Contesting Border Regimes – Sound and Images

SYMPOSIUM TRANSKULTURALITÄT 2021

Friday, 7 May 2021, 3:00–7:30 pm CET
Saturday, 8 May 2021, 11:00 am–3:30 pm CET

Online event

The crisis of European border politics and current struggles against deportations and illegal push-backs from EU countries including Austria have led to various political, activist as well as artistic interventions. This transdisciplinary symposium creates a forum to address the potential of cinematic and musical politics and to look into their relation to activist practices and current research.

Our goal is to bring activism, the arts and academia in contact with each other. We want to explore how these differing approaches interconnect in contesting contemporary border regimes and their devastating effects.

Schedule (all times CET):
Saturday, 8 May 2021

11.00 am–12.30 pm
Faris Cuchi Gezahegn, Ciara Moser
METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN PART II

Keynote Lecture: Ilker Ataç, Fulda University of Applied Sciences (Chair: Therese Kaufmann)
Is Urban Citizenship the Right Answer to the Crisis of European Border Politics? Entanglement of Non-State Actors with the Local Municipalities Across Europe

Faris Cuchi Gezahegn, Miriam Adefris, Ganaël Dumreicher
METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN PART III

12.30–1.00 pm Break

1.00–3.00 pm
Paper Presentation: Anja Brunner, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Contesting (Musical) Boundaries: Women Musicians from Syria in Austria and Germany

Paper Presentation: Ioannis Christidis, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Challenging Europeanity: Syrian Refugees, Musical Acts of Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism from Below

Paper Presentation: Evrim Hikmet Öğüt, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
Street Music Practice as Social Non-Movement: Syrian Musicians’ Claim on the Public Space

Panel Discussion: Anja Brunner, Ioannis Christidis, Evrim Hikmet Öğüt (Chair: Ursula Hemetek)

3.00–3.30 pm Closing
Closing Remarks: Ursula Hemetek

Faris Cuchi Gezahegn
METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN PART IV – FINALE