A World of Changemakers – how can a hybrid arts lecture series concept in e-learning create attitudes and shape skills as a playful and critical thinking navigator in an uncertain world? To re-create meaning is an interdisciplinary cross-sectional task of our Zeitgeist in a civil society. Our international guests represent key roles in relevant philosophical debates, non-university community art & design projects or companies as well as from the gallery or museum context.
Zurich University of the Arts: Toni Campus | Janine Schiller, Katharina Nill (eds.)
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Aus der einst modernsten Grossmolkerei Europas ist eine Kunsthochschule geworden: Auf dem Toni-Areal in Zürich-West sind seit Herbst 2014 die Studierenden und Lehrenden der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK zu Hause. Das Zürcher Architekturbüro EM2N hat die kolossale Gebäudestruktur beim Umbau zur Kunsthochschule bewahrt und die ehemalige «Joghurtfabrik» zu einer Stadt im Haus umgewandelt. Das Raumprogramm ermöglicht eine zeitgemässe Lern- und Lehrumgebung, die sich – im Sinne der Wissensarchitektur – zum urbanen Umfeld öffnet. Ateliers, Büros, Konzert- und Hörsäle, Ausstellungsräume, Kino, Museum, Musikklub, Gastronomie und 100 Mietwohnungen liegen hier Tür an Tür. Das Buch dokumentiert in Bild und Text die Wandlung des Toni-Areals und das heutige Mit- und Nebeneinander unterschiedlicher Mentalitäten und Arbeitsweisen.
288 Seiten, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2016
ISBN 978-3-85881-766-2
We often think art’s all about money. Rather, it’s about energy. Immersing yourself in Lake Zurich, a hedge-fund office, a botanical garden, or a land-art piece built on ruins, is it possible to discern an energy particular to art? Art as a form of energy capable of encompassing the whole of life, more powerful than finance and its algorithms? Art as science or speculative fiction? We dwell in castles with Schrödinger’s cat until we give form to the formless: molecules and failed soldiers, art spaces previously owned by the mafia. We share tips about the tricks of the trade—only to intervene, emancipate, culminate, collapse, and (re)emerge. Let us look everywhere for ideas, and let us be gloriously out of touch: may we grow our capacity and courage to love. Catastrophism, miniskirt, particle.
The artist as entrepreneur has become a common topic of discussion. Here, however, we put forward the notions of “self” and “system.” First, every artistic practice is self-reflexive and self-contextualizing. Second, each system an artist builds allows for innovation. Let’s construct a space where we inevitably find ourselves together with others, even if we feel lonely, like a witch lost in a library of artists’ books. Let’s invent our right to do so. Let’s enter the world of smell and write about a megalomaniac art school while documenting a generation of art students and their studios with analogue photography. How does anyone even manage—from making objects to performing one’s own existence? Device, organon, animal.
328 pages, Sternberg Press, 2019
ISBN 978-3-956794-88-9