Research & Art Series

We are looking at transitions of society, art and environment through the lens of art, the moving image and performance.

Team

Mag. Dr. Christina Hainzl, MSc

Head – Research Lab Society in Transition / SDGs

Lebanese artist Ali Cherri at his studio in Pantin, next to Paris, on September 30, 2024. Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

Save the date: “The Book of Mud” – Ali Cherri


  Artist and director Ali Cherri presents his performance The Book of Mud in the atrium of Palazzo Grassi. Using mud as a metaphor for an in-between state, neither land nor water, the performance explores the past and the ways in which it inscribes itself physically: eroding, shaping, reforming, becoming itself through upheaval and destruction. […]