Since last October, the growing instrumentalization of anti-Semitism by Zionist groups around the world, including those who identify with feminisms and the anti-fascist movement, is notorious. A few months ago, in a talk entitled Is Palestine a feminist issue? On the intertwining of (queer) feminism and anti-Semitism, Cordula Trunk argued that queer and decolonial feminist groups that have stood in solidarity with Palestinian people are informed by a "vulgar" understanding of postcolonialism that she labels as racist and anti-Semitic. Besides being a blind stance to colonial violence, the fabrication of such a narrative is a form of coloniality of knowledge insofar as the value of knowledge and understandings produced on the margins, in the East and in the Third World, is peripheral and devoid of any validity and truthfulness.
Read MoreMemory is a flood, writes Ocean Vuong.[1] It is something we cannot easily control as it is already controlled by different triggers. Except in cases when our memory blocks some, usually traumatic, experiences, everything else can surge at certain moments. Both good memories, which can provide inner comfort and warmth, and bad memories, from which we'd like to hide, seem to overwhelm us. There are also second-hand memories. What I mean is that these memories are not about our own experiences and life events but of other people. The people who share with us what they remember, their stories become intertwined with our own memories. Sometimes, they don't even have to tell us anything.
Read MoreIn my Maturazeitung, it stated that I was adaptable and would rarely say if something didn't suit me. Fifteen years later, it still annoys me…
Read MoreMy journey to becoming an anti-racism-focused artist, activist and (so-called educator) has been an interesting one…
Read MoreAt the time I decide to write this text I am reading “Tools for Conviviality”[1] and “Deschooling Society”[2] by Ivan Illich (Vienna, 1926 – Bremen, 2002)…
Read MoreWhen discussing the history of humans fantasizing about robots, one can go as far back as ancient civilizations and find stories that involve automatic, artificial beings…
Read MoreRobots are here for a whole while. In different shapes and non-shapes, embodied artificial intelligence and algorithms “improve” our lives and literally improve…
Read MoreIn light of the proliferation of AI technology and its far-reaching impact, we find ourselves amidst new paradigms of power…
Read MoreHow I reincarnated but kept the memories from my past life.
Read MoreWolfgang Tillmans had always been interested in how to make a phenomenon longer visible. They could be astronomical, social, or political subjects, and as a photographer, he uses diverse strategies to recall them in our minds. It seems like his artistic mind is already aware of our previous experiences, and he always finds a sensitive approach to show reality to his viewers. He dedicates his work to people and bodies, to landscapes, architectures, objects, and celestial phenomena, since he has been exploring the question of visibility since the early 1990s.
Read MoreHow can sound explore themes such as gender inequality, sexuality, personal experiences, or collective traumas related to post-colonization? If we take a look at these three performances where the sound became a tool for staying with the trouble - we will probably get closer to the answers.
Read MoreAs Florentina Holzinger devised her own Divine Comedy, at Kunsthalle, Tscherner also creates an alternative story about the great Narcissus. Compared to Holzingers’s work, the performance is also based on a narrative story, mythological background: Mirror, mirror concept based on the fairy tale of Snow White, and on the Greek myth of Narcissus, both stories connected with mirrors and virtual images. Narcissus in this way conducts a concentrate of his own virtual image, as it refers back to his role in Greek mythology where he eventually falls in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, staring at it for the remainder of his life.
Read More“Sharon's anxiety is interesting because we feel it. We imagine knowing what she was afraid of - as if we know the ending when we watch a film, but we enjoy watching it and move on. This saves us from the terrible burden of freedom, which is an existential horror.”
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