Artistic Doctoral Projects
The Zentrum Fokus Forschung provides institutional support (e.g. Fokus Forschung Studio) for the artistic doctoral projects at the University of Applied Arts.
Currently running research projects of the doctoral programme artistic research:
Projects in alphabetical order:
2023
- Sanja Anđelković, Voice-shifting as a Method: Eco-Gods in Future Orthodox Chants, supervisor: Gerhild Steinbuch
- Wolfgang Konrad, Before the truth in Documentary, supervisor: Luzius Bernhard
- Jo O’Brien, Necessary Confusion: Making Queer-Crip Access, supervisor: Annette Krauss
- Imani Rameses, Alcheothapy – The Myth of Psychotherapy and Alchemic Alternatives for the Avoidant, supervisors: Ruth Anderwald+ Leonhard Grond
- Konstanze Stoiber, untitled, supervisor: Brigitte Felderer
- Ksenia Yurkova, Figures of reticence as a(bio)political strategy, aforced necessity, and the impossibility of artistic expression, supervisor: Jakob Lena Knebl
2022
- Johanna Bruckner, Xenopoetic De/Compositions: The Affect-Body as Interface, Supervisor: Jakob Lena Knebl
- Andrew Champlin, Technique Concerns: Ballet Practice Against the Western Archive, Supervisor: Ruth Anderwald+ Leonhard Grond
- Corç George Demir, Ancestral Junctures: on the expansion of ancestral mythologies, Supervisor: Hans Schabus
- Jošt Franko, The Migrating Image, Supervisor: Gerhild Steinbuch
- Joseph Leung Mong-Sum, Digital Angst – An Artistic Ethnography of the Relationship between Anxiety and Digital Culture (from Hong Kong to China and the World), Supervisor: Gabriele Rothemann
- Judit Navratil, Szívküldi Lakótelep: a VR Social Housing Neighborhood, Supervisor: Ruth Schnell
- Marthin Rozo Castaño, Art and Conservation in the Post-Conflict, Supervisor: Cristina Garcia Grinda + Efrén Diaz Moreno
2021
- Tamara Antonijević, Assisting (as an aesthetic experience), Supervisor: Gerhild Steinbuch
- Nisrine Boukhari, between an unknown beginning and unexpected end in no particular order. on fragmentation and nonlinearity in conceptual writing in visual art, Supervisor: Monika Rinck
- Oscar Gardea, NARCOFUTURISMO Hybrid Futures in Mafia of Northern Mexico, Supervisor: Brigitte Felderer
- Ani Gurashvili, Painting as a Carrier Bag, Supervisor: Henning Bohl
- Rah Eleh, Xenofuturism: A Proposal for a Liminal Futurism, Supervisor: Bouchra Khalili
- Conny Zenk, RAD Performance – Driving Voices of Resistance, Supervisor: Ruth Schnell
2020
- Žarko Aleksić, Consciousness As an Art Process, Supervisor: Margarete Jahrmann
- Margit Busch, A garden for a fish, Supervisor: Virgil Widrich
- Cristiana de Marchi, Casting a shadow. On disappearance, emptiness and the haunting power of absence, Supervisor: Judith Eisler
- Tamás Páll, Role-play, simulation and worlding, Supervisor: Margarete Jahrmann
- Juli Sikorska, Collective Climate Imagination, Supervisor: Anab Jain
2019
- Niels Bonde, Paying with your face, Supervisor: Margarete Jahrmann
- Erik Bünger, Thou Shalt Not Speak, Supervisor: Jan Svenungsson
- Georg Tremmel, The Emergence of Biology as a Read/Write Medium, Supervisor: Margarete Jahrmann.
2018
- Anahita Rezvani-Rad, What role does art play, if any, in archiving and effecting collective memory, Supervisor: Henning Bohl
- Rizki Resa Utama, BALIMAJINESE “Constructed Audiovisual Language in Tropical Tourism (Bali, Indonesia)”, Supervisor: Martin Krenn
- Fabian Weiss, Ideal Self: How We Use Photography and Technology to Present and Optimize Ourselves, Supervisor: Margarete Jahrmann
2017
- Bogomir Doringer, I Dance Alone, Supervisor: Paul Petritsch
- Verena Faißt, Staging the white elephant that remains overlooked, Supervisor: Barbara Putz-Plecko
- Martin Kusch, Virtual Together, Supervisor: Peter Weibel
- Hinnerk Utermann, Talking House, Supervisor: Jan Svenungsson
2016
- Marie-Claude Poulin, Mutations – bodily perception, analog and digital dispositives, Supervisor: Ruth Schnell
- Katarina Šoškić, The Journey: tourist zones, seasons and fields in between, Supervisor: Jan Svenungsson
Completed Doctoral Projects Artistic Research
2024
- Barbara Graf, Stitches and Sutures, Supervisor: Barbara Putz-Plecko
- Ana Rajcevic, Chimera: the Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human, Supervisor: Virgil Widrich
2023
- Barbis Ruder, Body – Object – Intersections, Supervisor: Hans Schabus
- Micha Payer, Re-Enacting Tableaus, Supervisor: Paul Petritsch
2022
- Cordula Daus, Kay, or a Case for Intensity, Supervisor: Ferdinand Schmatz
- Charlotta Ruth, Choreographic Contingencies for on and offline, Supervisor: Margarete Jahrmann
- Ralo Mayer, Space Un·Settlements, Supervisor: Ferdinand Schmatz
2021
- Michael Kargl, Performative Materiality, Supervisor: Brigitte Kowanz
2020
- Anna Vasof, Non-Stop Stop-Motion, Supervisor: Judith Eisler
