At this year’s Gender Lecture Series, organized as a symposium at the International Research Center – Gender and Performativity (ICGP), Performing Challenges, the focus is on questions regarding the conditions, potentials, challenges, and practices of solidarity—understood as solidarity that can certainly be conflictual and challenging, but which is grounded in the premise of mutual interdependence in a shared world. Against the backdrop of current social struggles and lines of conflict, we engage with trans- and queer-feminist theoretical, artistic, and activist explorations of performative practices of solidarity. The focus is on approaches from the fields of music, theater/performance, dance, film, and media art/social media. The symposium will take place (largely) in English, with content preparation and follow-up provided in an accompanying German-language workshop. It brings together theoretical and artistic approaches to collectively reflect on the political dimension of the performative and the performative dimension of political practices.

 
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Program

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

 

14.00-17.00   Mbongeni N. Mtshali & jackï job (Cape Town)

Workshop: Stuttering, Stumbling, Falling, Part 1

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

 

10.00-13.00     Mbongeni N. Mtshali & jackï job (Cape Town)

Workshop: Stuttering, Stumbling, Falling, Part 2

 

14.15     Evelyn Annuß, Maja Figge (Vienna):

Opening and Introduction: On Solidarities

 

14.30     Rosa Reitsamer (Vienna):

Social inequalities, diversity and solidarity in higher classical music education

 

15.30     Artist Talk:  Isabel Lewis (Tanzquartier Wien) in conversation with Philipp Hohmann

 

16.30     Coffee

 

17.00     Christine Lang (Vienna):

“Dramaturgies of Solidarity”: Feminist Aesthetics in Film

 

18.00     Luce de Lire (Berlin):

critique is over, morality is dead and surreal utopias is where it’s at

Thursday, June 18, 2026

 

10.30     Mbongeni N. Mtshali (Cape Town):

Unruly Allegiances: The Possibilities and Limits of post-apartheid Solidarity

 

11.30     Jasmin Degeling (Weimar) & Maja Figge:

Postmigrant Practices of Infrastructuring Solidarity 

 

12.30     Lunch

 

14.00     Lea Susemichel (Vienna):

Unbedingte Solidarität 

 

15.00     jackï job (Cape Town):

Choreographing Rebellion 

 

16.00     Coffee

 

16.30     Filmic Solidarities: Dialogues for a New Commons (Christina Stuhlberger & Clarissa Thieme)

Screening of detours while speaking of monsters and Artist Talk with Deniz Şimşek (Berlin)

 

18.00     Screening of Moby Dick or, A Whale and Artist Talk: Wu Tsang with Joshua Wicke