The extended art practice addresses the fluid boundaries between art, science, technology, politics and society, artistic and curatorial action, art and sustainability, art and (Über)Leben [= about life / survival]. In the class, materials, media, formats, conceptualizations, terms and definitions or artistic strategies are negotiated as well as systemic questions about the social relevance of artistic action and: What can art achieve?? Where does it take place? How does it draw attention to itself?
Based on the students’ particular artistic questions and practices, current discourses are examined in the context of their social, medial and socio-political framework and realities. (Free) spaces of artistic action and thinking between public and private, individual and community are as much a topic as a fluid concept of an artwork, which does not regard a work of art as a closed entity but as part of a process in a spatio-temporal structure. Each "exhibition" as the result of situational decision-making and negotiation processes is a singular event in which the audience participates as viewers, visitors or participants.
Artistic action and research is based on holistic, multi-sensory and aesthetic experiences and resists disciplining by scientific systems of rules. As an equivalent form of knowledge creation between precise perception and attentive casualness, it consciously incorporates parameters such as chance, error, or failure into its multidimensional cognitive processes, in addition to intuition and conceptual thinking. The power of art lies in its freedom to pose open questions. It is never without alternatives. Therein lies its innovative, charitable potential and what constitutes the resilience of a society.
The class works multi-, inter- and transmedially, interdisciplinary, cross-genre and undisciplined, with appreciation of ephemeral, fragile, accidental or even everyday moments in limbo. In search of appropriate "images" and translations, she makes use of the full range of materialities, media manifestations, modes of expression and strategies between analog and digital, physical and virtual worlds. The focus is on the "impact character" of art and its potential to show possibilities, raise questions, initiate processes, set sustainable impulses and produce a viral web of relationships. In the interplay between art, society and audience, concepts, strategies and working methods are tested and communicative competencies are developed into a situational ability to act.
Based on the students’ particular artistic questions and practices, current discourses are examined in the context of their social, medial and socio-political framework and realities. (Free) spaces of artistic action and thinking between public and private, individual and community are as much a topic as a fluid concept of an artwork, which does not regard a work of art as a closed entity but as part of a process in a spatio-temporal structure. Each "exhibition" as the result of situational decision-making and negotiation processes is a singular event in which the audience participates as viewers, visitors or participants.
Artistic action and research is based on holistic, multi-sensory and aesthetic experiences and resists disciplining by scientific systems of rules. As an equivalent form of knowledge creation between precise perception and attentive casualness, it consciously incorporates parameters such as chance, error, or failure into its multidimensional cognitive processes, in addition to intuition and conceptual thinking. The power of art lies in its freedom to pose open questions. It is never without alternatives. Therein lies its innovative, charitable potential and what constitutes the resilience of a society.
The class works multi-, inter- and transmedially, interdisciplinary, cross-genre and undisciplined, with appreciation of ephemeral, fragile, accidental or even everyday moments in limbo. In search of appropriate "images" and translations, she makes use of the full range of materialities, media manifestations, modes of expression and strategies between analog and digital, physical and virtual worlds. The focus is on the "impact character" of art and its potential to show possibilities, raise questions, initiate processes, set sustainable impulses and produce a viral web of relationships. In the interplay between art, society and audience, concepts, strategies and working methods are tested and communicative competencies are developed into a situational ability to act.