The portal as invitation to leave familiar ground behind and venture into uncertainty. The portal as transition, where time, space and perception shift. Beyond that begins a new reality which challenges us to abandon familiar perspectives and to explore the unknown. The portal as both symbol and experience: a moment for taking thought and for new departures, a boundary that connects rather than separates.
Together, we will approach the subject in both theory – by studying texts and works from art and film – and practice, by examining and expanding our own artistic praxis. The aim is to open up new perspectives, and perhaps even to touch upon the unknown or the utopian.
The Summer Academy workshops offer us an inspiring environment for experimental and recreative exploration of both digital and analogue production possibilities. Particular focus will be on co‑operation with artist Sophie Thun. We will watch a film programme she curated, and relate it to our own work. We will invite her to accompany and question our working process.
The workshop challenges students to sharpen their own perception, to question boundaries and break new ground in their own work.
key data
- Venue
- Hohensalzburg Fortress
- Date
- 18. – 30. 8. 25
- Teaching language
- English (German possible)
- Participation fee
- 670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)
- Requirements
- None
- What to bring
- Camera, physical photos or object material, laptop/tablet, notebook
- Maximum number of participants
- 16
- Co-teacher
- Helena Kalleitner
Pascal Petignat
Pascal Petignat works as a photographer, conceptual artist, exhibition organizer and publisher. He also accompanies and advises artists and institutions in the realization of photographic works.
In addition to his artistic and photographic practice, he has worked for many years in education and teaching. Most recently at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he worked as a senior artist at the Department of Applied Photography and Time-based Media, helping to establish the department.
Together with Martin Scholz, he founded fotoK, Center for Photography and Art in Vienna in 2004 and ran it until 2018. In addition to a three-year course, fotoK was a workshop with a studio and laboratory for analogue and digital photography and, with two exhibition spaces, a venue for a rich exhibition program for photography.
Under petignat and scholz, he works artistically on decidedly photographic themes such as the question of whether a stain on the attic of the inventor of photography's house, which has been converted into a museum, refers to the magical in photography as anti-photography or, for example, the existence of phantom images on analog film material after passing through security gates at airports.
Website
Exhibitions
solo
2024, portrait post mortem - la tache - viaggio in francia, Standard/Deluxe, Lausanne 2017, Bild im Hochhaus, Hochhaus Herrengasse, Vienna. 2013, Jet Lag All Stars Radio Show, Aktion gegen das berechenbare Bild, Radio Ö1, Vienna. Das letzte Labor, Galerie Hinterhaus, Vienna. 2003, Grenzland, Kunsthalle, Wien
group
2018, Choreography of the Frame, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. 2013, Fotos; Österreichische Fotografien von den 1930ern bis heute, Belvedere, 21er Haus. 2013, Die Magie des Objekts, Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Rupertinum: Schaufenster zur Sammlung IV. 2005, Home Stories, an inside loook at singlefamilie houses in Austria, Austrian Culture Forum, New York
Publications
2024, Probelauf - Performative Szenen zum parlamentarischen Betrieb, Parlamentsdirektion, University of Applied Arts Vienna and Pascal Petignat (ed.), Walter DeGruyter, Berlin/Boston, (editor, concept, realisation). 2020, Temporäre Unordnung - 782 Abbildungen aus dem Parlamentsgebäude im Leerstand Parlamentsdirektion, University of Applied Arts Vienna and Pascal Petignat (eds.), Walter DeGruyter, Berlin Boston (publisher, concept, realisation) 2017, Bild im Hochhaus, petignat und scholz (eds.), Eigenverlag, Vienna, hochbetagt, Günther Brandstetter, Marietta Mühlfellner (eds.), Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg, (concept, design and realisation)
