Perma

15.30h
Women and Agrarian Injustice: Palm Oil Plantation Partnership That Deprives of The Livelihood, Land Rights, and Economic Rights of Women in Rural Areas
Lecture by Fatrisia

Fatrisia reports on how palm oil companies exacerbate the situation of women* in rural areas. Women* not only play a dual role in the household, but also in relation to the palm oil companies' land monopoly. In rural areas in Central Sulawesi, women* are forced to deal directly with the agrarian conflicts that control their economic resources and make their food sources unhealthy. They are silenced, their safety and freedom threatened by criminalization and gender-based violence as their land is confiscated by palm oil companies that are an integral part of the government's plantation program. This makes their frontline struggle to restore their community's rights and food security all the more astonishing.

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16h

Triangle of Sacrifice: Technological Infrastructures of Colonialism
Lecture by Victor Mazón and Guely Morató Loredo

A critical review of the impacts of large-scale mining in the lithium triangle, a territory between Bolivia, Chile and Argentina that concentrates 65% of the lithium found on the planet.

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16.45
Eco-Feminist Decolonial Hardware
Lecture by Stefanie Wuschitz

It is an open secret that the hardware in our smart devices contains not only plastics but also ‘conflict minerals’ such as copper and gold. Stefanie Wuschitz and Patricia J. Reis researched on fair-trade, ethical, biodegradable hardware for environmental justice, building circuits that use ancient community-centered crafts encouraging de-colonial thinking.  Their artistic outcome is an Ethical Hardware Kit with a PCB microcontroller at its core. PCB is made of wild clay retrieved from the forest in Austria and fired on a bonfire. The conductive tracks used urban-mined silver and all components are re-used from old electronic devices

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Bios

Fatrisia
As a child from a family of farmers, I was fortunate enough to be educated at a college level (I studied at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, at Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta), as were some of my colleagues who were also activists in a civil society organization founded by peasants in my area, called Forum Petani Plasma Buol (local peasants’ organization). As a young person and a woman, it was not easy for me to gain the trust of my community, which was mostly the older generation who were familiar with patriarchal ways, let alone being chosen to lead a mass struggle. However, for the past two years I have been trusted to lead my community's resistance movement against the seizure of their rights by non-state actor, a large-scale palm oil company that have deceived around 4 thousand family groups in my community for 16 years through a government program called ‘Plantation Revitalization’, with a core-plasma partnership scheme.

Víctor Mazón Gardoqui
Mazon Gardoqui´s work exposes the unheard and unseen, addressing the inaccessible and experiencing vulnerability and awareness on the viewer. Perception and altered states are key concepts in his performances through the use of sound or light.His​ ​art​ ​practice explores​ ​amplification, electromagnetic phenomena​ ​and​ ​images​ ​of​ ​invisible​ ​fields by​ ​using​ ​locative​ ​audio​ ​and​ ​custom electronics.​His work materializes in three main fields: actions or site-specific performances through experimental processes, exhibitions as consequences of previous actions and collaborative works through seminars to form a communal dialog.He ​is​ ​a​ ​senior educator​ ​and​ ​professional​ ​working​ ​with open​ ​hardware​ ​and​ ​experimental​ ​circuit design, ​coordinating workshops​ ​and​ ​educational​ ​formats​ ​in​ ​the domain​ ​of​ ​device-studies​ ​and​ ​experimental sensory​ ​applications.​ His work has been performed or exhibited in museums, biennials, galleries, bill- boards, urban screens and TV/radio stations in Africa, Russia, Nepal, North America, Canada, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Antarctica and numerous locations across Europe. Mazon Gardoqui has been a guest artist and lecturer at Slade School of Fine Art, Concordia University, Universität der Künste Berlin, Rijksakademie Amsterdam, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, Master Studies Interface Cultures Linz, University College London - Arts and Sciences, HFK Bremen University of Arts, Master Studies C:Art Media Valand Univ Goteborg, Institute of Dramatic Arts and Cultural Studies Casablanca, University Mohamed V Rabat, Patricio Lynch Universidad de Valparaíso, Universidad de Humanidades y Arte Concepción, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, MediaLAB Prado, LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre and Hangar.org, among others.  https://victormazon.com

Guely Morató Loredo
is curator, artist and researcher. Winner CIFOxARS Electronica award, 2024, winner of the Cultural & Artistic Responses to Environmental Change-2023 award by the Prince Claus Fund and the Goethe-Institut. Curator of six editions of the Sonandes International Biennial of Sound Art (2014-2024) and one edition of the Biennial of Listening (2023). Head researcher of the ALTER residency, a mountain laboratory specializing in solutions for the period of cultural, climate and energy transition held in the Swiss Alps (2022). During 2021 she was the head researcher of the Bolivian team participating in The Witness_Openlab, annual research laboratory focusing on the anthropocene and the human footprint on the planet. She led the Gender, Science and Technology Observatory (2019-2022). She led the Medialab at the Cultural Center of Spain in La Paz (2019). She is currently curator of Wak’a, a project that involves several communities and creators who reflect on extractivism, sacredness and deep listening in the Lithium Triangle. Since 2014 she founds and directs Sonandes: Platform for Experimentation and Research, which organizes the only biennial specialized in sound art in Latin America, Puertos: Residency Program, laboratories, exhibitions and projects specialized in sound art and listening.

Stefanie Wuschitz

is an arts-based researcher investigating strategies to decolonise technology. Her publications evolve around feminist hacking. Her artwork has been exhibited and screened at international venues such as Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), ART|JOG 8 (Indonesia), Bouillants Vern-Sur-Seich (France), Austrian Cultural Forum (United States), 8th International Sinop Biennale (Turkey), 16th International Biennial of Aveiro (Portugal) among others. She had solo exhibitions at Kunstraum pro arte, Galerie 3 and solo exhibitions with her former artist collective Mz* Baltazar’s Lab at Kunstraum pro arte, VBKÖ, Forum Alpbach and Medienwerkstatt Vienna among others. She is currently Principal Investigator of a project on Digital Colonialism in Indonesia affiliated to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.