30 Jan 2018

Political Futures at Kunsthalle Wien

Political Futures, 2nd & 3rd of February

Over the last years fundamental conditions of social life have changed: class and work relations, the relations between politics and economics, aesthetics of mass media as well as political rhetorics are characterised by critical upheaval. What is at stake is no less than the question: how to proceed?

The discursive series 'Political Futures' departs from the contemporary antagonisms and asks how the future can be activated and occupied as a space of possibilities and imagination. What other images, narratives, visions and aesthetics of the political are needed in order to turn the idea of the future forward? What contributions can art offer? What role can art institutions take on in the present – conscious of their responsibilities as well as their limits?

After the launch the series will take place over the course of 2018.

Program

Friday February 2, 2018
3.30 – 4.30 pm: Lecture Ayşe Güleç (in German)
4.30 – 5.30 pm: Talk with Cristina Ricupero & Juliane Bischoff (in English)
5.30 – 6.30 pm: Talk with Zentrum für Politische Schönheit / Philipp Ruch & Nicolaus Schafhausen (in German)
6.45 – 7.45 pm: Talk with Monika Szewczyk & Yugoexport / Irena Haiduk (in English)

Saturday February 3, 2018
12.30 – 1.30 pm: Talk with Miki Kratsman & Vanessa Joan Müller (in English)
1.45 – 2.45 pm: Lecture Clémentine Deliss (in English)
2.45 - 3.30 pm: Break
3.30 – 4.30 pm: Talk with Marcel Odenbach & Christian Falsnaes (in German)
4.45 – 5.30 pm: Talk with Hito Steyerl & Nicolaus Schafhausen (in German)