Topic
A line went for a walk…
In the summer semester 2022, the Form*Design module deals with the line in every respect: linearity in its entirety serves as a method, technique and condition for the production of artistic works. The results of the module will be presented to the public in an exhibition at the end of the semester. The rooms and grounds around Drosendorf Castle in Lower Austria will serve as the exhibition venue. The artist Paul Klee depicted the line as “a point that went for a walk”: Rather than limiting himself to a single definition, Klee extends the scope of the line to a range of creative possibilities and interpretations.
The poem Line by Matt Donovan brings this broad definition “to the point”:
Surface engraved with narrow stroke, path
imagined between two points. Of singular thickness,
a glib remark, a fragment, an unfinished phrase.
It is any one edge of a shape and its contours
in entirety. Melody arranged, a recitation,
the ways horizons are formed. Think of levelling,
snaring, the body's disposition (both in movement
& repose). It has to do with palms and creases,
with rope wound tight on someone's hand, things
resembling drawn marks: a suture or a mountain ridge,
an incision, this width of light. A razor blade
at a miser, tapping out a can, or the churn
of conveyor belts, the scoured, idling machines.
A conduit, a boundary, an exacting
course of thought. And here, the dewiness
of tent stakes, earth shoveled, the depth of trench.
We want to artistically explore the diverse aggregate states of the line using different approaches. The focus is on the relationship between digital and physical methods of thinking, representing and producing in three dimensions.
Teaching
Marie Reichel
Lukas Thaler
Efilena Baseta
Marco Palma
Gregor Titze
Eva Sommeregger
Walter Fritz
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