With "With Dylan On The Road", the Mozarteum University, together with The International Society of Mozarteum University Salzburg, offers students of all disciplines the unique opportunity to go on a journey with a scholarship in their luggage to develop art projects inspired by Bob Dylan.

 

An initiative of the Research Management Department

 

About

"With Dylan On The Road" invites students to rethink "university" and to engage in a discourse of artistic research, learning and doing with the polyartist Bob Dylan - outside their comfort zones. For the application, there were specifications regarding a limited duration of the trip, the form of the project submission and an invitation to submit an interdisciplinary idea. The rest: open.

 

I was born very far away from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home

 

Bob Dylan (1941) is a musician, poet, filmmaker, producer and visual artist working in a variety of genres. His work has left its mark on all areas of global culture and has influenced and moulded artists in many different ways.

Bob Dylan has received widespread attention for his work, which has absorbed, transcended and transformed existing forms, genres and conventions, and not just since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. We understand his work and biography as a "message in a bottle". This floats in the oceans of rock, folk, blues and pop and always in "old, weird America" (Greil Marcus) and invites us to engage in an inspiring dialogue within the framework of self-determined artistic creation.

Having been "on the road" himself throughout his life, the study of this exceptional artist suggests extraordinary approaches. In the spirit of his "Never Ending Tour", which began in 1988, we therefore invite you to literally take to the road yourself and artistically explore aspects of his work and his life's journey. Students go on the journey themselves, because the artistic process is just as important as the work and the individual needs to enter into new worlds of experience.

 

With Dylan On The Road 2

 

After the successful first edition of "With Dylan On The Road" 2022, the project inspired by the polyartist Bob Dylan is entering the next round. In spring 2024, the Mozarteum University once again awarded travel grants for Bob Dylan-inspired artistic and artistic-scientific team projects, and the first teams have already been "on the road" since May 2024.