die:'angewandte cds | Cross-Disciplinary Strategies

CDS MA Finalists

Get your spirits in a place where natural ghosts, digital echoes and voices meet across time.

Vordere Zollamtstraße 7
FLUX 2
June 25–28, 2025, 11:00–21:00

Works by:

Anna Tenzer: Weaving, Braiding, Twining a Future That Does Not Exist
Luca Hierzenberger: Will Death Tear Us Apart? Speculative Reflections on Digital Afterlife
Paula Bracker: Phosphorus as Pharmakon: Various Stories About Phosphorus, the Earth System, and the Anthropocene
Samo Zeichen: “Veliko nas je bilo / We Were Many” – Articulating Disappearance: Slovene Voices from the Archive

Large: Phosphorus as Pharmakon by Paula Bracker, photo © kunst-dokumentation.com; Above: Will Death Tear Us Apart? by Luca Hierzenberger; Below: Weaving, Braiding, Twining a Future That Does Not Exist by Anna Tenzer, photos © Jorit Aust

CDS BA Finalists

Postsparkasse
Rooms 147 + 149 (1st Floor)
June 25–28, 2025, 11:00–21:00

Works by:

Aarushi Nitharwal: “The Mountain View”
Aizat Sagymbaeva: Low Life (not feat. Future)
Alma Ruby Fjelrad Palmer: no, because you won’t believe what I heard… there’s no way… that’s what I said, but you know… well, I thought… yes that too… unbelievable… well, let’s keep that between us
Helene Hochrieser: Speculations in Hyperreality
Jaro Tom Habiger: “You press the button, we do the rest”
Joëlle Antonie Gbeassor: If We Were Vampires
Luca Ladányi: Beyond Market Metrics
Lukas Frank: Cultural Anthropophagy
Marius Balan: Designing the Red Dream
Sarah Naomi Rapatz: (Re-) Imagining Time

Large: Cultural Anthropophagy by Lukas Frank; Above: “You press the button, we do the rest” by Jaro Tom Habiger; Below: “The Mountain View” by Aarushi Nitharwal; photos © Jorit Aust

After Confusion

CDS Master Group Exhibition
OKP Ferstel Trakt
Seminar Room 8
June 25–28, 2025, 11:00–21:00

Confusion is a volatile condition of the human mind signifying disorder in an unsettling blend of chaos and uncertainty. “After Confusion” is an exhibition of various works utilising multiple disciplines to explore disorientation across temporal, spatial, cognitive, and identity constructs. Beyond seeking for resolution, the works realised by the MA students in Cross-Disciplinary Strategies invite visitors to engage with shifting, puzzling narratives and concepts.

Works by

Khadisha Dabayeva
Eva (CHE Yiwen)
Momo E. Hontebeyrie
Sara Karimi
Aimée Kohn, Charlotte Kuoi, Momo E. Hontebeyrie
Charlotte Kuoi
NAMI (Filipa Reis)
Helin Özdemir
Benjamin Palme
Ádám Salomvári
Elias Schulz, Lili Kátai
Yanina Sharipova
Charlie Spies

Visual by Helin Özdemir and Benjamin Palme

Impressions from exhibition by © Jorit Aust

Forecast

CDS Bachelor Group Exhibition
Postsparkasse
CDS Studio
June 25–28, 2025, 11:00–21:00

The Department Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (CDS) presents “Forecast,” an exhibition showcasing Bachelor projects that critically and creatively engage with the concept of forecast. Bridging art, science, and philosophy, students present applied projects alongside reflective investigations that question the technologies, narratives, and power structures shaping our visions of heterogenous and oftentimes conflictual futures. From speculative design to data-driven scenarios, the works explore how forecasting informs action, imagination, and responsibility across disciplines engaging with global challenges.

Works by

Jana Kohlmannová
Iris Cirlan
Tara Momeni, Miriam Suranyi
Marlene Nutz
Julia Skrobisz
Louisa Petermann
Elias Altrichter
Mika Perner
Sarah Wolf
Para Gisa Anzi
Sanea Hertlein
Kiana Arshadbakhtiari
Emma Gioia Enzi with Michael Schulte, Anisha Kosgahakumbura, Agatha Rosa, Karolina Trembecka, Cezanne Reindl-Schweighofer

Visual by Sanea Hertlein

Impressions from exhibition by © Jorit Aust

Tuesday I Became Clouds

Group Exhibition
Postsparkasse
Seminar Room 34
June 25–28, 2025, 11:00–21:00

The exhibition shows artworks and series of visual essays that were developed as part of the course “Tuesday I Became Clouds” at the Department of Cross-Disciplinary Strategies in the winter semester 2024 / 2025. In exploring the annual theme of “Forecast”, our gaze wandered upwards. We were interested in the shape of things to come, specifically the everchanging shapes of clouds. We looked at the sky and various artistic and scientific ways of image making of clouds. We worked on actual reproductions of artworks and scientific instruments that looked at the clouds . In this way, we explored the potential of reproduction as an artistic strategy in interdisciplinary contexts – a way of seeing, understanding, producing and sharing knowledge.

Works by

Iris Cirlan
Marlene Nutz
Diletta Caregnato, Iris Cirlan
Miriam S. Surányi
Valentina Pickering Contreras
Kabel Cayaban
Lili Kátai

with Adnan Balcinovic

Clouds II, by Valentina Pickering Contreras

Staying in Touch

Performance
OKP-Ferstel-Trakt
Seminarraum 8
June 25, 2025, 20:00
June 26, 2025, 19:00
June 27, 2025, 18:00

This performance addresses and tries to digest the state of dementia. The two directors’ personal experiences are connected to extensions from psychology, literature theory, philosophy, and care work. It is a dialogue to accompany a gradually fading memory and its occasional comeback. The palliative turn’s body is still warm, and we hold its hand.

Performance by

Lili Kátai and Elias Schulz

Visual by Lili Kátai and Elias Schulz

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