The Octopus Programme is a guided research-based educational
program that encourages artistic research and production-based collaborations across academies and art institutions, students
and professionals, diverse presentation modes, and processes of research and documentation in different geographical regions.
While the program functions as a support mechanism for emerging artists, its main objective is to accumulate experience-based
collective and creative output by taking geopolitical, social, ecological, and educational urgencies and diversities into
consideration.
Opening: 1st of June, 18:00
Opening performance by Gischt &
Conny Zenk (AV show) and Misonica (DJ set)
The program intends to develop and point out new
critical perspectives and prominent aspects to process artistic research and practices.
In this respect, by merging the
viewpoints of academic entities and contemporary art institutions, along with their different capacities of commitments through
curators, facilities, interests, and activities, the program has developed a generative research methodology by creating an
autonomous network.
The Octopus is the final exhibition and the most comprehensive iteration of the experimental
curatorial and educational path the Octopus Programme has pursued. The exhibition features an accumulation of research and
process-based works by its participants as well as corresponding areas of inquiry and interest. The Octopus also features
examples from some of the guest lecturers who have left their traces in the program, alongside selected works by associated
actors and from the curated archive.
The exhibition – and, respectively, the program – not only intends to bridge
and acknowledge social and cultural diversities in its targeted geographical regions – Europe, the Mediterranean, and Africa
– it also values and connects the diversities between and/or among socio-political realities and perspectives; interdisciplinary
approaches; academic and non-academic intellectual models; forms of artistic research and practices; divergent perspectives
on artistic production methodologies; individual and community-based approaches; top-down and grass-root organization models;
accessed and distributed resources and facilities; strategies of environmental sustainability; artistic challenges and opportunities;
different funding possibilities; institutional and alternative curatorial practices; forms of engagement of artists, audiences,
institutions and forms of innovative and technology-driven mindsets; and diverse knowledge production models.
Guided
Tours02.06.2022, 10.30 by an artist: Barbara Putz-Plecko
09.06.2022, 16:00 by researchers: Anderwald+Grond
14.06.2022, 16:00: by an evolutionary biologist: Johannes Jäger
Public Programme at Tonkino Saalbau02.,03., and 05.06.2022, 14:00-21:00
Flachgasse 25, 1150 Vienna
02.06.2022, 14:00-21:00Introduction by Basak Senova
Renad Shqeirat in conversation with Basak Senova
Sophia Bellouhassi in conversation
with Kaş Feldheim and Anna Höfling
Isa Rosenberger in conversation with Basak Senova
Performance by Els van Houter
Maarit Mustonen in conversation with Barbara Holub
Screening by Cristiana De Marchi
Nikolaus Gansterer in conversation
with Basak Senova
Screening of the Octopus Programme Artist Videos
03.06.2022, 14:00-21:00Verena Miedl-Faißt in conversation with Bronwyn Lace
Screening by Ramesh Daha
Ramesh Daha in conversation with
Basak Senova
Artist Books by Maarit Mustonen
Lecture Performance by Eser Epözdemir
Screening by Conny Zenk
Lecture Performance by Julia Stern
Screening by the Zone
Lecture Performance by the Zone
35mm Film Screening
by Renger van den Heuvel and Krimmer
05.06.2022, 14:00-21:00Lisl Ponger in conversation with
Kim M. Reynolds
Talk by Bochra Taboubi, and Dr. Mohamad Bazzi in conversation with Zeyneb Raissi and Yasser Jridi
Screening by Larissa Sansour
Lecture Performance by Bronwyn Lace
Talk by Anderwald+Grond
Screening by Verena
Miedl-Faißt
Lecture Performance by Marcus Neustetter
Workshop by Sophia Bellouhassi
Screening by The Centre
for the Less Good Idea
theoctopusprogramme.uni-ak.ac.at
functions as a hub for communicating all the activities of the programme. The programmme concludes with a group exhibition
and public programme in June 2022 and all the accumulated input is to be transformed into a book published as part of the
book series of University of Applied Art Vienna, Edition Angewandte | De Gruyter Verlag (March 2023).
Its sister
project, Research of Doing, initiated by the University of Pretoria and University of Applied Arts Vienna in collaboration
with the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, funded by OeAD Africa-UniNet and BMBWF has provided further input
to the Octopus Program.
ArtistsAlina Rentsch (DE/SE)
Bengü Karaduman (TR)
Bochra
Taboubi (TU)
Conny Zenk (AT)
Els van Houtert (NL/AT)
Eser Epözdemir (TR)
Férielle Doulain (FR/TU)
Julia
Stern (AT)
Kim M. Reynolds (US/SA)
Maarit Mustonen (FI)
Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga (SA)
Noor Abed (PS)
Sofia Priftis (SE)
Sophia Bellouhassi (DE/AT)
Verena Miedl-Faißt (DE/AT)
Younes Ben Slimane (TU/FR)
Special
guests
Bronwyn Lace (SA/AT)
Ebru Kurbak (TR/AT)
Egle Oddo (IT/FI)
Johan Thom (SA)
Jyoti Mystry (SA/SE)
Hristina Ivanoska (MK/DE)
Larissa Sansour (PS/UK)
Lisl Ponger (AT)
Marcus Neustetter (SA/AT)
Willim
Kentridge (SA)
Yane Calovski (MK/DE)
The Zone
Associated Actors
Cristiana de Marchi (IT/LB)
Cazlynne
Peffer (SA)
Dylan Graham (SA)
Indalo Bennet (SA)
Nirual Kenabru (AT)
Nisrine Boukhari (SY/AT)
Teboho
Lebakeng (SA)
Zhou Yuqi (CN)
Further information:
https://ail.angewandte.at/program/the-octopushttps://theoctopusprogramme.uni-ak.ac.at/
