Sun, Dec 1, 2024

World Aids Day:

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.”

World AIDS Day started 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 December 2, 2024, Linn will present the lecture "Border Territories, Migrant Others, and Surplus Value," 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.

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"?

Elisa R. Linn (Elisa Linn Roguszczak) is a writer, exhibition maker, and educator. She is the co-director and curator of Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. and teaches at Leuphana University and Bard College Berlin. She holds a guest lectureship appointment at ZHdK in the summer semester of 2024 and has given lectures at The New School, Barnard College, Columbia University, Pratt Institute in New York City, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Städelschule, TU Berlin, and Royal Academy of Arts in London, among others. She is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program and pursuing her Ph.D. in philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She has held the interim professorship of the chair of Art Theory and Mediation, representing Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stakemeier at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg in the summer semester of 2022. Linn contributed to various publications and magazines such as Mousse, ArtAsiaPacific, Frieze, artforum, Texte zur Kunst, BOMB, and Jacobin. She has curated projects at The Kitchen, South London Gallery, the Whitney Museum, The Bronx Museum, Museum Nivola in Sardinia, and the National Gallery Prague. 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 Marina Grzinic Mauhler is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Time: Dec 9, 2024 2024 16:00 Vienna

Join Zoom Meeting akbild-ac-at.zoom.us

Meeting ID: 667 8884 3430

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 meeting.

Time: Dec 10, 2024 16:00 Vienna

Join Zoom Meeting akbild-ac-at.zoom.us

Meeting ID: 667 8884 3430

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: 10 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.

At 16.30 we continue LIVE

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

WHEN 16.30 to 18.30

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

Class, Culture and Struggle: A Conversation with Esra Özmen (EsRAP), Ana Ryue and Petar Rosandić (Kid Pex) The talk will explore Rap, Migration, and Class from my post-migrant perspective.

Organized by the Studio Art and Intervention /Concept/ Post-conceptual Art Practices / Prof. Marina Gržinić and the PEEK project Conviviality as Potentiality (FWF-PEEK Project AR 679)

Esra Özmen began her role as a predoctoral researcher in the PEEK project Conviviality as Potentiality (FWF-PEEK Project AR 679) on November 1, 2024, and will continue until January 30, 2025. This talk is part of a series of three lectures focusing on the history and future of Austrian rap and hip-hop culture.

Esra Özmen, MA is a visual, conceptual artist and rapper. She holds an MA in arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she focused on rap, hip-hop histories, migrant backgrounds, and empowerment. She is currently doing her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she is part of the research project Conviviality as Potentiality. Esra Özmen is best known as one half of the Austrian hip-hop duo EsRAP, which she formed with her sibling Enes Özmen. EsRAP originates from a Turkish guest worker family and grew up in Ottakring, Vienna's 16th district. In their music, EsRAP explores political themes such as identity, alienation, racism, the migrant diaspora experience, their connection to their homeland, and life in Vienna. The duo performed at the opening of the Vienna Festival in 2018 and 2019. They have released several songs and music videos online. In June 2019, their debut album Tschuschistan, which blends hip-hop with Turkish-oriental arabesque sounds, was released under the Berlin label Springstoff.

Ana Ryue works as a host, music journalist and PR manager in Vienna. She took her first steps on the radio and on poetry slam stages back in 2007 and later wrote for the Austrian hip hop magazine The Message. From 2021 to 2023, she worked as a co-host for the Viennese music magazine AUX on Canal+ and since 2021 she has been hosting the HEAST! HipHop Open Stage by WienXtra. She has also been working as a presenter for Kultursommer Wien since 2023. In 2024, she hosted the Jugend Innovativ Award Show.Ana Ryue is also active in the context of political education and journalism for a wide variety of projects, such as the splash! Festival, the FLINTA* Festival the Healer HipHop as well as in panel discussions and as a speaker on the topic of sexism in rap.

Petar Rosandić, aka "Kid Pex," is a self-proclaimed JugoslaWiener and Tschuschenrapper, activist and human rights defender through his award-winning initiative SOS Balkanroute. Born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1984, he arrived in Vienna at the age of eight following the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia. Torn between "down there" and "up here," he discovered hip-hop as a teenager and found a new home in Vienna's rap scene, a space where he could express himself fully.

NEXT 7.01. 2025 HAVE GREAT HOLIDAYS