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Vienna Biennale

Collection of our Vienna Biennale Contributions 2015–2021

TOPIC CONTENT:

Exhibition View: Ecologies & Politics of the Living

Artist Talk: Verena Tscherner and Joerg Auzinger

Artist Talk: Ibrahim Mahama & Tracy Thompson

Exhibition View: Change was Our Only Chance

Change Is Our Only Chance – Discussion

Janina Loh: Trans- und Posthumanismus. Feministischer Blick im Digitalen

Lucie Strecker: Übungen zum Kontrasexuellen

Exhibition View: How Will We Work?

How Will We Work? How Shall We Study?

Exhibition View: Performing Public Art

About Vienna Biennale

The Vienna Biennale is the first event of its kind to combine art, design, and architecture, with the aim of generating creative ideas and artistic projects to help improve the world. Its category-spanning, interdisciplinary approach and combination of artistic ambition and the creative economy open up new perspectives on central topics of our time and thus promote positive change in our society. The Vienna Biennale was established with the understanding that we are living in a new modernity in which the digital revolution penetrates all areas of our life and is thus fundamentally changing our civilization. Today's Digital Modernity offers considerable potentials for lasting improvements in quality of life as well as innovative living concepts and business models in every sector.

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Exhibition View: Ecologies & Politics of the Living

Last insights on the Vienna Biennale exhibition 2021

The exhibition Ecologies and Politics of the Living explored the relationship between animate and inanimate environments, against the backdrop of a politically and economically interwoven world – primarily from southern perspectives

Ecologies and Politics of the Living
Catalogue

a room, images, tables, artworks | Image by ©

Curators
Ibrahim Mahama, Artist
Baerbel Mueller, Architect
Elisabeth Falkensteiner, Curator

Contributors
Eric Gyamfi
Mae-ling Lokko
Ibrahim Mahama
Uriel Orlow
New-Territories (s/he_f.Roche)
Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson
Susanne Wenger

Foto 03, 07: ESEL all others Lea Fabienne Doerl

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08 Jun 2021, 17:00

Location: Karlsplatz

Artist Talk: Verena Tscherner and Joerg Auzinger
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The artist duo talks about art in the times of climate change and about their interactive media sculpture “Collective Action Viewer“ at Karlsplatz. Moderation: Katharina Gsöllpointner

Live Stream from Resselpark / Karlsplatz

Preview-Program Angewandte Festival 2021
Collective Action Viewer
Vienna Biennale for Change 2021

Photo of a person looking through binoculars in front of water. | Image by ©Verena Tscherner and Joerg Auzinger

Collective Action Viewer by Verena Tscherner and Joerg Auzinger, © Tscherner & Auzinger

The impulse and location for this artist talk is the Collective Action Viewer, a media installation by Verena Tscherner and Joerg Auzinger in public space at Karlsplatz.

The consequences of the global climate crisis are still abstract and diffuse for many people. With their work, the artist duo makes the effects of the global climate catastrophe visible and comprehensible for viewers in the Viennese urban space at Karlsplatz. A glance through binoculars - and a virtually animated flood scenario is reversed.

The talk will be moderated by Katharina Gsöllpointner, head of the International Programs for Sustainable Developments department, who is intensively involved with art and the digital, especially in times of climate change. An explosive topics that Tscherner/Auzinger are pursuing in their current artistic work and that will be discussed together.

The media sculpture on Karlsplatz will be open to the public for the entire duration of the Vienna Biennale for Change 2021, daily from 12:00–dawn.

Collective Action Viewer, © Tscherner & Auzinger

The artist talk takes place within the preview program of this year‘s Angewandte Festival.

The Collective Action Viewer is a contribution of the University of Applied Arts Vienna to the Vienna Biennale for Change 2021, co-produced by Angewandte Innovation Lab.

Joerg Auzinger is an alumni and Verena Tscherner a current student at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

www.auzinger.net
www.tscherner.com

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Artist Talk: Ibrahim Mahama & Tracy Thompson

Artist Talk in English from 2021

In the framework of the exhibition ‘Ecologies & Politics of the Living’. Moderation: Baerbel Mueller

Tracy Thompson ( Artist, Ghana)and Ibrahim Mahama (Co-Curator and Artist, Ghana) will introduce their visions of coexistence, nature and the environment and offer insights into their works presented in the show. They will also provide glimpses of the emerging art scene in Ghana and their active role in it.

The artist talk was held on 28 May, 2021 at the new space of Angewandte Innovation Lab

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Exhibition View: Change was Our Only Chance

From the Vienna Biennale for Change, 2019

We travel into the not so far future and experience from different angles the results from our present impact.

exhibition view / opening speech | Image by ©

This immersive physical narrative by the artists collective Time’s Up makes possible fu-tures tangible, allowing a perspective back to the now.

Timewise we are in the year 2047; geographically we are situated on the outskirts of Turnton, a small city on the sea. The devastating effects of environmental pollution and its consequent upset-ting of natural balances dominate global life. After decades of reluctant political action, global warming is raging with worldwide weather extremes, considerable climatic changes, and large are-as of land have become useless for human habitation. The con-sequences of the ruthless interventions in ecosystems that evolved millions of years are wreaking havoc on the world.

This ecologically dystopian vision of the year 2047 is enriched with a socioeconomic utopia. This utopia is countering and subverting the environmental catastrophes and social consequences with the growing fusion of a plethora of countermeasures, that will drive a change in civilization for the better in the coming decades.

The installation Noise Aquarium as part of the fictional world of Turnton

The interactive installation Noise Aquarium shows us deep changes in our ecological system. The interdisciplinary, collaborative project that was developed i.a with the ArtSci Center UCLA and the University of Applied Arts Vienna, creates an audio-visual experience in which plankton are.

Photos: Bengt Stiller

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Change Is Our Only Chance – Discussion

Talk in German from 2019, part of Vienna Biennale for Change

Change Is Our Only Chance – Roundtable Discussion

An utopian future requires a critical present in which the urgency of ecological, economic and political-social change is taken seriously. The program aims to stimulate reflection on possible alternatives and strategies.

Discussion with:
Simon Pories for Fridays for Future
Laura Grossmann for System Change not Climate Change
Katharina Rogenhofer for Klimavolksbegehren
Friedrich Hinterberger for Scientists for Future
Eva Maria Stadler, University of Applied Arts
in the presence of Tina Auer (Time’s Up).

The individual initiatives introduce themselves and we discuss the scope for action together. What role can we play with regard to social problems and in which areas of life can we become active ourselves?

The Talk was held on September 25 2019 as part of the exhibition Change was our only chance in the framework of the Vienna Biennale for Change 2019.

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Janina Loh: Trans- und Posthumanismus. Feministischer Blick im Digitalen

Talk in German from 2019, part of Vienna Biennale For Change

Where do patriarchal inscriptions, gender identities or stereotyping hide in the field of artificial intelligence and future technologies?

When we think about the digital future as well as new values, the feminist view must not be missing. Where do patriarchal inscriptions, gender identities or stereotyping hide in the field of artificial intelligence, what is reproduced in future technologies? Questions of gender are essential, also in post- and transhumanism.

Technology philosopher Janina Loh gives us an introduction to the school of thought of post- and transhumanism, in which humans are considered equal to other species and postulate a better version of themselves by means of technology.

Introductory words: Elisabeth Falkensteiner, Curator, AIL
Lecture: Janina Loh, philosopher of technology, University of Vienna
Performance: Lucie Strecker, Angewandte (see video documentation here)

Janina Loh is a PostDoc in the Department of Philosophy of Technology and Media at the University of Vienna. Her research interests include trans- and posthumanism, robot ethics, feminist philosophy of technology, theories of responsibility, Hannah Arendt, theories of judgment, and ethics in the sciences.

The talk was held on June 27 2019 in the context of the Exhibition Change was our only chance, part of the Vienna Biennale For Change 2019.

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Lucie Strecker: Übungen zum Kontrasexuellen

Performance in the framework of Vienna Biennale exhibition Change was Our Only Chance from 2019

When we think about the digital future as well as new values, the feminist view must not be missing

Performer Lucie Strecker: Exercises on the Contrasexual Manifesto according to Paul B. Preciado. Choreographic and dramaturgical support: Philippe Riera

Where do patriarchal inscriptions, gender identities or stereotyping hide in the field of artificial intelligence, what is reproduced in future technologies?

Questions of gender are essential in post- and transhumanism. Technology philosopher Janina Loh gives us an introduction to the school of thought of post- and transhumanism, in which humans are considered equal to other species and postulate a better version of themselves by means of technology.

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Exhibition View: How Will We Work?

Vienna Biennale Exhibition from 2017 – Robots. Work. Our Future.

What kind of ‘work’ will you be doing in 2030? What kind of ‘worker’ will you be?

What kind of ‘work’ will you be doing in 2030? What kind of ‘worker’ will you be? Today, we are in the midst of numerous heated debates around the future of work. Sensationalist headlines such as ‘Robots to get human rights’ or ‘Welcome to the three-day working week’ have already entered our everyday lives.

This exhibition endeavours to capture a discourse that’s in progress. Everyday new articles, research and experiments are coming out that push the boundaries of our expectations, hopes and fears around the future of work. The heady mixture of anxiety, opportunity and complexity that surrounds this subject area makes How Will We Work a potent space for critical thinking, and investigation. From precarious working conditions, to self-actualisation, alternative economies and Industry 4.0, this exhibition aims to lead a discussion on radical changes to the way we define and think about the role of work.

Whether its row upon row of robotic arms taking over our workspaces, or algorithms performing increasingly complex civic and professional work, visions of work in the near future are often presented as troubling and dystopian. But, these challenges are never black or white. How Will We Work invites you to reflect on the many discussions and explorations taking place around emerging technologies and work in our societies. The show investigates how emerging technology and contemporary market forces invisibly drive the important decisions that affect how we will work.

We want to show how the creative sector can lead this debate to inspire decision makers across the board to renegotiate the way we work, and develop more sustainable and equitable futures. The complexity of the world around us continues to change our working lives, so we ask:

What can we do to shape this new frontier, before it shapes us?

Curators:
Gerald Bast (Rektor Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien), Anab Jain (Superflux, Professorin für Industrial Design, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien)

Artists:
Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, automato.farm, Stephan Bogner & Philipp Schmitt, Perry Chen, Common Works, Design Friction, Alicia Eggert, Harun Farocki, Laura Forlano, Marshall Brown, Lili Du, Ron Henderson & Jack Guthman, Lukas Franciszkiewicz (Takram), Alexandra Fruhstorfer, Anne Galloway & Dani Clode, Ian Gwilt & Joe Rolph, Sara Hendren & Caitrin Lynch, Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, Daniel Kloboucnik, Maximilian Lackner, Sam Lavigne, Lemmings, Liquid Factory, Joe Macleod, Nicholas Masterton, Tim Maughan, Me You and the Robot, Ivica Mitrović & Oleg Šuran, Charlotte Nordmoen, Normally, (OFFTIME), Johanna Pichlbauer, Fabio Hofer, Felix Lenz & Jekaterina Shipilenko, Tobias Revell, Strange Telemetry, The UK Digital Cabinet Office and Government Digital Service unMonastery, Addie Wagenknecht

With text contributions by: Luciano Floridi, Karen Gregory, Scott Santens, Scott Smith, Nick Srnicek, Alex Taylor, Judy Wajcman

Curatorial Assistance: Jake Charles Rees (Superflux), Martina Schöggl (Universität für angewandte Kunst)

Exhibition Design: Cin Cin & Rainer Stadlbauer

Production: Eva Weber, Alexandra Graupner, Nico Wind

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How Will We Work? How Shall We Study?

Talk in English from 2017

Discussion about the challenges of higher education, the changing society, and how universities therefore will need to transform themselves

The panel will focus on the challenges higher education is faced with, and discuss what can be done to best prepare future students to become competent members of our changing society, and how universities therefore will need to transform themselves.

It is no longer a question of whether our present work structures will be confronted with radical transformation processes, we need to discuss how this transformation is taking place, and which consequences it will bring. Undisputedly, developments in the fields of automation, digitalization, artificial intelligence or further globalization will have a significant impact on labour: Human workers will particularly be needed for tasks that (at least for now) cannot be carried out automatically – requiring competencies like creativity, unorthodox thinking, innovative networking between different fields and disciplines, etc.

Contributors

Gerald Bast, President of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Eve Lewis,Director of SPARQS – Student Partnerships in Quality Scotland

Hans Pechar, Department of Science Communication and Higher Education Research, University of Klagenfurt

Bill Price, Speaker of the Council for a Progressive Economy

Ingeborg Reichle, Head of the Department of Cross-Disciplinary Strategies, University of Applied Arts Vienna

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Exhibition View: Performing Public Art

Vienna Biennale 2015

New forms of public space and Public Art

Public Art can be beneficial to the functioning of democracy. The public, as in the public space, has always been an important medium alongside the evolution of the press and parliament. In today’s world, the movement of people demonstrates a new form of public space and Public Art. The Performing Public Art Festival presents nine acts by national and international artists / artistic groups, which constitute the wide range of New Public Art. The accompanying exhibition at AIL will present a brief history of performative public art and serve as an introduction to the participating artists and their work.

Performing Public Art Program

Erdem Gündüz, Istanbul, Türkei
Der stehende Mann Stehperformances im öffentlichen Raum
Samstag, 27. und Sonntag 28. Juni
MQ / Volksgarten / Stephansplatz www.erdemgunduz.org

Barbara Holub / Paul Rajakovics (Transparadiso), Wien
Das Lachen, das einem im Halse stecken bleibt An die Bedürfnisse und Anliegen von Obdachlosen und AsylantInnen durch die Entwicklung neuer performativer Elemente aufmerksam machen - Erneuerung des Formates Demonstration
Freitag, 19. Juni 2015 18:00
Ersatztermin Samstag, 20. Juni 2015, 15:00 Uhr
seitlich hinter der Votivkirche / Sigmund Freud Park Dauer: ca. 30 minutes Komposition, Elektronik, Grammophon: Tamara Friebel Performer: Christiane Beinl, Xenia Gala, Akram al Halabi, Nancy Mensah-Offei, Johann Orsini-Rosenberg www.transparadiso.com

Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Seoul, Südkorea
Aposematic Jacket Tragbare 360' Videoweste mit verteilten Microkameras, welche die Umgebung live ins Angewandte Innovation Lab transferieren können
Donnerstag, 11. Juni im 20:00 Uhr, im AIL
Samstag, 13.Juni in der Kärntner Straße und Mariahilferstrasse
Dienstag, 16.Juni 2015 im öffentlichen Verkehr in Wien www.ssbkyh.com

Johan Lorbeer, Berlin, Deutschland
Tarzan / Standbein Lebende Skulptur an der Außenfassade der Angewandten Donnerstag, 11.Juni 2015 18:30 Uhr, Fassade Universität für angewandte Kunst, Ferstel Trakt
Freitag, 12.Juni 2015, 12 Uhr, Wien Mitte / Marxergasse www.johanlorbeer.com

Barbis Ruder, Wien Wertschöpfungskette 2F - Attacke Körperintervention
5. Juli, Start 17 Uhr Kunstransport zwischen AIL - MAK - Angewandter - Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz - Kunsthalle MQ - AzW
www.barbisruder.com

Amy Spiers & Catherine Ryan, Melbourne, Australien
Ordering the Public Gesellschaftsexperiment / Öffentliches Verhalten / Gefaktes Sicherheitspersonal
Freitag, 26.Juni – Sonntag 05.Juli 2015 Mariahilferstrasse, Praterstern und an anderen belebten Orten in Wien https://thefuturesofthepast.wordpress.com/

Wermke & Leinkauf, Berlin, Deutschland
Ausmisten
Samstag, 04. Juli 2015, Festumzug vom Leitturm ins Stadtzentrum um dort ein Denkmal zu errichten www.wermke-leinkauf.com

Der Wiener Beschwerdechor, Wien Wiener Beschwerdechor / Intervention LV Chor-Intervention im öffentlichen Raum und Aufbau eines Beschwerdepostkastens in der Aula der Angewandten.
Donnerstag 11. Juni 2015, 20:00, im AIL Montag, 15. Juni 2015 19:00 Uhr, Aula Universität für angewandte Kunst Ziel: AIL
Bei Schlechtwetter: Start 19:00 Uhr AIL www.wienerbeschwerdechor.at

Artur Zmijewski, Warschau, Polen
N.N. Non verbale, nicht visuelle Diskussion mittels Video/Photography über ‘Public Use of Art’ 11. Juni – 05. Juli 2015 AIL www.fgf.com.pl