
"Practicing Care" is a long-term project launched in the summer semester of 2022 that deals with the social responsibility of an arts university across national boudaries. The format of the new project was inspired by the new forms of protest and decentralised care networks which found expression in the activities of the Belarusian opposition in 2020 and were led primarily by women.
"To remember hundreds of political prisoners in Belarus, but also in Russia and worldwide, to remind ourselves as teachers and students at an arts university that art and politics, personal and social freedom and resistance to their oppression can never be treated as separate issues, the Senate of the Mozarteum University awarded Maria Kalesnikava an honorary professorship on 11 March 2022"
— Senate Chair Christoph Lepschy