Border:
Border Crossing Services
A project on border, migration and refugee assistance with Martin Krenn and Oliver Ressler (Vienna)
Reading Club I: “Territory and Borders, Racial Capitalism and Sovereignty in Crisis” by Gargi Bhattacharyya
“Racial capitalism describes a set of techniques and a formation, and in both registers the disciplining and ordering of bodies through gender and sexuality and dis/ability and age flow through what is happening.” (Bhattacharyyam, p.10, 2018) How do borders shape our perception of the world? What …
Lena Knappert - Crossing narratives. Working through borders: Refugee employment from intersectional and contextual perspectives
This “Crossing Narratives” dialogue in the frame of the “Queer, Life, Freedom” exhibition invites Dr. Lena Knappert to hold a conversation touching upon topics like refugeehood at the intersection of gender, class, and queerness, the influence of context and other actors in host societies, and …
Laura Lambert: Contesting and Decentring Border Externalization - Perspectives from West Africa
Europe’s borders are increasingly located in Africa. Migrants are forcibly stopped there or deported back there. Development funds or humanitarian aid promise them a better future in Africa. These promises often fail. This so-called externalization policy has become a central component of of …
Dis/b/orderly
The construction of a Fortress Europe as a “European gated community” (Pichl 2024) is no longer just the goal of a pan-European New Right and self-appointed, neo-national socialist border guards, but has also found its way into European governments through the agendas of supposedly …
Second Congress of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
Approximating Migrant and Filmic Practices Using the Example of Harraga Lecture by Brigitta Kuster with subsequent discussion Friday, October 7, 2016, 2:00–3:45 p.m. Session of the section »Kulturwissenschaftliche Ästhetik« (Cultural-Analysis Aesthetics) Discussion of Susanne Leeb’s and Ruth …
Susanne Leeb & Sven Beckstette
Susanne Leeb (University of Basel): »Cycles of Painting and Entangled Histories: Luc Tuymans and Tshibumba Kanda Matulu« Globalization not only entails an increased engagement with arts worldwide, but also with earlier transnational entanglements. Entanglements that, characterized by colonialism, …
Ashkan Shabani - Queer, Life, Freedom. Archive of Resilience
This immersive exhibition explores the journey of exile, identity, and resilience through photography, text, installation, and performance art. Divided into three distinct spaces—Iran, Turkey, and Germany—the exhibition invites visitors to experience the emotional and physical realities of displacement and survival.
1 - 1 = 2 Hybert-Marché
With Fabrice Hybert and Hans Ulrich Obrist in cooperation with the ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Queer, Life, Freedom. Archive of Resilience
“Queer, Life, Freedom” is a deeply personal and politically charged exploration of identity, exile, and survival. Inspired by the artist’s own experiences, the exhibition is divided into three spaces—representing Iran, Turkey, and Germany—each reflecting a different phase of the journey …
Cataloging Logistics. Migration, Digitisation, Forms of Life
The workshop »Cataloging Logistics 2« departs from the premise that logistics poses both a decisive terrain for contemporary transformations in social and everyday life and a critical theoretical lens for understanding the present. Beyond matters of timely concern, the workshop’s focus on …
Peninsula Europe. The Force Majeure Works
Continuing a tradition of symposia (»Art, Ecology and Sustainable Development«, 2000) and artistic projects at the Kunstraum that have addressed issues of ecology and sustainability (Dan Peterman »Greenhouse«, 1998 and Fabrice Hybert »pof83 [pylône]«, 2000 amongst others), Helen Mayer Harrison and …
Reflections and Oppositional Art. Responsibility, Aesthetics… Humor (Because Without Humor The Work Would Be Dead)
Sands Murray-Wassink’s paintings and especially his performances deal with identity politics and the performance of the explicit body. In doing so they follow a tradition of Performance Art that aimed to blur the borders between life and art that became prominent in the 1960s and 1970s. …
SIEV-X. On a case of intensified refugee politics
on the occasion of the publication Dierk Schmidt: SIEV-X. On a case of aggravated refugee policy. A picture cycle in three parts, talks and texts. Series polypen at b_books, Berlin 2005.
Contemporary Art and African Perspectives
Moderation: Beate Söntgen
Tribunalism
The eponymous exhibition combines filmed art works, tribunal documentaries, and artistic works that address and critique the institution of the tribunal – as well as a spatial intervention designed by Mirjam Thomann – created for this exhibition, and framing it in an installation-like language as a site of negotiation.