Minor Signals // Big Trouble

About

This course proposes that nothing is too small, banal, or fleeting to become the seed that may germinate into a new line of inquiry. Through multiple excursions within Salzburg, participants will pay attention to objects, gestures, sounds, and the subtle interactions that animate the city during Festival season.
Drawing on my familiarity with the city, I will guide participants through both well-known and less-visible sites, facilitating encounters with materials and situations that might otherwise go unnoticed. Participants will observe the city’s rituals, its frictions, as well as the social and political theatre that unfolds alongside (and behind) its baroque façades. All these encounters will form the basis of each participant’s research archive.
In the studio, participants will work through structured exercises involving specific constraints of time, material, or method, designed to challenge and expand observational and expressive possibilities across diverse media. Daily roundtables and ongoing conversational support (collective and one-on-one) will help identify which of the encounters resonate and how they might become conceptual footholds.
For the final Open Studio, participants will gather and present elements of their research in the shape of field notes, talks, experiments, and early conceptual structures.

Course leader

Heinz Riegler

Target group

Requirements: Willingness to experiment. Participants should enjoy working in both group and solo mode.
What to bring: Notebook and pen/pencil, your preferred working tools and materials, laptop or tablet (not essential, but useful), comfortable walking shoes.

Fee info