Conviviality as Potentiality
From Amnesia and Pandemic towards a Convivial Epistemology
Conviviality as a social practice is characterized by an intrinsic dynamic. The global capitalist world and its processes of racialization and neocolonialism systematically oppose the possibility of conviviality, placing it in constant danger of dwindling or collapsing.
The aim of our work is to explore and develop artistic practices that have the potential to intervene in these disrupting dynamics. We start from the assumption that arts-based research can function as an affirmative transformative force to deepen and strengthen convivial practices.
The question of conviviality as potentiality will be researched in connection to relevant predicaments in four territories: Australia, Lebanon, Israel, South Africa and Austria. With local and international artists and research partners, this project seeks to co-develop a new definition and practice of conviviality as positive, affirmative action of doing in the form of changing.
Conviviality as Potentiality: From Amnesia and Pandemic towards a Convivial Epistemology is an interdisciplinary, arts and theory based research project, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, AR 679) through its Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK), and is based at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 2021 to 2025.
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- PRACTICE CHAOSBIP program in Mainz, Germany May 20–24, 2024 As part of an ongoing Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP) initiated by the Studio ART and INTERVENTION/Concept (PCAP)/IBK and supported by the International Office of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, a … Read more
- INTERSECTIONS OF CONVIVIALITY: VOICES OF COMMUNITIES FORUM 1: Marginalized Voices at the Forefront! Speaking up, Speaking out!WHEN: June 14, 2024, 10 AM – 9 PM WHERE: Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna, Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna, Research Centre IFIME The forum “Intersections of Conviviality: Voices from Communities” examines conviviality as a potential within diverse communities within the … Read more
- ZOOM-TALK: Aktivismus und Communities, mit Henrie Dennis / Afro Rainbow Austria (ARA)Aktivismus und Communities Dienstag, 13.2.2024 um 18:00 Uhr Ein Gespräch mit Mag.art Henrie Dennis von Afro Rainbow Austria (ARA) über institutionellen Rassismus, Aktivismus und Communities. Online via Zoom: https://akbild-ac-at.zoom.us/j/63037783912Meeting ID: 630 3778 3912 Nach der Veröffentlichung des Buches “Civil Society Reimagined. … Read more
- jan24: LECTURES on Borders and Migration, by Claudia Tazreiter and Joshua SimonWHEN: January 18, 2024 WHERE: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Art and Intervention | Concept Lectures by Claudia Tazreiter, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden and Joshua Simon. Part of the lecture series Conviviality & Criticality through Contemporary Art and Fashion. Learning from … Read more
- BOOK PRESENTATION: Civil Society Reimagined (2024)
WHERE: Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Wien WHEN: January 16, 2024 at 7.30 PM Link to VIDEO RECORDING Marina Gržinić, Sophie Uitz, Jovita Pristovšek (Eds.), Civil Society Reimagined. Citizens’ Memories and Imaginaries: Democratic Citizenship, Munich: kopaed 2024 The FWF Citizen Science … Read more