Conference: Remembering Gastarbeiters in the Neoliberal Age
Today's so-called migrant "crisis" has not only seriously shaken the existing order, it has exposed links between current and historical forms of oppression and exclusion. The old figure of the Gastarbeiter exists at the very core of a hidden genealogy of today’s "crisis" – making it necessary to disclose this genealogy across old and new ideological divides and political interests, and to thus reconnect our present with the past in order to not only understand the current "crisis" but to open the prospect of a new, different future.
Program
Day 1: Friday, 6 October 2017
10.00 – 10.30 Introduction and welcome Boris Buden, Lina Dokuzović
Panel I: 10.30 – 13.30 An avant-garde figure or a role model? The relevance of Gastarbeiters today. Boris Buden, Jana Dolečki, Keti Chukhrov, Manuela Bojadžijev
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 – 15.00 Screening GUESTures (GOSTIkulacije) 2011 (two-channel HD video, 33min) by Margareta Kern
Panel II: 15.00 – 17.30 Marginalized and invisible experiences – women Gastarbeiters and queer flight. Katja Kobolt, Margareta Kern, Ana Hoffner, Amir Hodžić
17.30 – 17.45 Short break
17.45 – 18.30 Discussion
Day 2: Saturday, 7 October
Panel III: 14.00 – 16.30 Rethinking "guests" and "workers" in post-Fordist forms of labor mobility. Lina Dokuzović, Monika Mokre, Stefan Nowotny, Jon Solomon
16.30 – 16.45 Short break
16.45 – 17.30 Discussion
17.30 – 19.30 Multilingual discussion and exchange of experiences, challenges, and knowledges of migration. Open to everyone.
19.30 Closing statement and performance by the choir HOR 29. Novembar, singing Gastarbeiter songs.
Join us for drinks and continue an informal discussion.
"They'll Never Walk Alone: Remembering Gastarbeiters in the Neoliberal Age" is part of They were, those people, a kind of solution, a co-operation project by What, How & for Whom/WHW (Zagreb), Tensta konsthall (Stockholm), Centre for Peace Studies/CMS (Zagreb) and eipcp (Vienna).
They were, those people, a kind of solution is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. The eipcp's participation in this project is also supported by the Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria.