The AU-artwork includes a critical-social-pedagogical process manifesting itself visually, verbally and dramatically. AU-activities serve communication. They are natural fragments, impulses. The audience is the true AU-artwork. An audience that identifies with these fragments. Finds itself in them, takes part and interest, works with them, communicates. All in all it is an AU-audience that eventually reacts, understands the situation and creates something (for example an AU-sheet). An audience that wants to understand it, continues to talk about it…
Manifest AU 1
[…] AU operates with an open concept of the artwork, which does not exclude the possibility that the process of creation is already the artwork itself, and includes the idea that the action becomes a crystallization plane for notions beyond the artistic realm. […]
Helmut Schneider (in: On the Utility of Utopia)
Journey through Arte Utile (AU)
Artists, researchers and theoreticians engage with six past decades of Arte Utile.
Environment AU
An installation between educational trail, Stationendrama, stage set and symbolic situation: Involvement, information, irritation.
Raum AU
Raum AU was a space where Arte Utile took place – an alternative space, a mixed media work of art.
Contrada Priore
AU Landscape, Agrigento, Sicily
AU Process
A communication method of 4 phases. Previous AU-action followed by subsequent analysis and exhibition. Initiation of talks and discourse over essential social topics.
