Caring. Enactments of Heterogeneous Relationships
Overall
concept
The 2015/16 annual topic ‘Caring’ aims at exploring the logic of care within different domains. It investigates
the role of the deterministic body known by modern science *and* a fragile body in it’s intricate surroundings. It investigates
the individual as autonomous being *and* as relational being. It investigates the enlightened citizen with a body that does
not interfere with his or her plans, cognitive operations, impartial judgements, firm decisions *and* the citizen in a fleshy,
fragile and mortal body situated within continuous inter-dependency. It investigates interactions within social and material
situations where norms are negotiated and practised within these situations and where those norms do not exist as standards
outside of them.
Research catalogue
Artistic activities and practices use many different media. When
texts and language are appropriated and ‘deconstructed’, as a medium, they are considered as an original artistic genre that
forms a tiny part of the arts. However, since the increasing importance of artistic research in arts-academia and the growing
number of collaborations between scientific and artistic disciplines the question arises what role do we attribute to the
written word or (scientific) texts within these projects. Scientific texts usually are not written for their rhetoric, beauty,
or, for the pleasure of reading, they are devices that should produce associations between many actors and entities with the
aim to claim a ‘fact’.
‘The Research Catalogue’ – project aims at exploring the role of texts within the
heterogeneous environment of artistic research. How to study and write about the ephemeral, indefinite, irregular when facing
the normativities of standard methods, when facing their hegemony or monopolies? How to think of a Research Report as a medium
of production and not of describing? Is it possible that knowledge production and artistic research exposes itself not only
via artistic works (displays by means of its traditional formats and media) and best of possible articulations (construction/representation
as knowledge producing situation) but also by experimental publications?
Students were asked to create a report
that reflects these questions by referring to research material they acquired whilst working on their ‘Caring’ topic. The
reports and contributions of the invited guests are compiled in the research catalogue.
Research reports:
Eleni Boutsika-Palles, Daniela Brill, Ruben Gutzat, Bernd Kräftner, Anna Lerchbaumer, Barbara Macek, Maria Panina, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara,
Marwa Sarah, Irene Zluwa
Documentation of guest lectures & workshops: Brishty Alam, Eleni Boutsika-Palles, Daniela
Brill, Valerie Deifel, Ruben Gutzat, Matilde Igual Capdevila, Anna Lerchbaumer, Barbara Macek, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Irene
Zluwa
Transcripts & additional materials with courtesy of the invited guests listed below
Project chair:
Bernd Kräftner
In collaboration with: Brishty Alam, Valerie Deifel
Editor: Bernd Kräftner
Assistant editors:
Brishty Alam, Eleni Boutsika-Palles, Valerie Deifel, Ruben Gutzat, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Irene Zluwa
Publication management
& copyediting: Brishty Alam, Valerie Deifel
Graphic design: Eleni Boutsika-Palles
Assistant designer: Matilde
Igual Capdevila
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Virgil Widrich (Art & Science), Anja Seipenbusch (Publication
Management/University of Applied Arts Vienna), and Gerald Bast (Rector/University of Applied Arts Vienna) for their help and
support.
Thanks to all of our guests and collaborators: Luis Aparicio, Peter Berz, Nicole De Brabandere, Judith
Fegerl, Norbert Feldmann, Michael Höpfner, Franz Kainberger, Judith Kröll, Andrea Maier, Florian Menz, Ondřej Merta, Václav
Peloušek, Bogdan Popov, Nina Prader, Andreas Spiegl, Thomas Wenzel, Chris Walzer, Laura Watts