2010 – 2019

Vorträge,  Workshops /
Lectures, Workshops

2019
  • Artistic Research, the Epistemic Question & a Radical Artistic PhD Programme.
    Presentation, given at the 1st International Conference Arts and Science / Session “Artistic Research in the World” , organized by University of Côte d’Azur, Nice, Nov 27-30, 2019.
  • Die epistemologische Differenz künstlerischer Forschung – Konzeptionelle Überlegungen und konkrete PhD-Beispiele.
    Vortrag, gehalten im Rahmen des Seminars “Künstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Forschung” von Prof. Dr. Anne von der Heiden, Kunstuniversität Linz, 26.3.2019.
2018
  • Research and Promoting Research at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
    Lecture, given at Society for Artistic Research’s (SAR) Portal Partner meeting, Zurich, June 14, 2018.
  • PhD at Zurich University of the Arts and the Example of the Artistic PhD Programme at Department of Art & Media/ZHdK.
    Vortrag, gehalten im Rahmen von “ARC.06”, organisiert vom Departement Darstellende Künste und Film (DDK), Zürich, 11. Juni 2018.
  • Art Universities without Condition in Times of Neo-Feudalism and a New Nihilism. (Keynote)
    Given at Panel 21: Art/Education in the 21st Century. The Front Line: How We Talk about the Future?
    Organized by China Academy of Art, Hangzhou and National Institute of Art/Education, Beijing. Beijing, National Art Museum of China, March 26+27, 2018.
  • Artistic Research and Artistic PhD programme ZHdK – University of Arts and Design Linz (Austria): Experiences – Results – Perspectives.
    Lecture given at China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, April 2, 2018.
2017
  • Selbst/Portrait und Selbstkonstitution.
    Vortrag, gehalten im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe “Selbst/Portrait” – Ausstellung, Interaktion, Kunst und Vorträge.
    Ausstellung und Themenreihe, organisiert vom Verein Kunst, Psychoanalyse und Kultur. Theater der Künste/ZHdK, Zürich, 12. September 2017.
  • A SUBJECT is a subject is a Subject.
    Lecture given at Cortona Week 2017. Topic: Concepts on the Move. Organized by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK. Cortona (Italy),  Sep 2-9, 2017.  Cortona 2017
  • Co-Chair + Co-organizer Cortona Week 2017. Topic: Concepts on the Move. Organized by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Zurich University Zurich, ZHdK. Cortona (Italy),  Sep 1-9, 2017.
  • Nothing has been changed . . . except the words. Welcome address to Florian Dombois’ exhibition Galleria del Vento.
    Given at the opening of Florian Dombois’ exhibition Galleria del Vento at the Research Pavilion (Venice), created and organized by Uniarts Helsinki, and realized together with the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme and the Swedish Art Universities’ collaboration Konstex, in co-operation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Zurich University of the Arts, Venice/Guidecca, Sala del Camino, July 8, 2017.
  • Presentation and Discussion of SAR’s (Society for Artistic Research) Activities. (Together with the members of the Executive Board of SAR).
    Given/held at the Nordic Pavilion about Artistic Research, in the context the 57th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, June 6-7, 2017.  Nordic Pavilion on Artistic Research, Venice
  • The Epistemological Question.
    Input round table discussion at the Research Week, session Towards an Epistemology for Artistic Research, organized by Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Jan 26, 2017.
2016
  • What is at stake? Research in the Arts and the Question of Artistic PhD formats.
    Lecture and panel, given at the conference Research in the Arts. A survey of artistic forms and formats as doctoral theses in the Arts, organized by the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA), Antwerp, Dec 14-16, 2016.  ARIA_2016
  • Co-Chair + Co-organizer Cortona Week 2016. Topic: Uncertainty and Serendipity. Organized by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK. Cortona (Italy),  Sep 3-10, 2016.
2015
  • Input und Podiumsgespräch (zusammen mit Claus Noppeney BFH/HKB) im Rahmen des Schwerpunkts “Sollen Künstler in die  (Kreativ)Wirtschaft gehen?” der Ringvorlesung und des Symposiums 140 Jahre Handwerker & Visionäre. Kunst- und Designausbildungen zwischen gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung und Freiheit. Veranstaltet von der Hochschule Luzern/Design und Kunst, Luzern, 25.11.2015.
  • Connoisseurship – 20 Theses about a Never Ending Story.
    Input, given at Battles of Ideas: Who decides what makes art great? (Together with Pius Knüsel, and Pauline Hadaway). Satellite event, organized by Zurich Salon, in association with the British Swiss Chamber of Commerce and the Karl der Grosse. Zurich, Zentrum Karl der Grosse, Oct 20, 2015.  Zurich Salon 2015
  • Transcultural Master of Fine Arts – A New Dispositive for an Art Education in a World of Mondialisation.
    Lecture, given at Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geidai), Tokyo, Oct 14, 2015.
  • Re:Search as Desire.
    PhD Group, Joint Workshop together with CCC recherche et projet doctoral/University of Art and Design Geneva. Geneva, Sep 25+26, 2015.
  • Cortona Week 2015. Topic: Reproducibility. Organized by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and ZHdK. Cortona (Italy),  Sep 5-13, 2015.  Cortona-Week 2015
    Chair/Organizer, together with Prof. Dr. Gerd Folkers and Marlen Karlen, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich.
  • Re:Search as desire.
    PhD Group, Working week. Porto/Portugal, Jul 25-29, 2015.
  • Kunstausbildung, Globalisierung, Markt und selbstbestimmtes Leben.
    Eröffnungsrede zur ZHdK-Diplomausstellung 2015. Zürich, Toni-Areal, 4.6.2015. ZHdK_Eröffnungsrede_Diplomausstellung_2015
  • Radio made the DJ Star! Oder: Was hat der Untergang der Titanic mit der Geburt der radio serials und beides mit Bob Dylan zu tun? Oder: Der Soundtrack des Lebens – Das Unheimliche Amerika(s).
    Lecture, gehalten im Rahmen des MFA Zürich, Praxisseminar Formationen/Assemblagen, Zürich, 12.4.2015.
  • Einführung in Daniel Strassberg: Annäherungen. Skizzen in Gips.
    Ausstellung im Kiosk Tabak, Zürich, 10.4.2015. Einführung Strassberg
2014
  • Cortona Week 2014.
    Organizer and panelist of the series of theoretical workshops Science and / vs. / or Art?. Cortona, Sep 7, 8 and 10, 2014.
2013
  • Künstlerische Forschung und künstlerischer PhD heute – ein Problemaufriss.
    Vortrag gehalten in der Reihe Lectures des BA Medien & Kunst/Vertiefung Fotografie, Zürich, 19.12.2013.
  • Künstlerische Forschung & künstlerischer PhD – Übersicht | Modelle | Erfahrungen.
    Workshop, gehalten an der ZHdK  im Rahmen des MFA-Seminars Einführung in künstlerische Forschung von Prof. Christoph Schenker, Zürich, 17.12.2013.
  • Experiment und Erfahrung, Intuition und Schlampigkeit, oder: Was steht mit der künstlerischen Forschung auf dem Spiel?
    Vortrag, gehalten auf der Tagung Kunst – Wissenschaft – Theologie, veranstaltet vom Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Philosophie [IKP] der Katholisch-Theologischen Privatuniversität/KTU Linz, Linz, 28.11.2013.
  • Radio made the DJ star! oder: Was hat der Untergang der Titanic mit der Geburt der Radio Serials und beides mit Bob Dylan zu tun?
    Vortrag, gehalten auf der Tagung Es nimmt kein Ende! Serie als neues Paradigma, Zürich, 8./9.11.2013.
  • Trans-cultural Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program – A New Dispositive for Higher Education.
    Proposal (reviewed), presented at the 9th QS Asia-Pacific Professional Leaders in Education (QS-APPLE) conference,  Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, October 30 to November 1, 2013. 9th QS-Apple 2013
  • Artistic Research – Artistic PhD Today. Problematics – Paradoxes – Possibilities.
    Lecture, given at the School of Intermedia Art (SIMA) / China Art Academy (CAA), Hangzhou, Oct 24, 2013.
  • City Light – “Public Performance Space and the Urbanization Process”.
    Panel at the West Bund 2013: A Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art. Shanghai/China, Oct 20, 2013.
  • PhD Program ZHdK/Department of Art & Media – University of Art and Design Linz. Concept –  Examples – Experiences.
    Lecture / Presentation and discussion given at Pre-Doctorate/PhD-Seminar, organized by CCC (Critical Cross-Cultural Cybermedia) Research-Based Master Programme of the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD). Geneva, Oct 7 and 8, 2013.
  • No Theme at all – Just a Framework (Time)!
    Workshop, given within the project Building Bridges (Part 2), a co-operation of Department ofPerforming Arts and Film/ZHdK, School of Visual Arts (SVA) and Experimental Theater Wing / Tisch School of the Arts (both New York), Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance (Kopenhagen) und Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. Zurich, Jan 12, 2013.
  • Paradoxien / Leerstellen / Perspektiven künstlerischer Forschung heute.
    Workshop im  Rahmen des PhD-Kolloquium der Kunstuniversität Linz. WS 2012/2013, 9.-10.1.2013.
2012
  • „ … & beyond“ – Or: it’s all about not to make political art, but to make art politically – or: about the difference between an adjective and an adverb and its effects – or: why „publics“ is a tricky thing.
    Lecture, given at the conference “Publics & beyond”, organized by the Chinese Academy of Art (CAA) / School of Intermedia Art, Hangzhou; Jinze, Shanghai, China, Oct. 2 -4, 2012.
  • “Artistic Research”? What is it? What could be its impact?
    Seminar/Lecture, given at the School of Intermedia Art (SIMA) / China Academy of Art (CAA), Hangzhou, May 25, 2012.
2011
  • Zur epistemologischen Bedeutung des ARTE-FAKTs für die Forschung in den Künsten.
    Vortrag, gehalten am PhD-Kolloquium WS 11 der Kunstunversität Linz, 6.12.2011.
  • «MFA and PhD Programmes in the Arts and Programmes Accreditations within the Bologna Process –  Procedures / Experiences / Hints».
    Consulting/Seminar, given at State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi (Georgia), 17.-18.10.2011.
2010
  • Die Unbedingte Psychoanalyse. Marginalien eines Nicht-Analytikers.
    Vortrag, gehalten an der Internationalen Interdisziplinären Tagung „Die Psychoanalyse und ihre Bildung“,veranstaltet vom Psychoanalytischen Seminar Zürich, vom Interdisziplinären Psychoanalytischen Forum der Universität Zürich und der ETH, vom Freud-Institut Zürich und von der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich, Vortragssaal ZHdK, 11.12.2010.
  • Die Kunsthochschulen als Hochschultypus?
    Podium, veranstaltet von Kunsthochschule der Schweiz (KHS), Zürich, 19.11.2010.
  • The art of studying art today. Reflections, Concepts and Experiences.
    Lecture given at Fudan University, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA), Shanghai, October 14,  2010.
  • Art Education in the 21st century. Or: The shift from transforming knwoledge to generating knowledge.
    Lecture, given at the Donghua University, Department of  Fashion and Media, Shanghai, Oct 12, 2010.
    Cortona Week 2010: Labyrinth (20th Anniversary)
    Organized by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich) and the ZHdK, Cortona, Italy / Sep 4 – 11, 2010. http://www.cortona.ethz.ch/
  • Luzidität und Transparenz.
    Liu Chunjie: Inspiration Kühlungsborn. A Chinese Painter’s Travel Journal of Germany.
    Vortrag, gehalten anlässlich der chinesischen Buchvernissage an der Shanghai Book Fair, Main Hall, Main Stage, Shanghai, 12.08.2010.