TTT2027 Vienna | Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science
The seventh international conference "Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science" takes place from 14–17 September 2027 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and invites proposals for papers, artist talks and artwork presentations.
The conference welcomes artists, scientists, researchers, curators, performers, technologists, activists and practitioners working across disciplines. Contributions should explore how art and science challenge, transform and sustain one another, with a focus on care, nourishment, extraction and interdependence.
Submission Topics
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- Nourishment, care, and Artistic Intelligence
- The placenta: fragility, temporality, exchange, and attachment
- Feminist, queer, and trans practices of care
- Reproductive justice and bodily autonomy
- Gestation, birth, abortion, infertility, and reproductive technologies
- Human tissues, biological materials, ownership, consent, and commodification
- Euthanasia, assisted dying, palliative care, and the ethics of ending life
- Creative labour, cultural extraction, and care for the artist
- Cultural individuality, artistic autonomy, and the right to remain difficult
- Chosen kinship and more-than-human relations
- Invisible labour and economies of care
- Symbiosis, parasitism, mutualism, and dependency
- Bioart, mutation, hybridization, and DIY/DIWO biology
- Artificial Intelligence, Artistic Intelligence, and synthetic agency
- Cyborg bodies, prostheses, augmentation, and technological dependency
- Toxicity, contamination, immunity, and biological borders
- Food, hunger, fermentation, digestion, and metabolism
- Water, soil, air, seeds, and infrastructures of sustenance
- Rewilding, ecological repair, and damaged environments
- Migration, borders, displacement, and hospitality
- Biopolitics, necropolitics, and lives made disposable
- Witchcraft, healing, and situated knowledges
- Death, decomposition, composting, and regeneration
- Repair, refusal, mutual aid, and collective survival
Proposals that do not fit neatly into any of these categories are also welcome.
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts and artwork descriptions must be submitted through the conference’s digital platform by 11 November 2026. The working language is English. Participation is free of charge; travel funding is not guaranteed.
Further information are available on the conference website.