Stream: Presentation of the new collaborative university research platform Elfriede Jelinek

There are many things science and the arts have in common: both unearth the unpleasant truths of society – but they do so in very different ways. This difference has also the potential to generate new knowledge that can be instrumental in artistic as well scientific research. For this reason, the newly founded collaborative university research platform Elfriede Jelinek brings together a university for the arts (MUK) and a university of science (University of Vienna) for the very first time. Together, these two universities will develop international research projects and networks as well as original formats of scientific-artistic research. Elfriede Jelinek and her artistic work will serve as the basis for questioning socio-political and aesthetic issues, i. e. “Music.Theater” or “Art and Politics”.