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Conceived and co-organised by Emma Cocker, Alexander Damianisch, Cordula Daus and Lena Séraphin, this Society of Artistic Research Special Interest Group (SAR SIG) provides contexts for coming together via the exchange of language-based research. The intent is to support developments in the field of expanded language-based practices by inviting attention, time and space for enabling understanding of/and via these practices anew.

Audio-visual project documentation Based on projects with a focal point on artistic research activities, the Angewandte offers an overview of possible positions and illuminates current research perspectives. The University of Applied Arts Vienna presents exemplary approaches to its artistic research under the title UNDERSTANDING – ART & RESEARCH, which focuses upon understanding as the creative impulse. Through examples from research and teaching, science and art, the transformation of society can be viewed, examined, sensed, discussed and experienced. Exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, curated by Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch, Barbara Putz-Plecko.

Envelope #4 is the fourth issue of an open format documenting relevant developments in art and research published by Zentrum Fokus Forschung. This publication provides an update on the current growth and the shared experiences made inside the Artistic Research PhD Programme of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The core of Envelope#4 documents content provided by PhD candidates based upon their artistic research. These visual and written traces portray the current state of the art within their continuous research processes. Jointly developed between Margarete Jahrmann, Professor for the Artistic Research PhD Programme since 2017/18, and Alexander Damianisch, head of Zentrum Fokus Forschung, this open format tries to follow and reflect our experiences through a tentative way of sharing, as well as providing reference and provocation. Participating Projects: Margit Busch, A garden for a fish Cristiana de Marchi, Casting a shadow. On disappearance, emptiness and the haunting power of absence Niels Bonde, Paying with your face Micha Payer, Re-Enacting Tableaus Barbara Graf, Stitches and Sutures Anahita Rezvani-Rad, What role does art play, if any, in archiving and effecting collective memory Barbis Ruder, COUNTERACTIONS. What are the possibilities and restraints of (body) optimization? Fabian Weiss, Ideal Self: How We Use Photography and Technology to Present and Optimize Ourselves Cordula Daus, Kay, or a Case for Intensity Charlotta Ruth, Choreographic Contingencies for on and offline The Artistic Research PhD Programme is a postgraduate study programme in the field of art. The focus is on artistic work—which is regarded as the basis of knowledge production—and topics and practices of artistic research govern it. The six-semester long study programme in English starts each autumn and is located at the Zentrum Fokus Forschung. The selection criteria are the topicality, innovation potential, and social relevance of the artistic research issue described in the exposé, and knowledge of its national and international research context. Doctoral candidates are tutored by professors from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, recommended by a committee in charge of candidate selection. For further information and deadlines, please visit http://zff.uni-ak.ac.at.

Welcome Letter and Foreword by Barbara Putz Plecko, Vice-Rector for Research and Alexander Damianisch, Director of Center Research Focus reposition offers researchers of all disciplines and departments at the Angewandte the opportunity to publish their work according to peer-review principles. Colleagues of any level and doctoral students in arts and sciences are invited to share their work. This series showcases their diverse approaches to project-oriented research work and presents current insights, captivating research processes, and ongoing projects from a deeply personal perspective that courageously unearth the work-in-progress. The idea of reposition is to emphasise dynamic approaches that demonstrate the courage to adopt alternative perspectives and a focus that lies always on a dialogue in-between.

The publication Envelope offers insights into ongoing PhD projects by candidates in the PhD programme PhD in Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in an innovative format. The major thrust of “Envelope” presents content supplied by doctoral researchers based on their individual artistic research and provides insights into ongoing work processes. These visual and textual traces reveal the state of the Art within its ongoing research processes. This open format seeks to reflect on experiences through exchange, as well as document relevant developments in the field of art and research. Participating projects: Margit Busch: A garden for a fish (Supervisor: Virgil Widrich) Andrew Champlin: Technique Concerns: Ballet Practice Against the Western Archive (Supervisors: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond) George Demir: Ancestral Junctures: on the expansion of ancestral mythologies (Supervisor: Hans Schabus) Cristiana de Marchi: Casting a shadow. On disappearance, emptiness and the haunting power of absence (Supervisor: Judith Eisler) Jošt Franko: The Migrating Image (Supervisor: Gerhild Steinbuch) Barbara Graf: Stitches and Sutures (Supervisor: Barbara Putz-Plecko) Joseph Leung: Post-digital Angst – An Arts-Based Research on the Manifestations of Angst in the Digital Milieu (Supervisor: Gabriele Rothemann) Conny Zenk: RAD Performance – Driving Voices of Resistance (Supervisor: Ruth Schnell) Feel free to zoom in on each poster for ensured readability.

Co Agency – Artistic Research as Transformative Practice This SIG will address the question of what role artistic research plays and could play in the context of contemporary, social-ecological transformation processes. This refers in particular to the potential for shifting perceptual dispositives and regimes of relevance through artistic-research modes of thought and practice, and the associated opening up and activation of actionable futures. The aim of the SIG is, on the one hand, to create a platform within SAR for the exchange of researchers interested in the topic and to network ongoing and planned projects in this field. On the other hand, it also aims at conceptual work: Here, fundamental questions are to be considered, such as the characteristics of an epistemology of transformation through artistic research processes in the context of debates about the future. But also, the question of the integration of artistic research into concrete research contexts such as transdisciplinary sustainability research should also be addressed - not least with a view to shaping suitable framework conditions and policies. The SIG will also serve as an interface to ongoing initiatives such as the New European Bauhaus, the new, creative KIC: EIT Culture & Creativity (namely the Strategic Topic Group “Just innovation”), the European creative skills alliance Cyanotypes (namely the task force “Urgent skills needs”) and the COST Action "European Forum for Advanced Practices" and strengthen the importance of artistic research in these contexts.