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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- Convivial workshop #1: Konvivialität als Potentialität.Konvivialität als Potentialität:Workshop mit Esra Özmen and FWF PEEK project “Conviviality as Potentiality” at Wissenslabor 22. The workshop is conceptualised and organised by FWF PEEK-research project team Marina Gržinić, Sophie Uitz and Jovita Pristovšek „Konvivialität als Potentialität” (AR 679), in… Continue reading Convivial workshop #1: Konvivialität als Potentialität.
- Film screening: Corona verstehen. Understanding Corona. (Universität Innsbruck)
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Presentation and talk at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with ruangrupa, the curators of documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany (2022). Moderation: Marina Gržinić Location: Atelierhaus, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Studio for Post-conceptual Art Practices Date: 11 October 2022… Continue reading ruangrupa curator talk: Post-documenta fifteen, WHERE WE STAND? - Lecture and screening: Conviviality as Potentiality – Decolonial Epistemologies and Trans*FlowsOn September 16, 2022, Marina Gržinić, Tjaša Kancler, Jovita Pristovšek and Sophie Uitz (FWF PEEK AR 679) were invited to a lecture at the Symposium “Architecture and Spaces of Migration,” held at the Academy of Fine Arts in the context… Continue reading Lecture and screening: Conviviality as Potentiality – Decolonial Epistemologies and Trans*Flows