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‘Experimental Pedagogies for Health and Care’ (June 15-16, Vienna) Workshop Recap and Reflections

‘Experimental Pedagogies for Health and Care’ (June 15-16, Vienna) Workshop Recap and Reflections

How can we teach, share knowledge, and challenge traditional academic hierarchies within the Medical Humanities? In the ‘Experimental Pedagogies for Health and Care’ workshop held at the University of Vienna from June 15–16, 2026, we sought to deeply engage with this question. The workshop offered the opportunity for researchers, activists, curators, and artists alike to reflect on how practice-based and collaborative methods can reshape our classrooms and institutions. In a newly published workshop recap from the polyphone, contributors Genevieve Smart,…

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Conference & exhibition “Photo I Brut”: interview on OE1

Conference & exhibition “Photo I Brut”: interview on OE1

Radio programme “Leporello” covered “Photo I Brut” on 23 June. Listen to the podcast! Linn Ritsch interviews Monika Pietrzak-Franger (University of Vienna) and Felix Hoffmann (Foto Arsenal Wien) for OE1 on the conference “Photo I Brut . Artistic Practices Between Visual Culture and Health: Museums, Markets and Artists” (17 June 2026) and the Foto Arsenal Wien exhibition “Photo I Brut”. Listen to the podcast: “Photo Brut: Kunst und Ethik” More about the exhibition “Photo I Brut”More about the Lecture series…

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Conference “Photo I Brut . Artistic Practices Between Visual Culture and Health: Museums, Markets and Artists”

Conference “Photo I Brut . Artistic Practices Between Visual Culture and Health: Museums, Markets and Artists”

17 June 2026, 15:00-19:00, FOTO ARSENAL WIEN — Organised and moderated by: Monika Pietrzak-Franger (University of Vienna) and Felix Hoffmann (Foto Arsenal Wien) Medicine has never been a purely scientific enterprise. It is deeply embedded in cultural imaginaries, visual regimes, and aesthetic practices: from anatomical atlases, hospital architecture, and early medical photography to contemporary imaging technologies, and artistic engagements with illness and care. This conference, held within the frame of both the Foto Arsenal Wien exhibition “Photo I Brut” and…

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Workshop “Experimental Pedagogies for Health and Care” (15-16 June 2026)

Workshop “Experimental Pedagogies for Health and Care” (15-16 June 2026)

We are excited to announce this workshop which will bring together scholars, researchers and artists from different contexts and with varied backgrounds to imagine new pedagogical practices that include the body as archive of affective and sensory experiences and in this way contribute to new insights in teaching and learning. The idea of this workshop is to start building a community and to offer an inspiring space for thinking, learning and exchange, with an emphasis on practice and interdisciplinarity.We want…

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PHOTO | BRUT in Context (9 March 2026)

PHOTO | BRUT in Context (9 March 2026)

Conference at the Robert Capa Center in Budapest — This international conference examines photo brut as an instinctive photographic practice at the crossroads of photography, psychology, psychiatry, art history, art market, and art brut. Organized by the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in cooperation with Foto Arsenal Wien, the event accompanies the exhibitions in both institutions, featuring works from Bruno Decharme’s collection. Through thematic panels and a roundtable discussion, the program addresses art historical, medical, ethical, and art market-related perspectives…

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