"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