Imaginations of social potentialities (in the curatorial)
Queer-feminist organising and artistic-activist strategies in visual arts, theatre, film and on the street: it’s all about forming alliances beyond one’s own fields of work, personal concerns and class affiliations. Marginalised groups and communities suffer the consequences of right-wing politics first, but in time, everyone else does, too. So why do we still care about queering and decolonising museums while the majority of people are affected by completely different challenges? What relevance does the next art project bear in a society that is increasingly characterised by fascist tendencies? We will discuss concepts such as ‘Fake it till you make it’ and concrete instructions for action, with a desire to imagine other worlds and open up spaces of possibility for social impact in the curatorial realm.
is a Vienna-based curator and a member of CineCollective and D-Arts. She is involved in the programme preselection for Berlinale Panorama, a member of the Diagonale screening advisory board and the Non-Fiction Commission of the Zurich Film Foundation. She is a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her previous programming work includes DOK Leipzig, Kasseler Dokfest, sixpackfilm, frameout, and tricky women – tricky realities. Grandits deals with entanglements and collective processes.
is a theatre maker, political educator, and transmedia artist. She holds a Master’s degree in Critical Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, focusing on post-migrant identities at the intersection of art and activism. Stritzel is a co-founder of the association Vielmehr für Alle! and the PROSA project Schule für Alle!. She has worked at Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin as a dramaturge, director, and head of the akademie der autodidakten. She collaborated with Gin Müller on the que_ring drama project and on JUSTITIA! at brut, Vienna.
comes from a background in visual arts and works as a curator, artist, and educator, often in collaborative settings. He has a strong interest in the capitalisation of physical and social spaces, as well as subversive strategies for space production, particularly within queer-feminist and self-organised contexts. Trabitsch has been involved with the Queer Museum Vienna since its inception, which aims to establish a centre for queer art in the city.
In English or German (depending on the preferences of the participants)