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    Highlights Cultural Analysis in the Arts

    Credits: © Susanne Hefti 2022, Method Walk for Case Study 2: Rätikon Nature Park
    Credits: © Susanne Hefti 2022, Method Walk for Case Study 2: Rätikon Nature Park
    • Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact
    • Promotion of Talents and Careers
    • Cooperation and Internationality
    • External Funding
    • Award-Winning
    • Event Highlight
    • Noteworthy
    • Research-Teaching Transfer
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    «A blue bench, a grey wall, a piece of clothing: traces of use not immediately perceptible, but which, as images, invite further reflection... an allegory of what interests us about art as cultural analysis: How to achieve a poetic openness towards critical questions about cultural uses?»

    Prof. Dr. Sigrid Adorf, Head of the Research Focus Cultural Analysis (RCA)
     

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    Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

    In 2022, RCA staff continued to publish in diverse forms. The highlight of the year was the two INSERT issues. Issue #2 was produced following the 2021 autumn lecture series «Positions & Discourses» and is titled «senseABILITIES – auf der Suche nach einem anderen Erzählen im Anthropozändiskurs». Titled «Participatory Critique: Transversal Boundary Crossings», the third issue emerged from the final workshop forming part of Elke Bippus’s research project «Participatory Critique».

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    Insert #2 © ZHdK
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    Promotion of Talents and Careers

    Colloquia were held regularly within the framework of the Zeichenwerkstatt to present and discuss ongoing PhD projects as well as those in preparation. Antoine Chessex and Léonie Süess were accepted as PhD students on the cooperation programme with Linz University of the Arts. Jana Thierfelder and Julia Wolf completed their dissertations with distinction at the University of Bern and the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

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    Cooperation and Internationality

    Ruben Hackler, a UZH historian, and Daniel Rother, a visual designer based in Berlin and Zurich, have been affiliated with RCA since November 2022 with their research project «Bilderlärm: Neue Linke und Justizkritik in der Schweiz 1960–1990», funded by the Social Archive Zurich. Focusing on discussing methods and methodologies, their collaboration contributes to advancing interdisciplinary studies on visual cultures.

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    Call for a demonstration on Bundesplatz Bern, 5 July 1980 © Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv, Zurich
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    External Funding

    The year 2022 was marked by intensive, although initially unsuccessful work on three research proposals, which are currently being revised: «Echoing the Un(fore)seen» (Adorf/Chessex/Stähli, resubmission: April 23); «Counter Media» (Adorf/Gau/Gisel/Krepart, overall redesign); «Becoming one:others» (Chapuis-Schmitz, resubmission: Summer 23). In addition to the ongoing project «Materialised Memories» (Gau/Graf/Wegelin/Froelicher), «Participatory Criticism» (Bippus/Lang) was successfully completed (cf. scientific output).

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    Award-Winning

    In 2022, two art prizes of the City of Zurich were awarded to members of the Zeichenwerkstatt. Susanne Hefti was awarded a work grant, while Jana Vanecek received a residency scholarship in Genoa. Alisa Kronberger’s dissertation «Diffraktionsereignisse der Gegenwart. Feministische Medienkunst trifft Neuen Materialismus» (OA, Transcript 2022) was awarded the doctoral prize of the University of Marburg.

    «Reality is promiscuous, at the very least» Photo: Nicolas Bruni. © Jana Vanecek 2022)
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    Event Highlight

    At a vernissage on 5 October 2022, Ines Kleesattel presented the new issue of the online journal FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur as a guest editor of the thematic issue «Witchy Wits*** Mit situierten Sinnen und widerspenstigen Wissen». Afterwards, Sofia Bempeza, Anna Bromley and Pascale Schreibmüller presented their contributions and discussed them with a broad audience.

    Vernissage «Witchy Wits***», FKW #71, 05.10.2022 © ZHdK
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    Noteworthy

    On the occasion of the «Ich bin wü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü tend» exhibition of works by Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Mai-Thu Perret at the Cabaret Voltaire (14 October 2022 – 30 April 2023), the publication of Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Briefe 1905–1942 was celebrated with a soirée on 24 January 2023, including contributions about the letters and the award-winning design by Hubertus Design. The correspondence has been edited and published by Medea Hoch, Walburga Krupp and Sigrid Schade, the founder and director of ZHdK’s former Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts (ICS), where the long-standing research project was developed in 2012 and successfully carried out since 2015 thanks to funding from various foundations.

    Book vernissage, in picture: Medea Hoch and Walburga Krupp (ed., together with Sigrid Schade), © Cabaret Voltaire, Romain Mader
    Exhibition view Sophie Taeuber-Arp / Mai-Thu Perret «Ich bin wü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü tend», Mai-Thu Perret, Untitled (for S.T.), 2022 and Untitled (Green Oval), 2018, Cabaret Voltaire 2022. Photo: Cedric Mussano
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    Research-Teaching Transfer

    RCA researchers also teach on various BA and MA programmes at ZHdK. Most recent engagements include «Die Kunst, zu verlernen» (Adorf/Gau), a lecture and colloquium series including various guests, and the seminar «Underwritten Histories. Künstlerischer Praktiken zur Diversifizierung von Geschichte(n)» (Adorf/Chessex/Friedli/Vanecek).

    On the seminar: Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy: Loophole of Retreat, Installationsansicht, PS1 Museum, New York 1990. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin; Photo: Tom Warren

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