Places – Spaces – Regions

Few scientific disciplines can today avoid the category of space. The same goes for the arts: the theatrical and performing arts, fine art, architecture, music and literature. Aside from concrete physical, geographical or topographical places and spaces, space forms relationally, virtually, materially and socially – for example, in processes shaped artistically and otherwise (e.g. through ritual), as well as in everyday, unquestioned processes. In the research area Places – Spaces – Regions, the complexity of the concepts and their (inter-)disciplinary meaning is addressed in various ways: place and space function as the basis for theoretical models capable of developing methodological potential, as artistic manifestations or phenomenological apparitions, and in myriad forms as concrete, (ontologically) antecedent objects of analysis.

Coordinators
Petra Ernst-Kühr, Karl Kaser