After successful completion of the course, students are able to use performative practice as a method for researching and examining places and spaces. The students will conceive new ways of developing questions about bodies and space. At the end of this semester, they will be able to design and realise a performative project at both the theoretical and practical levels. The students will have the opportunity to use the artistic-scientific methods tested during this course as an enhancement of their architectural working method.
PERFORMATIVE CITY WALK LOCATION: SELECTED ROUTES IN VIENNA
This project offers the opportunity to use performative practice alongside other methods of researching and investigating a place. As locations for the project we have selected routes in Vienna, along which we will use these artistic-scientific methods as a means of working with aspects of the space. The space will be addressed in terms of its relational framework with the city and with the related social, cultural and communal factors. The focus of this project is the city, and we will begin it with two teaching excursions, firstly to the exhibition “No Feeling is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection” in Kunsthalle Wien and then to the newly enlarged Wien Museum. We will also undertake further city walks, which will both be performative and act as a research method. The students will keep a sketchbook diary as a means of documenting and processing our city walks. This will offer them the opportunity to exploit the huge range of possibilities presented by performative practice. In this project, students will be able to realise a concrete action or performance on the site, make a performative video, or design the performance in the form of drawings or as a photographic work. A further important element of this course will be the presentation and documentation of the performative work. Discussions and reflective conversations during the semester will offer the students the opportunity to learn more about performance as an art form and to relate this to the subject of the city and to their own methods of investigating and shaping space, to their own practice.
Exhibition visits, input presentations, site visits, sketchbook diary, discussions and reflective conversations, research, performative practice (performance, performative video, drawing, photographically documented performance …), design development, intermediate and final presentation
Meetings every Friday 09:00 to 15:00 at Vienna University of Technology and teaching excursions. Dates will be given at the first meeting.Kick-off on 13.10.2023 10:00 am
Recommended courses: 253.E81 Module Art:Space, 15ects.Registration with a portfolio is encouraged.
Sub-tasks will be documented in the RG dropbox. The submission of the project is planned as an analogue presentation.
