"PASSIVELY WATCHING THE WORLD CRUMBLE OR ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN THE PROCESS?" & "THE CARS WE LIKE" - two Panels at Futurama.Lab @ Vienna Art Week

In the background, I have been building and collaborating with a new network of artists, thinkers and makers that try to take the ecological catastrophe seriously, called FUTURAMA.LAB (inaugurated by wonderful Rainer Prohaska, who has also been the artists and mind behind the MS Fusion project of last year). We try to build a transdisciplinary hub that seeks to overcome the dichotomies between form and content that so often creates weird moralistic hybrids in the art world. We want to work on ways how art can actively and radically engage in the radical transformation needed without green- or white-washing (and perhaps in dissolving the category of "art" in the process). We have many upcoming projects and I am happy to announce that we will present some of them for the first time to the public at the VIENNA ART WEEK on 11th&12th of November.

You can find the full program here.

I have organized two panels about topics particularly dear to me. One about "ecological art-making" and what that could mean and the second one about a new project you will hopefully soon hear more about. Find the descriptions below.

 
"PASSIVELY WATCHING THE WORLD CRUMBLE OR ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN THE PROCESS?"
 
Panel Discussion
Sabrina Rosina, Alexandra Graupner & Tomas Zierhofer-Kin. Modeartion: Kilian Jörg
 
Despite its omnipresence in public discourse, we would argue that there is surprisingly little art that is engaged with our ecological predicament in creative, radical and enabling ways that go beyond mere doom-kitsch, romantisization of Nature or moral exhibitionism. In this panel bringing together curators, artists and philosophers, we want to discuss examples and ideas that show us a way forward.
 
 

 

"THE CARS WE LIKE"
 
Dialogue
Kilian Jörg & Rainer Prohaska
 
Going beyond "mere" critique of the current automobile-centered system, Kilian Jörg and Rainer Prohaska try to hack the car-system from within by inventing serious and dada-esque vehicles that follow a simple paradigm: it is no longer the environment that has to adapt to our vehicles, but our vehicles that have to become as fluid as our environments. In an open dialogue they will discuss the broader horizon of changing mobility patters by means of artistic research.