The Illegality Of Freedom

Symposium:
Fri, November 11th, 18.00 - 20.00 h
Sat, November 12th, 9.30 - 17.00 h

Venue | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, M13a and Aula

Participants | Milica Tomi?, Marina Gr?ini?, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Lidija Krienzer-Radojevi?, Elke Krasny, Nenad Romi? aka Marcell Mars, Jelena Vesi?, Jelena Petrovi?, Karen Mirza, Brad Butler and Övül Ö. Durmusoglu.

Concept | Jelena Petrovi?

Assistant | Jana Zaharijevi? Design | Marija Ratkovi? Proofreading | Manca Bajec

PROGRAM

(The working language of the Symposium is English)

Saturday, November 12th
Room M13

9.30 h – 11.30 h What Does Freedom Stand for Today?
Marina Gr?ini? (artist, philosopher and Univ.-Prof. PhD., Institute of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): What Freedom?
Lidija Krienzer-Radojevi? (PhD candidate, The University of Art and Design Linz): Shifting the Locality of Neoliberalism
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei (philologist, and director of The Department of Eagles Tirana, co-director of punctum books and editor/advisor of The New World Summit): New World Summit

11.30 h – 12.00 h Break

12.00 h – 14.00 h The Politics of Resistance by Other Means
Elke Krasny (curator, urban researcher and Univ.-Prof. PhD., Institute for Education in the Arts Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): Unsettling Resistance

Jelena Vesi? (freelance curator and writer, researcher at Haus der Kunst, Munich): On Bafflement: The Universal Right To Baffle

Nenad Romi? aka Marcell Mars (free software advocate, artist/hacker, Zagreb): Public Library Memory of the World

14.00h – 15.00h Lunch break

15.00h – 17.00h Art and Resistance Beyond the Social Utopia
Jelena Petrovi? (Univ.-Prof. PhD., Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): Towards Another Singularity
Karen Mirza and Brad Butler (artists, filmmakers and co-founders of no.w.here London): The Museum of Non Participation: Resisting The (Act)ual
Övül Ö. Durmusoglu (freelance curator and writer Berlin and Istanbul, director/curator of YAMA Public Screen, Istanbul): When the world needs togetherness