Highlights Transdisciplinarity

© Florian Dombois, 2022
© Florian Dombois, 2022

    «The Creator Doctus […] helps us to orient research away from exclusively the natural sciences and humanities as the final recipients, and in so doing, to also move away from their universal claim to define the concept of knowledge.»

    Aus: Florian Dombois: Who, How, for Whom? Or: What are we doing here? In: Jeroen Boomgaard, John Butler (eds.): «The Creator Doctus Constellation. Exploring a new model for a doctorate in the arts», Amsterdam: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2021, p.176.

        Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

        Julia Weber’s appearance at the 2021 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt reached a large audience. The online launch of the collective project Filmallmende was widely received while Prof. Dr. Florian Dombois’s essay «Who, How, for Whom?» heralded a new concept of artistic research. Esther Mathis’ Fliegen won a public art competition in Winterthur.

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          Promotion of Talents and Careers

          In 2021, seven candidates worked on their artistic-research doctorate within the framework of our PhD cooperation (funded by swissuniversities) with Linz University of Art and Design. Together with three other doctoral students, the RFA students took part in numerous panels and taught at arts universities in Switzerland and abroad. In addition, ZHdK graduates were integrated into research projects.

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            Cooperation and Internationality

            Numerous (online) performances by RFT researchers found an international audience. Our guests in 2021 included Luis Berríos-Negrón (Puerto Rico/Denmark), Prof. Dr. Olivier Chazot (Belgium) and Teresa Präauer (Austria). Due to the pandemic, events with international guests such as Isabel Nolan and Leslie Thornton, or Fabio Don’s workshop Nomadic Houses, had to be postponed again.

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              External Funding

              In approving Triple Instruments: Through truth wind blows (2022–2026, funded with CHF 613’000), the SNSF is for the first time supporting an artistic research project whose research design, research interests and staff are based entirely in the arts. This represents an important milestone in linking research more directly with teaching at ZHdK.

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                  Noteworthy

                  For our Filmallmende project, we invited international artists to work with film material from the RFT’s wind tunnel and to pursue their own works. The outcome, five filmic contributions, implement the idea of «Sharing and Challenging» in the arts. Further works are in production.

                  [Translate to English:] © Florian Dombois, 2020