Cross-Disciplinary Strategies

Works from the BA Witnessing Exhibition at the Angewandte Festival!

📍 CDS Studio, 1st. Floor, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
🗓 1–4 July

1. Lobau Soundshower
The LOBAU soundshower brings Lobau’s soundscape into the university building and the middle of the city . Based on a soundwalking excursion in Lobau National Park in May 2026, it gathers and displays the sounds of more-than-human creatures, but also whispers the words and names of who we heard in this landscape. Does listening to more-than-human voices change your sense of community or solidarity? How? Lobau is a contested site as there is a longstanding and ongoing activist struggle against a planned highway project through the nature reserve. Lobau Stays!

• Fedor Khodnev
• Flora Amina Peham
• Grace Christenson
• Madeleine Krehbiel

2. Moving and Living
Narratives around migration often feature tragic stories of displacement and extraordinary stories of success. However, adapting to life in a new place is often challenging even on a more mundane scale. Especially the daily lives of women and older people tend to go unnoticed. That is why „Moving and Living“ is composed of two interviews with middle-aged women of different backgrounds sharing their history and experience about living in Austria.“

• Eylül Seyrekoğlu
• Fedor Khodnev
• Flora Amina Peham

3. Unpaid Labour
This sound installation brings together three interviews with women of different ages, backgrounds, and countries, reflecting on the often invisible reality of unpaid labor. Their voices reveal personal experiences of care, domestic work, responsibility, and the social expectations placed upon women. The piece is concealed within a kitchen tool, transforming an everyday object into a vessel for stories that are frequently overlooked. Installed in a kitchen setting, the work force listeners to face these narratives in the very space where much unpaid labor takes place. By amplifying these intimate testimonies, the installation highlights the hidden structures that sustain daily life.

• Stella Králová
• Zsófi Csoboth

with Sophia Ruth

AN ATLAS FOR UPENDING THE WORLD

1 – 4 July 2026, CDS Group Exhibition
Angewandte Festival 2026
Georg-Coch-Platz 2
1st floor, Rooms 158, 162
 (CDS Studio)

There is something beautifully intriguing in the sensation of travelling places without actually going there… through hearing, reading, seeing pictures of them – and through the simple gesture of placing a finger on a map. In that sense, the map can be a rich backdrop for explorations, an activator of imagination as much as means of investigation.

What can the map and map-making, scientifically and artistically, represent in today’s rapidly transforming world of intensified data exchange and rising existential threats? As part of the Cross-Disciplinary Strategies study area Politics, Economics, and Global Change, the seminar An Atlas for Upending the World prompted students to explore urban areas as main drivers of global change, places of concentrated challenges yet home to the majority of people. Their contributions on ‘Hotspot Cities’, those growing fastest in the most critical biological areas, go beyond traditional space-bound investigation and upend (twist, overturn, flip, …) carefully researched data into essays, maps, and artworks. The atlas is an attempt to question data classes, statistical thresholds, graphic code, and info hierarchy, reinventing the map as device between freedom and constraint.

Contributions by

• Elias Altrichter
• Anne Altmeyer
• Yiwen Che
• Iris Cîrlan
• Pierina Erazo
• Artem Ergaev
• Nora Eros
• Alexander Jahr
• Sara Karimi
• Viktoria Körbler
• Kyra Krencioch
• Valentina Pickering Contreraz
• Sarah Rapatz
• Pernille Ramstad
• Deborah Schultheis
• Matthew Simpson
• Hannah Stöger
• Danbi Sung
• Miriam S. Surányi
• Cansu Tandoğan
• Gergana Tseneva
• Claus Wares
• Greta Weihmann

with Yona Catrina Schreyer