Team: Heribert Friedl, Georgia Holz, Maria Stepanek, Johanna Tinzl
Site-specific
art leaves the studio to confront and explore concrete sites and real spaces – to study the “spatial manifestations” of the
material world of which we are also a part. Such a site can be an idea as well as built architecture, nature, landscape, society,
the public space, the exhibition space, the digital space, the fictional space, our living space.
During
the course of this study program we want to examine these sites closely, experiment with them, and transform them. How the
student chooses to do so is up to him or her; the main thing is to decide on a method and a form and to find the right medium.
This can be anything from photography, installation, painting, performance, intervention, or sculpture to sound, video, or
text.
We see the program as a field for experimentation in which it is possible to develop one’s
own independent artistic position. Being able to present work in the department’s own project space or in public space, think
through what one is doing in one-on-one conversations or group discussions, learn theory as well as practical implementation,
all these opportunities promote and stimulate the various interests of each individual student. The range of different course
offerings makes it possible to integrate current topics into the lesson and one’s own practical work, issues that truly impact
the present. These include discourses about ecology, public space, nature/culture, diversity, feminism, queerness, the counterpublic
sphere, digitality, and our technological conditions.
Credits: Abteilung Ortsbezogene Kunst, Nathan Cha, Carmina Tarilonte Rodriguez,
Tsai-Ju Wu
