6. Mai 2026, 17.00 Uhr Kunstuni Linz, Hauptplatz 8, 4020 Linz (Lecture Hall F - H8.05.03)
The Department of Cultural Studies invites you to a lecture from bankleer – Karin Kasböck & Christoph Maria Leitner (Sculpture and Environment, University of Arts Linz).
As artists of the Capitalocene, we are confronted with new demands on art. The ecological crisis is causing us to lose our familiarity with our living environment. Our images are unable to depict these complex and temporally extended processes. This inflated reality simply no longer fits into our minds. Our perception is in crisis. We realize that knowledge detached from feeling will not save us. It is not enough to understand the crisis; it must also be grasped in its sensory dimension. Climate change is therefore also an aesthetic problem. Through our performative sculptures, we explore the question of how art can open a door to what surrounds us, what is constantly changing but cannot be grasped. To where the imagination sits deep within our bodies.
Karin Kasböck and Christoph Maria Leitner, the professor duo bankleer, teach at the Institute for Fine Arts and Cultural Studies. For bankleer, art is a practice for responding to social, political, and ecological events. A recurring theme is the enormous formative forces of neoliberalism and the question of art's social effectiveness. Their interdisciplinary works include sculptural performances, objects, environments, video essays, texts, as well as actions and interventions in public space. Their works navigate the tension between discursive media and aesthetic transmissions of emotions and speculations.
All Dates of the lecture series “The Senses in Performance”:
11. März 2026
Introduction by OLFAC – Silke Felber, Freda Fiala and Julia Ostwald
25. März 2026
320 GB im Rucksack – der physische Aspekt digitaler Kunst über Gletscher
Tina Frank (Visual Communication, University of Arts Linz) &
Alexis Dworsky (Media Design, University of Arts Linz)
15. April 2026
Dis_sensual – A crip choreographer’s re-distribution of the sensible
Michael Turinsky (Artist, Vienna)
22. April 2026
Performing Snakes in Modernity and Today
Nicole Haitzinger (Dance Studies, University of Salzburg) &
Christina Gillinger (Tanzquartier Vienna TQW)
29. April 2026
Lingering with Bass (2024, Steve McQueen)
Ulrike Hanstein (VALIE EXPORT Center, University of Arts Linz)
6. Mai 2026
Sinn für Unlösbares
bankleer – Karin Kasböck & Christoph Maria Leitner
13. Mai 2026
Mimi o Sumasu – the Very Act of Listening
Mia Yoshida (Artistic Research and Head of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna)
20. Mai 2026
Tasting skin. On chilis and chills
Karin Harrasser (Cultural Studies, University of Arts Linz and Director of
ifk – International Research Center for Cultural Studies)
27. Mai 2026
Olfactory Violence and the Freedom to Speak: Stink Bombs in Interwar Europe
William Tullett (Early Modern History, University of York)
3. Juni 2026
Sensing the Atmospheres of Painters’ Studios in Nineteenth-Century France
Erika Wicky (Olfactions, Université Grenoble Alpes)
10. Juni 2026
Hee-Hawing Democracy: Somatic Articulations Beyond the Logos - Inhalt folgt
Bettina Wuttig (University of Marburg)
17. Juni 2026
Greetings from the Swamp
Maria Nalbantova (Artist, Sofia)
24. Juni 2026
A loving ear – toward a poetic ecology of feeling
Brandon LaBelle (Independent Researcher, Berlin)