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Conference – in Memoriam Marina Vishmidt

Marina Vishmidt (1976-2024) was one of the most incisive, inventive critical theorists of art of her generation. This conference will create a space to reflect on her contribution, particularly by investigating her 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. Bringing together artists, critical theorists and collaborators with Marina, the event will clarify her ideas while connecting them to other current developments in political and cultural theory, establishing the vitality of her radical, strategic approach in times of ecological crisis, infrastructural decline, political reaction and war.

WED–FRI, October 29–31, 2025
WED 29.10, 18-20.00
THU 30. 10, 10.30-18.30
FRI 31. 10, 10.30-18.30

Universität für angewandte Kunst
Vordere Zollamtstraße 7, 1030 Wien
Auditorium, EG / Ground Floor

Themes of discussion will include: infrastructural critique and ecology, infrastructural critique vs. institutional critique, art and political economy, infrastructure and social reproduction, the politics of abolition in contemporary art, and the relationship of infrastructure to race.

Marina was Professor of Art Theory at Angewandte between October 2023 and April 2024. This conference precedes the publication of her book Infrastructural Critique: Contemporary Art between Reproduction and Abolition (Verso, 2026), and will feature contributions by:

Marwa Arsanios, Hannah Black, Maria Bussmann, Helmut Draxler, Rose-Anne Gush, Danny Hayward, Taylor LeMelle, Mattin, Andreas Petrossiants, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Romana Schmalisch + Robert Schlicht, Kerstin Schroedinger + Angela Melitopoulos, Kerstin Stakemeier, Alberto Toscano

Wednesday–Friday, October 29–31, 2025. See the event website for a more detailed schedule. Auditorium, University of Applied Arts, EG / Ground Floor, Vorderer Zollamststrasse 7, Vienna 1030. No fee to join, Register by October 20: infrastructural_critique@uni-ak.ac.at.

The auditorium is barrier-free and has an inductive hearing system. Further information: here. Lectures and presentations will be available online after the event.

Hosted by the department Art and Communication Practices, Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education, University of Applied Arts 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.

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MOVIE NIGHTS #23

A Common State. Potential Conversation

EYAL SIVAN (2012)  

Film Screening and Discussion with Guests: 

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 NIGHTS is 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 (…). 

https://krisol-wissenschaft.org/en/facing-the-drift/

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MOVIE NIGHTS #23

A Common State. Potential Conversation

EYAL SIVAN (2012)  

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 (…).

https://krisol-wissenschaft.org/facing-the-drift/

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,

Expanded Museum Studies, o.Prof.in Julienne Lorz.

Anmeldung bis 04.04. 2025 unter

https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025S/S03284

https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025S/S03165

oder

johannes.porsch@uni-ak.ac.at

OKPV*, 1010 Wien, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 3, Verbindungstrakt

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.

Film documentary as a form of storytelling | Dokumentarfilm als Storytellingformat

The STIR lecture series by the Diversity Office continues with a lecture by Mwita MATARO

Monday 10 March 18:00 | Lecture EN | Q&A DE-EN | OKP HS1 + Zoom

MATARO was born in Salzburg and lives in Vienna. He is known as the charismatic lead singer of Indie-Rock band At Pavillon; he is also co-founder of the association ADOE which builds safer spaces for BIPOC people and the cultural association one earth – one daham. MATARO will present AUSTROSCHWARZ, a documentary film due for release in 2025, which he co-directed with Helmut KARNER. As protagonist in AUSTROSCHWARZ MATARO explores questions of identity and experiences of being Black in Austria.

This STIR lecture is organised by the Diversity Office and Dirty Pink Waters of Collectivity, KKP.

STIR is an initiative of the Diversity Office of the Angewandte and explores intersectional and interdisciplinary insights on Diversity, Equal Opportunities and Inclusion; to foster structural and substantive change.

Lecture in English, followed by discussion in English and German. Moderated by Iketina Danso of the Diversity Office.
Free and open to all.

HS1 Oskar Kokoschkaplatz. 2. Accessibility info: www.dieangewandte.at/barrierfrei

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Der nächste STIR-Vortrag wird von Mwita MATARO gehalten: “Dokumentarfilm als Storytellingformat.”

MATARO, geboren in Salzburg und in Wien lebend, ist Kunst- und Kulturschaffender. Sänger der Indie-Rockband At Pavillon. Auch Mitbegründer des Vereins ADOE und des Kulturvereins one earth – one daham. 2025 erscheint seine Kinodokumentation AUSTROSCHWARZ, bei der er als Co – Regisseur und Protagonist tätig ist. Ein Dokumentarfilmdebüt. Da setzt sich Mataro mit der Frage auseinander, was Schwarz-sein in Österreich für ihn bedeutet.

Diesen STIR-Vortrag wird von dem Diversitätsbüro, zusammen mit Dirty Pink Waters of Collectivity, KKP, organisiert.
Gratis und offen für alle.

HS1 Oskar Kokoschkaplatz. 2. Accessibility info: www.dieangewandte.at/barrierfrei

Lehrveranstaltungsverzeichnis KKP

Unlearning Routines of the Impossible

Annette Krauss (Kunst und Kommunikative Praxis) with Casco Art Institute:

Working for the Commons, Utrecht/NL (Aline Hernandez and Marianna Takou)

6 March 2025, 18:00–20:00 / Flux 1, 3.floor, VZA7

Join us for the gathering around the new publication of Unlearning Routines of the Impossible.

Upon invitation for this occasion, and as publishers of the book, Casco directors Aline Hernandez and Marianna Takou will give us insights into Casco’s program The Ecosystemic Shift and explore the connections with the book’s themes. www.casco.art/

The book Unlearning Routines of the Impossible is co-authored by artist and educator Annette Krauss, featuring contributions from the Feminist Search Tools working group, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Nancy Jouwe, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective, and Ferdiansyah Thajib. The book is published by Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, and Minor Compositions/Autonomedia. 

Unlearning Routines of the Impossible continues Krauss’ exploration of unlearning practices within (and beyond) art institutions. Unlearning Routines of the Impossible responds to the question: “What are the struggles, entanglements, and joys of practicing unlearning in predominantly Western contexts?” The book revisits Krauss’s (co-)initiated artistic research projects Sites for Unlearning—a series of experimental gatherings aimed at collaboratively unlearning dominant ways of thinking and doing, as well as confronting the affective production of impossibilities within institutions in order to intervene in social injustices. These inquiries are accompanied, framed, and challenged by invited essays, collective conversations, and scenes on what unlearning might do and be. Together, they form a support structure—a scaffolding for living—for practicing unlearning.

As the sister publication to Unlearning Exercises: Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning (2018), first published by the independent publisher Valiz, Unlearning Routines of the Impossible builds on and expands the exploration of unlearning practices within (and beyond) art institutions. The book is co-edited by Krauss and Janine Armin, and critically examines the normative structures of educational, institutional, and everyday practices, challenging and dismantling the taken-for-granted truths that underpin them. To emphasize this connection, we are also pleased to announce the republishing of Unlearning Exercises in a newly designed edition by Rosen Eveleigh. For this Rosen further developed as well the typefaces used in the books.