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    Research and teaching

      fsp-t (Research Focus in Transdisciplinarity) interacts closely with teaching departments. For example, fsp-t researchers offer courses on both the Bachelor and Master level within the framework of their projects, and they also serve as mentors. In this manner, they enable students to learn more about research in practice. The fsp-t team also operates a "Presence Library" in the atelier of the Master of Arts in Transdisciplinary Studies department. The library, which contains objects and books, is meant to serve as a forum for a non-verbal dialogue between researchers and students. Students and former students who have graduated from the programme also have the opportunity to participate in fsp-t projects via their own artistic research assignments.

      we let us work (workshops spring semester 2021)

      We work on the work of the others. The others work for us. We look for ways to participate in an artistic process and give others a place in our own work. How can you help Julia with her novel? Where are Michael's chimeras? What echoes do we give to HannaH? What would you do if you were Tanja? And: How can we work for you? (or similar questions …)

      Esther Mathis illuminates light and skylight, 
      HannaH Walter creates a viborg, 
      Julia Weber works on a novel and a poetics, 
      Michael Günzburger traces chimeras, 
      Nadine Städler deals with the headpieces of experts, 
      Tanja Schwarz questions the handling of ambiguity and overload,

      The PhD group «Open Wind Circle» (of the Research Focus in Transdisciplinarity) explores formats of sharing. The group is a place of negotiation and favors the model of an artist's peer group («artist's artist»), i.e. a gathering among artists who foster and challenge each other. Here research is understood as a practice in the interest of the arts, as a collective attempt to establish a research reality for artists that enables poetic spaces.

      Michael Günzburger, Esther Mathis, Tanja Schwarz, Nadine Städler, HannaH Walter und Julia Weber

      Workshops, MA Transdisciplinary Studies

      Kunsttheorie: Bildpaare. Vergleichendes Sehen als Methode (FS 2021)

      Das Beschreiben und Vergleichen von Kunstwerken gehört zu den zentralen Arbeitstechniken in der Vermittlung von Kunst. Der Vergleich ermöglicht uns, Dinge zu unterscheiden, zu klassifizieren und zu erkennen. Nicht nur im Alltag, sondern auch in Kunst und Wissenschaft werden Praktiken des Vergleichs implizit und explizit eingesetzt. Insbesondere im Fach Kunstgeschichte ist das vergleichende Sehen eine zentrale Technik der Sichtbarmachung, die der Analyse und Argumentation gleichermassen dient. Im Seminar sollen einerseits – über die kritische Lektüre der Forschungsliteratur – das Potential, die Grenzen und Gefahren des vergleichenden Sehens beleuchtet werden, andererseits werden wir uns mit künstlerischen Arbeiten beschäftigen, welche Strategien der Verdoppelung und des Vergleichs ästhetisch anwenden. 

      Mirjam Steiner

      Seminar, BA Art Education

      Commons/windtunnel lab Master of Arts in Transdisciplinarity (ab fall semester 2020/21)

      «Commons», understood as the common basis, the common good, the common resource, but also as a practice of «commoning», of working, researching and sharing together, has been a permanent teaching and research topic in the MA Transdisciplinarity and in the research focus Transdisciplinarity FSP-T in the last two years. In addition, the questions of the extent to which the wind tunnel can position itself as a link between teaching and research and how artistic researchers can co-create formats together with students and lecturers formed the starting point for this lab. The wind tunnel on the roof of the Toni-Areal became the object of study. How can the idea of commons/commoning be implemented in an existing institution and its framework conditions, how does this change take place? Can such an institution be transformed into an inclusive - and sustainable - institution without losing its previous identity or institutional orientation? How can this change be initiated from within and created in a collective process? On the one hand, the wind tunnel was examined as an institutional space in which all questions of commonality within an institution can be dealt with; on the other hand, it served as a concrete space for the group to focus on discourses as well as on practice.

      The teaching format took the form of a one-week block week and a lab with a two-week rotation and with a voluntary organisational in-between-meeting, where the next lab was planned and created together. The block week took place in the wind tunnel itself. The lab became a kitchen and was enlivened with many guests (School of Commons, Eirini Sourgiadaki, Felipe Ribeiro, Florian Dombois, Aga Pediziwiatr).

      Njomza Dragusha, Fabian Gutscher, Prof. Basil Rogger and Prof. Irene Vögeli

      Lab, MA Transdisciplinary Studies

       

      Kunsttheorie: Kunst und Wissenschaft (Seminar FS 2020)

      Die Geschichte der Wechselwirkung zwischen Kunst und Naturwissenschaften ist lang und geprägt von gegenseitigen Verstrickungen und spannungsreichen Bezügen. Wissenschaft und Kunst gelten als Formen der Weltaneignung und Wissenserzeugung, die mittels Bildern darstellen, visualisieren und Erkenntnis generieren. Im Fokus des Bachelorseminars stand der Kunst-Wissenschaftsdiskurs seit den 1990er Jahren. Anhand ausgewählter Werkbeispiele, die sich u.a. mit Laboratorien, Versuchsanordnungen, Präparaten und Archiven beschäftigen, wurde im Seminar diskutiert, wie zeitgenössische Kunstschaffende mit naturwissenschaftlichen Verfahren experimentieren und sich wissenschaftliche Vorgehensweisen u.a. aus der Biologie, Medizin, Archäologie und Klimaforschung aneignen, welche Perspektiven sich dabei für die Kunst, aber auch die Wissenschaft eröffnen und, wo sich «artistic research» verorten lässt. Die Studierenden beschäftigten sich mit theoretischen Diskursen und setzten sich in Kurzreferaten und Diskussionen mit den konkreten Kunstwerken auseinander.

      Mirjam Steiner

      Seminar, BA Art Education

      The experiment in art and science (seminar and project days, spring semester 2019)

      The similarities between artistic and scientific practice have come to the fore time and again in the last 30 years. Comparisons between the laboratory and the studio are ubiquitous, and similar material methods have also been described repeatedly (cf. Gramelsberger 2013). The experiment in particular has been assessed in terms of compatibility with art, beyond mere comparison. In the field of artistic research, the experimental system is now established as an artistic method and has also been institutionalized in many countries in a higher-education context. According to Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, artistic practice shares a similar work ethic, materiality and sensibility with experimental practice, such as dedication to a limited amount of material, attention to detail and continuous repetition. Above all, both working methods are characterized by an openness to random results and clues (Rheinberger 2012). Accordingly, the key question that makes the experiment interesting for both artistic practice and science is: how to plan for the unpredictable?

      In a mixture of readings on the experiment and specific work with improvisation as well as experimental artistic strategies, the seminar explored the matter of where the connecting lines between scientific, artistic and political fields are to be drawn. Students were expected to develop experimental settings that provided the opportunity to transcend the usual ways of thinking and working and to change them by giving space to unpredictable and open aspects instead of preventing them. The wind tunnel of the Research Focus in Transdisciplinarity FSP-T served as a starting point or hub for the experimental settings to be devised individually or in groups, while work was created in public spaces, on the Toni Campus as well as in gallery and studio spaces.

      Fabian Gutscher, Mario Schulze

      Seminar, project days, MA Transdisciplinary Studies