𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 is happy to invite you to our next Get Together meeting that will take place on 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟓, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟓 𝐩𝐦 at two exhibitions by the Department of Site-Specific Art / University of Applied Arts Vienna.

The Get Together network meeting will take place in the course of the exhibitions Sleeping Dogs and Exactly As Imagined by the Department of Site-Specific Art of the University of Applied Arts Vienna at the Klima Biennale Festivalareal Nordwestbahnhof and at brut nordwest in cooperation with Klima Biennale.

Teachers and students from the Site-Specific Art department will guide you through their project and discuss the collaboration with Klima Biennale and brut:

Sleeping Dogs
“What if the proverbial dogs went on strike by not waking up from their sleep? The labour power of non-human animals is exploited in many ways in contemporary bio capitalism, mostly without it being understood as work. This concerns not only their actual productive power, but also the reproductive abilities of (female) animals: Animals become meat, milk becomes food. Non-human animals also often contribute to shaping the environment without this being perceived as labor. The cultural and material logistics established by humans have been producing and utilizing animal life as a form of capital for centuries.
The works presented in this exhibition by graduates of the Department of Site-Specific Art (University of Applied Arts) are dedicated to this unequal division of labour between human and non-human animals. It introduces the motif of sleep as a subversive strategy. Sleep can appear in many different guises: Rest, hibernation, breeding phase. The works shown here thus pose the question of the extent to which animals and humans can resist these forms of exploitation by consciously taking breaks. However, they also address the fact that it may be too late to wake the dogs: that human trust in the regenerative processes of nature is disproportionate to the consequences of systematic destruction.”

Artists: Ivana Lazić, Ana Likar, Raphael Reichl and Ursula Gaisbauer in collaboration with Marie Janssen and Anna Brock, David Fedders, Marie Filippovits, Lena Heinschink, Laura Josic, Tutku Kocabas, Flores Paul, Yevhenia Pavlova, Michelle Schäfer, Anastasiia Verzun, Lin Wolf, Ida Zahradnik
Curator: Marlies Pöschl

Exactly As Imagined 
“We – a temporary collective of art students, artists, and cultural workers – explore the art exhibition as a place of collective articulation of difference(s) and resistance as well as a place of interconnectedness and interdependence within and without. Exactly As Imagined is the result of a process rather than working towards a curated outcome. It is a collective proposal that includes an intervention in public space, an exhibition, and ongoing care work.”

Participants: Lin Wolf / Ella Texaco & Florin Falloni / Evgeny Tantsurin / Maryam Shahidifar / Felix Schwentner / Artur Schernthaner-Lourdesamy / Camilla Ruh / Judith Raupp / Yevheniia Pavlova / Laura Sofia Oyuela Flores / Veronika Nikiforova / Arina Nekliudova / Paula Mudri / Konstantin Leitner / Laura Ana Josic / Anne Faucheret / Gala Alica