Cross-Disciplinary Strategies

Join us for the AAA Exhibition by CDS BA graduates at the Angewandte Festival!

📍 CDS Lecture Room, 1st. Floor, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
🗓 1–4 July

• Christina Noitzmüller
• Iris Cîrlan
• Lisa Ingeborg Gerner
• Flora Schreiber
• Jana Kohlmannová
• Sanea Hertlein
• F***y Dobler
• Filip Grujić
• Emma Enzi (OKP, Lichthof B)

Works from the BA Witnessing Exhibition at the Angewandte Festival!

📍 CDS Studio, 1st. Floor, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
🗓️ 1–4 July

1. Ich will doch einfach nur schwimmen gehen
This film examines voyeurism in public swimming spaces in Vienna, focusing on the experiences of FLINTA* individuals who are subjected to non-consensual watching, and the motional, ethical, and spatial consequences of these experiences.
The film is the result of a one-year research process that included philosophical and psychoanalytic theory, as well as surveys and interviews with affected women. It aims to raise awareness of this issue and encourage discussion in order to make public spaces safer for everyone.

by Louisa Mae Petermann

2. Raw Material 980
By showcasing the interconnection between curatorial work and architecture, the project aims at an understanding of raw materials, with an emphasis on bricks, by exploring the material itself, using embodied knowledge and experimentation with artistic techniques as a form of engagement that deepens the understanding of ustainability and the reusability, adding a personal layer to it, concepts of sustainability, reusability, craftsmanship, care, labour forms and overall potential and limitations of earthen material are shown and displayed within the context of sustainable architecture fostering awareness of the environmental surroundings.

by Valentina Pickering

3. Work in Process

Work in Process is a collaborative artwork that puts the missing component - the process, the way to the result - in the foreground. To achieve this, Luisa Rott painted on a 70x40cm canvas and passed it around to different people; giving them the task to change it according to their interpretation of a poem excerpt that was provided. While the result is documented by photographs, its existence is impermanent, as the canvas is reworked by the next person. In the end, the contributors met up to destroy the result and completely let go. The only value that remains is the memory and experience gained in the process of creation.

by Luisa Rott

Works from the BA Witnessing Exhibition at the Angewandte Festival!

📍 CDS Studio, 1st. Floor, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
🗓️ 1–4 July

1. Mabaki hai Living remains
How do normal every day items became major
witnesses to a lived experience. You go to a
museum and you only see its title and brief
description. What if we got to see their side of
the story instead of just the statistics do we get
to experience them in a new way? How much
trauma does these ARTEFACTS carry? This
project allows you to see how human intent
influences the biography of objects.

by Virginia Nicole Bonareri

2. post-truth bodies
Generative AI has been used to create sexual deepfakes, becoming one of the ways in
which technology is being used to subjugate and harm women through cybersexual crime.
Alongside virtual r**e, AI encoded sexbots and cyber brothels, technology has brought a
new dimension for misogyny. In this ‘post-truth’ digital age, discerning what is real and what
is fake is becoming more difficult with emerging AI technologies. Through a photo series I
wanted to capture this contrast, manifesting as the feeling of alienation from one’s own body.
In a digital realm where female bodies are being used as objects for sexualisation, the
detachment one feels is real.

by Abigél Jankó

3. Lebenshof_fnung
Lebenshöfe are the places where the so-called ‘farm animals’ can live their lives without being exploited and killed; the sites of interspecies coexistence and hope. Drawing on the everyday life of Lebenshof Veganimals near Vienna, this installation creates a space for rest, listening, and attention. Nestled in the hay, participants are invited to attune to the voices and presences of the Lebenshof’s human and more-than-human community, and to imagine forms of relation grounded in care rather than extraction.

by Anastasiia Bubnovikova and Zlata Ulitina

Join us for the Witnessing Exhibition by BA CDS students at the Angewandte Festival!

📍 CDS Studio, 1st. Floor, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
🗓 1–4 July

In a world undergoing profound and rapid change, there is a need to gain an empirical understanding of the complex dynamics of this change and an urgent call to identify practical applications that make this understanding tangible and comprehensible. As various global challenges become embedded in new, intensified, and often untested streams of digital information (between ‘real’ and ‘manufactured’), Witnessing takes on new significance. This exhibition gathers the works of BA Cross-Disciplinary Students critically examining this year’s annual theme of the Cross-Disciplinary Capabilities Application Lab, extending their research and project works to diverse types of witnesses— ranging from eyewitnesses based on direct observation, to expert witnesses, political witnesses, and even silent witnesses. Each type of witnessing underscores how testimony can present only a partial or distorted view of events, demanding trust, interpretation, and careful navigation of the possibilities and dangers of witnessing, thereby opening a field of ethical and epistemological concerns. Across various media formats, including audio installations, ceramic works, and game sessions, the exhibition asks the visitors to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of witnessing in our contemporary times, on ethical questions that arise whenever we encounter experiences, stories, realities of our natural, human, and more-than-human surroundings.

* Abigél Jankó
* Anastasiia Bubnovikova
* Elys Entrup
* Eylül Seyreğkolu
* Fedor Khodnev
* Flora Amina Peham
* Grace Christenson
* Gi Sampaio
* Julia Skrobisz
* ka_hell
* Louisa Mae Petermann
* Luisa Rott
* Madeleine Krehbiel
* Serafima Parland
* Stella Králová
* Valentina Pickering
* Virginia Nicole Bonareri
* Zlata Ulitina
* Zsófi Csoboth