Arts-based/Practice-based Research

Arts-based/practice-based research emphasizes the intertwining of knowledge, aesthetic experience, and artistic practice. It understands the process of artistic creation as a process of exploration and cognition and film as a medium of thought and reflection. Due to the continuing difficulty of accessing third-party funding, this research approach is currently being implemented primarily in smaller projects funded by the university, including the IKF's Prize for Arts-based Research.

2025 - 2025 Tropical Depression
A documentary film installation about climate, simulations and tropical cyclones
2024 - 2025 Dialogues of ABM
This group-dialogue format examines the collective memory of Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen (ABM) – a state subsidized short term job program - in order…
2023 - 2024 SONIC FUTURES
Bees for poetic justice: using transspecies ethnography for building better social systems. Sonic futures is a poetic soundwalk experience in a park…
2023 - 2024 Lupe & Loops – A Trip Into the Uncanny Valley
The project explores intermedial connections through a construct that brings the relationship of scale into play. The aim is to create an open,…
2023 - 2024 Ramifications
»Geäst« (»Ramifications«) deals with the unconscious appropriation of foreign memories in the context of transgenerational trauma. The incompleteness…
2022 - 2024 I’ve Never Been to Pine Island
Through the attempt of producing an animated short film in the most sustainable way, the experimental drawn animation „I’ve never been to Pine Island“…
2022 Außenbilder
The film experiment "Außenbilder" (exterior image) explores the limits, potentials and possibilities of the medium film to bring closer what is…
2022 - 2023 Popcorn in the Morning
The project is dedicated to the general indifference that helps us to function in everyday life, regardless. To whom is attention paid and how do we…
2022 - 2023 KOLLEKTIV
KOLLEKTIV is an ambivalent love declaration to collective work, a searching movement in feminist history and for new arrangements in the future.
2022 Body of Waste
A Research Project initiated by Guest professor and artist filmmaker Lucy Beech with group of collaborators. The project is being developed during…