The process for the selection of fellows 2014 – 2016 is running. All applicants that were accepted for the second round are informed.You will be notified mid May about the advancement of your application in round three.

The Last Crises 2013 THE CHRISTMASSPECIAL AT GROSSER SAAL!

Students of the Rhytmics and EMP Class reflect on musical and dance themes of the work and adress the ritual as a cultivated, aethetic and wild force, close to nature.

Exhibition “Immer noch allein, Karriereseife?”

WAHALA On Representation, Authenticity, Expectations and Other Inflated Concepts

Antiknow. A pedagogical theatre of unlearning and the limits of knowledge Directed by Jakob Jakobsen.

Presentation of a Prototype of ‘GROUND’ – Multisensory Installation from Anke Eckardt (2013)

SCHULDNERBERICHTE (D 2001) documents the ambivalent moment of change in the reunited Germany (now seeming far away) when the crises had been redefined from a shame laden stigma to a chance of success.

In Folge der Kriege und politischen Umbrüche in Südosteuropa werden kulturelle Grenzen immer fliessender und Austauschbeziehungen immer vielseitiger. Die Ringvorlesung fokus­siert insbesondere die freiwillig-unfreiwilligen Grenzgänger.

The scholars and associates of the Graduate School are inviting you to have a look at the seminars they will be holding related to their research this semester. Members of all faculties welcome.

As part of the reopening of Gorki Theater Judith Raum will show a version of her installation L’Inspecteur des Cultures(2012/13).

TALKING PICTURE BLUES – a Melton Prior Institute exhibition, featuring works and images by, among others: Alice Creischer, Stefan Ettlinger, The Grand Moving Mirror of California, Stefan Hayn, Winsor McCay, The Museum of Modern American Art, Felix Reidenbach, Viola Rusche, Karin Sander, Albrecht Schäfer, Romana Schmalisch / Mobile Cinema, Dierk Schmidt, Andreas Siekmann, Shane Simmons, Chris Ware, and materials from the archives of Melton Prior Institute, Düsseldorf.

curated by_vienna 2013 curated by_vienna ist ein von departure – der Kreativagentur der Stadt Wien initiiertes Projekt mit dem Ziel, neuartige Wege der Kooperation zwischen international renommierten KuratorInnen und Wiener Galerien zu beschreiten.

Group Exhibition Shen Zhen, China

Heartly invitation to the opening of the exhibition Friday September 13th 2013, 20 o’clock.

Adorno’s Grey features a single-channel video set in the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, where German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno famously taught.

The Art & Economics Group, established in Berlin in 2007 by Tanja Ostojić, David Rych and Dmytri Kleiner, investigates the intersection of art and political economy.

… Was ist Kunst? … Resuming Fragmented Histories 21. 09. – 21. 11. 2013 Coproduction steirischer herbst & Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien

On the Swarm as a Principle & Phenomenon An exhibition with Julian Charrière, Nadine Fecht, Susanne Kriemann, George Maciunas, Yutaka Makino, Benjamin Patterson, Bettina Pousttchi, Radek Community, Man Ray, Mark Thompson.

Graduale 13: PERCEPTION, EXPERIENCE, EXPERIMENT, KNOWLEDGE. Objectivity and subjectivity in the arts and the sciences | 10. bis 12.Oktober 2013

The German-Chinese media artist and scholar of the Graduate School Echo Ho together with Trio Brachiale and her guest from China QIN-player Wu Na.

„VIDEONALE.14 on Tour“ Parallelveranstaltung der 5. Moskau Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst Central House of Artists (CHA) in Moskau

The project Defining the Route is a practical and theoretical investigation of the perception of art in the age of the “post-medium condition” (Rosalind Krauss).

Préavis de Désordre Urbain and REDPLEXUS Festival international de performance 16. – 21. September 2013, MARSEILLE

Stefan Hayns Film “Malerei heute” aus dem Jahr 2005 wird am 12. September 2013 in Basel im Rahmen der summer school von eikones gezeigt.

Nach dem erfolgreichen Start in den beiden vergangenen Jahren geht das Kunsthaus Rhenania am Rheinauhafen mit dem Kunstfestival Strom in die dritte Runde. In diesem Jahr vom 5. bis 8. September 2013 präsentiert sich Strom als Plattform für ephemere Kunst.

The Sofiensaele Festsaal will be reforested for the project Ur-Forst and a German Oak will be planted in the middle of the room, to celebrate the Gala for the tree of the year in 1989 once more in February 2014.

Tanja Ostojić is taking part in the international exhibition “1:1″ that opens on sept 5 in Bucharest, Romania with her poster “After Courbet”.

Performance: Slow Qin @ Die beste aller Welten

A research project about systems for domestic productionof all goods for contemporary living (electricity, biogas, food, biodiesel, heat, water)

Lucie Strecker BIOS:ZOË: Proof of Concept #4 open studio Opening with video projection by BIOS:ZOË: Proof of Concept #3

The Summer school for Applied Autonomy is a research initiative interested in capturing the complexity of the technical know-how but also the mental state and the social skills one needs for self-sufficiency.

An installative presentation of the conceptual record label that subverts the music industry’s current business model. Online record store and live production of a new release.

Seminar of Studium Generale by Valentina Karga Installation and film at Rundgang, UdK Berlin

Deutscher Orientalismus zwischen Kolonialgeschichte und antibürgerlichem Denken

The ’Salon Aesthetic Experiments’ is devoted to projects and approaches, which relate different scientific disciplines and artistic genres to each other.

The two-part exhibition FACELESS is presenting various contemporary works and projects on the subject „Facelessness“.

Within the frame work of an artistic action the participants will be trying to bring an example of a production process to mind. Towards the end of the seminar a publication should describe, picture, document and reflect the production process experienced by the participants.

As part of ‘Inside’ at Tanzquartier Wien we will be showing our current work: BIOS:ZOË.

As one of the artists involved, Tanja Ostojić has made us aware of the following events and publication.

A block seminar offered for class of Hito Steyerl, and researchers of the Graduate School UDK, Berlin led by Anke Hennig, Marina Vishmidt and Anthony Iles

CTING THINGS IV – Material Flow by Judith Seng has been commissioned for Design Miami/ Basel as the fourth in a series of experiments which investigate the making of objects through the performing arts in order to unveil the aesthetic, energetic and social dimensions of production processes.

Opening: Saturday, June 8th 2013, 5 p.m. Exhibition: June 9th till July 13th, 2013 Wednesday til Saturday 2 to 7 p.m. + by appointment

New perspectives on the practice of art and the role of programming as an art form will be discussed at this event of the Graduate School, the Design Research Lab and the Design Transfer. The event is part of the DMY-Festival.

Workshop and lecture “Vernähen und Auftrennen – Suture, Film und Malerei” (Sewing and Ripping Up – Suture, Film and Painting) by Dr. Markus Klammer and Dr. Stefan Neuner

Vanessa Stern works with elements of stand-up comedy, improvisation and story telling founded on her experience during her research work at the GraduateSchool of the Arts and Science at the University of the Arts, Berlin.

The sociologist, philosopher and jurist Andrea Ploder will be our guest at Jour Fixe of the Graduate School, May 25th 2013. She will be holding a lecture with the title: The Art of Social Research. A Very Short Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

What is it about? Connections and collisions in the relationship of films and painting as an art form. How do different artists deal with the separation? What are the relations between cinema and painting?

In the course of the film programme of the MUMOK Wien “Proben auf Excempel – Make to the Test” both the films ‘Tragödien aus der Stadt – Tragedies from the City” and “ensemble” of Eva Könnemann will be shown.

Vanessa Stern founded the “Female Comicality Crisis Center”. Within the frame work La Dernière Crise, she invites women to explore their comical abilities in front of an audience. Every show responds to an overall topic, but the concept and content stand for themselves each evening.

POLYBIUS’ TREASURE TROVE

Lucie Strecker and Klaus Spiess will be having their performance: BIOS:ZOË: Proof of Concept #2, May 11th at Kunstencentrum Buda, Belgium

Based on the fate of a 700-year-old liturgical vestment, artist Juliane Laitzsch investigates shifts in meaning and breaks in museum collections over time.

The way things may go – an installation of causally linked processes, that the Class de Campo has created with partners of three other universities- will be shown at the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück

Anthony Iles and Benjamin Noys will lead a workshop focusing on their recent interests in vitalism and critique (Noys), markets, entropy, exhaustion and the end of probability (Iles). The workshop is followed by a film screening of 2 short videos by Downstairs Productions, Ilya Lipkin (US/Germany) & Joen P. Wedel (Denmark).

For LEXICON, Berlin-based artist Tanja Ostojić sought out women with whom she shares her first and last name.

Tanja Ostojić will be presenting her work at an event organized by the University of the West of Scotland the 16th of March 2013. After a video screening she will be talking to Katarzyna Kosmala.

Echo Ho will be giving a concert with her Slow Quin at the finissage of Yin Xiuzhen’s exhibition at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

„Querströmung 2“ for percussion and tape (2011) by Daniel Ott is the essence of a piece staged at the shore of the river Ruhr, where the interpreters were leading an acoustic dialogue with the roaring swoosh of a dam’s waterfall in the former industrial landscape.

February 21st, 2013 art historian, publicist an artist Tom Holert was our guest at the Graduate School.

They appear every two months. The crisis as their cultural virtue and this they celebrate up to an act of cult.

With the project ACTING THINGS Judith Seng has broadened her work horizon by elements of the performative arts and, through different experiments, explores the aesthetic, energetic and social dimension of a creative process.

Valentina Karga shares her diaries from her adventures in search of self-sufficiency.

The curator and writer Tirdad Zolghadr was our guest at the Graduate School Jour Fixe, February 7th, 2013.

Lioudmila Voropai will be part of the panel file_under: The Imaginary Museum at Transmediale.

Tanja Ostojić is taking part in the exhibition ECONOMY at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow with her installation “Looking for a Husband with EU Passport“.

They appear every two months. The crisis as their cultural virtue and this they celebrate up to an act of cult.

The Ultraschall Festival für Neue Musik will be staging a new piece by Genoël von Lilienstern as well as the world premieres by two more young composers.

Watching PAINTERS PAINTING (Emile de Antonio, USA 1972) and MALEREIEN UND GRAVIERUNGEN (Markus Nechleba, BRD 1998) we will be reflecting on the foundation of today’s picture production at this UdK Seminar.