2020/2021: Undoing Landscape
Building on the previous year’s “Principle of Equality”, the 2020–21 seminar “Undoing Landscape” convened by Adam Szymczyk and assisted by Petja Dimitrova considered the notion of landscape as both a physical site of action and as constructed imaginary space.
Landscape is a contested field, in which political and cultural projections clash and intersect. In this intersection, various ideologies of “landscaping” and alternative ways of “picturing landscape” – can be situated and questioned: a landscape of landscapes emerges.
From 16 until 23 March 2021, a presentation of works by students of the seminar took place at the windows of xhibit in Vienna. It was a result of a collective process, which involved several online meetings with guest speakers – the artists Rosalind Nashashibi (London), Ahlam Shibli (Berlin), Katharina Rosenberger (Zurich), and Ross Birrell (Glasgow) – as well as it was nourished by reading of literature and viewing of films and video works.
The exhibition will be followed by a joint portfolio including works by all participants, which can be used in future iterations of the project.
From 28 April until 25 June 2021, the works by the students were on display in the windows of ERSTE Foundation in Vienna.
The participating students were Viktoria Bayer, Anna Bochkova, Emma Carlén, Kristina Cyan, Louise Deininger, Marie Yaël Fidesser, Lisa Grosskopf, Anthia Loizou, Clemens Matschnig, Taro Meissner, Kamryn Pariso, Ursula Pokorny, Rasmus Richter, Olga Shapovalova, Rini Swarnaly Mitra, and Kanako Tada.
Landscape is a contested field, in which political and cultural projections clash and intersect. In this intersection, various ideologies of “landscaping” and alternative ways of “picturing landscape” – can be situated and questioned: a landscape of landscapes emerges.
From 16 until 23 March 2021, a presentation of works by students of the seminar took place at the windows of xhibit in Vienna. It was a result of a collective process, which involved several online meetings with guest speakers – the artists Rosalind Nashashibi (London), Ahlam Shibli (Berlin), Katharina Rosenberger (Zurich), and Ross Birrell (Glasgow) – as well as it was nourished by reading of literature and viewing of films and video works.
The exhibition will be followed by a joint portfolio including works by all participants, which can be used in future iterations of the project.
From 28 April until 25 June 2021, the works by the students were on display in the windows of ERSTE Foundation in Vienna.
The participating students were Viktoria Bayer, Anna Bochkova, Emma Carlén, Kristina Cyan, Louise Deininger, Marie Yaël Fidesser, Lisa Grosskopf, Anthia Loizou, Clemens Matschnig, Taro Meissner, Kamryn Pariso, Ursula Pokorny, Rasmus Richter, Olga Shapovalova, Rini Swarnaly Mitra, and Kanako Tada.