Sen.Art. Mag.art. Antoine Turillon
Univ.-Lekt.
Mag. Anne Faucheret
Univ.-Lekt. Mag.art. Stefanie Misa
Univ.-Lekt. Mika
Maruyama MA
Operating across the Institute of Arts and Society, the newly developed department of Artistic
Strategies offers teaching of theory and practice, situating at its core questions of artistic methods in relation to social
dynamics and global challenges.
The purpose of the teaching is not to teach a comprehensive and final definition
of Artistic Strategies, but rather to focus on artists’ work and methods in order to investigate how artists define
innovative approaches to respond to and reflect on the complex contexts in which artworks are produced and shown.
Rather than a programmatic conception of art and its making, courses and seminars invite the students to investigate
the dynamics at stake in the development, the production, and the implementation of artistic strategies: artistic eco-systems,
historical, cultural, intellectual, social and political contexts.
Such investigations rely on an
interdisciplinary and transversal approach articulating a wide range of art practices, media, and fields of knowledge. The
teaching of Artistic Strategies focuses on how artists with their work and methods provide innovative tools to envision potential
new forms of social relations and communities, subjectivities, knowledge production and dissemination, and new forms
of perceptions and comprehension of the challenges of our time.
Labs of Artistic Strategies and workshops
welcome students from all departments to develop a project from the first stage to completion. The purpose of the course
of those labs is to allow students to develop their own artistic strategies based on the specifics of their projects
rather than on a doctrine or formula. Collegiality and interdisciplinarity are key to the labs. The students develop
their individual projects in dialogue with a group, allowing them to collectively contribute to each other's projects.
Exploring the challenges of our time and investigating how artists develop strategies to reflect them, involves articulating
the global and the local, opening the doors of the university to other contexts. This articulation is developed via a strong
commitment to international collaborations, engaging with artists, cultural practitioners and educators through
workshops, site visits, symposiums, exhibitions, and publications.
For the next two years, the department
aims to explore questions of representation and self representation of excluded groups and interrelations of artistic practices
and strategies of visibility in public spaces (public spaces is to be understood from a wide perspective, from the physical
public space to public debate).
This exploration includes invitations extended to guests to interact with the students,
and to contribute to workshops and public programs such as lectures, performances, and panels, among other forms of
implementations and collaborations.