University of Applied Arts Vienna CULTURA ANIMI : The role of arts and culture in the representation of rural communities and developing landscapes of belonging CULTURA ANIMI 2024/25, Visual-Narrative Archive The visual language of the Hungarian countryside has shaped how I see beauty and the virtue surrounding it has shaped the person I have become. In order to understand the roots of my interest in bottom-up initiatives and peripheral communities, I went back to a place where art started out for me: in the dusty conversations, intriguing anecdotes and the vibrant presence of the people of Cered and the community around the ArtColony Cered. Cultivation of the soul is the spirit I grew up with. I learned to create ‘off-placed’ realities, layers in which I can thrive freely without preformulated social constraints. In reflection of this work, the term ‘ANIMI’ refers to the immaterial quality of conceptual art practices and their community-building function. https://phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/o:74054 en TEXT Master Masterarbeit Schriftlicher Teil der künstlerischen Abschlussarbeit Written component of artistic Thesis Text Masterarbeit Written component of artistic Thesis Text Master Schriftlicher Teil der künstlerischen Abschlussarbeit rural arts community conceptual art practice Eastern Europe Barbara Böröcz