Art and Communication Practices

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)


Location
3th floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
heads of department:
Sofia Bempeza und Annette Krauss

address:
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7/2.OG/228
1030 Wien

Office KKP: Mag.a Alexandra Frank

Admission