Safe European Home?

A cooperation by the Wiener Festwochen with the Az W

Sat, 28.05.2011, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Phenomena such as our uncertain living conditions and forced or voluntary mobility are images that are primarily ascribed to marginalised groups or people with transnational biographies to this day. This is in contrast to the increasing number of heterogeneous population groups in Europe whose ways of life are increasingly impacted on by increasing social insecurity. The symposium addresses the topics of global society, structural social inequality, the dissolution of boundaries and displaced lifestyles from the perspective of art theory, sociology, postcolonial theory, antiziganism research, feminism, architecture and Fine Art, and asks questions about current social conditions and possibilities for empowerment and the establishment of visibility, and individual proactive possibilities for marginalised positions like those of the ethnic Roma community.

10.00 Brigitte Eisl, Az W, and Wolfgang Schlag, Curator Into the City / Vienna Festival: welcome address

10:15 Elke Krasny: introduction

10.30 Christoph Reinprecht, sociologist (A): Global Inequalities. Local Resistances

11.15 Ursula Biemann, artist/theorist (CH): Counter Geographies

12.00 Timea Junghaus, art historian/curator (HU): ….Curating Roma Art against ….Racism

12.45 break

13.45 Gayatri Spivak, Literary critic (USA/IN): Making Visible

14.30 Suzana Milevska, art theorist/curator (MK): The Eternal Return of Race

15.15 Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, artist (PL) and Marta Kotlarska, artist (PL/GB): Romani Click

16.00 break

16.30 Eduard Freudmann, artist (A), Can Gülcü, artist (A): Beograd Gazela

17.15 Participatory Design: Daniel Kerber, artist (D) in conversation with Marjetica Potrc, artist/architect (SL)

18.00 Elke Krasny in conversation with artists Delaine and Damian Le Bas (GB) and the author Damian James Le Bas (GB)

from 7pm panel discussion
moderated by Elke Krasny, cultural theorist

symposium and discussion in English

Admission free!