Let's stick with the unicorns: Aesthetic Consequences of Care, Tidying & Re.Use

MONDAY 11 May

10 h: Under Our Feet: Soil, Clay and City Life
Zahra Mirza and Students
Workshop

What’s under our feet beneath the city streets? In this workshop, we look at soil and dirt samples taken from green areas in the city, construction sites, potted plants and street pavements, and examine them under a microscope to discover traces of life and signs of disrupted ecologies. We compare living soil with store-bought clay and dense, purified “U-Bahn” clay from underground digging sites. Inspired by what we see, participants sculpt clay and form microbes from soil or fantastical unicorns; some of which will be left to mingle with the earth and some softening the hard surfaces of the city.

12 h: Snacks by Solar Manufaktur
Irene Lucas

The mobile solar lab cooks with the sun in public spaces. A cargo bike equipped with various solar cookers and solar ovens creates a space for culinary experimentation, where solar cooking is demonstrated and tested in small groups. This sparks exciting conversations about the origins of food and new solar recipes for a growing solar community, sol.lab.zones, which is also showcased on social media and explores other alternative cooking methods such as fermentation.

12 h: Lunch Concert hosted by Mathea Magdalena
Come and enjoy

14 h: Urban Worlding through Assemblage
Workshop with Vik Bayer, Klasse für Alle

In the workshop we will work with our urban surroundings. We will question which narratives are inhabiting these spaces and how they differ depending from where we gaze. We will listen, read a poem together, will draw and collect material which we then assemble to a collective miniature exhibition. The process of assemblage provides space for collective speculation and for drafting possible stories through the material. 

Vik Bayer is a non-binary, multidisciplinary artist whose practice centers on critical ecologies. It spans sculpture, video, performance, text, printmaking and research. Oftentimes materializing in collaborative and long-term processes with other artists, researchers, and farmers, their projects spotlight alternative forms of production like community-based economies, commons, agricultural modes of care and speculative  infrastructures of a post-growth paradigm. Vik Bayer lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

16 h: SPINNENSTROM
Stefanie Wuschitz
Workshop

With collected old spinning wheels from all over the land so we can try to spin electricity. You can bring along spinning wheels, bike dynamos, hub dynamos or old DC motors, if you have got some at home. We will make spinning wheels to generate power and energise various things. Similar to an old bike light where the wheels' revolution is translated into light, we as well will use old DC motors to generate energy. The more spinning wheels we can connect to each other, the more we can power with it.

Duration: 3 hours, Please bring if you have: old bike lights, spinning wheels, old DC motors, aligator clips

TUESDAY 12 May 

10 h: Beyond the imperial. The botanical, the common,.....
Academy goes to school
Workshop

Accompanied by Carla Bobadilla und Ruby Sircar mit Paul Engel, Simon Franta, Franziska Fruhstorfer, Theresa Grossalber, Lea Hader, Laureta Halili, Lina Heldovac, Susanna Kastlunger, Rosalie Lorenz, Hannah Majewski, Jasmin Nassar, Nash Neugebauer, Magdalena Pichler, Desirée Schweiger, Selina Süß, Beyza Tahan, Lex Treu, Angelina Turnić, Sophie Wondrak und Fulya Yazar

How do plants adapt, thrive, and defend themselves in colonial and capitalist systems? What can we learn from them, and how can we stand together to resist the appropriation and curtailment of our living spaces and history?

12 h: Snacks by Solar Manufaktur

12 h: Lunch Concert hosted by Mathea Magdalena

17 h: Floodlines
Saleem Haddad
Reading

In the summer of 2014, three estranged Iraqi-British sisters are drawn back into each other’s orbits through the discovery of their late father’s lost paintings.

19 h: Dinner 
Leo Alberti / Heidi Rosenberger 

20 h: Screening
Three (or more) Ecologies: A Feminist Articulation of Eco-Intersectionality . Angela Anderson, 37min, 2019.
Stone of Hell. Tekla Aslanishvili & Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, 24 min, 2021.
Gardens in Between. Wenfei Zhao, 7 min.
Mururu, Irupé, Aguapé, Jaçanã, Uapê. Raphael Röösli, Portuguese and English (with English Subtitles), 16:20 min.

WEDNESDAY 13 May

12 h: Lunch
Luis Penn

13 h: Lunch Concert unplugged hosted by Mathea Magdalena

Further program see Platz nehmen #5