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, 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 2024.
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June 30 to July 3, 2022 Vienna, Austria Belvedere 21. Museum of Contemporary Art.Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien Free entry! The detailed programme and catalogue will be available for download from June 29! Festival of Vocabularies Life: Smashing Wor(l)ds: Cultural Practices for… Continue reading Smashing Wor(l)ds: Festival of Vocabularies Life - Citizen Science Project Update: MEMORY-LABS in May
In May, the citizen science research project “Citizens’ Memories and Imaginaries: Democratic Citizenship” invited highschool students to conduct research at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In three memory labs they worked on the topics of “Bürger:innenschaft” (citizenship) and “Gemeinschaft”… Continue reading Citizen Science Project Update: MEMORY-LABS in May - FROM AMNESIA TO CONVIVIALITY. Presentation and artist talk.
March 29, 2022 L’Annexe, Rue du Chevreuil 24l, 1000 Brussels Prof. Marina Grzinic (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) with invited artists and guest speakers Joëlle Sambi Nzeba and Nicolas Pommier (Brussels) Presentation and celebration of the international group exhibition “Stories of… Continue reading FROM AMNESIA TO CONVIVIALITY. Presentation and artist talk. - Insurgent Flows. Trans*Decolonial and Black Marxist Futures
Insurgent Flows. Trans*Decolonial and Black Marxist Futures. Experimental-documentary video film: 90min Authors: Marina Gržinić and Tjaša Kancler Year: 2022 Conversations with: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Basha Changuerra (CNAACAT), Bogdan Popa, Aigul Hakimova, Danijela Almesberger (LORI), Nat Raha, Piro Rexhepi and Ramón… Continue reading Insurgent Flows. Trans*Decolonial and Black Marxist Futures - muslim* contemporary: exhibition, workshops, readings
November 8-12, 2021 Atelierhaus Prospekthof Lehargasse 8, Tor 21060 Wien Öffnungszeiten: Täglich 13:00-21:00 Konzipiert und kuratiert von Asma Aiad, BA, mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Prof.in Dr.in Marina Grzinic sowie dem Fachbereich Konzeptuelle Kunst /IBK/ der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.… Continue reading muslim* contemporary: exhibition, workshops, readings