JUNE 2023

June 1, 2023, Thursday

from 17.00 to 19.00

WHERE: Academy of Fine Arts, Schillerplatz, Room M20 (Mezzanine) and Aula

WHAT: Workshop with lecture by Dr. Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur. "...I want to know what happens if we don't go..."

Revisiting scenes of decolonial contentions

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This workshop is taking place as part of the convivial workshop series (2022-2024), hosted and organized by the FWF PEEK research project “Conviviality as Potentiality: From Amnesia and Pandemic towards a Convivial Epistemology” (AR 679), led by Univ. Prof. Dr. Marina Grzinic (IBK/PCAP).

About the workshop "...I want to know what happens if we don't go..." This question, posed 10 years ago by one of the activists of the Refugee Protest Camp Vienna to the then director of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, was part of a central scene of contention and radical decolonial institutional critique. In search of solidarity with the struggle for the right to have rights, the refugee protest collective had seized the space of the aula in the Academy. Only about a week later in November 2013, the Refugee Protest Camp Vienna activists were confronted with an ultimatum to leave the space. This momentous scene of expulsion marked the end of the practice of collective space seizing (of Refugee Protest Camp Vienna) that had been (and still is) so central to the language of resistance of the larger sans-papiers movement within Fortress Europe. The workshop takes this scene as a starting point and engages with practices of critical remembering and the echoing of multifaceted, silenced resistances. In other words, exploring what might happen and be transformed if radical intersectional critique and resistance are not expelled and repressed. Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur is the co-founder of Pamoja. Movement of the Young African Diaspora in Austria and the Austrian Black History Research Group. She has been active as a community and cultural worker and "racism critical" activist in Vienna. In 1999, she was an active part of the Network of African Communities, which's focus lay in the mobilization of community protests against institutionalized racism and police violence in Vienna. Her transdisciplinary work engages with intersectionaly resistant diasporan politics and the "decolonizing art of mattering (embodied) memories. "

Concurrent with teaching at Howard University in Washington DC as of June 1, 2023, Dr. Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur will join the team of the FWF PEEK research project “Conviviality as Potentialtiy” (AR 679) as a post-doctoral researcher.

June 5, 2023, Monday

DIPLOMAS ALL THE DAY

June 6, 2023, Tuesday DIPLOMAS ALL THE DAY

June 12 to June 17, 2023 STUDYING PROCESS

June 19 to June 23, 2023 MONDAY TO FRIDAY

BARCELONA BIP meeting going to SPAIN promotion of an edited VOLUME

CONTACT ZONES IN CONTEMPORARY ART. PRACTICES, CONNECTIVITY, AGENCIES: BARCELONA, MAINZ, VIENNA

Faculty of Fine Arts Barcelona Kunsthochschule Mainz Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

BIP (Blended Intensive Programme) Erasmus + 2022-2023

CONTRIBUTORS

*Students of the Studio for Post-conceptual Art Practices (PCAP), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Prof. Marina Gržinić, Researcher Dr. Jovita Pristovšek

Asma Aiad Anton Bennent Jupiter Rhea Braun Lukas Brunner Henrie Dennis Oke Fijal Zora Fuhrmann Nanna Jo Goksøyr Gorgon Urban Lisa Hoffmann, Liese Schmidt Saša Kesić Ali Kianmehr Aaron Kimmig Sebastian Kokesch Sebastian Konzett Pramila Lama Pramila Lama, Melina Vesely Irene Landa Lisa Lupsina Dean Maassen Vitória Monteiro Philipp Muerling Finn Mühl Muslim*Contemporary Mirjana Mustra Valentin Pfenniger Manuel Prammer, Moritz Kosa prototo Sisanmi Eureka Schuller Fedor Shmelkin Jas Sproule un|rest group Melina Vesely Peter Maria Volkhard

CITY ENTOUNTERS WITH NGOS, ACTIVISTS, ARTISTS, ART INSTITUTIONS, COLLECTIVE EATING; DISCUSSION, BOOK PROMOTION INTERVENTION

BIP BARCELONA DETAILED PROGRAM

Intersections: Art, Institutions, Autonomous Spaces and Activism

From 19.06.2023 to 23.06.2023

Monday 19.6.2023

/ 5pm

Institutional welcome with a Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Prof. Dr. M. Dolores Tapias Gil, the Director of the Department for Visual Arts and Design, Prof. Dr. Eloi Puig, and Vice-Dean for Mobility, Research, Masters and Postgraduates, Prof. Dr. Núria Ricart Ulldemolins

Presentation of the BIP Erasmus + Barcelona program Space: Faculty of Fine Arts, Sala de Juntas Carrer de Pau Gargallo, 4, 08028 Barcelona

/ 7pm Space preparation in the Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Fine Arts Barcelona, for the presentation of the BIP book: “Contact Zones in Contemporary Art. Practices, Connectivity, Agencies: Barcelona, Mainz, Vienna”

preparation of the space: “Thoughts on Tiny Stitches”, a performative participatory installation going to Barcelona, Pramila Lama, Aeren Sànchez, Melina Vesely

/ 8pm Dinner at the Faculty of Fine Arts Garden

Tuesday 20.6.2023 / 10am-12.30pm

Anticolonial Antifascist Walk with Nati Oliveiras (CNAACAT - cnaae.org & t.i.c.t.a.c., http:// www.intervencionesdecoloniales.org/)

The main aim of this walk is to speak about anticolonial antifascist protests and struggles in relation to different points in the city of Barcelona where homage is still paid to the slavers who profited from the transatlantic slave trade of human beings, the buildings whose financing came directly from those slavers families, the parks where until not long ago there were the infamous human zoos, and the beaches of the Mediterranean Sea that the EU migration policies converted into an enormous mass grave.

1- Palace of the Virreina 2- Liceu Theatre 3- Statue of Columbus 4- Statue of General Prim/ Ciutadella Park 5- The former Antonio López y López square, now Idrissa Diallo square 6- Llotja del Mar 7- Arches of the Paseo de Isabel II 8- Barceloneta Beach #Nothing To Celebrate #Much To Repair

*Meeting point at 10am at the entrance to La Virreina Centre de la Imatge La Rambla, 99, 08002 Barcelona

/ 2 pm Lunch at the beach

/ 3.30pm Visiting Hangar – Visual Arts Research and Production Center Meeting with Eric Beltran, Lumbung Press hangar.org C/Emília Coranty, 16, Can Ricart, 08018 Barcelona

/ 6pm - 8pm

Visiting La Virreina Centre de la Imatge Meeting with Valentín Roma, the director of the center and a curator of the exhibition “Permanent Red, John Berger” Visiting the exhibition: Permanent Red is an exhibition named after the book of the same name, published in 1960, which brings together some of Berger’s art critiques for the Marxist magazine New Statesman, with which he collaborated for more than a decade, from 1951. These writings, well-known at the time, offered scathing readings targeted against bourgeois taste – the title itself is a provocation in this sense – and presented unknown or minority artists, anti-canonical works and analyses that disagreed with conservative historiography. ajuntament.barcelona.cat La Rambla, 99, 08002 Barcelona

Wednesday 21.6.2023 / 10am-12.30pm

Antiracist Theater Program from the Periphery

Meeting with the collective Periferia Cimarronas, presentation of the project and a conversation sharing thoughts and experiences. Periferia Cimarronxs is a cultural space that has a theater run by Afro-descendant, migrant and trans* women. The programming and activities of the space revolve around Black, migrant, racialized, sexual and gender dissident culture. periferiacimarronas.es C/ de Cerdanyola, 26, 08028 Barcelona

/ 1.30pm Collective lunch in the La Cantina, Can Batlló social center canbatllo.org C/Constitució 19, 08014 Barcelona

/ 5pm - 7 pm Travesti Desire Lines: other cartographies Frau Diamanda

Reality and context are affected by the travesti body and identity in unusual ways of conceiving heteronormative surroundings. This allows us to deconstruct conceptions taken for granted by heteropatriarchy, for example, verticality and heterosexual reproduction, forgetting our main right of lust and desire. Being cast aside by capitalist colonial straight society, the travesty outsider condenses a great deal of negative nuances - such as migration, poverty, illness, racialization, exoticization, etc. - but by embracing these altered characteristics, we can gain empowerment to give a fierce and strong response to social rejection. In fact, we put in motion the sexualization of public spaces because we are tired of being isolated and erased from day by day life in open places. Our own presence generating discomfort at the public eye, becomes a real tool for imposing other ways of resisting and exceeding rejection, Thus, sexual wandering arises as an otherness giving us the possibility of making new cartographies in the suffocating architecture.

Frau Diamanda is a translator, writer, travesti audiovisual artist, drag performer, independent curator, cultural agent, dj and occasional actress of Peruvian origin living in Barcelona since 2016.

*Meeting point at the entrance of MACBA, Plaça dels Àngels, 1, 08001 Barcelona. From there we walk through Raval and Montjuic.

Thursday 22.6.2023 /

10am - 12.30pm

Conversation with Sabel Gavaldón, head of public programs MACBA. MACBA Museum. Plaça dels Àngels, 1, 08001 Barcelona Visiting the exhibition: Corpus infinitum

Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman put forward ways of inhabiting and addressing the world, as possible alternatives to Western colonialist and extractivist capitalism. An exhibition brings together a series of films in which the four elements – water, earth, fire and air – inform the artists’ considerations of an entangled existence, in favour of a time and values that reimagine knowledge from a multi-species perspective. The exhibition includes installations of their films to date: Serpent Rain (2016), 4 Waters – Deep Implicancy (2019) and Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum (2020), as well as archives related to the films. What does it mean to disorder Western thinking? What other ways of knowing – across cultures, time, space and form – can we learn, apprehend and relearn? The work critiques the long-lasting effects of the systematic structures of colonialism and capitalism, questioning the way they affect ecology, forms of extraction, territory, slavery – historically and in the present –, sovereignty and migration. Denise Ferreira da Silva is an artist, philosopher, and professor at the Institute of Social Justice at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) and at the Monash University School of Art, Architecture, and Design (Melbourne, Australia). Arjuna Neuman is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. He is the co-founder of www.archiveofbelonging.org, a resource database for migrants and refugees. www.macba.cat

/ 1 pm Collective participative meal: A paella performed by Marc Sempere Moya and collective “Compartir Dona Gustet” (Sharing gives pleasure)

The collective “Compartir Dona Gustet” (Sharing gives pleasure) was born in 2008 to relate the ways how traditional culture and free culture are transmitted directly, without intermediaries, either by oral transmission, from person to person, or through the internet, “peer-topeer”. We will experience a paella together, thinking eating as a ritual of liking, tasting and sharing. Ágora Juan Andrés Raval, Carrer de l’Aurora, 13, 08001 Barcelona

/ 4pm Sex Work and Political Militancy. Conversation with the collective Putas Libertarias del Raval

Statement: We are a political subjects in the capitalist, patriarchal, colonial, class and fascist context who face stigma and criminalization of the collective, for not adapting to the oppressive system. We are Organized Working Class Whores. We are not victims. Our dissidence precedes us, since in this period our achievements, before the institutions, mark a before and after.

twitter.com Ágora Juan Andrés Raval, Carrer de l’Aurora, 13, 08001 Barcelona / 5pm - 7pm Preparation of the space and presentation of the collective BIP working process and its outcome, a book: “Contact Zones in Contemporary Art. Practices, Connectivity, Agencies: Barcelona, Mainz, Vienna” Space: Exhibition Hall, Faculty of Fine Arts Barcelona Carrer de Pau Gargallo, 4, 08028 Barcelona

Friday 23.6.2023 / 10pm

Meeting with the activist collective t.i.c.t.a.c. Conversation and debate on autonomous spaces, art and activism.

t.i.c.t.a.c. is an autonomous transfeminist antiracist space for analysis and critical interventions. In opposition to the established economic and political models, ways of thinking, perceiving and acting that are being reproduced globally today, we point to current forms of conflict through de/coloniality. Against amnesia and repetition, we work from the border thinking and embodied politics to develop dissident research, ways of imagining transformation and acting towards social change. www.intervencionesdecoloniales.org C/Santa Dorotea 9, 08004 Barcelona / 11pm Conversation with Basha Changuerra (CNAACAT - cnaae.org, Afrofemkoop -https:// afrofemkoop.org/, and a CUP candidate for mayor of Barcelona, municipal elections 2023) and book presentation: Gržinić, Marina, Pristovšek, Jovita (eds.)(2023), Political Choreographies, Decolonial Theories, Trans Bodies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing This book opens a discussion on bodies, gender, and decolonial horizons, subjects that are increasingly becoming a political front in the search for justice. It offers an in-depth look at the positions and current developments in decolonial theory, Black Marxism, trans* studies, and contemporary performance research and practice. The focus is on decolonial theory and trans* bodies, bringing forth a discussion of otherness shaped by race, class, and trans*. What kind of body, movement, and politics can be conceived to attack the neoliberal current with its accelerated digital changes and seemingly dispersed, but in reality hyper-flexible, bureaucratic controls? Contributors: Asma Aiad, Danijela Almesberger, Karla Max Aschenbrenner, Basha Changuerra, Yu Cheng-Ta, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Ramón Grosfoguel, Marina Gržinić, Aigul Hakimova, Tyuki Imamura, Eisa Jocson, Tjaša Kancler, Xiao Ke, Yuki Kobayashi, Nomusa Makhubu, Mika Maruyama, Jelena Petrović, Bogdan Popa, Jovita Pristovšek, Nat Raha, Piro Rexhepi, ruangrupa, Denisse Vega de Santiago, Melina Vesely, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Siren Eun Young Jung.

/ 12pm Radical Projects of Black Territorialization in the culture of Madrid: Conciencia-Afro & “In the Wake Lab”. Lecture by Esther (Mayoko) Ortega Both projects as two initiatives from Blackness create physical spaces and resignify the symbolic, working against the erasure of blackness in the narratives of the Spanish state, its colonial amnesia and the anti-blackness of the territory. “Conciencia-Afro” is activating from the field of culture/art since 2016 and since 2022 with the creation of the first own Cultural Center “by and for” the Afro-diasporic community in the city of Madrid.

“In the Wake. Experimental Laboratory of Black Thought” reconstructs the physical and symbolic spaces and proposes through afrodiasporic methodologies the rereading of past and present Blackness in the state as well as rethinking Black resistance in the city from the marronage.

Esther (Mayoko) Ortega, PhD, is a professor at Tufts University and Skidmore College and a coordinator in the same university program of the Laboratory of Intersectional Anti-Racist Pedagogies. Anti-racistfeminist and sexual dissidence activist, a co-funder of Conciencia-Afro space in Madrid, www.conciencia-afro.com

/ 1pm Brunch, by Empatravas, migrant kitchen – vegan empanadas www.instagram.com

/ 2.30pm Conclusion of the BIP Barcelona project

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June 26, 2023, Monday

books delivery to writers in the book not being with us in Barcelona. Students to Students delivery and retelling the stories and immpressions. Meet and have a fun...

June 30, 2023 FRIDAY At 10.00 to 12.00

WE MEET At the Lehargasse ecke space for parties and events, COME FOR diplomas ceremony, strolling through the exhibitions, party....