DEMEDARTS Dementia.Empathy.Education.Arts.

 Artistic Research on Patterns of Perception and Action in the Context of an Aging Society

 

Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), within the PEEK-program (Programm zur Erweiterung und Erschließung der Künste): A-609 

The project runs from: February 2020 – 2024

 

DEMEDARTS is an artistic research project of the Center for Didactics for Art and Interdisciplinary Education at the University of Applied Arts Vienna .

 

 

"Demedarts"

On Display: 23.2.-5.3.2023

How can we meet the growing challenges dementia poses to our society? 

DEMEDARTS, Dementia.Empathy.Education.Arts. has set itself the task of sensitizing society to the topic of dementia. 

In the exhibition of the same name, we provide insights into our artistic research work and show the results and findings of the project.

Demedarts develops artistic-research, art-didactic strategies and works with experts from the fields of art, science, education (schools, universities), art therapy, health and care.
 

DEMEDARTS consists of a team of art, music, dance and design educators, artists, teachers, multimedia art therapists, authors, designers and performers

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OPENING - WEDNESDAY 22.2.2023
Opening speech: Gerald Bast (tbc) and Ruth Mateus-Berr (Project Lead FWF PEEK AR-609). Opening Piece: ‚Partitur der Stiege‘ –"Erinnerungen an unsere Großmutter Martha Bäuerle, geb. Šegula. "
Musicians: Alexander Wladigeroff: Trompete u.a.Konstantin Wladigeroff: Piano u.a.Wagner Felipe dos Santos: SchlagwerkEckhard Mützner: CelloTeresa Indjein: HarfePavel Naydenov: Stimme, Performance

TOURS/ WORKSHOPS - SUNDAY 26.2.2023
On-site team: guided tours and workshops from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m

TOURS/ WORKSHOPS - THURSDAY 03.2.2023
Panel discussion with the Wiener Zeitung at 7 p.m.

TOURS/ WORKSHOPS - SUNDAY 5.3.2023
On-site team: guided tours and workshops from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m

 

 

DURING THE WHOLE EXHIBITION TIME WE ARE HAPPY TO GIVE WORKSHOPS FOR INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, SCHOOL CLASSES, BY APPOINTMENT ALSO ON DESIRED DATES. CONTACT: pia.scharler(at)uni-ak.ac.at

 

 

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Further workshop offers and events will be published regularly on the demedarts website!

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FROM WAX TO DRAWING PAD THE WAY TO YOUR OWN PAINTING TOOL

With pigments we examine and mix the color that feels right for each participant for the moment. We enrich this momentum with wax and cast individual blocks from it. Painting, drawing and writing tools for all people, individual and personal. Made to be painted and painted, we carry out the first writing samples and painterly experiments before each participant draws their own lines with their wax block.

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LOST FORMS

In this workshop we will work interdisciplinary (design & music) with different materials. The misplaced glasses, the lost key or the forgotten solutions from the math school work and much more will receive images from Fimo, 3-D scan, 3-D print and melodies.

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FADING / VERBLASSEN

In this workshop we will work interdisciplinary (art & fragrance) with different materials and discover interesting and beautiful moments as moments fade.

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THE SCORES OF THE PATTERNS OF MEMORIES

In this workshop we will work interdisciplinary (art & music) with different materials. The patterns on the steps and walls to the door of the beloved grandmother, the beloved grandfather will be translated painterly and serve as graphic notation for the instrumental interpretation.

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PRESERVED STORIES - MY BEST SUMMER EXPERIENCE

Here, experiences are turned into jam and thus preserved for eternity. In this workshop we tell each other stories and make them visible with different materials. Listening attentively and empathizing is very important. We choose materials for the story told by the other person and fill the glass with them. All senses should be addressed. What smell is related to the story? Which taste is related to the story? What sounds/music are related to the story? What color represents the story? At the end, a label is designed and each story is given a title.

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THOUGHT CROWNS / MEMORY CROWNS​

In this workshop we treat our thoughts as a valuable raw material. We find the appropriate materials, shapes and colors for what is going on in our minds and create crowns out of them. The results - intact or full of holes, clear or tangled, wild or balanced, abstract or concrete, black and white or colorful or all at the same time - will be placed in a common installation, our thought palace, in relation to the (outside) space and to each other.

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Demedarts Website

Künstlerhaus Exhibition Page

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