Movements in feminism / feminisms in movement: urgencies, emergencies, promises

Symposium Movements in feminism / feminisms in movement: urgencies, emergencies, promises
A collaboration between the Program Art and Education at the Institute for Education in the Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Belvedere 21. Supported by Municipal Department 57 – Vienna Women’s Affairs (MA 57)
 
28.11.2018–2.12.2018
Belvedere 21 – Museum of Contemporary Art, Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Vienna
 
Curated by Elke Krasny, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Luisa Ziaja , Curator for Contemporary Art at Belvedere, Vienna; together with Lara Perry , School of Humanities, University of Brighton and Dorothee Richter , Director of PhD in Practice in Curating at the ZHdK / University of Reading and Head of MAS in Curating at Zurich University of the Arts
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Screening program curated by Claudia Slanar, Curator Blickle Cinema and Blickle Video Archive at Belvedere 21.
 
JOINT VENTURES
A public program on the relevance of 1968 in the present day 1968 brings to mind social change, insurrection, and liberation, an eventful period of worldwide protests, dismantling authoritarian structures, and creating alternative social models. The public program Joint Ventures, takes place over seven weekends between May and December and will examine how things stand today with regard to the socio-political achievements and demands of the movements of 1968. Since 2017 women are marching again. Their activism is taking them to the streets, to speaking out, to giving testimony, to blogging, to connecting transnationally via social media. The f-word stirs heated discussions in mainstream media. #MeToo has spurred action on sexual violence. We may well be witnessing the emergence of a new feminist movement. This is owed to rising misogyny, queerphobia, transphobia, racism, xenophobia, exploitative labour conditions, a crisis in reproduction, and a new order of gender politics linked to the rise of the global right. Time to reconsider feminisms in plural and their histories, including those of art making and curating, as they relate to past revolutions, in particular the 1968 year of revolt and protests. Movements in Feminism / Feminisms in Movement: Urgencies, Emergencies, Promises connects current developments in feminist art practice, curating, and cultural production to larger societal and political trends just as much as to translocal, transhistorical, and global matters of feminist concern. Key are feminist politics as they are committed to antiracist, anti-capitalist, and decolonizing struggles. Movements in Feminism / Feminisms in Movement: Urgencies, Emergencies, Promises takes place in the framework of Joint Ventures. A public program on the relevance of 1968 in the present day at Belvedere 21 and includes two screening programs and a two-day event of lectures, workshops, conversations, collective writing, and networking activities.

PROGRAM

Wednesday, November 28, 2018
6.30-9 pm Screening, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Dandy Dust , AT/UK 1998, 94 min., English OV with German subtitles. Followed by a conversation between Ashley Hans Scheirl and Claudia Slanar

Friday, November 30, 2018,
2–2.30 pm Welcome and introduction, Stella Rollig (General Director of the Belvedere and Belvedere 21), Andrea B. Braidt (Vice-Rector of the Academy
of Fine Arts Vienna), Movements in Feminism / Feminisms in Movement: Urgencies, Emergencies, Promises, Luisa Ziaja, Elke Krasny, Lara Perry and Dorothee Richter

2.30–3.30 pm Lecture, Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Lucretia Revisited. On Rape Moderated by Luisa Ziaja

4–5 pm Performance Lecture, Night School – Neda Hosseinyar, Marissa Lôbo, Stephanie Misa, Catrin Seefranz, Unruly Thinking: A Performance
Lecture
Moderated by Elke Krasny

5.30–7 pm Lectures, Magda Lipska , NIEPODLEGŁE: Women, Independence and National Discourse. Or how Women Are Depicted in National Narratives? 
Elke Krasny, Feminist Transnationalism: The Activist as Curator Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Intersectionality and Transnational Feminism in Françoise Dasques‘ Documentary La Conférence des femmes—Nairobi (1985) Moderated by Lara Perry

8–9.30 pm Lecture, Françoise Vergès, The Black Woman’s Womb. Care, Capital, Race, Feminism, Moderated by Elke Krasny

Saturday, December 1, 2018

11 am–1 pm Workshop, Public Feminisms Forum. Collectively: Thinking, Speaking, Writing. With Anschläge (Lea Susemichel), AUF (Eva Geber, Marietta Schneider), Ona B., Bliss (Marlene Bürgerkurator Engel), Johanna Braun, Frauenhetz (Birge Krondorfer), Lena Fritsch, Intakt (Stella Bach, Julia Bugram, Susanne Kompast), Kunst und Kind (Vasilena Gankovska, Hansel Sato), Sophie Lingg, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Raum (Christine Zwingl), MenstruationsNetzwerk (Valentina Mitterer), Migrationsskizzen (Carla Bobadilla), Miss Balthazar’s Laboratory (Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Stephanie Wuschitz), ÖGGF (Romana Hagyo), Iver Ohm, RADS Radical Anarchist Dangerous Sisters, RitClique (Erica Fischer), Salon Talk (Dudu Kücükgöl, Anna Mendelssohn), Juliane Saupe, Basak Senova, Sorority (Sandra Nigischer, Martina Schöggl), Melinda Tamas, VBKÖ (Stephanie Misa, Ruby
Sircar), Wienwoche (Nataša Mackuljak, Ivana Marjanovic), Wirsindfeige.org (Ebru Düzgün, Maren Blume, Magdalena Fischer, Franziska Kabisch, Sophie Utikal). The workshop is based on texts written by all the contributors. Workshop run by Elke Krasny and Claudia Lomoschitz.

2–3.30 pm Lectures, Birgit Bosold / Vera Hofmann, Concerted Actions: Women*s Year at Schwules Museum Berlin 2018
Katharina Koch, Revolt She Said. Perspectives and Questions on Feminist Art Curating and Anti-Hegemonic Production of His/Herstories
Moderated by Dorothee Richter

4–5 pm Lectures, Lara Perry, Viewing Women’s Work in the Art Museum
Dorothee Richter, Artistic and Curatorial Turns, Care and Accelerated Capitalism. From the Sixties to Contemporary Practices in Feminist Perspectives. A Tour de Force
Moderated by Elke Krasny

5.15–6.15 pm Lectures

Noit Banai, Biopolitical Regimes of Feminism: 1938 – 1968 – 2018
Övül Ö. Durmusoglu, Who is a Revolutionary?
Moderated by Luisa Ziaja

6.30–8 pm Workshop
Night School – Neda Hosseinyar, Marissa Lôbo, Stephanie Misa, Catrin Seefranz , Contagious Ideas: A Night School Workshop

Sunday, December 2, 2018

2–3 pm Reflecting Movements in Feminism/Feminisms in Movement. A Collective Conversation

3–4 pm Screening, Françoise Dasques, La Conférence des Femmes – Nairobi 1985 , F 1985, 60 min., English and French OV partly with English
subtitles Abstracts and Bios