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Talk at Istanbul Modern: Digital Culture Re-Visited
The first public event of the exhibition “Timeless Curiosities,” curated by Nilay Dursun and Ümit Mesci will feature Basak Senova. Borrowing its title from the article written by Senova for the exhibition catalogue, the talk titled “Digital Culture Re-Visited” focuses on the transformations in this field since the mid-1990s. Having directly witnessed the effects of…
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The Octopus Book Presentation
21.03.2024 // The Octopus Programme will be concluded with a book presentation at 18:00 at AIL (Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab). The book, entitled, The Octopus: On Diversities, Art Production, Educational Models, and Curatorial Trajectories, is the accumulation of the Octopus Programme (2019-2022), which was designed as a guided research-based educational program that encouraged artistic research and production-based…
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William Kentridge: Oh To Believe in Another World
01.12.2023 // In 2022 William Kentridge made the film Oh To Believe in Another World to accompany Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 in E Minor. The film was made to be seen alongside a live performance of the symphony following an invitation by the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. The book Oh To Believe in Another World – a publication…
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Symphony Orchestra by William Kentridge
01.12.2023 // Pushing the Boundaries Project presents the Lecture Performance On the making of ‘Oh to Believe in Another World’, Film to the 10th Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich by William Kentridge. In anticipation of his 2. December Wiener Konzerthaus event, William Kentridge will give a talk on the making of Oh to Believe in Another World…
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Ontology of the Undefinable
13.11.2023 // Pushing the Boundaries Project presents the Lecture Performance: “Ontology of the Undefinable” by the ZoNE (Bronwyn Lace and Marcus Neustetter) at Zentrum Fokus Forschung. This lecture performance marks the kick-off of our public outreach activities for the research project “Pushing the Boundaries”, which is funded by the John Templeton Foundation, and hosted at the…
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Africa UniNet Vienna Special Programme
28.04.2023/17.06.2023 // Organised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Basak Senova and Prof. Dr. Johan Thom, the five-day special program in Austria with the active participation from Teboho Lebakeng, Caz Peffer, Alet Pretorius, and Dylan Graham, who are from the University of Pretoria. Events encompassed meetings, visits to museums, galleries, and universities, studio tours, excursions, and participation in the…
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The Octopus: On Diversities, Art Production, Educational Models, and Curatorial Trajectories
Published as part of the book series of the University of Applied Art Vienna, Edition Angewandte | De Gruyter in 2024, this book is the accumulation of the Octopus Programme (2019-2022), which was designed as a guided researchbased educational programme that encouraged artistic research and production-based collaborations in different geographical regions. The Octopus Programme developed new critical…
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Studio Exhibition at Studio Lace | Neustetter
17.11.2023 // Pushing the Boundaries Project features the “Studio Exhibition/Atelierausstellung” in the coverage of Vienna Art Week 2023 with Bronwyn Lace & Marcus Neustetter. The exhibition features past moments and current work-in-progress by Bronwyn Lace and Marcus Neustetter in response to the philosophical and scientific pursuit of their collaborators. Reflecting on recent projects in Austria, France,…
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Ivy
The exhibition Ivy/Sarmaşık, accompanied by a book edited by Başak Şenova, presented texts by A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, Başak Şenova, and Jonatan Habib Engqvist. Both the exhibition and the book delved into the enigmatic and paradoxical connotations of “ivy,” exploring its branching narratives, perspectives, entities, and realities that coexisted and intertwined. The artworks featured in the…
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Silent Activism. Barbara Holub
Edited by Basak Senova, this monograph offers a detailed view of Barbara Holub’s extensive body of work as well as her projects with transparadiso at the interface of art, architecture, and urbanism, for which she coined the term “silent activism.” Rather than directly propagating activism, Holub persistently creates performative situations for dialogic action with the…