Bitte seien Sie achtsam - Tag 2

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

7.5.2019, Tuesday

12.00–15.00 Kunsthalle Wien, Skulpturenplatz, Karlsplatz

Workshop by Heba Y. Amin and with students and passers-by
Intimate Bureaucracy
Followed by interventions in space with talks and screenings.

19.00 Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsplatz 1 1070 Vienna

Public lecture by Heba Y. Amin
Female Subjectivities and Technological Dystopias
Organized by Studio for Conceptual Art [Post-conceptual Art Practices] Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Kunsthalle Wien

Egyptian artist Heba Y. Amin grounds her work in extensive research that looks at the convergence of politics, technology, and architecture. Techno-utopian ideas, as manifest in characteristic machines of soft colonial power, are at the heart of Amin’s work. Starting from the idea that landscape is an expression of dominant political power, Heba Y. Amin looks for tactics of subversion and other techniques to undermine consolidated systems and flip historical narratives through critical spatial practice.

CV: Amin teaches at Bard College Berlin, is a doctoral fellow in art history at Freie Universität, and a current Field of Vision fellow in NYC. She is the co-founder of the Black Athena Collective, the curator of visual art for the MIZNA journal (US), and co-curator for the biennial residency program DEFAULT with Random Association (IT). Furthermore, Amin is also one of the artists behind the subversive graffiti action on the set of the television series “Homeland” which received worldwide media attention. Amin lives in Berlin.