SPIRAL BIKE car is over - 6th of September, Vienna

I am thrilled to finally also be actively participating in Conny Zenk's wonderful public space bike interventions and concerts! It will take place on the 6th of September and will again be a wonderful combination of concerts, DJs-Sets, bike rides and public space interventions. I will participate in a twofold way: 1) I will read from a chapter of my book "Das Auto und die ökologische Katastrophe" (the one about the car pest ending the car pest) and 2), together with wonderful Sabrina Rosina, we will do our infamous "LETZTE WASCHUNG", gently washing away the cars from the public space with a solemn good bye prayer. More info here - please join us, it will be loads of fun! 

SPIRAL BIKE car is over

SPIRAL BIKE | Concert | Performance | Soundride

Soundrides & feministische Mobilitätsutopien in Wien

Die Stadt Wien wird 2025 zur Bühne für eine Performance, die Fahrräder, Klangkunst und Aktivismus im urbanen Raum verbindet. SPIRAL BIKE car is over verwandelt Brückenrampen, Radspiralen und Verkehrsachsen in temporäre Orte für Konzerte, Performances und Diskussionen über die Zukunft der Mobilität.

Mit SPIRAL BIKE car is over ruft RAD Performance erneut zu autofreien Utopien auf. Wie Kilian Jörg in seinem Buch Das Auto und die ökologische Katastrophe schreibt: „Die amerikanische Freiheit und ihr konsumorientiertes Demokratiemodell stabilisiert sich seit 1945 durch einen exzessiven Erdölverbrauch. … Wie Pilger*innen strömten die Bürger*innen zur Autobahn und feierten die dort spezifisch ermöglichte Freiheit, Öl zu verbrennen.“

In diesem Sinne setzt Kreishell mit pedalbetriebenem Karussell und mechanischem Drum-Computer ein unermüdliches musikalisches Kreisen gegen den Hunger der industriellen Leistungsmaschine – verstärkt durch Jakob Schauers’ hyperreale Räume. Maja Osojnik erweitert den Resonanzraum mit dichten, vielschichtigen Liedern und Texturen, die Brüche und Utopien zugleich hörbar machen. Mit Stimme, Klang und Mehrdeutigkeiten formen Lan Rex & Oneka von Schrader eine Performance aus Bewegung und Soundbikes.

Bike Tattoos von Martina Moro & Conni Feitsinger schaffen eine performative Geste zwischen Körper und Fahrrad. SPIRAL BIKE car is over startet mit einem Soundride von der Prater Hauptallee. Live am Soundbike zu hören sind VVV & Ratriot, die dazu einladen, urbane Infrastruktur neu zu erfahren und mit tragbaren Sprüchen Impulse für eine postfossile Zukunft geben.


Termine & Highlights 2025:

6. September – SPIRAL BIKE car is over: Südbahnhofbrücke

Künstler*innen: Kreishell & Jakob Schauer · Maja Osojnik · Lan Rex & Oneka von Schrader · Martina Moro & Conni Feitsinger · Sabrina Bühn & Kilian Jörg · VVV & Ratriot · Conny Zenk

Treffpunkt: 18:30 Uhr, Prater Hauptallee (unter A23)
Start Soundride: 19:00 Uhr
Konzerte ab 20:00 Uhr bei der RAD-Spirale Südbahnhofbrücke (1030 Wien, Arsenalstraße 5b)

Interviews & Materials on "Durchlöchert den Status Quo!"

Ein paar Materialien zu unserem Buch "Durchlöchert den Status Quo!" sind in den letzten Tagen erschienen:

• eine Besprechung im Deutschlandfunk im Magazin "Andruck - Das Magazin für politische Literatur"
• ein Interview mit der Freien Presse unter dem Titel "Die Kunst des 'Ja': Wie Wandel gelingen könnte" - dieses Interview befindet sich leider hinter einer Paywall. Per Emailanfrage sende ich gerne das gesamte Interview zu.
• eine kleine Rezension im Magazin "Contraste - Zeitung für Selbstorganisation"

"Pour une culture de l’écologie joyeuse. Réflexions sur des nouvelles institutions culturelles pour nos luttes" @ Journal de Democratie et Culture

Together with the formidable collective -h- I have written a text about one of my upcoming projects that occupy me the most these days: the creation of social spaces to enable other feelings in times of climate demise and ritualistic approaches to other forms of being. Together with -h-, who are part of the Cellule d'Action Rituelle of the zad nddl, we have written this text comparing & introducing the 17th of January on the zad (the day the cancellation of the airport is celebrated) with the upcoming Zwentendorf-Holiday in Austria - a project we will do for the first time on the 5th of November. 

The text is written in French, but I have a crude English translation available. Drop me an email if you want to read that one (or have ideas where we could publish it :)

The French original can be found here or in (free!) print in Belgium and France. 

https://www.cultureetdemocratie.be/articles/pour-une-culture-de-lecologie-joyeuse-reflexions-sur-des-nouvelles-institutions-culturelles-pour-nos-luttes/

CARS WE LIKE Part 2 @ Chemnitz, 3000 Garagen

After our building phase in late June & early July we from the FuturamaLab are on our way back to Chemnitz to ride around town with our CAR(s) WE LIKE as part of the 3000 Garagen Project of the European Cultural Capital Initiative. We are very much looking forwad to this collaboration with the ConstuctLab! 

 

THE CARS WE LIKE

A humorous exploration of the future of the car

THE CARS WE LIKE is an art project that re-uses and re-purposes materials to construct vehicles through a variety of building techniques. Situated at the crossroads of art, technology, and urbanism, these mobile objects playfully undermine prevailing conventional concepts of urban mobility. Appearing in traffic as absurd and dadaistic vehicles, they humorously question the ways we move through our cities.

During a live building performance from June 28 to July 5, 2025, a human-powered truck was created with the collaboration of Michelle Grünberg, Carlos Kämpfe, and Tim Ellinger (trainees from the VW plant Chemnitz).

As part of THE SCHOOL OF GARAGE* (August 24–31, 2025), this truck will be technically refined together with workshop participants to take on diverse logistical tasks. In a series of street interventions, goods, metaphors, people, and ideas will be transported between the nine garages, creating a functional connection between these temporary studios and their artists.

The workshop will be accompanied by the collective -h- of the Cellule d'Action Rituelle (Cell for Ritual Action) of the ZAD NDDL - the biggest occupied zone in Europe. They will help us reflect on the relation of territoriality, capitalism and mobility and devise queer-ritualistic approaches with us that we will present on the 30th of August.

Our vehicle will be on display again in the Garagen Campus of the European Cultural Capital Chemnitz 2025 from September until end of November.



A project by FUTURAMA°LAB for “Chemnitz 2025 . European Capital of Culture”
Part of “THE SCHOOL OF GARAGE” by “Constructlab.Berlin” & “#3000Garages”

Artists: Kilian Jörg . Hanna Priemetzhofer . Rainer Prohaska
Format: Workshop . Exhibition . Performance
Duration Workshop & Performance: 25.–30.08.2025
Duration Exhibition: 28.06.–29.11.2025

Location: Garagen Campus . Zwickauer Str. 164 . 09116 Chemnitz . DE


PROGRAM “THE CARS WE LIKE” @ Garagen Campus
25.–30.08. Daily: THE CARS WE LIKE . Activities
25.08. 18:00 Public Keynotes
30.08. 16:30 Public Presentations . Guests: ”collective -h-”
28.06.–29.11.2025 Part of #3000-Garages – The Exhibition

Part of the FUTURAMA°DAYS 2025




SUPPORTED BY

Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin
Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs
Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport
European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025

"Auto-destruction - Pourquoi la voiture détruit le monde (et comment arrêter ça)" - French translation of my car-book now published!

It is such a great honor to have the French translation of my book on the car ("Das Auto und die ökologische Katastrophe") in my hands. In French, everything seems more radical and cool, even my own writing - and it is so wonderful that formidable Editions Wildproject have decided to keep my initial title for the book (that was refused as too unclear by my German editors - no bad feelings ;)

I am in the ZAD Notre-Dame-des-Landes right now and will present the book for the first time here, in the Talsu, next Wednesday the 20th of August at 19h. This will be followed by a three day workshop on post-fossil mobility I am designing with the wonderful collective -h- called "vroum vroum autocritique" - find all the information here.

Below you can find the description text of my book and a link to the homepage, where you can find a pdf excerpt and several other materials.

La voiture a beau être l’un des principaux agents de destruction de la vie sur Terre, elle a beau tuer un million d’êtres humains par an dans le monde, rien ne semble défaire notre amour pour elle, ni notre dépendance structurelle vis-à-vis de ses promesses – confort, rapidité, praticité, élégance. Elle constitue, depuis bientôt un siècle, la clef de voûte de notre organisation spatiale, sociale et affective.

Il est plus que temps d’analyser notre relation toxique avec elle, de se libérer de ses séductions factices et coûteuses, et de mettre un terme aux ravages planétaires qu’elle entraîne.

Ancien petit garçon amoureux des voitures, Kilian Jörg explore ici la façon dont la bagnole informe l’idée que nous nous faisons de la « liberté », de la « normalité », de la « raison » et de la « nature » – au point de devenir l’objet emblématique de l’hybris capitaliste et de transformer chacun de nous en micro-fasciste.

Dialoguant avec Beyoncé et Baudrillard, Descola et Batman, le philosophe nous emporte dans des montagnes russes à travers la culture pop, la masculinité fasciste, l’hégémonie du pétrole et du béton, les parcs nationaux, les occupations de terres par des militants, pour nous emmener vers des mondes sans voitures et pleins de vie.

Mieux encore qu’un « livre noir » : l’analyse de notre relation toxique avec la bagnole

--> https://wildproject.org/livres/auto-destruction

°°°°°**{{{VROUM-VROUM ;ﾒ) AUTO-CRITIQUE>>> Laboratoire d’utopies mobiles - Workshop from 20-22 of August in the zad nddl

Along with friends from -h- I'm organizing a three-day workshop on post-fossil mobility, which will take place on 20 to 22 August in the nddl zad. Since mobility is intrinsically linked to the question of territory, I think it is vital so rethink mobility in a more joyful and splendid way in one of the largest occupied zones of Europe. Only outside of the capitalist neoliberal norm will a true transformation of mobility in its cohort with hetero-normative family ideology and fossil-capitalist desires be overcome. Find the invitation - in French - below!

Pendant trois jours,  °°°°°**{{{VROUM-VROUM ;ﾒ) AUTO-CRITIQUE>>>  invite à explorer ensemble les récits et les imaginaires de la mobilité.

Au cœur de la zad de Notre-Dame-des-Landes, shapé par des récits d'avions et de chicanes, cet évènement propose un espace de réflexion collective pour imaginer et développer des mondes où se déplacer et voyager joyeusement.

Le culte de la voiture individuelle, qu'elle soit à essence ou électrique, façonne les paysages, nos déplacements, nos rapports au temps, nos dépendances.

Nous pouvons ouvrir des brèches dans l’imaginaire routier et nous demander comment nous pourrions nous déplacer dans un monde post-capitaliste, post-pétrole, post-Musk : à quoi ressemblerait la mobilité selon des principes anarchistes et écoféministes lorsqu'on agit dans une perspective de lutte contre l'aéroport et son monde ? 

°°°°°**{{{VROUM-VROUM ;ﾒ) AUTO-CRITIQUE>>>

Laboratoire d’utopies mobiles pour 15 à 20 personnes,

Du 20-22 août 2025.

Ambazada, Zad de Notre-Dame-des-Landes

Possibilité de dormir sur place en dortoir dès le mardi soir.

Dortoir en mixité choisie possible.

Renseignements et inscription : vroum-vroum-boum@proton.me

https://vroum-vroum-boum.hotglue.me/

"Enabling rituals for the social production of feelings in times of ecological demise" @ ESRI 2025: "Down to Earth: Exploring Meaningful Ways of Living, Together”

I feel very honored to have been invited to the ESRI 2025 of the Mind&Life Europe Network as a speaker and faculty member. It's buddhist and contemplative nature is new to me and I am very excited - the very thoughtful programming looks extremely promising and this will surely not be just another conference with smoking heads and aching bodies - but a full spiritual, body&mind experience. I am very happy and privileged to take part in it and contribute with some socio-political contributions from my work both as an artist as well as theorist. Find my abstract below and the full program here

Enabling rituals for the social production of feelings in times of ecological demise

Input for ESRI 2025 “Down to Earth: Exploring Meaningful Ways of Being Together” by Kilian Jörg

The ecological crisis has made it into the popular conscience of mainstream discourses over that last decade, but it is today mostly associated with negative feelings such as despair, panic, grief or anxiety. In this input, I want to argue (with Shotwell 2026) that these feelings are not the “natural” result of living in times of planetary catastrophe, but are a cultural product of our hegemonial societal order.

Whereas other catastrophic events, such as natural disasters, black-outs or terrorist attacks often elicit feelings of strengthened solidarity and purpose (compare for example Solnit 2004), it is interesting to investigate why the planetary catastrophe has so far mostly individuated feelings that are of a despairing and atomizing nature: people who suffer from climate-anxiety mostly retreat into depressive inaction and the affective climate of panic leads to activist burn-out that is a real issue in movements.

Discussing examples of my own artistic practice of creating ritualistic spaces, I want to argue for the necessity of creating social and cultural institutions that promote the mutual production of enabling feelings. Ecology is not just a problem of the “natural” world, but equally one of our cultural values and infrastructures that need to be radically revised. The capitalist order based on private property, atomistic individuality, neo-colonial extractivism and heteronormative family constructions has to be de-naturalized in order to reveal it as the main reason for the production of negative feelings in the catastrophe that we need to overcome in order to become able to act. Examples from radical land reclamations and autonomous zones have in most recent times been the most fertile sites for this civilizatory task (compare Jordan & Fremeaux 2024, Gelderloos 2022).

I will talk through my experiences of the speculative-religion-turned-artistic-project Toxic Temple I have invented with Anna Lerchbaumer and will narrate about my most recent artistic project: the creation of the first national holiday devoted to an ecological topic. The Zwentendorf-Holiday will introduce you to a local specificity of Austrian ecological struggles and how they can be institutionalized to create new identities of being part of a community that refrains from the most ecocidal modern infrastructures as a virtue needed to survive and thrive on this planet.