The conference is curated by Elke Krasny and Hansel Sato.
It will take place in collaboration with Program for Art and Education at the Institute for Education in the Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Through project presentations and a workshop, the online conference will enable a dialogue with local and international activists, researchers, artists, students and teachers who develop collective strategies for a caring and solidary society.
The lectures will take place on zoom.
SCHEDULE
10:00-10:30
Introductory words by Elke Krasny and Hansel Sato
10:30-11:00
Anna Preiser: “Mining in Peru: between economic growth and socio-ecological conflicts
(Lecture in english)
11:00-11:30
Alfredo Ledesma presents his art production on ecology and social resistance
(Lecture in english)
11:30-12:00
Conversation with the audience
Break
17:00-18:30
Workshop with Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg, Claudia Lomoschitz and Lena Fritsch
“Healing Feminism: Collective Writing in Times of Populism, Climate Collapse and Pandemic”
Workshop language is German.
As the number of participants is limited for the Workshop, we kindly ask you to register with your full name until Thursday, 18.06. 12 a.m. at nora.soponyai(at)sohoinottakring.at.
DETAILS
“Mining in Peru: between economic growth and socio-ecological conflicts”
Lecture by Anna Preiser
Peru is one of the most important producers of copper, gold and silver worldwide. The mining and export of raw materials is one of the country’s most important economic foundations, but at the same time an increasing number of socio-ecological conflicts can be attributed to this sector. The Peruvian mining industry is a field of intense conflict of interest; governments of different countries, international financial capital, international and national mining companies and the Peruvian state strive for access to Peru’s resources, creating conflicts with people living in the vicinity of mining projects. Anna Preiser’s research interest is to investigate how, on the one hand, the structures and expansive dynamics of this sector have been stabilized since the 1990s despite the increasing number of conflicts, and how, on the other hand, some decolonial projects and socio-ecological improvements are reflected in institutional change while others are hindered.
“Healing Feminism: Collective Writing in Times of Populism, Climate Collapse and Pandemic”
Workshop with Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg, Claudia Lomoschitz and Lena Fritsch
Amidst the crisis experiences of the global present, marked by the social, political and economic correlation between populism, climate collapse and pandemic, the collective writing workshop attempts to find and practice healing feminist perspectives together. Grief and hope, despair and resistance are part of the answers to the conditions of the incessant catastrophe called normality. The Collective Writing Workshop combines reactions to realities with shared imaginations of other presences.
BIOS
Elke Krasny
Elke Krasny, PhD, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her research and curatorial work focuses on critical practices in architecture, urbanism, curating, educational work and feminism. Together with Angelika Fitz she has developed Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (MIT Press, 2019).
Recent essays: The Unfinished Feminist Revolution. Radicalizing Reproduction in Feminist Performance Art (https://www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw/article/view/1487/1498) and Care Feminism for Living with an Infected Planet (https://www.akbild.ac.at/Portal/universitaet/uber-uns/corona_essays/essays)
Hansel Sato
Hansel Sato, Mag.art, visual artist and cultural mediator. His artistic work includes figurative painting, comics, drawing and art interventions in public space, which are in the context of postcolonial theories. Since 2013 he has been a member of the SOHO team in Ottakring and Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Artistic Teaching (ICL) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
www.hanselsato.com
Lena Fritsch
Lena Fritsch is curator, artist, carpenter and art educator. She works at the Department for Art and Education, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she writes her PhD, supervisor Elke Krasny. In her current work she researches on peace and decolonial activism. Part of feminist and urban activism, she contributed to the 3rd Fact Finding Comitte at the Center for Art and Urbanistik (Berlin) and Chaosballett at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW).
Sophie Lingg
Sophie Lingg lives and works in Vienna. As a freelance curator she initiates
collaborative exhibition projects, develops and realizes art education formats and
experimental workshops and participates in collaborative artistic projects and
exhibitions. She studied art and education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna,
where she is currently writing her dissertation and teaches at the institute for art and education.
Claudia Lomoschitz
Claudia Lomoschitz researches in the intersecting field of knowledge production, performance and fine arts. She is a lecturer and university assistant of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna at the Institute for Art and Education, where she works on her dissertation. Her artistic work focuses on choreographic objects and scores that work on a political level with imagination and body knowledge. Her solo “Soft Skills” will be shown at the brut wien Imagetanz festival 2020. Within “Soft Skills” she takes a personal experience with the platform Willhaben as the starting point for a physical examination of intimacy and political radicalism. www.claudialomoschitz.com
Alfredo Ledesma Quintana
Alfredo Ledesma Quintana is a peruvian artist located in Vienna since the last seven years. He started his artistic career specializing in sculptors. He was born and raised in Lima, Perú, and belongs to the third generation of a Peruvian artisan silversmith family. Currently, he is studying the Master Programme Art&Science at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Anna Preiser
Anna Preiser works as a Prae-Doc at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna. Her main research topics are resource and environmental politics, Political Ecology and socio-ecological conflicts in the extractive sector in Peru.
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