KKP talks and workshops series on intersectional art pedagogies 2025/26
9. Jan. 2026 WORKSHOP with Nepor Sandei (Mamusu Kallon) 16.30-19.30 Flux 1, VZA7 KKP in collaboration with STIR
INVINZIBLE BODIES LIFE DRAWING
An engaging life-drawing workshop where the model is both subject and storyteller.
As you sketch, the model will share reflections on their body and how it has shaped their lived experience, from the personal and private to the political. We’ll eat together and the floor will open for attendees to reflect on what has been shared.With it’s blend of autoethnography, art and critical reflection it’s perfect for artists of all levels who want to explore figure drawing, in a more humane and transformative way.
All drawing materials are included. All skill levels welcome. A vegan meal will be served. Strictly no photography.
KKP talks and workshops series on intersectional art pedagogies 2025/26
“Finding the Voice in Language – A Bilingual Spoken Word Performance”
Jeffrey Angles and Hiromi Itō
24.11.2025 – 18:00–20:00 Uhr
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Rustenschacherallee 2–4, 1020 Wien
This poetry reading performance grows out of the installation and performance project
WE ARE KOMACHI, newly commissioned for the Asian Triennale Manchester 6.
The original project is a collaborative work involving two poets (Hiromi Itō and Jeffrey Angles), a dancer (Yuko Kaseki), an improvisation musician (Kanoko Nishi), and two visual artists (Tomoko Mori and Sae Esashi).
KKP in collaboration with the Artistic Research PhD Program in Art, Sprachkunst, and the 6th Asian Triennial Manchester
MOVIE NIGHTS is a screening series for a transdisciplinary exchange, that was initiated to oppose the persistent silence about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Starting each time from one film we open the space for conversations about the relations between production of images and their conditions, involving modes of narration, authorship, history, politics and effects on society. We watch fiction, documentaries, movies and television productions focusing on filmmakers with antizionist and liberatory practices.
MOVIE NIGHTS _ A series of screenings hosted and organized by Applied Photography, Klasse für Alle, Art and Communication Practices, Transcultural Studies, and students at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
We’re so happy to bring back Poetic Intuition for its 4th year—our 3-day intersectional, queer & multilingual storytelling festival! 💥
🎙 Headliner Poet: Malaika Kegode award-winning writer, performer & creative producer. Praised for “a gift for metaphor that will suddenly illuminate a sentence as if it is constructed of LEDs” 💡 (StageTalk Magazine). Her show Outlier (with band Jakabol) was described as “warmly performed, autobiographical gig-theatre” exploring friendship, isolation & addiction in rural England. Author of Requite (2017) & Thalassic (2020). Her practice spans theatre, radio, film & mentoring.
Festival Lineup With a fully queer & highly-intersectional lineup @jgdanso & the Queer Writers Circle Vienna will share their voices and be joined by Malaika for 3 unforgettable days.
🗓️ FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
📅 DAY 1–Thu, 20 Nov (16:00–19:00) 📍 Die Angewandte Universität – im Rahmen von KKP / DIRTY PINK WATERS OF COLLECTIVITY series: „Participatory, practice-based lecture by Malaika Kegode”, Vordere Zollamtstr. 7, 3rd floor, Room Flux 1, with KKP (Lehramt Department) 🔗 https://kkp.uni-ak.ac.at/
📅 DAY 2–Fri, 21 Nov (18:30–ca. 21:30) 📍 Atelier, Café Wallenstein Performance night — queer, multilingual, cross-border art in motion. 🔗 https://www.daswallenstein.wien/ateliercafe/
📅 DAY 3–Sat, 22 Nov (12:00/13:00–17:00) 📍 Die Angewandte Universität – Queer-community writers workshop on performance & identity Facilitated by Malaika Kegode (Vorderer Zollamtstr. 7, exact time TBC)
💫 Why You Should Come • 3 days of queer creativity, performance & healing • This is a donation-based event meant to be accessible regardless of income • Workshops, arts education, mental-health awareness • A space for belonging, expression & community
A conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt
Marina Vishmidt, The Redistribution of Time: Responsibility and Negation. Lecture images, Goldsmiths College Department of Art MFA Lecture, 2020. Design: Rosen Eveleigh.
The conference What is Infrastructural Critique? will feature artists, critical theorists and collaborators with Marina, who will come together to think through Marina’s concept of infrastructural critique, a materialist approach to the infrastructures of contemporary art oriented towards aesthetics and political struggle in all of its interconnected modes and scales. Themes of discussion will include: infrastructural critique and ecology, infrastructural critique vs. institutional critique, art and political economy, art and logistics, the politics of abolition in contemporary art, infrastructural critique and music and the relationship of infrastructure to race.
With talks and presentations by Marwa Arsanios, Hannah Black, Maria Bussmann, Helmut Draxler, Rose-Anne Gush, Danny Hayward, Angela Melitopoulos + Kerstin Schroedinger, Taylor Le Melle Mattin, Andreas Petrossiants, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Robert Schlicht + Romana Schmalisch, Kerstin Stakemeier, Alberto Toscano
Marina was Professor of Art Theory at the Angewandte between October 2023 and April 2024. The event will begin with a talk on the forthcoming book Infrastructural Critique: Contemporary Art Between Reproduction and Abolition, forthcoming with Verso in 2026.
The discussion will take place over three days from the evening of 29 to 31 October 2025. The event will begin with a talk on the forthcoming book Infrastructural Critique: Contemporary Art Between Reproduction and Abolition, forthcoming with Verso in 2026.
WED–FRI, October 29–31, 2025
Overview times of the conference
29.10, 18-20.00
30.10, 10.30-18.30
31.10, 10.30-18.30
Detailed schedule
Wednesday 29th
18-20.00 Welcome: Sofia Bempeza and Annette Krauss (dep. Art and Communication Practices) Opening of the conference: Vice Rector Brigitte Felderer Keynote: Danny Hayward ‘We are here and we are in it’, moderated by Annette Krauss
Thursday 30th
10.30.-13.30 Welcome: Annette Krauss Natascha Sadr Haghighian ‘flames to dust’ Rose-Anne Gush ‘Figures of Entropy as Anchors of Value’ Helmut Draxler ‘Institution, Infrastructure, or Critique? Reconstructing the lines of conflict’ Moderated by Sofia Bempeza
14.30-16.00 Taylor Le Melle Marwa Arsanios ‘Reading Marina Vishmidt in Beirut: A conversation that did not happen yet had happened long ago’ Moderated by Nanna Heidenreich
16.30-18.00 Maria Bussmann ‘take a virtual tour: thoughts and images for Marina’ Angela Melitopoulos und Kerstin Schroedinger ‘Being Moved: Infrastructures of Denial’ Moderated by Rose-Anne Gush
Friday 31st
10.30-13.30 Welcome: Sofia Bempeza Robert Schlicht und Romana Schmalisch ‘Talking the enemy’s language’ Hannah Black Andreas Petrossiants Moderated by Amanda Holmes
14.30-16.00 Kerstin Stakemeier ‘The Popular Front of Disalienation. On Infrastructural Sense/s’ Mattin ‘Noise in the Gaps’ Moderated by Alexi Kukuljevic
16.30-17.15 Alberto Toscano (online) ‘This World We Must End’ Moderated by Danny Hayward
17.15- 19.00 Summary discussion Moderated by Annette Krauss and Sofia Bempeza
The conference is curated by Danny Hayward and Rose-Anne Gush, and organized by Sofia Bempeza, Rose-Anne Gush, Danny Hayward, Annette Krauss.
Moderations by: Alexi Kukuljevic, Amanda Holmes, Annette Krauss, Danny Hayward, Jenni Tischer, Nanna Heidenreich, Sofia Bempeza
Hosted by the department Art and Communication Practices, Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education, University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Thank you for your generous support!
Student assistants: Meret Caderas, James Elsey, Claudia Florentina Marija Jančić, Valentina Santner, Anna Schoissengeyer, Ronja Wolf, Technicians and videographers: Fine Freiberg, Tatia Skhirtladze, Thomas Mitterböck, Maximilian Maitz, Administration and Facility Management: Martina Dragschnitz, Alexandra Frank, Shirley Thurner, and the departments of the Institute of the Study of Art and Art Education.
Universität für angewandte Kunst Vordere Zollamtstraße 7, 1030 Wien Auditorium, EG / Ground Floor
The auditorium is barrier-free and has an inductive hearing system. Further information: here. Lectures and presentations will be available online after the event.
with the framework of Palestine Cinema Days around the World 2025
MOVIE NIGHTS is a screening series for a transdisciplinary exchange, that was initiated to oppose the persistent silence about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Starting each time from one film we open the space for conversations about the relations between production of images and their conditions, involving modes of narration, authorship, history, politics and effects on society. We watch fiction, documentaries, movies and television productions focusing on filmmakers with antizionist and liberatory practices.
MOVIE NIGHTS _ A series of screenings hosted and organized by Applied Photography, Klasse für Alle, Art and Communication Practices, Transcultural Studies, and students at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Performances, discussions and presentations, presented by the project ‘SPACEX – Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange’
The Townhall Event is convened by Barbara Holub (artist, principal investigator of SPACEX, University of Applied Arts Vienna) and Paul Rajakovics (transparadiso) as partners of SPACEX. It will be documented and presented by Barbara Holub at the SPACEX Conference at the Coventry Biennial, Nov.13.-14, 2025.
The research project SPACEX responds to the troubling rise of populist nationalism and conflict in European societies by engaging new publics and forging a culture that embraces diversity, difference, and discursive exchange within cities, towns and urban sites.
SPACEX proposes that inventing new and inclusive ways of living together, requires the implementation of new transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral practices and methods, that connect spatial practice with cultural sociology, cultural policy, critical pedagogies and behavioural economics.
With contributions by: Mel Jordan (Coventry University) and Andrew Hewitt (University of Northampton), leaders of SPACEX; Jitka Hlavačková (Prague City Gallery/ GHMP, Prague), Susanne Prinz (Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin), Vittorio Iervese (Università di Modena, Modena), Aline Hernandez/ Marianna Takou (CASCO Art Institute, Utrecht); Annette Krauss (University of Applied Arts Vienna), Julienne Lorz (University of Applied Arts Vienna), Barbara Putz-Plecko (University of Applied Arts Vienna / former Head of the Dept. Art and Communicative Practice), and others.
Preliminary program An evening of discussions and performances (17:00–20:00)
17:00-17:15: Welcome: Barbara Putz-Plecko and Annette Krauss
(former and current professors and Heads of Dept. Art and Communicative Practice, University of Applied Arts, Vienna)
+++ performative moments start: Mel Jordan (Coventry University) and Andrew Hewitt (University of Northampton); Jitka Hlavačková (Prague City Gallery/ GHMP, Prague); Susanne Prinz (Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin); Vittorio Iervese (Università di Modena, Modena); Aline Hernandez/ Marianna Takou (CASCO Art Institute, Utrecht) and Annette Krauss (Art and Communication Practices, University of Applied Arts Vienna).
17:15-17:30: Introduction: Barbara Holub (artist, transparadiso, lecturer and principal investigator of SPACEX, University of Applied Arts Vienna)
18:00-19:00: Panel discussion with: Mel Jordan (professor, Coventry University, initiator and lead of SPACEX) Julienne Lorz (professor, Expanded Museum Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna) Cornelia Offergeld (artistic director, Public Art Vienna) Barbara Putz-Plecko (former professor, Art and Communicative Practice, University of Applied Arts, Vienna)
Paul Rajakovics (architect and urbanist, transparadiso, partner of SPACEX, Vienna)
Poetically Messy: Storytelling and Mistranslations Anna T. and Sofia Bempeza (she-dandy)
Join us for an evening of readings and mistranslations, conjuring empowering pasts and imagining abolitionist futures.
We will discuss feminist storytelling, migration, silenced women (σιωπηλοποιημένες γυναίκες), queerness, Mediterranean futurism, τις ξεβγαλμένες, class, care, and sexuality. Sofia Bempeza aka She Dandy will share poems from her book “ 93 (παρα)οικειακές ιστορίες για την Ελένη” / 93 (para)domestic stories for Helen, a collection of poems and prosa (A Glimpse of, 2023), and Anna T. will share excerpts from her book “Δiotima; or, Δeir*land: A fragmented stori of arkivs, kolektivism, imaginaʃon, & multituds” (FAC, 2025).
THU,May 15th, 6 pm Universität für angewandte Kunst Vordere Zollamtstraße 7, 1030 Wien FLUX 2, 2nd floor
Anna T. is an islander living in Vienna. Her artistic practice revolves around writing and themes of queerness and migration. Sofia Bempeza (she-dandy) is working with poetry, performance and theory as part of her* art and educational practice.
Rose-Anne Gush (Assistant Professor at IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art, TU Graz) and Helmut Krieger (Senior scientist/sen. lecturer Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna), as part of the Event Series: “Facing the Authoritarian Drift: Art Schools as Sites of Critique”.
Hosted and moderated by Movie Nights Group: Anahita Asadifar, Sofia Bempeza, Antonia Birnbaum, Yasmina Haddad, Fine Freiberg, Nanna Heidenreich, Amanda Holmes, Annette Krauss, Alexi Kukukljevic, Andrea Lumplecker, Zeynep Turel, Maria Ziegelböck.
The film « A common state. Potential conversation » by Eyal Sivan assembles a series of 24 conversations regarding the issue of a common state, with political actors, artists, jurists, young and old, Israelis, Arabs of the occupied territories and of Israel. The same questions are asked and each person answers in their maternal tongue, in dialogue with the filmmaker. The screen brings together what the fragmentation of the situation separates, producing the encounters that occupation hinders day after day. In this film evening, we will look at the two hour film by interruption, discussing the conversation in each of its thematic chapters.
Tuesday, 29th april 2025, 7pm Schwanzer Trakt 4th Floor Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
MOVIE NIGHTSis a format for a transdisciplinary exchange: Starting each time from one film, we open the space for a conversation about the relations between production of images and their conditions – modes of narration, authorship, history, politics and effects on society. We show fiction, documentaries, movie and television productions in regard to the actual situation, focusing on Palestinian and Israeli films. The movie nights are hosted and organized by the departments of Applied Photography, Klasse für Alle, Art and Communication Practices, Philosophy, and Transcultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
“Facing the Authoritarian Drift: Art Schools as Sites of Critique” is organized since Autumn 2024 by teachers at German-speaking art schools, and confronts the current authoritarian drift. In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, under the pressure of the climate crisis, and in the face of wars and increasing militarization, conflicts are also intensifying within universities (…).
Film Screening und Diskussion mit Rose-Anne Gush (Ass. Professorin, IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art, TU Graz) und Helmut Krieger (Senior scientist/sen. lecturer Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna), im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung: “Abdrift ins Autoritäre, oder Kunsthochschulen als Orte der Kritik”
Moderiert und organisiert von der Movie Nights Gruppe: Anahita Asadifar, Sofia Bempeza, Antonia Birnbaum, Yasmina Haddad, Fine Freiberg, Nanna Heidenreich, Amanda Holmes, Annette Krauss, Alexi Kukukljevic, Andrea Lumplecker, Zeynep Turel, Maria Ziegelböck.
Dienstag, 29 April 2025, 19 Uhr Studio Angewandte Fotografie Schwanzer Trakt 4. OG Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2, 1010 Wien
MOVIE NIGHTS ist ein Format für transdisziplinären Austausch: Ausgehend von jeweils einem Film eröffnen wir den Raum für Diskussionen über die Verhältnisse zwischen Filmproduktion(en) und deren Bedingungen – Erzählweisen, Autorenschaft, geschichtlicher und politischer Kontext, sowie gesellschaftliche Auswirkungen. Wir zeigen Dokumentarfilme, Spielfilme, Kino- und Fernsehproduktionen mit Fokus auf palästinensische und israelische Filme in Bezug auf die aktuelle Situation. Movie Nights werden von folgenden Abteilungen an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien veranstaltet und organisiert: Angewandte Fotografie, Klasse für Alle, Kunst- und Kommunikative Praxis, Philosophie und Transkulturelle Studien.
“Abdrift ins Autoritäre, oder Kunsthochschulen als Orte der Kritik” – Die gemeinsam organisierte Veranstaltungsreihe stellt sich einer aktuell zu beobachtenden Abdrift ins Autoritäre entgegen. In den Nachwehen der Covid-19-Pandemie, unter dem Druck der Klimakrise und angesichts von Kriegen und zunehmender Militarisierung verschärfen sich Konflikte auch innerhalb von Hochschulen (…).
Dirty Pink Waters of Collectivity in Kollaboration mit Johannes Porsch
07.04.2025, SR 09 08.04.2025,SR 10 14:15 – 18:45 Uhr
Universität für angewandte Kunst, OKPV*, 1. OG
Gemeinsam mit Studierenden entwerfen Gloria Hasnay und Katrin Mayer eine experimentelle räumlich-zeitliche Anordnung, die auf Vortragsszenarios und Materialien der Ausstellung Key Operators. Weben und Coding als Mittel feministischer Geschichtsschreibung aufbaut. Sie erforschen, wie die gegebenen institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen die Gestaltung dieser Anordnung prägen und wie sich Fragen feministischer Geschichtsschreibung im Workshopverlauf als kollektive Ausdrucksformen neu artikulieren.
Key Operators. Weaving and coding as languages of feminist historiography
Together with students, Gloria Hasnay and Katrin Mayer design an experimental spatial-temporal arrangement based on lecture scenarios and materials from the exhibition Key Operators. Weaving and Coding as a Means of Feminist Historiography. They explore how institutional frameworks shape this arrangement and how questions of feminist historiography are rearticulated as collective expressions throughout the workshop.
Unterstützt von/supported by
KKP talks and workshops program DIRTY PINK WATERS OF COLLECTIVITY, Kunst und Kommunikative Praxis, o.Prof.in Sofia Bempeza, o.Prof.in Annette Krauss, mit/with Textiles – Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Designs, o.Prof.in Ebba Fransén Waldhör,
Dirty Pink Waters of Collectivity in Kollaboration mit Jo Schmeiser
Freitag, 28. März 2025, 11:00–14:30 Uhr Universität für angewandte Kunst Vordere Zollamtstraße 7, 1030 Wien Auditorium (EG)
„Körper formen“, 10 Min., 2018 – Im Keller der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien stehen dicht gedrängt Gipsabgüsse von Skulpturen der Antike und Renaissance. Ein leises Unbehagen mit der Sammlung führt zu einem Filmdokument von 1915: Klassizistische Ästhetik und koloniale Forschung arbeiten Hand in Hand. „Wien – Liberec“, 20 Min., 2019 – Spurensuche zur Zusammenarbeit von „Rasseforschung“ und Kunstakademie zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs. Zitate der Täter/innen tragen die fast vergessene Geschichte an die Schauplätze zurück: die Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, den Prater und die tschechische Stadt Liberec. „Bewegungsdauerpräparate“, 17 Min., 2024 – Die „Encyclopaedia Cinematographica“ ist ein Filmarchiv der (Tier-)Bewegung, das heute wie ein Museum der bedrohten Arten wirkt. Die Arbeit untersucht eine Bildproduktion, die wissenschaftliche Objektivität herstellen wollte, aber ideologisch behaftet war.
Jannik Franzens recherchebasierten Arbeiten hinterfragen die Rolle von Wissenschaft und Institutionen bei der Herstellung sozialer Normen und Ausschlüsse. Sie befassen sich mit anthropologischer Bildproduktion, medizinischer Geschlechternormierung, filmischen Verhandlungen von Natur oder auch mit den strukturellen Zumutungen von Zwei-Geschlechter-Ordnung und Heteronormativität.
