ars sciendi

By Tonica Hunter · 4 ECTS / semester.

A humanities, (social) science and social-justice centric lens to facilitate discovering ourselves, our works and our world. From sound, space, structure to society — among others — the course takes on a range of thematic focuses to explore and expand knowledge across art and science. By understanding art and science not only as outputs but as methods of knowledge collection, creation and distribution, the course raises questions such as:

• What is, or can be considered, “knowledge” in art and science?
• How do ways of learning and knowing impact our creative outputs?
• How can we disconnect knowledge from a purely cerebral association — and what could this mean for creative outputs?
• How does “failure”, (un)knowing and error “queer” (Halberstam, 2011) knowledge in and of art and science?
• How can we incorporate ethics into an art of knowing, and subsequently into art/science practices? (hooks, 2000)

The class encourages students to think as much as possible “outside” the classroom; guest lectures, workshops and visits engage practitioners in Vienna and internationally whose practices subvert the status quo in art, science and knowledge.

Sources: Halberstam, Jack (2011), The Queer Art of Failure, Duke University Press; hooks, bell (2000), All About Love: New Visions, New York: William Morrow.