Bitte seien Sie achtsam - Tag 3 Event

Project by the Studio for Conceptual Art [Post-conceptual Art Practices//PCAP] Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in collaboration with Kunsthalle Wien. It consists of an exhibition, performative interventions in the space, workshops, lecture and talks. Organization: Prof. Marina Grzinic, Maren Grimm, Julia Hohenwarter, Mika Maruyama and the students of Post-conceptual Art Practices with guests.

BITTE SEIEN SIE ACHTSAM. ANDERE BRAUCHEN IHREN KARLSPLATZ VIELLEICHT NOTWENDIGER. The project consists of two threads along which we want to

first, what is our responsibility in entering the public space? Who can open it and or has access to it?
second, how is it possible to deconstruct the concept of going public with artworks and performative bodies? Can we raise any social awareness, can we “woke the public space and the people" on questions of marginalization, discrimination, precarity?

In this regard students enter the public space with interventions, constructing topical art objects with discursive and political potentials; the temporary built performative spaces (rapping, shouting, manifesting) will exchange with the passerby, and as well with the specific art and any public. We want to open with this project a platform for dialogue with everybody passing by, building temporary communities and questioning the politics of art practice, the performative of words uttered and bodies in the public space. Using a title, referring to an announcement known from the public transport and adapted to the actual area, we will start this conversation.

Highlights of the program

8.5.2019, Wednesday

12.00–15.00 Kunsthalle Wien, Skulpturenplatz, Karlsplatz

Workshop by James Nguyen in situ with students and passers-by
Australia-Austria: A New Terra Nullius (immigration as amnesia) — the violence of recurrent colonisations in contemporary Australia
This workshop has been assisted by the University of NSW (Art & Design), Australia

CV: James Nguyen has received support and funding from The Australia Council for the Arts, Samstag, Creative Arts NSW, and the Clitheroe Foundation. Nguyen has completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga), a Bachelor of Arts. Honours (National Art School, Sydney), a Masters of Fine Arts (Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney) and currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of NSW (Arts & Design). Nguyen has also been a fellow at UnionDocs (Centre for Experimental Documentary Arts, NYC), co-founder of Astute Art Investments International, on the artist’s board for WestSpace and currently a Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artist, Melbourne.

Followed by interventions in space with talks and screenings. The reflections are connected with 8 05. 1945, the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, and the end of the WWII. Where are we standing today in the EU regarding rights?

18.00 Kunsthalle Wien, Skulpturenplatz, Karlsplatz

Statements and talk: What the disobedient bodies speak?
Organized by Grace Marta Latigo with the participation of Asma Aiad, Faris Cuchi, and Marissa Lobo

Talk with activists’ artists who carry historically marked bodies connecting intersectional questions and a narrative of epistemic disobedience. Disobedience is performed trough body-minds, body speeches, body genders, body sexualities and body counter hegemonic positions.