Un_University

TransArts Platform

Referring to the concept of anarchitecture* the platform Un_University discusses the following questions: How do academic knowledge transfer formats shape what is being taught?

Referring to the concept of anarchitecture* the platform Un_University discusses the following questions: How do academic knowledge transfer formats shape what is being taught? How can such formats be reconsidered from the viewpoint of artistic practice? And which formats and approaches are being developed elsewhere, including outside academic contexts?

The underscore in the platform’s title – Un_University – expresses a critical oscillation between negation and affirmation. We want to use artistic means to reflect on teaching at (art) universities. We want to discuss forms of un_university thinking, speaking, listening and reading, as well as inventing new ones. And we want to examine both academic and non-academic contexts and institutions to see which current forms of critical knowledge production they facilitate and/or prevent.

Concept: Ricarda Denzer, Jo Schmeiser (TransArts department)
 
Schedule

Tuesday, 12. April 2016, 6 - 9:30 pm
- Introduction by Ricarda Denzer & Jo Schmeiser
- Keynote by Rúbia Salgado
- Panel discussion with Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Gerald Bast, Elke Krasny, Oellinger/Rainer
- Screenings

 

Wednesday, 13. April 2016 9:30 am - 9:30 pm

- Introduction by Ricarda Denzer & Jo Schmeiser

- Lecture by Nora Sternfeld
- Demonstrations by Jamika Ajalon, Eva Egermann, Annette Krauss
- Workshops by Simon Harder, Hong-Kai Wang
- Keynote by Fouad Asfour
- Panel discussion with Sandro Droschl, Agnes Katschner
- Screenings

 

Speakers_Performers

Jamika Ajalon, Paris
Fouad Asfour, Johannesburg/Vienna
Gerald Bast, Vienna
Sabine Bitter, Vancouver/Vienna
Ricarda Denzer, Vienna
Sandro Droschl, Graz
Eva Egermann, Wien
Simon Harder, Zurich/Bremen
Agnes Katschner, Graz
Elke Krasny, Vienna
Annette Krauss, Vienna/Utrecht
Oellinger/Rainer, Vienna
Helmut Weber, Vienna
Rúbia Salgado, Linz
Jo Schmeiser, Vienna
Nora Sternfeld, Helsinki/Vienna
Hong-Kai Wang, Taipei/Vienna

 

Exhibition Working Knowledge

The exhibition project Working Knowledge is realized in cooperation with Un_University platform and IG Bildende Kunst. Finding common ground with some of the platform’s issues this exhibition shows the failure of language in different ways.

Curator: Nika KupyrovaArtists: Julia Amelie, Pawel Szostak, Mara Novak, Jen Noh, Thomas Wagensommerer

 

11. April 2016 (Opening)
12. April – 27. May
IG BILDENDE KUNST, Gumpendorfer Strasse 10-12, 1060 Vienna

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