Invitation to Defense of Sigrid Prinz
The Institute for Art and Architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna indly invites you to the Defense of Sigrid Prinz' dissertation project "DAS PHÄNOMEN SPLTRWRK" – Eine Analyse der freien und angewandten künstlerischen Produktionen im Kontext der Schnittstellen Historie, Kunst, Architektur und Medien .
The Defense Committee is made up of: Univ.-Prof. Mag. MA Wolfgang Tschapeller (chair), Doz. Mag. Dr. Ao.Univ.-Prof. August Sarnitz (1st supervisor), and O. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Elisabeth Von Samsonow (2nd appraiser).
Award-winning and controversial, both visionary and misunderstood, ironic and critical: SPLITTERWERK’s [building] work takes on architectural and artistic shapes that polarise, often alienating fellow architects and bewildering recipients without formal professional training. This is the first academic thesis to provide a comprehensive analysis of the SPLITTERWERK label, founded in Graz towards the end of the 1980s, and its free and applied artistic
production in the context of history, art, architecture and media. Case studies of selected work exemplify these intersections as well as connections between history, culture and architectural theory. Numerous plans and photographs visualise the theoretical discourse spanned by the SPLITTERWERK projects discussed in this thesis. In scope, this ranges from regional events and global trends in contemporary architecture to postmodernism and the
beginnings of modernism back to the historical art styles of Baroque, late Baroque/Rococo and Art Nouveau as well as to the contemporary art movements of Dadaism, Conceptual Art and the aesthetics of Op Art and Pop Art.
These reflections are to be understood as exemplary and as representing a given moment in time. Their elaboration aims to make a contribution to basic research in architectural history and theory as well as to an understanding of the architectural and artistic forms of SPLITTERWERK’s [building] work. Equally, this thesis intends to stimulate a revision of contemporary architectural practice.
Please join us for the defense presentation. The event will take place at the Institute of Art and Architecture, 2nd floor, 213c.
SIGRID ANNA PRINZ, born 1988, the beginning of a process of constant learning.
Since 2002: Higher Technical College of Baden; graduation from the Leesdorf School of Painting with a trades certificate in painting and varnishing as well as higher education entrance qualifications. Degree in architecture at several tertiary educational institutions in Austria; bachelor`s degree in construction design and economics at FH-Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Graz; diploma in architecture at Graz University of Technology; doctoral study of technical sciences at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
Since 2009: working in the visual arts and architecture, writing, publishing, exhibiting, researching, lecturing, curating, active in art and practice.
We are very much looking forward to welcoming you all.