DAS AUTO UND DIE ÖKOLOGISCHE KATASTROPHE - Preorder now!

 

My book on the car has just made it online with a preliminary cover and the first information. It will be released in September 2024 and I can tell you, it will be a blast. You can apparently already preorder it via Thalia or any other bookshop. I can't wait until this is finally out :)

Das Auto und die ökologische Katastrophe

Utopische Auswege aus der autodestruktiven Vernunft

Kaum etwas prägt die moderne Konsumgesellschaft so sehr wie das KFZ – Grund genug, unsere toxische Liebesbeziehung zu ihm zu analysieren und Auswege aus der planetaren Autodestruktion aufzuzeigen. Jenseits von Klimabilanzen und moralischen Vorwürfen unternimmt Kilian Jörg eine letzte Spritztour durch einbetonierte Vorstellungen von »Freiheit«, »Normalität«, »Vernunft« und »Natur«, die den Ökozid als alternativlos erscheinen lassen. Mithilfe von Beyoncé, Lynch und Le Guin begibt er sich auf eine Achterbahnfahrt durch Popkultur, faschistische Männlichkeit, Erdöl, Nationalparks, aktivistische Landbesetzungen und die Tugenden der Autofetischist*innen, um zu einer Utopie autofreier Welten aufzurufen.

--> mehr Info auf der Verlagshomepage

To those impatient to read it but not able to understand German, maybe now is the time that a translation into French is already being done right now and I am currently in negotiations about an English translation as well....

the Cars We Like - Film-Documentation online

The film documentation of the CARS WE LIKE-Symposium that took place in Vienna, beginning of March 2024, just went online. It is a nice archive of discourse for radical transformation of mobility that adds up to the first edition of the "exhaust(ed) entanglement" series in Berlin.

Find the full showcase here. I have embedded the final workshop presentation below.

AIL_SYMPOSIUM: The Cars We Like / Part 6 of 6 – Presentation of Workshop Results from Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab on Vimeo.

"Building Hope at the Edge of the Abyss" at Posthuman Social Club @ AIL, 23.4.2024

I have managed to bring the movie about Isabelle Stengers, "Building Hope at the Edge of the Abyss", to Vienna! Together with the Posthuman Social Club we will devote an entire evening to the vast body of thought of my favorite philosopher and teacher. I will be giving a short introduction to Isabelle Stenger's body of work and after the film screening I will host a "Nachbefühlung" (not "Nachbesprechung") of the film with Brigitte Wilfing and Samuel Toro Pérez titled "Slowing down in times of catastrophe".

 The Posthuman Social Club "Isabelle Stengers edition" will take place on the 23.4.2024 at AIL Vienna. Find more info here.

This 3rd edition of the ‹posthuman social club› is devoted to the philosopher Isabelle Stengers. We host the Austrian premiere of her bio-pic "Isabelle Stengers - Building Hope on the Edge of the Abyss", by Fabrizzio Terranova and are curating a program of performance, music, lecture and somatic experience around her' vast body of thought.
Isabelle Stengers is one of the leading influences not only for "post-humanist" discourses and practices, but for ecologically minded philosophy in general. Her decade-long work on sciences, politics and ecology has influenced many prominent scholars such as Donna Haraway or Bruno Latour,

With the 'posthuman social club' we want to think outside of the box of what has been labeled “the human realm of Reason” and develop new regimes of perception, sensuality and corporeality that can with care and afterthought lead us the way away from our humanist, modern form of making and thinking the world to more inclusive ways of sharing many worlds with other critters.
In the permeation of choreography and composition, with club culture, philosophy, ecology and media art we invite speculation of what a post-human social – or even a post-human society – could actually mean. We cannot overcome the euro- and anthropocentric, often misogynistic and racist tendencies of the „Enlightenment“ tradition overnight. The 'posthuman social clubs' are a sensual attunement, cultivation, celebration, exultation, differentiation and problematisation of these [post-human] desires.

SUSTAINABILITY - WHAT'S THE POINT OF ART?

Dear friends and colleagues in Vienna,

together with my colleagues from the Futurama.Lab, Sabrina Rosina and Rainer Prohaska, I am giving a course at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in which we will investigate the ZAD, bolo'bolo and other radical ecological endeavors and their implication for ecological art practices. The course is open to all and we will read and discuss some fine texts together in a collective and enabling manner. This is not for students only, but for finding a common politco-aesthetical-utopian ground which is why I took the liberty to invite you all in this post.

So if you want to study more intensely with us & see where I currently see the most potential for novel ecological utopianisms, please join us at the course "Sustainability - What's the point of art?". Find all the details below and don't hesitate to ask more questions.

All the best,
Kilian

SUSTAINABILITY - WHAT'S THE POINT OF ART?
A worshop at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Dear fellow artists, friends, colleagues, activists, environmentalists ...

We warmly invite you to this special lecture series hosted at the Academy of Fine Arts. In six sessions (three blocks of 2 modules) we will develop options and strategies within art projects as alternatives to a currently useless political and systemic approach. We demonstrate how to enable and possibly engage through artistic endeavors within the messiness of the now, how to nourish hope, humour and resilience and of coursehow to relate all this to current scientific developments in sustainable solutions.

We will investigate the cultural potential of the ZAD and bolo'bolo and will speculate about novel forms of radically ecological utopias and how to culturally produce them in a sustainable way.

Come along and journey with us through texts we will read and discuss together during lectures - from science-fiction to scientific papers and finally to practical realisations.

This course also serves as inspiration to further develop your own project(s) to be realized within the practical course of the following winter semester, forming a holistic workshop over the span of the year.

SUSTAINABILITY - WHAT'S THE POINT OF ART?

WORSHOP FACTS

LECTURERS: Rainer Prohaska (artist, art entrepreneur) together with Sabrina Rosina (ecologist, artist) & Kilian Jörg (philospher, artist)

WHEN & WERE:

16./17. April (3 - 6 pm) - Anatomiesaal, Academy of Fine Arts, Schillerplatz

14./15. May (3 - 6 pm) - TBA

4./5. June (3 - 6 pm) - TBA

Register via this link 

T.A.R. – Temporary Autonomous Region @Klimabiennale Wien

Together with the Futurama.Lab we are trying to learn from the ZAD NDDL and other radical-ecological practices for cultural production. For this reason, we have created a "Temporary Autonomous Region" at the Nord-West-Bahnhof-Gelände of the Klimabiennale (honestly as green-washed and extractivist an undertaking you can imagine under such a title...but we are trying to make the best out of it in our little zone) in which we will inhabit the space in manifold ways following Rainer Prohaskas Pool-principle. I am also curating a little discourse program around the topic in June of which I will inform you at a later stage. 

T.A.R. – Temporary Autonomous Region

T.A.R. ist eine Intervention, die am Gelände des Nordwestbahnhofs auf der begrünten Insel im Rahmen der KLIMA BIENNALE WIEN stattfindet. Eine ökologische Transformation erfordert die kunstvolle Schaffung alternativer Welten als Fluchtzonen aus der herrschenden, ökologisch katastrophalen Ordnung. Das FUTURAMA LAB baut einen experimentellen autonomen Lebensraum, der nicht nur den menschlichen Besucher*innen, sondern auch andere diversen Stadt-Bewohner*innen gewidmet ist. Ein Ort, in dem sich neue Werte, Rechte und Prioritäten entfalten können, aber auch ein Ruheraum für Festivalbesucher*innen, was für die Rolle einer "T.A.R." essentiell ist.

Begleitet wird diese reale Intervention von einem Diskursprogramm, bei dem die praktisch vorgelebten Konzepte theoretisch reflektiert und weitergedacht werden.

You can't really find us on the Klimabiennale's homepage (you can if you are extremely patient and good at mazes) but you can find us physically here.