Unsettling Feminist Curating

LECTURES, DISCUSSIONS, PERFORMANCES

Mare Tralla
Marissa Lôbo
Alkisti Efthymiou
Tal Dekel
Imayna Cáceres
Verena Melgarejo Weinandt
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Dec 1 2017, 12:30 – 20:00
Atelierhaus, Mehrzwecksaal, 2nd floor
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Lehargasse 6, 1060 Vienna

Curated by Elke Krasny, Barbara Mahlknecht, Lara Perry, Dorothee Richter
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and feminist Curators United fCU

Round the globe, the current wave of feminist resistance is met with great media attention. Social networks and international newspapers debate sexualized violence, the abuse of power, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia. In light of this, curators, artists, researchers, activists, and theorists invited to contribute to the Unsettling Feminist Curating symposium share how everyday feminist labour is needed for their work and speak about their local experiences and transnational relations. Globalization, diaspora and migration result in situated practices responsive to specific geopolitical locations. The symposium gathers together the following examples: a feminist art revolution in the post-Soviet condition in Estonia, the development of feminist art in Israel, the international art world in Athens during the period of financial crisis, working conditions in a global city like London and the local situation in Vienna. Unsettling means to irritate, to disrupt, to disturb. Unsettling Feminist Curating seeks to explore the long-term effects of feminist curating – within and beyond the museum.

Program:

12.30 h
Unsettling Feminist Curating
Welcome and Introduction by Elke Krasny, Barbara Mahlknecht, Lara Perry and Dorothee Richter

13.00 h
Break-up, Burn-out, Re-boot. Reflections on Feminist Tactics, Art and Activism
Presentation and Conversation with Mare Tralla, artist, activist (London/ Estonia)

14.00 h
Resistências, Spaces Affects, Decolonialidades!
Presentation and Conversation with Marissa Lôbo, artist, activist (Vienna)

15.00 h
Coffee + Cake

15.30 h
How to Take Care of your Voice: Exhaustion and other Habitual Affects in Working within large-scale Art Institutions
Presentation and Conversation with Alkisti Efthymiou, cultural worker and researcher (Athens)

16.30 h
Situated Knowledge, Global Concerns: Unsettling Feminisms in Israel
Presentation and Conversation with Tal Dekel, art historian (Tel Aviv)

18.00 h
Anticolonial Autohistorias
Performance: Imayna Cáceres and Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, artists and activists (Vienna)