MOVIE NIGHTS #23 – A Common State. Potential Conversation, by EYAL SIVAN (2012)
Tuesday, 29th april 2025, 7pm Schwanzer Trakt 4th Floor Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
in collaboration with “Facing the Authoritarian Drift: Art Schools as Sites of Critique”, 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 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.
DEU
Eine Veranstaltungsreihe von Lehrenden an deutschsprachigen Kunsthochschulen
in Kollabotarion mit “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 (…).
MOVIE NIGHTS #23 A Common State. Potential Conversation by 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)
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.
