In October 2020, Carinthia will celebrate the centenary of the plebiscite deciding whether Lower Carinthia should remain part of Austria. For the same amount of time, this event has served as a reference point for discourse and assimilation endeavours. In a transdisciplinary project combining theatre and science, researchers are seeking new leverage on the burden […] Continue reading “One hundred years of Carinthian plebiscite”
In the context of the PEEK Programme for arts-based research, the FWF supported the development of the INTRA-SPACE project in Vienna. It offers an experimental space for real-time encounters between actual and virtual individuals that catalyse digital-cultural behaviour. Continue reading “A space for experiencing virtual encounters”
Bringing Vienna, the city of music, to life in every facet is the intent of a current interactive project. Supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research team is reconstructing the musical life of the city from 1945 to the present day. Its continuity and discontinuities are a reflection of contemporaneous political and social […] Continue reading “The musical map of Vienna”
Recording laboratory situations via artistic means is part of the art project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. After three years of lab work and symposia, Nikolaus Gansterer’s, Mariella Greil’s and Emma Cocker’s project is now completed and documented in a comprehensive publication. Continue reading “Noting down the moment”
The director, visual artist and performer Lucie Strecker talks about the blurring of borders between nature and technology, her unusual life trajectory and why art and science represent protected zones beyond moral considerations. Continue reading “Blurring borders”
Demographic change requires a new approach to dementia. A project supported by the Austrian Science fund FWF creates awareness of the issue using innovative artistic methods that sharpen the perception and sensitivity of people unaffected by the ailment. Continue reading “Experience dementia”