Buch

Das neue Buch von Bojana Kunst beschäftigt sich mit dem komplexen Verhältnis zwischen Leben und Kunst und diskutiert dieses unter dem Blickwinkel der Sorge. Dabei werden nicht nur die Hintergründe gegenwärtiger Sorgedebatten untersucht, sondern die Autorin streicht auch deren ambivalenten Charakter heraus: Sorge kann ebenso sehr Teil von Gewaltverhältnissen sein, wie sie zur Grundlage für eine poetisch-imaginative Neuorientierung von sozialer, ökologischer und mikropolitischer Relationalität werden kann.

Bojana Kunst, Philosophin, Dramaturgin und Performance-Theoretikerin, Universität Gießen
Stefan Nowotny, Philosoph, eipcp – European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Wien / Málaga

Bojana Kunst, Das Leben der Kunst. Transversale Linien der Sorge, Wien: transversal texts 2023

Bojana Kunst’s new book deals with the complex relationship between life and art and discusses this relationship from the angle of care. The author not only critically examines various backgrounds to contemporary debates on care, but furthermore lays an emphasis on its ambivalent character: care can be part and parcel of relations of violence as much as it can become the basis for a poetic-imaginative reorientation of social, ecological and micropolitical relationality.

Bojana Kunst, philosopher, dramaturge and performance theorist, University of Gießen
Stefan Nowotny, philosopher, eipcp – European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Vienna / Málaga

The conversation of two experts will look into the use and meaning of the garden, both public and private. The garden today fulfils more demands than ever. It is a refuge from digitalised life and a bridge to nature. It is cultivated and untamable. While for centuries the aim was to control nature, today it serves more as a place for retreat, a possible surrogate for wilderness, a habitat for animals or the dream of self-sufficiency, a place of community. The essays deal with garden as art, garden as a place of enchantment, garden as action and resistance.

Ana Kučan, landscape architect, publicist, principal of Studio AKKA, University of Ljubljana
Lilli Lička, landscape architect, activist, Institute of Landscape Architecture, BOKU, Vienna
Moderation: Eva Schmolmüller, ig-architektur, architecture magazine LAMA, teaching and projects at the interface between architecture and social work.

Ana Kučan, Mateja Kurir (eds.): Garden and Metaphor: Essays on the essence of the Garden. Birkhäuser, 2023

An event by the Institute of Landscape Architecture, BOKU, Vienna in cooperation with the Slovenian Cultural and Information Centre in Austria.