Fri 15.11.2024 // 17.00
Photo: Kilian Jörg
Fri 15.11.2024 // 17.00
Open Lab/Walk // Meeting point: Im_flieger, Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna // pay as you wish // Please register: imflieger@gmail.com – but don’t hesitate to join spontaneously // Warm clothes & solid shoes needed
With: Lisa Hinterreithner (AT), Michael Hirsch (DE), Kilian Jörg (AT) und Anita Kaya (AT)
Guest: Anton Vandevoorde (BE)
Realized by Im_flieger as part of Stoffwechsel – Ecologies of Collaboration. www.stffwchsl.net
Over the past years, Stoffwechsel – Ecologies of Collaboration has explored autonomous zones and spaces of resistance, such as the anticapitalist agricultural cooperative Longo Maï and the Zone à Défendre (ZAD) at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, where activists fought against the construction of a new airport. This year, we expand our lens further and also include Indigenous protest camps in Canada, where new forms of autonomy, liberation, and environmental defense are being forged. These protest camps do more than block harmful infrastructures – they liberate our minds, opening up new ways of thinking and being in the world.
Our guest Anton Vandevoorde, whom we met this spring at the ZAD in France, explores with us how knowledge is produced in these autonomous zones and what happens when different worldviews and understandings of nature intersect or come into conflict.
We think not only about the ties between movements, but also about the bonds woven between movements, people, and the land itself. They are living networks that create new cultural expressions and experiment with alternative forms of social organization.
And what better place to celebrate these ties than at Lobau, where activists occupied construction sites in 2021/22 to resist a new highway. As we walk together through Lobau, we will honor the enduring legacy of these occupations, reflecting on how they continue to inspire and inform future movements.
Anita Kaya (AT) born 1961, is a freelance choreographer, performer and curator living in Vienna. Under the label OYA-Produktion (1988-2005) she created dance productions, site-specific performances, performative installations and dance videos that were presented internationally. In 2000, she initiated the artists for artists initiative Im_flieger – research laboratory for dance, performance and transmedia art (Concept funding from the City of Vienna 2022-25). In artistic direction and in collaboration with numerous artists and theoreticians, she develops new concepts and structures of artistic cooperation and mentoring programmes: e. g. the European residency programme for young choreographers TERRAINS FERTILES 05 (Innovation Prize 2005 of IG-Kultur Vienna). She is engaged with the body as a reservoir of individual and collective memory, and its potential for communication with the environment, the human and more than human: e. g. Translocations / One-to-One Performance located at the intersection of history/trauma, archiving, installation and performance. 2023 she cooperates with Theatercombinat/ Claudia Bosse as performer/ choreographer in the production Bones & Stones. In 2019/20 she completed the university course “Curating in the Scenic Arts” at the University of Salzburg and Munich. She is co-editor and author of the publication VISCERAL FICTION – Im_flieger schreibt Geschichte/s – 20 Jahre Künstler:innen für Künstler:innen. 2021, monocrom. www.imflieger.net, www.stffwchsl.net
Anton Vandevoorde (BE) is a PhD student at the Department of Conflict and Development at Ghent University. He conducts ethnographic and participatory research at environmental and Indigenous protest camps in Europe and so-called “Canada,” studying the creation and revival of alternative ontologies for a more sustainable world. In these autonomous zones, he explores how knowledge is produced and what happens when different worldviews and understandings of nature intersect or come into conflict.
Kilian Jörg (AT) works both artistically and philosophically on the topic of ecological catastrophe and how its transformative forces can best be imagined and deployed. Previous publications have been on club culture, the political backlash from an ecological perspective, cultivating distance in catastrophic times and a speculative religion of waste. His current research topics are the car as a metaphor for our toxic entanglements with modern lifestyles (released in book form as “Das Auto und die ökologische Katastrophe” in September 2024), the socio-psychological effects of living with ecocide and radical activist strategies of reclaiming land like the ZAD in France. He is working with the Futurama.Lab at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is affiliated to the SFB Affective Societies at the FU Berlin. www.kilianj.org & www.kilianjoerg.blogspot.com
Lisa Hinterreithner (AT) Die Künstlerin und Performerin Lisa Hinterreithner verschränkt in ihren Arbeiten Körper und Materialien. Dabei sucht sie nach experimentellen Performance Formaten, die Fragen zu Repräsentation und Teilhabe thematisieren. So entstehen gemeinsame Prozesse und Räume, in denen sich Publikum, Performer*innen und Dinge verbinden. Sie hat u.a. mit Julius Deutschbauer, Jack Hauser, Rotraud Kern, Elise Mory, Laura Navndrup Black, Lilo Nein, Martina Ruhsam, Linda Samaraweerová gearbeitet. www.lisahinterreithner.at
Michael Hirsch (DE) is a philosopher, political scientist and art theorist. He teaches political theory and the history of ideas at the University of Siegen and lives as a freelance author in Munich. He is a regular participant in the workshops and research labs of “Stoffwechsel. Ecologies of Cooperation” as part of Im_flieger. Recent publications: Richtig falsch. Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen (2019); Die Überwindung der Arbeitsgesellschaft. Eine politische Philosophie der Arbeit (2016); Logik der Unterscheidung. 10 Thesen zu Kunst und Politik (2015). www.michael-hirsch-archiv.de