Spatial Dimensions in the Arts

The course is devoted to selected contemporary trends and ideas in the field of laboratory and staging work, in which spaces or places have inspired arts involving movement/action/sound/sculpture/etc. In order to be able to understand and classify the aesthetic, sociocultural and sociopolitical backgrounds of such trends in the present day, 20th-century predecessors of current concepts of the occupation and transformation of spaces will be presented. In connection with the concept of “Doing Culture”, the theoretical studies pursued in this course will be complemented by practical artistic and cultural aspects in laboratory spaces on site and reflected upon from a didactic perspective.

The course is being offered in the context of the “Schwerpunkt Wissenschaft und Kunst (Focus on Science and Art) / Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and Mozarteum University Salzburg”.

Required reading

ANGERMANN, Klaus / BARTHELMES, Barbara: Die Idee des klingenden Raumes seit Satie. In: JOST, Ekkehard (ed.): Musik zwischen E und U
Schott, Mainz, London, New York, and Tokio 1984, pp. 107–126
SEITZ, Hanne: Räume im Dazwischen. Bewegung, Spiel und Inszenierung im Kontext ästhetischer Theorie und Praxis
Klartext, Essen 1996
SCHROER, Markus: Räume, Orte, Grenzen. Auf dem Weg zu einer Soziologie des Raums
Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2006