Sun, Dec 1, 2024

World Aids Day related topics World AIDS Day serves as an important reminder that we must remain steadfast in our commitment to prevent new HIV infections and provide essential services to all people living with HIV globally. In 2024, we will commemorate the 37th World AIDS Day with the theme, “Collective Action: Sustain and Accelerate HIV Progress.”

place in 1988, providing a platform to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS and honor the lives affected by the epidemic.

Monday, 2 December 2024

WHEN: 14.00 to 15.30

WHERE: Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

Rundgang work planning, activation, reservation Presentations 10 minutes each and technical things (PART 1)

Monday, 2 December 2024

WHEN: 16.00 to 18.15

WHERE: Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

Two public lectures are organized within the seminar "AIDS, East Germany, EU, Global Capitalism, and Hardcore Theory," focusing on sexuality, gender, resistance, migration, and self-empowerment. The seminar is led by Marina Gržinić and Elisa R. Linn

On 2.12 2024 lecture "Border Territories, Migrant Others, and Surplus Value," that using the example of the GDR to explore how both German states, during the AIDS crisis, stigmatized migrants—particularly guest and contract workers—and subjected them to a process of colonial and capitalist differentiation, exploiting them as an "industrial reserve army." Linn will illustrate how, following German reunification and the implementation of the “Asylum Compromise” (1993), a history of migration was not only denied but also accompanied by the obscuring of the colonial, racist, and necropolitical past and present of both states. Here, the lecture traces how, in the aftermath of the Berlin Wall's fall and the so-called opening of borders, new walls were erected in front of the “Euro-club” (Stuart Hall), turning the representation of borders, territory, and sovereignty into an irreversible historical imperative.

Tuesday, 3 December 2024

WHEN: 14.00 to 15.30

WHERE: Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

Rundgang work planning, activation, reservation Presentations 10 minutes each and technical things (PART 2)

Tuesday, 3 December 2024

WHEN: 16.00 to 18.15

WHERE: Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

Two public lectures are organized within the seminar "AIDS, East Germany, EU, Global Capitalism, and Hardcore Theory," focusing on sexuality, gender, resistance, migration, and self-empowerment. The seminar is led by Marina Gržinić and Elisa R. Linn

On December 3, 2024, Linn will present her lecture, "Border Thinking and Striking the Border: The Constructedness of Identity and Notions of Migration," exploring the significance and impact of borders as well as "border thinking" (Gloria Anzaldúa/Walter D. Mignolo) on the formation of counterpublics and migratory aesthetics during the AIDS crisis on both sides of the Berlin Wall. Linn examines how border thinking is fundamental to understanding the self-organizing and coalition-building processes of activist and aesthetic life practices within marginalized communities that emerged beyond the mainstream public sphere, particularly in the GDR. How did, since the early 1980s, groups such as the queer, punk, and guest/contract worker communities challenge the categorizing logic of identity and resist the architectures of state representation and institutional subjectivation? And what lessons can be drawn from these practices for today's resistance against nativism and "borderization"?

Monday, 9 December 2024

WHEN 16.00 to 18.15

WHERE: ZOOM (will be transmitted on time)

Organized within the seminar "AIDS, East Germany, EU, Global Capitalism, and Hardcore Theory," focusing on sexuality, gender, resistance, migration, and self-empowerment. The seminar is led by Marina Gržinić and Elisa R. Linn

Elisa R. Linn, Unit 7 of 10: Fragile Identities Striking the Border: Queer Feminist Perspectives and Political Intervention

The unit traces how Queer Theory and activism emerged during the AIDS crisis focusing on a critique of identity, power, and norms and the belief that gender is unambiguous, natural, and unchangeable. Through a reading of Jacque Derrida's philosophy of deconstruction and difference, we will elaborate on José Esteban Muñoz's idea of "disidentification" that challenges and deconstructs the interpretive claim of authoritarian imposed, normalized forms of identity. We will look at how stigmatization politicized AIDS and broad forth new forms of social protests on the threshold of art and activism and a utopian "queer futurity" across different identity markers against the backdrop of a re-ideologization of family and sexuality in the East and West, isolating a queer community from the society along the Iron Curtain.

Tuesday, 10 December 2024

WHEN: 13.00 to 14.00

WHERE: Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

last open questions, rundgang

Tuesday, 10 December 2024

WHEN: 14.00 to 15.00 WHERE: Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

presentation diploma work Saro, diploma exam // DO NOT MISS//

Tuesday, 10 December 2024

WHEN 16.00 to 18.15

WHERE: ZOOM (will be transmitted on time)

Elisa R. Linn, Unit 8 of 10: Camp, Gender Vanguardism, Trans Otherness

The unit reflects on the particularly precarious situation of transgender people who experienced poverty, engaged in sex work, and therefore experienced abuse and mistreatment by broader society and the state’s criminal justice system on both sides of the Berlin Wall during the AIDS pandemic. In the seminar, students gain insight into how transgender people, despite their isolation, were able to occupy a liminal and ambiguous space in the gender order as a space of rebellion and subversion. We will deal with Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O’Rourke’s concept of “gender vanguardism” and discuss “camp” in regards to Susan Sontag’s essay Notes On Camp (1964) that became a protest strategy in the public realm for transgender people such as the “Berliner Polittunten” in West Germany. Here, we will also engage with the poetry writing of East German writer Jayne-Ann Igel as a form of protest in the innermost private sphere and a strategy of “becoming minoritarian,“ as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari conceptualized it.

IMPORTANT: FINAL DEADLINE: 11 DECEMBER 2024 online akbild publishing

SENDING PHOTOS, TEXTS RUNDGANG PROJECT to m.grzinic@akbild.ac.at

RUNDGANG SCENARIO in 2025, installing, 13, 14 15 01 2025, IN CHARGE MAREN GRIMM, technical SUPPORT.

Program 16.01 2025 at 16.00 opening rundgang show, program until 24.00; focus talks, screening, performances; Rundgang exhibition 17.01 2025 program 16.00 to 22.00; Rundgang exhibition 18.01 2024 program 16.00 to 22.00, FOCUS RESEARCH PROJECT CONVIVIALITY AS POTENTIALITY.

Monday, December 16, 2024

WHEN 16.00 to 18.15

WHERE: ZOOM (will be transmitted on time)

Organized within the seminar "AIDS, East Germany, EU, Global Capitalism, and Hardcore Theory," focusing on sexuality, gender, resistance, migration, and self-empowerment. The seminar is led by Marina Gržinić and Elisa R. Linn

Elisa R. Linn, Unit 9 of 10: Self-Organization from Below to Strike the Border: The Interstitial Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

The unit traces how stigmatization politicized AIDS and broad forth new forms of social protests and a utopian "queer futurity" across different identity markers. In this context, we will eventually elaborate on the social groups' broadly unknown contribution to the Peaceful Revolution that led to the opening of East Germany's borders. Drawing on Eva von Redecker's concept of the "interstitial revolution" for a life underway, we will look at activists’ and artists’ organizations that can be learned from to conceive a revolution under present conditions – not as singular events but extended in between processes beginning from the interstices of society.

Tuesday, 17 December 2024

WHEN 13.00 to 15.00

WHERE: ZOOM (will be transmitted on time)

Organized within the seminar "AIDS, East Germany, EU, Global Capitalism, and Hardcore Theory," focusing on sexuality, gender, resistance, migration, and self-empowerment. The seminar is led by Marina Gržinić and Elisa R. Linn

Elisa R. Linn, Unit 10 of 10: Necropolitics, New Borders, (Non-)Immigration

The last unit seeks to trace the transformation processes after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the course of German reunification that not only led to the supposedly opening of the border between East and West but to the simultaneous installment of new borders and walls in front of the "Euro-club" (Stuart Hall). While independent East German self-help groups could, for the first time, officially organize and gain political influence, both states perceived the opening of the Wall as an epidemiological threat in unleashed capitalism. The seminar discusses the influence of AIDS on the assimilatory agenda of a queer movement after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which also paved the way for pro-natalism, homonormativity, or even homonationalism. While the over-represented oppress those barred from sovereignty along racial borders (David Loyd), the dogma of a reunified Germany as a "non-immigration country" and the revision of German asylum law in 1993 ("Asylkompromiss") actively denies a migration history: repressing the colonial, racist and anti-Semitic past to prove Germany's homogenous national self-understanding in Europe's necrocapitalism of today.

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

WHEN 16.30 to 18.30

WHERE: Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

At 16.30 we continue LIVE AFTER THE ZOOM WITH THE SECOND ANNOUNCED WORKSHOP/collaboration with CONVIVIALITY AS POTENTIALITY and its newly joined member magistra and raper Esra Özmen.

TITLE WORKSHOP (2): EMPOWERMENT, MEDIA

Esra Özmen, known as EsRap (hat is a hip-hop duo from Austria, consisting of siblings Esra Özmen and Enes Özmen) will moderate a talk with positions fro the rap, hip hop scene, talking about mass media, empowerment, impacts of rap music for the constitution of a progressive civic, artistic and cultural space.

EsRap comes from a Turkish guest worker family and grew up in Ottakring, Vienna's 16th district. EsRap uses rap as a political and emancipatory form of expression to challenge outdated discourses that marginalize people with migrant backgrounds. They advocate for viewing migrants as an everyday, normal part of society.In contrast to the male-dominated hip-hop genre, Esra often performs harder, faster verses, while Enes takes on more melodic vocal parts.

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