Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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Artistic research and the development of the arts (artistic practices) are essential for the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, both in terms of research-guided teaching and in the context of third-party funded projects in collaborative teams, where the research can be realized outside of the daily routine and within explorative and experimental arrangements.
Already in 2010 the Academy established the PhD-in-Practice program as a doctoral program for artistic research. The “PhD-in-Practice” program provides participants with the opportunity to pursue their individual arts-based research projects in a collective learning environment with a decidedly transdisciplinary and international bent.
contact person(s):
Michaela Glanz 
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Andreas Ferus ,
Paul Reiter url:
https://www.akbild.ac.at/
Recent Issues
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1. PhD in Practice | Artistic Research Works
The PhD in Practice is a doctoral program for artistic research. It provides participants with the opportunity to pursue their individual artistic research projects in a collective environment with a strongly transdisciplinary and international focus.
Recent Activities
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PPC – A PROJECT TO CRITICAL REAPPRAISAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE MÜHL "COMMUNE".
(2023)
author(s): Elisabeth Schäfer
connected to: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
published in: Research Catalogue
This open exposition was designed by Elisabeth Schäfer, Paul-Julien Robert, and Ida Clay as members of the PPC FWF PEEK project to critically examine the history of the Mühl "commune"/sect at Friedrichshof/Burgenland Austria.
Founded by the Viennese Actionist artist Otto Mühl in 1972 and dissolved by the Communards in 1990, the "AA Commune" was initially dedicated to raising awareness of habitualization through domination in everyday socio-cultural life practice and to liberating people from the sphere of influence of powerful social institutions. Their declared goal was to overcome authoritarian institutions such as the state, the church, the bourgeois family, capitalism, and patriarchy with the help of science, art, and liberated sexuality. The social experiment ended in a highly authoritarian system within a controlled community. Mühl was sentenced to seven years in prison for multiple sexual abuse.
Together with contemporary witnesses, the project strives for a re-examination and reappraisal of the commune and its effects through "research in and through the arts" by building a research space collaboratively designed by artists, contemporary witnesses and scholars as a reservoir for the joint exploration of individual and collective historical aspects of the AAO: (Re)writing of Reality Through Discourse.
This open exposition is one share of this (re-)writing through discourse. It presents an overview and excerpt from the three-year artistic research project in the form of a research landscape in which various formats can be visited as stages of research. In the form of a mapping we have embedded audio, video and text products into the research landscape of our project. Central locations of this landscape are the Friedrichshof in Burgenland, Austria, site of the former "commune"/sect & the Volkskunde Museum Vienna as national cooperation partner of the project.
Title of the project: PPC - Performing Primal Communism. (Re)writing of Reality Through Discourse
Principal investigator: Paul-Julien Robert
Project Team: Ida Clay, Thomas Marschall, Elisabeth Schäfer
Research location: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Institute of Fine Arts | IBK) | Karl-Schweighofergasse 3 | 1070 Vienna
Cooperation partner: Volkskundemuseum Wien
Funding: PPC is an FWF PEEK project [AR568] Project duration: 2020-2023
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Research Day 2023: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Paul Reiter, Michaela Glanz
connected to: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The Research Day 2023 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna presents the range of current research activities at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, gives insights into specific projects and their results, and encourages collegial discussions. The Research Day focuses on presentations of research projects in advanced stages.
The contributors from the respective projects hold the rights regarding the respective textual and visual materials used within this exposition (unless otherwise stated).
