SUSTAINABILITY - WHAT'S THE POINT OF ART?

Dear friends and colleagues in Vienna,

together with my colleagues from the Futurama.Lab, Sabrina Rosina and Rainer Prohaska, I am giving a course at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in which we will investigate the ZAD, bolo'bolo and other radical ecological endeavors and their implication for ecological art practices. The course is open to all and we will read and discuss some fine texts together in a collective and enabling manner. This is not for students only, but for finding a common politco-aesthetical-utopian ground which is why I took the liberty to invite you all in this post.

So if you want to study more intensely with us & see where I currently see the most potential for novel ecological utopianisms, please join us at the course "Sustainability - What's the point of art?". Find all the details below and don't hesitate to ask more questions.

All the best,
Kilian

SUSTAINABILITY - WHAT'S THE POINT OF ART?
A worshop at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Dear fellow artists, friends, colleagues, activists, environmentalists ...

We warmly invite you to this special lecture series hosted at the Academy of Fine Arts. In six sessions (three blocks of 2 modules) we will develop options and strategies within art projects as alternatives to a currently useless political and systemic approach. We demonstrate how to enable and possibly engage through artistic endeavors within the messiness of the now, how to nourish hope, humour and resilience and of coursehow to relate all this to current scientific developments in sustainable solutions.

We will investigate the cultural potential of the ZAD and bolo'bolo and will speculate about novel forms of radically ecological utopias and how to culturally produce them in a sustainable way.

Come along and journey with us through texts we will read and discuss together during lectures - from science-fiction to scientific papers and finally to practical realisations.

This course also serves as inspiration to further develop your own project(s) to be realized within the practical course of the following winter semester, forming a holistic workshop over the span of the year.

SUSTAINABILITY - WHAT'S THE POINT OF ART?

WORSHOP FACTS

LECTURERS: Rainer Prohaska (artist, art entrepreneur) together with Sabrina Rosina (ecologist, artist) & Kilian Jörg (philospher, artist)

WHEN & WERE:

16./17. April (3 - 6 pm) - Anatomiesaal, Academy of Fine Arts, Schillerplatz

14./15. May (3 - 6 pm) - TBA

4./5. June (3 - 6 pm) - TBA

Register via this link