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Performance, Installation · 2026

After all, this is just another beginning

Master thesis
Charlotte Bastam, After all, this is just another beginning, Master’s Project Performance, 2026. Photo © Universitaet_fuer_angewandte_Kunst_Wien_WiSe_25-26_Vincent_Forstenlechner_CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0\n

2026, Performance, Installation — shown in Master’s Projects | Winter semester 2025/26.

What do we do with beginnings once everything has become relational?
In contemporary discourse, where philosophical and artistic thought is often shaped by relational ontologies, the performance project *After all, this is just another beginning *asks what has actually become of beginnings. Are beginnings everywhere because new contingencies constantly arise? Or have they disappeared because everything co-emerges from pre-existing relations? And yet we mark beginnings socially: we celebrate them, we time them, perhaps we even fear them.

After all, this is just another beginning is a durational performance exploring this dilemma. In doing so, it uncovers the force, risks, possibilities, and responsibilities that arise when we don’t discard beginnings but keep thinking-through them relationally.

CategoriesPerformance, Installation, Master project
Date21 January 2026
CreditsMaster graduate:Charlotte Bastam
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Photo © Vincent Forstenlechner, 2026, licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Photo © Vincent Forstenlechner, 2026, licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Photo © Vincent Forstenlechner, 2026, licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Photo © Vincent Forstenlechner, 2026, licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Photo © Vincent Forstenlechner, 2026, licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0