07/08/2026
TransArts lectures recap part II summer‘26
Starting off the second half of this semester‘s lecture series, the class invited Nikolaj Schulz, PhD fellow at department of sociology, university of Copenhagen and close collaborator to late french philosopher Bruno Latour.
In his talk Schultz argued that getting closer to non-humans is not the only analytical strategy we need if we wish to face our times crisis of sensibilities. Instead, based on his book ‚Land Sickness‘, Schultz argued that we also need descriptions of how the existential conditions of the human being has transformed in the Anthropocene, how the human has transformed into another kind of being, one leaving behind a set of destructive traces that is slowly but certainly destroying its own species’ conditions of subsistence.
Nikolaj Schultz
In the framework of a residency at PART International Art Residency Austria (PART Residency), the class made a studio visit to artist Beaux Mendes.
Their work treats painting as a transitory medium, while consistently revealing the physical qualities of the used support. Involving rituals of passage and pilgrimage, their practice invites estrangement and altered states of experience resulting from repeated trips to sites for painting, often remote and obscure. These sites conjure a relay of sensory information and embedded imagery that phase between environment and artist, generating a range of phenomena recorded by way of an artwork as conduit.
beaux mendes
Closing off this semester, Peter Melicharek and Veronika Haberler, Legal advisors at the Wiener Advocatur Bureau, visited the class to discuss everything legal concerning arts.
The students were invited to bring their very own art-related legal cases and concrete questions which they were then legally advised on. Additionally the two legal advisors decided legal terms and specific laws.
Curation and Organisation: Roswitha Schuller (Roswitha Schuller), Stephan Hilge, Roman Pfeffer (Roman Pfeffer), Christoph Hoeschele (Christoph Hoeschele), Anja Werkl
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