What now? Strategies of entanglement

TQW Studios: What now? Strategies of entanglement

Sat 01. & Sun 02.03., Theory, in English (partly in German)

At a time of rising far-right presences and increasing conservatisms, "What now?" invites practitioners, thinkers and project initiatives working towards supporting and critically transforming the fields of art and culture to reflect on their entanglements with other realms of life affected by ongoing political deterioration. Bringing together different projects and agents, whose positionalities call into question the perceived stability and authority of cultural institutions, it is an invitation to think in terms of strategies – rather than achievements or plans – of entanglement, responding to a volatile and often threatening landscape in ways that acknowledge and foster contextualisation and connection.

The event unfolds in four working sessions – two hosted by cultural professionals based locally in Vienna and two providing insights from Eastern European cultural scenes – taking different, often participatory forms (presentation, workshop, discussion, etc).

With: Marijana Cvetković / Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski / Ana Vujanović, Friederike Landau-Donnelly / Martyna Lorenc / Ivana Pilić / Johanna Schindler, Otvorená kultúra! / Open Culture!, Djamila Grandits / Selina Shirin Stritzel / Thomas Trabitsch