Category: films&sounds

This symposium explores the intersections of queer and LGBT histories in the Balkans, Slovenia, and Eastern Europe, with broader connections to global trans* insurgencies. It brings together queer theory, political critique, and trans resistance to examine how lesbians, gays, queers, punks, and trans communities have historically—and continue to—confront state power and societal norms. Central themes include poetry, film, photography, radical expression, the body and identity, and the relationship between LGBT, queer, and trans movements and activism. The symposium also engages with decolonial and anti-racist struggles, questioning how these histories are erased or overlooked in dominant narratives. The aim is to reconstruct and amplify alternative histories while envisioning future queer and trans* uprisings within leftist political movements.

Michel Foucalt, al segle XX, empra el terme biopolítica per anomenar l’exercici del poder sobre la vida tant d’individus com de societats. Un segle més tard, el pensador camerunès Achille Mbembe utilitza el terme necropolítica per explicar quines estrategies utilitza el neocapitalisme global i d’arrel colonial per exercir el seu poder.  Aquestes es basen sovint en la massacre de […]

The project-exhibition and symposium Insurgent Flows. Thriving of Black, Brown, Indigenous, Queer and Trans Vitalities. White Topographies of Coercion and Emancipation is a multidisciplinary exploration of various themes, including death, violence, empowerment, futurities. It encourages viewers to engage with challenging aspects of history and to think critically about historical narratives, particularly those that involve the ongoing effects of systematic violence. The exhibition is a fascinating and provocative encounter of artistic expressions and critical discourses.

The art-research project “Genealogy of Amnesia” (FWF-PEEK Project, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) in cooperation with Österreichisches Filmmuseum andkulturen in bewegung, an initiative by VIDC, Vienna, announces a collaborative two days of screenings, lectures, performative lab situations onto the topic of evaluating film and video languages to oppose discrimination, epistemic violence, invisibilized realities, lost memories, and closed archives. The two days lab situations will be going on with filmmakers, curators, students, and the younger generation of film and video artists and Viennese activist communities. New film languages will be discussed through processes of changing established narratives and imperial knowledge.