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MAY 2025

MONDAY to FRIDAY 5 to 10. May 2025 WHERE: MARSEILLES MARSEILLES BIP TRAVEL Art and Intervention /Concept

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Students and professors from Kunstschule Mainz (Professor Shannon Bool), the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Marseille (Professors Marion Balac and Frédérique Pradeau), and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Professor Marina Gržinić), along with more than forty students from their respective institutions, will gather in Marseilles to take part in a very exciting BIP program under the theme Practice Chaos, supported by Erasmus Plus. The highlight of the week will be the opening of a major exhibition on May 7 at the Palais Carli, followed by a dynamic program of performances, talks, and studio visits. This rich program emphasizes artistic exchange and collaboration and offers a unique opportunity to connect through art and intervention.

This specific collaborative BIP project, initiated by the Studio for Art and Intervention/Concept in collaboration with the International Office, began in 2022 with a visit to Kassel and documenta fifteen. It was followed by encounters in Barcelona (hosted by the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona [UB]), Vienna (hosted by the Studio for Art and Intervention/Concept), and Mainz (hosted by Kunstschule Mainz) — now culminating in the visit and encounter in Marseilles.

This time, the participants traveling to Marseilles from the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, studio Art and Intervention/ Concept, are: Asma Aiad, Jupiter Rhea Braun, Lukas Brunner, David Cuka, Mariya Dmitrieva, Oke Fijal, Zora Fuhrmann, Sebastian Konzett, Pramila Lama, Finn Mühl, Oskar Muyi Lota, Fedor Shmelkin, Dafina Sylejmani (Dacid Goblin), Phivos Theodotou, Melina Vesely, Kyra Sophie Wilhelmseder.

MONDAY, 12 05 2025

ZOOM Topic: Nina Cvar lecture on Monday, 12 05 2025 at 16.00

Title: War-Torn Necroscapes, Global Crisis, the Age of Immediacy and Potentiality

What images of war-torn necroscapes want in a condition of immediacy, the cultural style of 21st century capitalism: 1. In Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), by Susan Sontag 2. Unlearning the old ways: genealogy of aesthetics 3. Form and aesthetics 4. From the imaginary to the contemporary structural conditions of the visual 5. What images of war-torn necroscapes want in condition of immediacy, the cultural style of 21 st century capitalism.

Marina Gržinić, in collaboration with Dr. Nina Cvar, guest professor in the Studio Art and Intervention/Concept course during the Summer Semester 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with fundamental knowledge on why contemporary art can be essential aesthetical and critical path in society—and why it cannot thrive without a critical, research-based, and innovative framework of practice and un-learning.

Nina Cvar, employed as a research associate at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana and as an assistant professor of sociology of culture at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Between 2008 and 2017, she was a professional film critic, contributing to all major Slovenian publications. For her work, she was awarded the Nika Bohinc’s Award and MOL scholarship for talented pupils and students. In 2021, she published a scientific monograph Digital image and global capitalism: Technology, politics, resistance for one of the central Slovenian humanities and social sciences publishers, Sophia.

ZOOM Topic: Nina Cvar lecture on Monday 12 05 2025 at 16.00

Time: May 12, 2025 16:00 Vienna Join Zoom Meeting akbild-ac-at.zoom.us Meeting ID: 666 9142 4342

TUESDAY, 13 05 2025

ZOOM Topic: Nina Cvar lecture on Tuesday, 13 05 2025 at 16.00

Title: Opening and Going Beyond: Genealogy of Potentiality

This concluding section critically examines the genealogy of potentiality, tracing its historical development and interrogating its transformative possibilities within contemporary critical theory, including the concept of ideology itself. It will explore how potentiality can be mobilized to challenge established Occidental power structures—rooted in class, gender, and race—and to envision alternative futures. Central to this final section will be discussion on the epistemological challenges posed by the climate crisis, a pressing issue that destabilizes conventional modes of knowledge production and governance.

ZOOM Topic: My Meeting Nina Cvar lecture on Tuesday, 13 05 2025 at 16.00

Time: May 13, 2025, 16:00 Vienna Join Zoom Meeting akbild-ac-at.zoom.us Meeting ID: 611 7416 7078

WEDNESDAY, 14 05 2025

Invitation open free

WHERE: Stand 129 am Viktor Adler Markt Wien

FROM 17.00 TO 20.00

Through the Dark DEEP READINGS: FASCHISMUS UND RECHTSEXTREMISMUS VERSTEHEN partizan★ke art: recalling antifascist spirits - joint performances and workshop by nataša mackuljak (WienWoche) & elena messner (MUSMIG)

This event combines performative interventions in the space, joint lecture-performances, and a workshop that focuses on the performative reading and debating of basic works of women's anti-fascist resistance fighters during World War II ("partizanke"). We will engage with texts from the female partisan press "Žena danas" and dive into archive materials - film and documents - to start a debate on the importance of recalling partizanke-spirits for todays political engagement.

REGISTER: www.volkskundemuseum.at

BIOS

Nataša Mackuljak (b. in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a performer, multimedia artist, social worker, curator, and cultural producer. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, with the thesis On Historical Continuities between Anti-Fascist Women's Action and Feminist Performance Art in the Former Yugoslavia. She studied the sciences and technology of multimedia at the University of Social Sciences in Udine and worked in Italy on media projects as radio and TV editor of weekly programmes on radio and TV Rai 3 (2005–2008). For three years (2016/17/18) she co-curated and co-managed the Transcultural Festival for Art and Activism Wienwoche, where she is currently engaged as executive director.

Elena Messner (b. in Klagenfurt/Celovec), is a scientist, lecturer, novelist, theater writer and curator. She is currently a Senior Post-Doc researcher at the University of Vienna, with a project on translations in (post)yugoslav feminist periodicals. She studied Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies in Vienna and Aix-en-Provence. Her PhD thesis was on the post-Yugoslav war literature and its reception in the German-speaking cultures. She was teaching at the University in Aix-Marseille and at the University of Klagenfurt since 2014. She is part of the collective MUSMIG-museum of migration. She is curating several exhibitions on partisan art and feminism.

Cooperation with WIENWOCHE and Brotfabrik – Stand 129 am Viktor Adler Markt, 1100 Wien

Language: English, German + if needed Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

INVITATION Graduate Conference 2025

Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 Time: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Location, Schillerplatz 3 SITZUNG SAAL

On May 15, 2025, doctoral and PhD candidates in the final stages of their programs will present the results of their dissertation projects. We look forward to an exciting day of the conference featuring seven diverse presentations and lively discussions.

The Graduate Conference aims to enhance the visibility and integration of doctoral candidates and to promote exchange and networking among doctoral candidates, as well as between them and researchers and artists at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Program

9:30 AM | Welcome Ingeborg Erhart, Vice-Rector for Art and Teaching, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

9:45 AM | Tina Amerstorfer The Workshop in Contemporary Dance – A De-Writing of the Body?

Doctoral Program in Philosophy, supervised by Krassimira Kruschkova

Moderation: Larissa Mohr Discussant: Hamida Sivac

10:30 AM | Claudia Sandoval Romero De(s)colonial and Photographic Approach to the Search for Contact Zones between the Periphery and Center in mumok’s Collection and Exhibitions, 1998–2018

Doctoral Program in Philosophy, supervised by Jens Kastner

Moderation: Iris Julian Discussant: Laura Valentina Bohnenblust

11:10 AM | Short Break

11:20 AM | Ruthie Jenrbekova Actor-Network Theatre: Queer Life & Constructions of Artefacts PhD-in-Practice Program, supervised by Renate Lorenz and Anette Baldauf

Moderation: Olia Sosnovskaya Discussant: Claudia Strate

12:05 PM | Mariel Rodríguez Mestizaje, Neoliberalism, and the Persistence of “Whiteness” in Mexico

Doctoral Program in Philosophy, supervised by Ruth Sonderegger

Moderation: Ana de Almeida Discussant: Andrea Ancira

12:45 PM | Lunch Break

1:30 PM | Miguel González Cabezas Racial Enclosures in the Anti-State State. Racial Capitalism, Migration, and Securitization.

Doctoral Program in Philosophy, supervised by Marina Gržinić

Moderation: Ruby Jana Sircar Discussant: Diana Bulzan

2:15 PM | Bahareh Zamani Hargalani Mapping Otherness: Spirituality, Subjectivation, and Subtle Forms of Resistance in Postcolonial Contexts Doctoral Program in Philosophy, supervised by Ruth Sonderegger

Moderation: Giulia Gabrielli Discussant: Önder Özengi

2:55 PM | Ana de Almeida From the Shoebox to the Archive – A Reflection on the Production of Photographs in the 1974–1989 Inter-Revolutionary Space between the Carnation and the Velvet Revolutions

Doctoral Program in Philosophy, supervised by Sabeth Buchmann

Moderation: Mariel Rodríguez Discussant: Claudia Sandoval Romero

3:35 PM | Closing Words Johan Hartle, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

3:40 PM | Informal Conclusion and Networking

4:00 PM | End

The event will be held in German and (primarily) English.

IMPORTANT THE WEEK TUESDAY 20.05 2025 UNTIL FRIDAY 23.05 2025 ENTRY EXAMS, NO MEETINGS, WORK AT HOME

MONDAY 26 05 2025 At 14.00 until 18.00

WHERE: Studio ART and INTERVENTION/Concept Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

A SERIES OF FINAL PRESENTATIONS DIPLOMA for June 2025 exam POSITIONS THAT WILL PRESENT ARE:

Asma Aiad

Jupiter Rhea Braun and Finn Mühl

OkeFijal

Philipp Mürling

see an open call 18.30 Frontier, Border and No Man's Land

18:30h 
Lecture Performance, main building akbild Schillerplatz, in the room 
M20

TUESDAY, 27 05 2025 At 14.00 until 16.00

WHERE: Studio ART and INTERVENTION/Concept Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

WRAPPING BIP; DIPLOMAS, WORK

TUESDAY, 27 05 2025 At 18.00

WHERE: Währinger Straße 59 1090 Vienna

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Intersections of Conviviality: Voices from Communities

Book Presentation and Discussion

The book Intersections of Conviviality: Voices from Communities brings together fifty contributions from scholars, artists, and activists based in Austria and beyond. This anthology marks the conclusion of the four-year arts-based research project Conviviality as Potentiality (FWF AR679, 2021–2025).

Edited by: Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek, Asma Aiad, Anahita Neghabat

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars, UK, 2025

The title — Intersections of Conviviality — signals a deliberate emphasis on the convergence of diverse experiences, knowledge systems, and political struggles. The term “intersections” evokes shared spaces and critical crossings — sites where identities meet, solidarities are forged, and differences are actively negotiated. “Voices from Communities” underscores the book’s commitment to lived experience and centers plural perspectives that are often marginalized within institutional discourse.

The volume explores conviviality as both a theoretical framework and a concrete practice for confronting and resisting systemic inequalities. It proposes conviviality as a method of community-building and alliance-making that challenges dominant logics of individualism, competition, and exclusion.

Across its contributions, the book highlights the potential of alliances that transcend borders of identity, geography, and culture. It centers the lived experiences, political resistance, and cultural empowerment of BIPOC communities, Muslim communities, and Trans individuals in Europe.

Together, these voices articulate conviviality as a practice of survival, solidarity, and transformation in the face of neoliberalism, racialization, and social fragmentation.

The presentation of the book invites audiences to reflect on conviviality not only as an academic concept, but as a form of political engagement rooted in lived experience. It offers practical tools for envisioning alternative futures based on care, mutual support, and critical interdependence.

Speakers: • Marina Gržinić Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Principal Investigator of Conviviality as Potentiality

• Asma Aiad Artist, Curator, and Predoctoral Researcher in Conviviality as Potentiality

• Anahita Neghabat Social Anthropologist, Artist, and Predoctoral Researcher in Conviviality as Potentiality

• Esra Özmen Visual and Conceptual Artist, Rapper, and Predoctoral Researcher in Conviviality as Potentiality

• Ümmü Türe Cultural and Social Anthropologist; expert in psychosocial counseling, transformative and healing justice; Predoctoral Researcher in Conviviality as Potentiality

Following the speakers' reflections on the book’s themes and relevance, the event will conclude with a Q&A session encouraging audience engagement.

Moderated by Marina Gržinić

Presentation done in collaboration with the four-year long arts-based research project Conviviality as Potentiality (FWF AR679, 2021–2025), The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

NEXT IS JUNE 2025 DIPLOMAS at the center 10 to 12 06 2025 exam