Artist as Resource

Workshop with Renan Laru-an

An event by the Island Tides Initiative – Department of Artistic Strategies

The Island Tides Initiative will host a multiday workshop with curator Renan Laru-an. The workshop is a preview of the artist’s role as a source of knowledge. It will introduce students to a case study of a collaboration between two artists and a curator during the pandemic. Despite working entirely online, they produced a new video work that documented their collaboration, as well as the materials and content they wanted to communicate about their practices and interests.
Starting with Sourcebook by the artists Mandy El-Sayegh and Helena Hunter, with curator Renan Laru-an, students will identify the research process and the modes of presentation used in an all-digital production. They will consider how research develops into content and how this content, whether or not it is labelled as an artwork, can be offered as public knowledge.

The workshop will culminate in a collective visit to an exhibition on artistic processes. They will use one of the materials of the exhibition, the artist-initiated and -edited magazine titled HARBOUR. Magazine of Art and Everyday Life by Lani Maestro. Students will be encouraged to reflect on the content of the magazine and the exhibition based on their recent engagement with Sourcebook. Participants will create their own material on the artist as resource and/or artists’ resources.

Please write to islandtides.initiative@uni-ak.ac.at to register for the workshop. The workshop will be held in English.
Event
Workshop
16. November 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
University of Applied Arts Vienna, FLUX 2, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna
Workshop
17. November 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
University of Applied Arts Vienna, FLUX 2, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna
Workshop
18. November 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
University of Applied Arts Vienna, FLUX 2, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna