Das Auto und die ökologische Katastrophe @ FB Philosophie der Universitätsbibliothek Wien, 20.3

 

Ich freue mich sehr, mein Buch "Das Auto und die ökologische Katastrophe" am 20.3 in der UB Philosophie der Uni Wien zu präsentieren - eine Bibliothek, in der ich viele Stunden mit der Arbeit an Seminararbeiten im BA verbracht habe :) Einleitende Worte werden von der wunderbaren Alexandra Ganser kommen, es wird Brot und Wein geben und eine kleine Bilderausstellung unseres Performanceprojekts "Diverting the Public Space" - ich freue mich sehr auf den Abend und hoffe viele von Euch dort zu sehen!

--> alle Infos zur Veranstaltung hier 

Modern Nature I @Kunstraum Studenzen

 

I was invited to contribute with an art-work at the exhibition "L201_2023 1" at Kunstraum Studenzen and with the "Institut für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum" in Styria. I did of course chose a sujet close to my current main research topic: the car and the modern production of Nature. The artwork is - somewhat uncreatively - titled "Modern Nature I" and is exhibited like a billboard on the very busy street "L201" and will thus be seem by thousands of passing car drivers every day. In the future, I plan to extend the series with a couple of other motifs in the same sujet. Stay tuned.

 

More on last years project can be found here. Online material will follow soon.

Diverting the Public Space #2 @ Im_Flieger

Next week, 27th of June and 1st of July we will be back at Im_Flieger to continue our ongoing urban space performative intervention research "Diverting the Public Space" - this time Dutch artist, performer and theater maker Guus Diepenmaat will join our practice. You can attend our activities in a workshop / sharing on both Wednesday and Friday at 18h. More information here.

"The research in public space, which began in the summer of 2021, will continue in 2022. The current Corona pandemic has, among other things, changed and sensitized the perception of public space. The project Diverting the Public Space aims to accompany this transformation in a performative exploratory and supportive way. In Vienna, the Im_flieger runway serves as the starting point for the research.

Through a spectrum of shared physical practices in public space, Diverting the Public Space aims to explore new modes of action and perception, leading to a self-empowerment of the participants and an invitation to dialogue and engagement with passers-by. Together, old patterns of movement in public space will be questioned and a new playful yet critical physicality will be explored. The developed and guided partitions / scores shall give the possibility to deeply inscribe into the public space in a different way and to practice and experience a choreographic perception. The space, transformed into a multifaceted adventure playground (for young and old), is intended to open utopian windows of possibility for a different „merging“ with our human-made, urban environment and the questioning of its norms."

Talk about ecological art making at FS1

When I was in Salzburg last month, I was quite spontaneously invited to talk about ecologically motivated artistic interventions at the local TV-station FS1. I was able to speak about performative interventions to hack our toxic normality, the possibility of the arts to change our sensual and affective regimes and - last but not least - the necessity to fight capitalism.

 

 Here you go:

 

Teaching @ "Temporäre Schule zur Entwicklung schöner Gesten"

Next week I will give a workshop at the newly established "Temporäre Schule zur Entwicklung schöner Gesten" by Claudia Heu and Philipp Ehmann. We will also have a publication open to everybody on Saturday, the 23rd from 11:30 - 13:30 - drop by, I am already very excited to be able to contribute to this very interesting new format of teaching and transferring knowledge!

"The OPEN SPACE completes a four-day laboratory with invited experts Tina Auer (AT), Stephen Hodge (UK), Kilian Jörg (AT/DE), Michael Pinsky (UK) and Ursula Reisenberger (AT), who share their questions and artistic, as well as theoretical approaches to the topics of public space, play, presence and art.

The OPEN SPACE is a kind of world café, in which these topics are publicly discussed, deepened and further reflected upon. We cordially invite interested guests to join us.

The OPEN SPACE – ART.PUBLIC SPACE.PRESENCE takes place within the framework of the Temporary School for the Development of Beautiful Gestures – a concept by Claudia Heu. The school begins in early April 2022 and is part of the four-year format Schule@Im_flieger, which combines transgenerational and transdisciplinary knowledge transfer, artistic research and production, and discourse. Under the artistic direction of performance artist Claudia Heu and theater maker Philipp J. Ehmann, the project will focus on the theme „Performative Art. Public Space. Presence“ at the intersection of art and social issues with the following selected artists: Adriana Cubidis, Jakob Egger, Ella Felber, Kim Groneweg, Magrethe Meierhofer-Lischka, Bri Schöllbauer and Joanna Zabielska. The focus is on exploring new contexts, ways of working and forms of artistic interactions in public space, as well as questioning and deepening one’s own artistic practice."

Performative Lecture @Parking Day of im_flieger

 

17th of September is International PARK(ing) Day and I have been invited by wonderful im_flieger to give a little performative lecture about the implicit sensory normalization of our urban public spaces and performative interventions to break with them / reflect them critically. I will talk about my book Backlash - Essays zur Resilienz der Moderne and my performance research with David Kummer Diverting the Public Space. Afterwards, there will be a cooking performance by Joanna Zabielska and Christoph E. Bus! Drop by a take back the street with us! <3   

More information here.

Diverting the Public Space - some images

  

For more information on the past event see here.

We will do our next intervention on the 4th of August, from 17h-20h at Oranienstraße in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Meeting & Melting Point: Antiquariat Kalligramm. Supported by: Volksentscheid Berlin Autofrei.

Photo Credits: Sabrina Bühn and Franzi Kreis/im_flieger

DIVERTING THE PUBLIC SPACE - mit David Kummer @Im_Flieger

Next week I am honored to be able to performatively research and work with David Kummer on a topic I have so far mainly touched in theoretical (as in my Backlash-book) and interventionist / activist manners: that of the transformation of our public space as the "smallest unit" of our anthropogenic environmental entanglement.

Diverting the Public Space (by David Kummer & Kilian Jörg)

We are entangled with the spaces around us. We are the public, we have our spaces.
The public space enables us and limits us - it makes us what we are. 
But, in times of ecological turmoil, are our spaces changing fast enough with us? Do they adapt (us) well to the new chaotic climates of the Earth? Or do they make us stuck in the values and practices of an old, fossil fueled and consumerist way of life?
Space is inert. We tend to become inert with it. 
How can we engage it to change - with - us - and the world ?

Through a spectrum of shared bodily practices in public space, we seek to enable new modes of action and perception, which should lead to a self-empowerment of the participants and an invitation to dialogue and engagement with pedestrians. Together, old patterns of movement in public space will be questioned and a new playful and at the same time  critical physicality will be explored. The developed and guided scores shall give the possibility to inscribe oneself deeply into the public space in a different way and to practice and experience a choreographic perception. The space, being transformed into a versatile adventure playground (for big and small), is meant to open utopian windows of possibility for a different "fusion" with our human-made, urban environment and the questioning of its norms.

After our week-long research we will do a public presentation on Friday the 16th of July 2021 at 17h at Im_Flieger, Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna. More information (in German and English) here.