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The Spring Curatorial Program

The Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies is co-organised by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Verein K in collaboration with Jelena Petrović, who conceptualised and curated the first edition, untitled: Art Geographies (as the result of the FWF research project V-730: The Politics of Belonging – Art Geographies 2019-2023).

Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies explores the relationship between art, theory and politics by dealing with borders, maps, myths, landscapes, wars, territories and other planetary phenomena of today’s geographies. Following emancipatory ways of social subjectivation (the politics of belonging) rather than representative modes of geopolitical identification (the politics of identity), the program focuses on critical, decolonial, feminist and material dimensions of planetary co-existence.

Moving from theoretical insights into artistic and curatorial practices, especially those that introduce geography into the realm of political thought and social life through performative voices, visual inscriptions and displays, aesthetic perfections or errors/glitches, the program explores counter-cartographies engaged in critical, participative and discursive investigation of geopolitical borders of identification and exclusion. By presenting various artistic, theoretical and curatorial works and practices through daily seminars, screenings, readings, lectures and discussions, the program thus questions the dominant ways of geopolitical situating of people, earth and its (non)human life.

Motivated by the politics of belonging, but also by the politics of resistance to any geopolitical exploitation of people (contemporary racism) and earth (neocolonial extractivism), this program finally searches for social, political, ecological and ideological imagination of possible future geographies, giving a meaningful insight into politically or socially engaged living practices that connect cognitive with affective, perceptual with representative, and imaginary, but also impossible with real.

Program speakers and contributors (in alphabetical order): Andrea Ancira, Waala Alqaisiya, Aleksei Borisionok, Lana Čmajčanin, Raino Isto, Ruth Jenerbekova, Margareta Kern, Bouchra Khalili, Elke Krasny, Katja Kobolt, Brandon LaBelle, Stephanie Misa, Luis Ortiz, Jelena Petrović, Oleksiy Radynski, Philipp Sattler, Klaus Speidel, Kate Sutton, Steven ten Thije, Madina Tlostanova, Rojda Tuğrul, Françoise Vergès, Slavs and Tatars, Milica Tomić and others.

Curated by:
Jelena Petrović

Program coordinators:
Jelena Kaludjerović
Jelena Petrović

Program assistant:
Nour Shantout

Design: Seth Weiner
Logo: Aleksandra Gustin

Thanks to: Verena Borecky, Michaela Glanz, Tom Engels, Dejan Kaludjerović, PhD in Practice, Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulović, Paul Reiter, Dunja Reithner, Olia Sosnovskaya, Annette Südbeck.

The Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies is supported by: FWF Austrian Science FundERSTE Foundation
Austrian Federal Chancellery (Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture),
City of ViennaSlovenian Cultural Centre SKICA, and realised in the partnership with mumok kinoDepot – Kunst und DiskussionIZK – Institute for Contemporary ArtAnnenstraße 53, Crvena Association for Culture and Art,Ukrainian Institute.

The program will be held in English.

List of entries

  • Reweaving our world(s) anew: decolonial art geographies as spaces of “refuturing”

    In the context of the Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies.

    Lecture by Madina Tlostanova

    mumok kino
    Museumsplatz 1
    1070 Vienna

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Weaving the Old World’s Shroud: Decolonization, Arts, Struggles

    In the context of the Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies.

    Lecture by Françoise Vergès

    Depot – Kunst und Diskussion
    Breite Gasse 3
    1070 Wien

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Invisible Constellations and Sunken Archipelagos

    In the context of the Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies.

    Lecture by Bouchra Khalili

    mumok kino
    Museumsplatz 1
    1070 Vienna

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Breaking Binaries: How Biennials Forged a New Cartography

    In the context of the Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies.

    Lecture by Kate Sutton

    mumok kino
    Museumsplatz 1
    1070 Vienna

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    Photo of a building with thatched roof, behind it green trees, in the middle the building breaks backwards and gives the space for a large sharp figure with a large round circle as a head and hanging bosom, stairs lead to the elevation to the sculpture.
  • Crit-Cross: A Forum on Art Criticism #17

    In the context of the Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies.

    Discussion moderated by Klaus Speidel

    Depot – Kunst und Diskussion
    Breite Gasse 3
    1070 Vienna

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Oleksiy Radynski: Geographies and Infrastructures of Post-Socialism in the context of War

    Dieser Programmpunkt ist nicht öffentlich zugänglich.

    Oleksiy Radynski in conversation with Aleksei Borisionok and Ruth Jenerbekova. In the context of the Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies.

    Film screening and Discussion

    mumok kino
    Museumsplatz 1
    1070 Wien

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    Filmstill of a man with glasses driving a car
  • Margareta Kern: Thursday War

    This part of the program is not open to the public.

    In the context of the Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies.

    Lecture and performance

    Studio Building/ 2. floor, Multi-Purpose Space

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Brandon LaBelle: Towards the work of Acoustic Justice

    This part of the program is not open to the public.

    In the context of the Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies.

    Presentation

    Studio Building/ 2. floor, Multi-Purpose Space

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

  • Slavs and Tatars: Red-Black Thread

    In the context of the Spring Curatorial Program 2022: Art Geographies.

    Lecture performance

    Depot – Kunst und Diskussion
    Breite Gasse 3
    1070 Vienna

    Art Theory and Cultural Studies

    four photos on pink background, the first photo shows a dancer doing the splits in the air, the three other pictures each show a bearded man in a suit with different skin colors or facial features, above them a red writing