17.04.2023, 18:00–19:30 // Talk by David Chisholm: ‘Labyrinth as Composition: Multicursal Processes and the Composer’s Body’ in ‘Understanding Practice’ Series of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna. Using peripheral architectural forms, composer David Chisholm recently commenced an exploration of how we might locate the composer in such spaces. The respective spatial and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…