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 five 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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- Esra Özmen, convivial workshop one 19/11/2024WHERE: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna I Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Vienna, 1st floor Atelier Süd (M1) WHEN: 19.11.2024, 16:30-18:30 WORKSHOP TITLE: RAP MUSIC/HIP HOP VISIONS, resistance, working class, empowerment WORKSHOP/collaboration with Peek research project CONVIVIALITY AS POTENTIALITY and its newly joined … Read more
- forthcoming book in 2025: Intersections of Conviviality: Voices from CommunitiesIntersections of Conviviality: Voices from Communities Edited by Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek, Asma Aiad, Anahita Neghabat Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming in 2025 Intersections of Conviviality: Voices from Communities explores the nuanced dynamics that shape conviviality and examines the different ways in which individuals within communities navigate … Read more
- forthcoming book in 2025: Sexual Dissidences: Frau Diamanda’s Catalan Scenes, Travesti Politics of Resistance, and Anti-Canonical KnowledgeSexual Dissidences: Frau Diamanda’s Catalan Scenes, Travesti Politics of Resistance, and Anti-Canonical Knowledge Edited by Oke Fijal, Marina Gržinić, Sen Reyes, Melina Vesely Despite its long history, the unique Latin American phenomenon of sexual identity, travesti, has been largely overlooked in Western … Read more
- nov2024: conviviality erasmus plus phds 25-27/11/2024A three-day exchange of knowledge between PhD students, postgraduates, and faculty members from two esteemed institutions: Linköping University, Sweden, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. PROGRAM: Monday, 25.11.2024 When: 15.15-17.00 Where: Lecture Theatre, K2, Kåkenhus, Norrköping OPEN LECTURE … Read more
- LECTURE “Uncertain Times” by LAMIA JOREIGEWHERE: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna I Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Vienna, 1st floor Atelier Süd (M1) WHEN: 18.11.2024, 17:00-19:00 LECTURE Uncertain Times Lamia Joreige Lamia Joreige will present her project Uncertain Times, which involves the research, writing and production of a body … Read more