Institute

Fine Arts and Cultural Studies

Degree Programmes

Fine Arts
BA Cultural Studies

Professorship for Artistic Research

The Professorship for Artistic Research at the Institute of Fine Arts and Cultural Studies sees itself as a platform for experimentation with artistic and cultural studies approaches.

There is no denying that research is also carried out in the arts: There is experimentation with different materials and media, with forms and content; themes are reappraised, discarded, taken up again ... The questions at the heart of the Artistic Research area are: How can artistic and scientific approaches benefit from each other in the exploration of culture(s), complement each other or motivate each other to go further? How is it possible to reflect on one's own (artistic or academic) research? How is knowledge about culture(s) produced and for whom? To what extent can new approaches and spaces for thought be developed?

Above all, artistic research poses the question of the social relevance, impact, forms of organization and communication of our knowledge production. We tie in with questions of methodology, the history of science and the sociology of knowledge and open up a space for self-reflection and experimentation.

Current focal points of the Artistic Knowledge Practices department are

• Alternative working environments
• The arts of everyday life
• How to live together?
• History(s) of artistic research

The subject "Artistic-scientific research" at the University of Art and Design Linz is part of the BA "Cultural Studies", which the University of Art and Design Linz offers together with the Johannes Kepler University Linz, the Catholic Private University Linz and the Anton Bruckner Private University from winter semester 2019.