Conflictual cultural policy and polyphony
Where and how can polyphony be put into practice while going through conflicts within institutions as well as with funding bodies? This panel discusses how art institutions deal with dissensus. Presentations by Friederike Landau-Donnelly, Martyna Lorenc and Ivana Pilić will address the role of ‘conflictual cultural policy’ as well as possibilities and strategies to shape polyphonic spaces. Together with the audience, we will reflect on what the implementation of values, terms and conditions for cultural production entails when put into practice and in different contexts. We will also discuss challenges and strategies for dealing with dissensus and polyphony beyond the cultural sector.
Curated and moderated by Johanna Schindler.
is a political theorist, urban sociologist and cultural geographer. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Chair of Empirical Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund University and writes about conflictual museums in Canada, India and Oceania. Among others, she co-edited Handbuch Kulturpolitik (2024), Konfliktuelle Kulturpolitik (2023) and [Un]Grounding – Post-Foundational Geographies (2021). Landau-Donnelly writes poetry as #PoeticAcademic.
moves in various artistic and activist contexts as a performing artist, pedagogue and facilitator. Over many years, she has collaborated as a dancer and performer with different artists of the independent scene and facilitated her own projects, mostly in collectives. Since 2020, Lorenc has been involved with maiz, an autonomous centre for and by migrant women*, in the conception, organisation and facilitation of youth projects.
is an independent curator and cultural scholar and advises cultural institutions on diversity and anti-discrimination. She has been a co-founder and, since 2023, co-managing director of D—Arts, the Project Office for Diversity. She completed her doctorate at the Interuniversity Institution for Science and Art (Paris Lodron University Salzburg and Mozarteum University Salzburg). Previously, she served as co-curator of the urbanize! International Festival for Urban Explorations and was part of the artistic management team at Brunnenpassage Vienna.
works as a post-doc in the Expanded Museum Studies department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and as a freelance editor and translator. Trained as a cultural scholar and arts manager with a focus on sociology, Schindler writes and teaches about questions of knowledge and discourse production. Previously, Schindler has worked at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, for the Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy and has taught in the US and Germany.
Credits
In English