Current Dissertation Projects

To Measure Time.

Dissertation projectled by Sabine Priglinger, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesDuration: 1.10.2012 - 07.11.2022

Whatever Happened to Sociópolis?

Dissertation projectled by Matilde Igual Capdevila, Institute for Education in the ArtsDuration: 01.09.2017 - 15.04.2024

CYBORG ASTRONAUT: Disembodied Masculinity and the Imagination of Outer Space in Contemporary Video Games

Dissertation projectled by Eren İleri, Institute for Fine ArtsProject start: 02.10.2017

“Do not ask who we are but how we act“ – Conceptualising collectivity with les Groupes Medvedkine, Scuola senza fine and Precarias a la deriva

Dissertation projectled by Jul Tirler, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesDuration: 10.03.2010 - 06.11.2024

Early copper metallurgy in ancient Egypt and Nubia

Dissertation projectled by Jiří Kmošek, Institute for Natural Sciences and Technology in the ArtsProject start: 18.10.2018

Searching for Contact Zones between the Periphery and Center in mumok’s Collection and Exhibitions, 1998–2018: A Relational Case Between the Photographic Work of Nora Aslan (AR) and Rochelle Costi (BR) and the Museological Framework

Dissertation projectled by Claudia Sandoval Romero, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesProject start: 18.09.2015

Performative Forms of Expression in the Culture of Commemoration in Post-Soviet Space, Using the Ukrainian City of Lviv as an Example

Dissertation projectled by Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesDuration: 30.04.2016 - 25.04.2022

Performance Art? On archiving, transmission and mediation of an art form in motion

Dissertation projectled by Marlies Surtmann, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesProject start: 01.10.2018

The kawaii-culture in Tokyo at the Intersection of Art, Design und Every Day Life Culture: Micro- and Macrolevels of Visual Communication und Production

Dissertation projectled by Astrid Engl, Institute for Education in the ArtsProject start: 01.10.2012

Cartographies of white, masculine and anthropocentric Supremacy through Cultural Representations in Vienna, Alt-Hietzing: Pedagogies of Remembrance and Re-Futuring Practices of/within/through Cultural Heritage

Dissertation projectled by Petz Haselmayer, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesDuration: 01.11.2020 - 31.10.2024

Forms of representation of Nazi crimes in the context of Austrian film productions

Dissertation projectled by Christoph Kolar, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesDuration: 01.09.2011 - 03.10.2022

From the Collection to the Archive: A Reflection on the Production of Images in the 1974—1989 Inter-Revolutionary Space between the Carnation and the Velvet Revolutions

Dissertation projectled by Ana de Almeida, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesProject start: 20.09.2014

Lingering With Objects from Mauthausen and Gusen

Dissertation projectled by Martina Gimplinger, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesDuration: 19.09.2016 - 10.06.2024

Queer Commons. Undoing Property Formations in Sexuality

Dissertation projectled by Tyan Fritschy, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesProject start: 08.03.2021

The Politics of the Balcony in Contemporary Art

Dissertation projectled by Eylem Ertürk, Institute for Education in the Arts and Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesProject start: 20.09.2020

From Irritable Bowels to Affect-able Bodies: the Relation between Bodies and Power

Dissertation projectled by Ludovica D'Alessandro, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesProject start: 16.06.2020

The Teleported Subject in Post-Socialist Romania. Rethinking the Possibility of Eastern European Subjects at the Intersection of (Global) Media and Regional History: The Example of Handmade Satellite Dishes

Dissertation projectled by Alexandra Tatar, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural StudiesProject start: 16.09.2016