"Climate Crisis a Social Problem?" Talk with Leo Fidjeland at the Max Perutz Climate Lecture

I will be presenting the idea of my most recent activist/artistic project of the Zwentendorf-Feiertag at the Max Perutz Climate Lecture on Zoon next Tuesday. Please tune in if you can - the zoom link is below!

Climate action is a societal and communication problem, not a problem based on a lack of scientific understanding of the climate crisis, said the climatologist Helga Kromp-Kolb in her climate lecture in June.

Therefore, we invite you to expand our perspectives and ideas by means of art and philosophy. With our guests: 

Kilian Jörg, activist, eco-sopher and artist teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Kunstuniversität Linz. Their international and trans-disciplinary projects center around the question how humans can culturally work with the ecological catastrophe. Topics addressed by Kilian in form of collaborative projects range from mobility (the CARS WE LIKE), waste (Toxic Temple), club culture (Die Clubmabaschine: (Berghain)) to the question of moralizing (An Ecology of Moralizing, an upcoming book) to the artistic proclamation of a new national holiday to commemorate the Zwentendorf Referendum.

Leo Fidjeland is part of Nonhuman Nonsense, a research-driven art and design collective exploring the ethical and political dimensions of our entanglement with the nonhuman world—animals, objects, ecologies, technologies, and the specters in between. Their work embraces paradox and play, creating speculative worlds through interactive installations, online campaigns, sculptures, films, and more. Recent projects include the Pink Chicken Project, which proposes using a gene drive to edit the genome of the global broiler chicken to leave a biocultural marker in the geological record; Council of Foods, a parliament of fruits and vegetables using AI to debate the ecological conflicts of the global food system— most recently in a special edition for the Asilomar anniversary conference on the future of biotechnology; and Haunted Waters, a chemical cocktail bar serving contaminated water samples from around the world, featured in a recent Nature publication. Their work has been presented at COP14, iGEM, and at museums and institutions worldwide.

We invite Kilian and Leo to share their current answers to the question: What is the real challenge the climate crisis confronts humans and non-humans with? And what to do?

October 21, 2025, 4.00pm - 5.30pm CEST

Zoom Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3442694176?pwd=AHWlcmNLM318fBH5YM8ypOnZI3pDWP.1&omn=86976980750

Meeting ID: 344 269 4176
Passcode: 584082

Hibernating Further Extended - performing in a project by Jaskaran Singh / trivium @Flucc, 8.10

 

I am thrilled to be part of my good friend Jaskaran Singh's theatrical experimental setting Hybernating Further Extended which will take place this Wednesday, the 8th of October 2025, at Flucc Vienna from 19-21h. I'll give little impromptu lectures (also about my current book projects Living in Ecocide and An Ecology of Moralizing) as a nerdy dwarf and will also spin some tunes as yours truly DJ Responsible. I resonate a lot with Jaskaran's curatorial statement and am excited what spontaneous immersive room we will be able to create:

I find myself returning to a question that haunts contemporary art-making: How do we create together without consuming each other? Hibernating Further Extended emerges from my growing discomfort with traditional theatrical hierarchies, where audiences consume Hibernating Further Extended emerges from my growing discomfort with traditional theatrical hierarchies, where audiences consume performances like plastic products - taking, leaving, forgetting. This work proposes something more intimate and risky: a space where we might discover what we're capable of creating together. My curatorial approach draws from personal experiences of ecological grief and digital sites of individual expression. Working with the team, we aim to develop what I call "structured dreaming" - creating conditions where something unexpected can emerge between us without abandoning artistic and research rigor. The plasticity we explore isn't just about the environmental crisis, but about our capacity to remain soft and responsive in hardening times. I am interested in theater as medicine, as technology for collective healing, as practice for the kinds of cooperation our ecological moment demands. This project asks whether we can make art that doesn't extract from its community but nourishes it, whether theater can model the regenerative relationships our planet desperately needs. We hibernate together to dream new forms of awakening.

Mi, 08. Okt 2025, 19:00—01:00 Uhr @Flucc Wanne

a project by Jaskaran Singh / trivium

A 6-hours immersive journey on meetings of plasticity-ecology-psychology.

Structured dreaming curated with rave, theatrical, and performative base-elements, this multi-layered experience blends dance, sound, visuals and audience participation. Let's create transforming spaces of organic dialogue between art, audience, and urgency through playful and profound practices.

Curator: Jaskaran Singh

Artists: Jaskaran Singh/Harmonical Self, Michael Naphegyi, Sara Koniarek, Sabrina Rosina Bühn, Kilian Jörg

Costume: Afra Sönmez, Jaskaran Singh and team

Production: trivium and Nina Vobruba

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Dissens-Podcast: #316 Zone à défendre: Was sich vom französischen Linksradikalismus lernen lässt

Michael Hirsch and me could have a long and very fertile conversation about the political potential of the French concept of the ZADs with the formidable Dissens-Podcast.

In Frankreich schlägt das Konzept der "Zone à défendre" – der "zu verteidigenden Zone" – Wellen: Bei den sogenannten "ZAD" handelt es sich um dauerhafte Besetzungen, die im Widerstand gegen ökozidale Großprojekte entstehen, in denen darüber hinaus aber auch mit post-kapitalistischen Beziehungsweisen experimentiert wird. Kilian Jörg und Michael Hirsch untersuchen in ihrem Buch "Durchlöchert den Status quo" das Potential der "Zone à défendre" - mit Blick auf einen zeitgemäßen Ökologie-Kampf sowie mit Blick auf eine Ausweitung von Demokratie gegen den Staat und im Staat. Im Dissens Podcast sprechen Kilian Jörg und Michael Hirsch über das politische Projekt des "Zadismus", Unterschiede zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland sowie Commonisierung als Antwort auf die Faschismusgefahr.

 

Ihr findet die Sendung hier: https://podcast.dissenspodcast.de/316-zad