International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP) Opening
Jack Halberstam and many more
June 12 – 14, 2025#Performing Challenges #Opening #Symposium
Opening
June 12, Joseph Haydn-Saal (mdw-Campus, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1)
6 pm Welcome Address/Introduction
Ulrike Sych (Rector, mdw), Sylvia Mieszkowski (GAIN, Uni Vienna), Hanna Meißner (ZIFG, TU Berlin), Evelyn Annuß (ICGP, mdw)
Moderation: Therese Kaufmann
Opening Keynote: Jack Halberstam (NYC)
Dereliction: On Feminist Violence
Food and Drinks @Joseph Haydn-Saal
(ATTENTION: CHANGE OF LOCATION!)
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Symposium
June 13, Neuer Konzertsaal (Rennweg 8)
10 am Mbongeni Mtshali (Cape Town)
Black Queer Futures
Moderation: Philipp Hohmann
11 am Claudia Bosse (Vienna)
in conversation with Chris Standfest (Vienna)
Possible Futures, Haunted Landscapes, or Inventing Artistic Infrastructures
12 pm Lunch
1.30 pm Ulrike Hanstein (Linz)
Revisiting HOMOMETER (1973)
Moderation: Marina Rauchenbacher
2.30 pm Keynote: Tavia Nyong’o (Yale)
Black Apocalypse: Acceleration, Anxiety, and the Ends of the “World”
Moderation: Raz Weiner
4.30 pm J-N-N (Screening)
Ginan Seidl (Berlin/Vienna)
followed by a conversation with Clarissa Thieme (Berlin/Vienna)
5.30 pm Campus Festival
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June 14, Fanny Hensel-Saal (mdw-Campus, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1)
10 am Ulrike Haß (Berlin)
On the Timeliness of Boy-Girl Figures. Florentina Holzinger & Co
Moderation: Evelyn Annuß
11 am crazinisT artisT
Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi (Kumasi)
in conversation with Sandra Umathum (Vienna)
12.30 pm Facing the Authoritarian Drift:
(Art) Universities as Sites of Critique?
Podium: Sofia Bempeza (Vienna), Katrin Köppert (Berlin/Leipzig), Isabell Lorey (Cologne), Kathrin Peters (Berlin)
Round Table: Jack Halberstam, Mbongeni Mtshali, Tavia Nyong’o, Elsa Dorlin, Hanna Meißner
Moderation: Evelyn Annuß
Vienna Gay Pride
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Registration:
For organizational reasons we kindly ask you to register:
Student-Workshop: Moving Bodies to Story
with Mbongeni Mtshali
- June 12, 12-4 pm
- Big Seminar Room IKM
- Content: Taking choreopoetics as a ‘queer’ post-dramatic form, this workshop explores choral and choreographic composition. Participants in this workshop will explore devising techniques for individual and collective image-making that use the intimate/personal to engage critically with the communal and political.
Registration: ICGP@mdw.ac.at
For the booklet with abstracts and bios please click here.
Organization:
Evelyn Annuß
Philipp Hohmann
Thari Jungen
Marina Rauchenbacher
Kyra Schmied
Raz Weiner
Artistic Advisor:
Chris Standfest