On Xenophobia Redux
dal 24/3/2008 al 18/4/2008
Segnalato da
24/3/2008
On Xenophobia Redux
Open Space - Zentrum fur Kunstprojekte, Wien
The project aims to engage as an online platform and database for contemporary cultural reflection on a phenomenon, which is not a static ideological pattern, but takes on different faces, agendas and forms of establishment. Especially with recent external consolidations of borders and internal discrimination, this issue is gaining actuality.
curated by Anne-Britt Rage and David Rych
Xenophobia has long been a part of our history. It is at the nucleus of the disciplinary apparatus of the national body, encapsulated through rigid control on the outer expanding borders of the European territory. New forms of xenophobia arise in association with certain scientific developments and geopolitical processes.
How are we to understand xenophobic tendencies and how to react to them?
The xeno.no project aims to engage as an online platform and database for contemporary cultural reflection on a phenomenon, which is not a static ideological pattern, but takes on different faces, agendas and forms of establishment. Especially with recent external consolidations of borders and internal discrimination, this issue is gaining actuality.
The site will function as a online database of theory and visual and time-based art to create a readability of existing positions on, about, around and against the normative tendencies within Europe (and beyond). An editorial board intends to collaborate with groups and individuals from the cultural sector in assembling a variety of approaches to collectively create an advanced tool of analysis and encouragement for educational research of critical culture. The general structure is an online accessible archive, segmented in Art, Theory and News. However there is no endeavour to create a complete anthology in such a complex matter.
The list that of the participating artists and authors is not complete at this time, since the process of continuous addition is the focus of several following workshops. The contributing artists and authors are either personally contacted to participate, or invited to respond to open calls. Over the duration of the following year the extension of the database will be carried on, in order to compile a broad listing of already existent art and text contributions on the subject of xenophobia.
Further a series of lectures and artistic presentations will be organized at different venues in the frame of the xeno.no project, with consideration of local emphasis in the European context, on which base artists and theoreticians are requested to participate.
During the program in the Open Space, a presentation of the project will take place - on two further evenings invited speakers will talk about specific topics and/or their artistic work in relation to Xenophobia.
Lectures/presentations
26.03 (language: English)
18.00 Anne-Britt Rage and David Rych in conversation with Gulsen Bal
19:00 Grada Kilomba
20:00 Mara Traumane
27.03 (language: German)
18.00 Kerstin Kellermann
19:00 Petja Dimitrova
20:00 Martin Krenn
Open Workspace / Redaktion (language: English, German)
28.03 - 03.04, 10.30 – 15.00
kind support provided by
Norwegian Art Council
Wien Kultur
LABfactory
Opening 25.03.08, 19.00 – 21.30
Open Space - Zentrum fur Kunstprojekte
Lassingleithnerplatz 2 - Wien