SUSTAINABILITY - WHAT'S THE POINT OF ART?
A workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Dear fellow artists, friends, colleagues, activists, environmentalists ...
We warmly invite you to this special lecture series hosted at the Academy of Fine Arts. In six sessions (three blocks of 2 modules) we will develop options and strategies within art projects as alternatives to a currently useless political and systemic approach. We demonstrate how to enable and possibly engage through artistic endeavors within the messiness of the now, how to nourish hope, humour and resilience and of course how to relate all this to current scientific developments in sustainable solutions. We will investigate the cultural potential of the ZAD and bolo'bolo and will spaculate about novel forms of radically ecological utopias and how to culturally produce them in a sustainable way. Come along and journey with us through texts we will read and discuss together during lectures - from science-fiction to scientific papers and finally to practical realisations.
This course also serves as inspiration to further develop your own project(s) to be realized within the practical course of the following winter semester, forming a holistic workshop over the span of the year.
SUSTAINABILITY - WHAT'S THE POINT OF ART?
WORKSHOP FACTS
LECTURER:
Rainer Prohaska (artist, art entrepreneur) together with Sabrina Rosina (ecologist, artist) & Kilian Jörg (philosopher, artist)
WHEN & WHERE:
16./17. April (3 - 6 pm) - Anatomiesaal, Academy of Fine Arts, Schillerplatz
14./15. May (3 - 6 pm) - TBA
4./5. June (3 - 6 pm) - TBA
CREDITS: 2 ECTS
To register please respond to sabrina.buehn(a)gmail.com with your Matriculation Number and name. Unregistered visitors are also welcome, please let us know if you're interested, though. Help us to increase our crowd, so you are welcome to share this invitation with your peers and ask questions.
Looking forward to your response,
Sabrina Rosina, on behalf of Rainer Prohaska
sabrina.buehn(a)gmail.com