The University of Arts Linz is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a special theme that runs trough the entire year and that is also the starting point for reflections on the Kunstuni Campus 2023: radical collectives — a gesture that puts the spotlight on collectives and, above all, tests out their activist potential, but also, a possible answer to the question of who owns the truth.

The collective: a response as a metaphor that focuses primarily on the diversity found in a collection of people, their renegotiated content, and theprocess of negotiation itself, while individuals take a backseat role within the collective. The Kunstuni Campus aims to explore a plurality of collectives and promote an understanding of radicality, one that is not built on ruthlessness but aims to dismantle hierarchies and create participatory and inclusive spaces in the spirit of collectivity based on equality.