with Sigrun Drapatz, Ane Hjort Guttu, Juliane Zelwies, Christina Zück

 „(...) before giving my consent, I would like to discuss how the material will be handled confidentially. In ethnology, field research always involves complying with ethical standards – what would those be in an art project?" (Anonymous, from Tagebuch aus dem Uni-Alltag)

The exhibition Campus Novels depicts, through four artistic perspectives, how teaching, learning, and research are integrated into daily work routines at universities. It furthermore explores the tensions, disruptions, and taboos that can arise within teaching and research.

The film Time Passes (2015) by Ane Hjort Guttu portrays the often personally motivated and complex artistic work process through a fictional student work at a Scandinavian art school. Damla (23) carries out a performance project in which she begs on the streets alongside the Roma woman Bianca, with whom she gradually develops a friendship.

Sigrun Drapatz explores which methods of knowledge transfer are used in Higher Education and what shape the different educational methods might take. For Tagebuch aus dem Uni-Alltag (Diary from Daily Life at University) (2013), she documents the course of a workday of professors from different disciplines at the University of Kiel. Drawings of teaching situations complement the recorded protocols.

In the video work Reading out loud (2021) by Juliane Zelwies, a group of international artists is confronted with a colleague's criticism. Through five fictional lectures, Juliane Zelwies discusses aspects of the artistic research process that led to the video work, revealing her work methods and tools, which is imperative for maintaining transparency in research.

Christina Zück uses an AI image generator to create digital images inspired by the universe of an art academy. The visual language produced by artificial intelligence doesn't bring forth creative innovations but rather mirrors the counterproductive nature of the bureaucratic hurdles, neoliberal demands, and norms present in the education system, which both students and educators face. However, the visual disturbances and artifacts that randomly appear in the digital images develop a potential for resistance.