at the department
KKP, students engage with artistic and art pedagogical practices that are sensitive to differences within teaching and learning
processes. In this context students develop artistic/educational work, and consider the socio-political conditions
in which artistic/educational projects take place, how they are produced and located. In this way, students get prepared to
read images, texts and practices of today's societies from within artistic practice with regard to changing subjectivities,
migration, climate change, ecosystems, digitalisation, and the changes in the labor market and the education system. They
learn to act in them and co-shape these.
The syllabus includes seminars and artistic positions that considers
the art worlds, digital/visual cultures and art education as places for critical thinking, acting and experimental practices.
The KKP team consists of ca. 20 artists under the direction of Univ. Prof. Sofia Bempeza and Univ. Prof. Annette Krauss. Teachers
and students develop their own practices focused on art-educational, visual and performative approaches that enable a critical
and engaged position toward knowledge and image production. We conceive the teaching of art and communicative practices as
an incomplete process where knowledge and art practices are tested performatively, affectively, and collaboratively. We seek
both to unlearn (our) patterns of thought, action and perception in social, economic, and geopolitical contexts, and co-shape
social and artistic processes with care. Our work continues on these processes in artistic, situated and polyphonic ways.
⋇ Polyphony ⋒ Situatedness ⌔ ⍦ ⌔ Affect ⊱ Ecologies ⋯ Collectivity ⚕︎
⍜ Metaskills
We build on practical knowledge transfer and the continuity of the KKP studies as developed
over many years by Barbara Putz-Plecko and the KKP team, most notably focusing on transdisciplinary work in the field of artistic
and educational training. Moreover, visiting artists and cultural workers offer various impulses with regard to current art
practices and visual cultures. Visiting professors in the last fifteen years have been: Danica Dakić, Werner Feiersinger,
Imogen Stidworthy, Michael Kienzer, Simon Wachsmuth, Carola Dertnig, Anette Baldauf, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Helmut Draxler,
Lindsay Seers, Robert Del Tredici, Pierre Hébert, Prinzgau Podgorschek, Willem Oorebeck, Simonetta Ferfoglia (gangart), Zou
Bin, Basak Senova, Ebru Kurbak, Chico Mac Murtrie, Aboubakar Fofana and Isin Önol.
Ongoing research projects
conducted at the department include:
- Choreo-ethische Assemblages: Erzählungen bloßer Körper
Project
leader: Mariella Greil-Möbius
Austrian Science Fund (FWF): V 733 Richter-Programm (inkl. Richter-PEEK)
- A
Research of Doing
Project leaders: :Assoc. Prof. Dr. Basak Senova und Dr. Johan Thom
OeAD Africa-UniNet und BMBWF:
P017_South Africa/ A Research of Doing/ University of Applied Arts Vienna, University of Pretoria
- „Passenger
Diaries“
INTRA Projekt 2020: Mariella Greil
- „Sounding Research“
INTRA Projekt 2020: Ricarda
Denzer
- „The Octopus Programm”
Project leader: Basak Senova
- The Entanglement between
Gesture, Media, and Politics
Arts & Science in Motion (Volkswagen-Stiftung): Florian Bettel, Konrad Strutz
(at
HBK Braunschweig in collaboration with Irina Kaldrack)
- Shaken Grounds: Seismography of Precarious Presences
Mariella Greil and Lucie Strecker (PEEK AR 780)
