COUNTER/ACTING: Self-organized Universities

What kind of new initiatives in art and education arise? What are possible interventions? Contemporary societies are increasingly complex. Migration has no curriculum. Universities reproduce structural racism. Self-organized projects build new spaces for education. Bringing together activists, artists, educators, scholars, students and thinkers, the symposium aims to foster exchange through lectures, presentations of projects and workshops. The focus is on new perspectives of collective learning based upon the agency of art and education.

Friday, December 4, 2015
Lectures and Conversations
Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna

12:30–1 pm

Welcome Address
Andrea B. Braidt, Nicolaus Schafhausen

Symposium Introduction
Elke Krasny, Andrea Hubin

1–3 pm

Lecture
Emily Ngubia Kessé

Lecture
University of Colour – Dania Awin, Soraya Basaran, Tara Flach and Inez van der Scheer

Followed by a conversation between Emily Ngubia Kessé, Dania Awin, Soraya Basaran, Tara Flach and Inez van der Scheer moderated by Andrea Hubin and Ruth Sonderegger

3–3:30 pm break

3:30–5:30 pm

Transversal Methodology: Labour, Love, Fear
Lecture
Silent University – Pelin Tan

Aus der Praxis im Dissens
Lecture
Universität der Ignorant_innen/maiz/das kollektiv – Rubia Salgado

Situating Ourselves in Displacement. Conditions, Experiences and Subjectivity across Neoliberalism and Precarity
Lecture
Murmurae and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest – Paula Cobo-Guevara

Followed by a conversation between Pelin Tan, Rubia Salgado and Paula Cobo-Guevara moderated by Elke Krasny and Ruth Sonderegger

7 pm
The Question of the Institutional in the Biopolitical Economy of Disposability
Keynote Lecture
Athena Athanasiou

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Saturday, December 5, 2015
Workshops
Institute for Education in the Arts
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna

10–3 pm

Workshop 1
Transversal Methodology: Labour, Love, Fear
Silent University – Pelin Tan

Workshop 2
Situating Ourselves Collectively. Exploring the Embodied Politics, Conditions, Experiences and Subjectivity across Displacement
Murmurae – Paula Cobo-Guevara

Workshop 3
Workshop for Black Students and Students of Colour
University of Colour – Dania Awin, Soraya Basaran, Tara Flach and Inez van der Scheer
co-organized by Sunanda Mesquita

Workshop 4
Workshop for Black Lecturers and Lecturers of Colour,
Black Youth and Adult Educators and Youth and Adult Educators of Colour
Emily Ngubia Kessé co-organized by Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski

Workshop 5
Rassismuskritische Kompetenz – Ein Haus für alle bauen!
PROSA. Projekt Schule für Alle! – Azra Bajrica und Sina Farahmandnia

Workshop 6
Pädagogische Reflexivität in der Migrationsgesellschaft
Universität der Ignorant_innen/maiz/das kollektiv – Rubia Salgado und Gergana Mineva

Workshop registration/Anmeldung für die Workshops unter
counteracting@akbild.ac.at

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Saturday, December 5, 2015
Vernetzungsraum / Space for Encounters
Institute for Education in the Arts,
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna,
Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna

4–7 pm

Vernetzungsraum / Space for Encounters

• AG diskriminierungsfreie Schulbücher, vertreten durch represented by Marlies Brommer, Tobias Dörler, Maria Hündler, Simon Inou (M-Media), Katharina Kanzian,
• Manuela Picallo Gil, Anna Preiser (M-Media)
• Die Akademie geht in die Schule, vertreten durch represented by Antje Lehn, Anna Pritz und Günay Özayli
• Arbeitstitel Migrarchis/Working Title Migrarchis, vertreten durch represented by Cana Bilir-Meier
• Colectivo Acción Solidaria con México-Austria vertreten durch represented by Mariel Rodríguez und Gerardo Montes de Oca
• Fluchthilfe & Du, vertreten durch represented by Katarzyna Winiecka und Singh S.
• Planet 10, vertreten durch represented by Ezgi Erol und Lilly Axster
• PROSA – Projekt Schule für Alle!, vertreten durch represented by Azra Bajrica und Sina Farahmandnia
• Strategien für Zwischenräume, ein Projekt von trafo.K, Büro für Kunstvermittlung und kritische Wissensproduktion, vertreten durch represented by Renate Höllwart
• Kurator_innen-Team von Wer hat Angst vor dem Museum, vertreten durch represented by Verena Melgarejo und Imayna Cáceres

The setting for the talks was prepared in collaboration with Andrea Hubin with students who participated in the following two courses, Artistic Art Education and Artistic Collaborative Practice , taught by Hansel Sato at the Department for Art and Education at the Institute for Education in the Arts.

Supported by the City of Vienna Women’s Department MA 57
Supported by and in cooperation with the Equal Opportunities Team at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna