"How Will I Know"? (ars sciendi)
Workshop by Tonica Hunter
A song originally written for pop icon Janet Jackson, How Will I Know in fact became one of the biggest hits of Whitney Houston's
debut album released in 1985. The accompanying music video also broke Houston into the new media format of MTV and with that
exposed her music to a new younger demographic thirsty for groundbreaking musical and visual shifts which in turn would go
on to define and develop both popular music and culture for the decades that followed.
"How Will I Know"? is an introductory session on knowledge development and application by incorporating vast and varied starting points, inputs and impulses. Participants are encouraged, by considering both art and science as 'ways’ of knowing, to explore what constitutes knowledge for them and incentivises them to know and develop knowledge through their works and practices. The aim is to build a learning community with participants by levelling the exchange between "teacher" and "student" by defining an environment which facilitates broader conceptions of knowing.
About
Tonica Hunter is a curator, cultural producer and DJ originally from London and living and working in Vienna since 2014. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Warwick in French and German Studies and a Master of Science from the University of Oxford in Migration Studies. Since moving to Vienna in 2014 she has built her portfolio independently as a freelance curator for discourse, music/performance and visual arts. She has (co) founded and curated as collectives (Sounds of Blackness, Series:Black) and various projects in Vienna which use the arts to redefine social space whilst contributing to conversations and thinking on inclusion, intersectionality and access to the cultural sector in Austria. Her work spans UNESCO Austria, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Weltmuseum, Wellenklænge Festival, Marshall Headphones, Tanzquartier Research Lab, ArgeKultur Salzburg, Stand129, to name a few. Since 2021, she sits on the Beirat for Frauendomane as an expert for Arts and Culture and on the BMKÖS Beirat for Kulturinitiativen. Further details of her work can be found at tonicahunter.com.
"How Will I Know"? is an introductory session on knowledge development and application by incorporating vast and varied starting points, inputs and impulses. Participants are encouraged, by considering both art and science as 'ways’ of knowing, to explore what constitutes knowledge for them and incentivises them to know and develop knowledge through their works and practices. The aim is to build a learning community with participants by levelling the exchange between "teacher" and "student" by defining an environment which facilitates broader conceptions of knowing.
About
Tonica Hunter is a curator, cultural producer and DJ originally from London and living and working in Vienna since 2014. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Warwick in French and German Studies and a Master of Science from the University of Oxford in Migration Studies. Since moving to Vienna in 2014 she has built her portfolio independently as a freelance curator for discourse, music/performance and visual arts. She has (co) founded and curated as collectives (Sounds of Blackness, Series:Black) and various projects in Vienna which use the arts to redefine social space whilst contributing to conversations and thinking on inclusion, intersectionality and access to the cultural sector in Austria. Her work spans UNESCO Austria, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Weltmuseum, Wellenklænge Festival, Marshall Headphones, Tanzquartier Research Lab, ArgeKultur Salzburg, Stand129, to name a few. Since 2021, she sits on the Beirat for Frauendomane as an expert for Arts and Culture and on the BMKÖS Beirat for Kulturinitiativen. Further details of her work can be found at tonicahunter.com.
"How Will I Know"? (ars sciendi)
May 03, 2023, 10:00h
Location
University of Applied Arts Vienna