jan22: touching pain

SPECIAL PROJECT

Touching Pain
docu-fiction, 2022

Touching Pain is a three-part docu-fiction on discrimination, fragmentation, administration, citizenship and non-citizenship.

Recorded and finalized by FWF-PEEK project “Conviviality as Potentiality” (AR 679).

Realized by the project team Conviviality as Potentiality [FWF AR 679]. Recording and editing by Jovita Pristovšek. Sound recordings by Sophie Uitz. Conceptualization by Marina Gržinić, Professor at Studio for Post-conceptual Art Practices/PCAP/IBK,

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2022.

Supported by the Rector’s Fund 2021 for Projects, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Awarded to the Studio for Post-conceptual Art Practices/PCAP/ in 2021.

Touching Pain, docu-fiction, 2022

PART 1

Part 1 of Touching Pain presents:

Lesung „Muslimaniac. Die Karriere eines Feindbildes” mit Autor Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç

The reading was originally featured as part of the project: Muslim* Contemporary

ATELIERHAUS, LEHÁRGASSE 8, 1060 WIEN, PROSPEKTHOF, TOR 210.11.2021

Touching Pain Part 1
Touching Pain Part 2

Touching Pain, docu-fiction, 2022

PART 2

Part 2 of Touching Pain presents:

The Uyghurs are native to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in northwest China. The fate of the Uyghurs, an ethnic group of Turkish people originating from and culturally linked to the Central and East Asian region, is in peril.

Since 2014, the Chinese government has subjected Uyghurs living in Xinjiang to widespread abuses, including forced sterilizations and forced labor.

Since 2017, at least one million Uyghurs have been arbitrarily detained in Xinjiang internment camps.

Aaron Kimmig’s 2021 artwork is central point of rethinking the situation.

Aaron Kimmig artwork Xinjiang Sentinel-2 consists of 16 images, 45 cm x 45 cm, with aggregated satellite images and a website where the internment camps can be observed (https://dc.nanu-c.org).

The animated travelogue through the Chinese province of Xinjiang consists of over 380 suspected internment camps where Uyghurs are held in Xinjiang.

The work by Aaron Kimmig was originally featured as part of the project: Die Sichtbarkeit des Unsichtbaren // The Visibility of the Invisible

STUDIO FOR POST-CONCEPTUAL ART PRACTICES/PCAP/IBK (LEHÁRGASSE 8, 1060 WIEN, 1. OG ATELIER SÜD)

25.6.2021

Touching Pain, docu-fiction, 2022

PART 3

Part 3 of Touching Pain presents:

Asma Aiad: The Ninth of November 2020.

Installation project at Muslim* Contemporary

In the early hours of the ninth of November 2020, 60 house searches took place as part of the so-called “Operation Luxor.” This large-scale raid took place exactly one week after the deadly attack in Vienna (2.11.2020) and is the largest police operation of the Second Republic, involving almost a thousand officers.

Meysara Majdoub: Presentation of the CAGE and ACT-P report findings

A REPORT by CAGE and ACT-P, published on the one-year anniversary of Operation Luxor, documents the deeply troubling series of events and how they reflected the policies of the Austrian government.

Asma Aiad: Excerpt from longer Q&A section

The work by Asma Aiad was originally featured as part of the project: Muslim* Contemporary

ATELIERHAUS, LEHÁRGASSE 8, 1060 WIEN, PROSPEKTHOF, TOR 2

9.11.2021

Touching Pain Part 3