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The School of Kyiv
Lecture
Hedwig Saxenhuber & Georg SchöllhammerPaulusplatz 5, Seminarraum 2. Stock, 1030 Wien
2017 March 16 / 12:00Curating in a State of Crisis
Why hold a Biennial in Kyiv in times of a warfare (with Russia), economic crisis, social insecurity, amidst all the complicated geopolitical constellations Ukrainian citizens find themselves trapped in, a moment that seemingly has other priorities? How could or should, in the given context, art propose its own strategy deriving from its own logic? Shouldn’t art be, in this case, subjugated to the political struggle?
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Frances Bodomo
Frances Bodomo
Film-screening und artist talk
Paulusplatz 5, Seminarraum 2. Stock, 1030 Wien2017 January 26 / 16:00New York-based writer and director Frances Bodomo will screen and talk about her film “Afronauts” (USA, 2014, 13 min).
It’s July 16, 1969: America is preparing to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of miles away, the Zambia Space Academy hopes to beat America to the moon in this film inspired by true events.
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Marion Porten
Lecture by Marion Porten
Paulusplatz 5, Seminarraum 2.Stock
1030 Wien2017 January 19 / 12:00Marion Porten wird einige ausgewählte Arbeiten vorstellen, darunter auch ihr im Prozess befindliches Video; eine Begegnung mit einem namenlosen, verstaubten Gipsportrait einer Frau* (um 1900) in der Glyptothek der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. Diese bildet den Ausgangspunkt einer filmischen Auseinandersetzung mit ’emanzipativen’ Prozessen weißer queerer Frauen* im Kontext kolonialer und rassistischer Gewaltherrschaft…
Marion Porten will present selected works, among them her work in process; an encounter with a nameless, dusty plaster bust of a woman*, in the Glyptothek of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. This sets the starting point for a filmic investigation into emancipative concepts of white queer women* in the context of colonial and racist tyranny…
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An Answer to Sculptures
Lecture by Tenzing Barshee
Paulusplatz 5, Seminarraum 2.Stock
1030 Wien2016 November 17 / 15:00 – 2016 November 17 / 17:00An Answer to Sculptures – the work of Margaret Honda
Tenzing Barshee will talk about two recent exhibition projects titled “Sculptures” at Triangle France in Marseille (2015) and “An Answer to ‘Sculptures’” at Künstlerhaus Bremen (2016). Both exhibitions were monographic retrospective projects on the work of Margaret Honda who lives and works in Los Angeles.
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originalcopy
Performance, book presentation, public talk
Site-Specific Art
Paulusplatz 5, 1030 Vienna2016 October 11Copying has become ubiquitous yet invisible, both in the digital realm and in the analog world. In the arts-based research project “originalcopy” we develop a working model that subjects the dichotomy of original and copy to a re-evaluation from a post-digital perspective and sheds light on this contradictory phenomenon.
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Isa Rosenberger
Isa Rosenberger presents her work
Paulusplatz 5, Seminarraum 2.Stock
1030 Wien2016 April 14 / 13:00In her artistic work, Isa Rosenberger is particularly interested in political upheaval and both its social as well as economic consequences.
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Hannes Zebedin
Hannes Zebedin presents his work
Paulusplatz 5, Seminarraum 2.Stock
1030 Wien2016 April 07 / 15:00Hannes Zebedin´s practice explores political consciousness through the language of conceptual art and embraces a broad range of media including objects, installations, text works, performance and interventions often in relation to national monuments, as well as the acts of civil society and grass roots protest movements.
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I:project space
presented by Antonie Angerer
Seminarraum Landschaftskunst
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Wien2016 January 14 / 15:00In August 2014 I: project space, one of the first off-spaces in Beijing, was founded by the German curators Anna-Viktoria Eschbach and Antonie Angerer.

