written by Corinna Kühnapfel UNIVIE PhD Candidate MacKenzie Trupp has been recently awarded with the Impact Award 2023 funded by the City of Vienna Cultural Affairs for her research funded by ARTIS. MacKenzie Trupp is a doctoral candidate at the Vienna Doctoral School in Cognition, Behavior and Neuroscience (VDS CoBeNe) of the University of Vienna.Through […]

February 23, 2024

*Parkinsons

New research project at UNIVIE on the relationship between Parkinson’s and creativity

This project is looking into the role of creativity to better understand Parkinson's by ’unlocking the Muse’

January 26, 2024

*Outreach
*Transformation

New article about ARTIS in EU Research

In the latest edition of EU Research, the winter issue highlights the work of the ARTIS project studying art's impact across Europe

October 17, 2023

*Transformation

New exhibition by Kaj Osteroth

Kaj Osteroth, who works in close colaboration with Sarah Hegenbart (UOXF) for an upcoming ARTIS project, invites to an upcoming vernissage.

October 05, 2023

Research presentations at the Visual Science of Art Conference 2023

VSAC is a conference connecting the communities of visual scientists and artists in order to deepen our understanding of aesthetic phenomena

October 04, 2023

**foundationClass

Paper on Ethical Conflicts in the Research Project: ARTIS. Speaking For and Over Others.

From the context of the art school weißensee kunsthochschule, Anisha Gupta Müller writes on the ethical problems of ‘including’ marginalised people in research

September 13, 2024

response*able Drawing Workshop

The workshop “COUNTDOWN DEMOCRACY Drawing & Witnessing” starts on Monday, September 16th

written by Corinna Kühnapfel

Countdown Democracy is a low-threshold, participatory experiment that invites people to reflect on their everyday experiences with democracy. With pencil and paper as the main tools.
Countdown Democracy invites people to use drawing to scan their own everyday lives for
impressions, experiences and/or despair, always with an eye to the big question: DEMOCRACY AND
ME? What role does democracy play in my daily life?

The principle is simple!
If you want to participate, you will need
1) White copy paper (A4 landscape)
2) A pencil (also color pencil if you like)
3) A daily time slot of 15-30 minutes, ideally from September 16-29.*
4) Include the date and time of your drawing and any other information you feel is relevant.
5) Keep your drawings if you would like to be part of our exhibition.**
Let us know if you would like to participate. We can also send you more information or answer your
questions by email: osteroth@response-able-drawing.com

The practice of response*able drawing is based on a concept by artist Kaj Osteroth and art historian and curator Sarah Hegenbart. Conducting a series of workshops with different communities, the workshop participants are invited to enter into dialogue with one another through the medium of drawing. Starting points for these conversations are central political questions or reflections by authors working in this field. In the long term, it is intended that the respective communities will become co-curators of a joint exhibition.

Response*able drawing is part of the EU funded Horizon 2020 project ARTIS ‘Artis Consortium Grant: Art and Research on Transformations of Individuals and Societies’ (https://artis-h2020.eu/). Within the framework of this project, a team of transnational researchers is investigating the extent to which transformative changes occur through aesthetic experiences. The response*able drawing project is located in Unit 7 CONNECT-Politics, Democracy. In this unit, a study is being developed that addresses the following research question: “Participatory art and democracy: How can art practice and perceiver engagement foster democratic citizenship?

Further information: www.response-able-drawing.com