{"id":1722,"date":"2023-08-22T14:16:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grzinic-smid.si\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2023-08-25T15:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:07:29","slug":"kig-kultur-in-graz-insurgent-flows-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grzinic-smid.si\/?p=1722","title":{"rendered":"KiG! Kultur in Graz Insurgent Flows.\u200b Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1213\" height=\"809\" class=\"shrinkToFit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sh23_PP_KiG_1.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sh23_PP_KiG_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marina Gr\u017eini\u0107 und Aina \u0160mid, <em>Dissident Histories<\/em> (2022), exhibition view, Lo\u017ea Gallery,&nbsp;Koper, photo: Ernest \u017denko<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mixed-media installation <em>Insurgent Flows.<\/em> reflects on death and history after World War II. The wars of the present and recent past have entirely changed geopolitical relations. The capitalist imperial powers of the United States and its NATO allies, along with various regional powers, have destroyed Africa (Libya), the Middle East (Iraq), and Afghanistan with colonial appetites. Social and political space is disintegrating under the pressure of global capitalism. The recent \u201ccrises\u201d fuel the perpetuation of the history of racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, sexism, and homo- and transphobia. They lead to a situation characterized by cruel erasure, displacement, discrimination, humiliation, and the denial of the rights of racialized people, migrant people, refugees, LGBTQI+ people, sex workers, and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steirischerherbst.at\/en\/program\/events\/5110\/kig-kultur-in-graz-insurgent-flows\">https:\/\/www.steirischerherbst.at\/en\/program\/events\/5110\/kig-kultur-in-graz-insurgent-flows<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>20.9.\u201310.11.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KiG! Kultur in Graz<br>Lagergasse 98a<br>8020 Graz<br>Wed\u2013Fri 16:00\u201319:00<br>23.9., 24.9., 14:00\u201318:00<br>30.9., 16:00\u201320:00 and by appointment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free admission<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20.9., 19:00<br>Opening<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30.9., 16:00\u201320:00<br>Asma Aiad, Anna Campbell, Jill H. Casid, Marina Gr\u017eini\u0107, Tja\u0161a Kancler, Ines Mahmoud, Bogdan Popa, Jovita Pristov\u0161ek<br><em>Encounters to Oppose the Colonial Divide<\/em><br>Performance and talk<br>Curated by Anita Hofer and Eva Ursprung<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concept: Marina Gr\u017eini\u0107, Tja\u0161a Kancler, Jovita Pristov\u0161ek<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artists: Jill H. Casid, Bojan \u0110or\u0111ev, Marina Gr\u017eini\u0107, Sini\u0161a Ili\u0107, Tja\u0161a Kancler, Jovita Pristov\u0161ek<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A coproduction with Piran Coastal Galleries, <em>Conviviality as Potentiality<\/em> (FWF-PEEK AR679), the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and Photon Gallery, Ljubljana\/Vienna<br>Supported by the City of Graz\u2013Department of Culture, Province of Styria\u2013Department of Culture, and BMK\u00d6S<br>A cooperation in the context of steirischer herbst \u02bc23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SYMPOSIUM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kultur in Graz (KiG), Lagergasse 98 a, A-8020, Graz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30.09.2023, Saturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16.00 to 20.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Encounters: to oppose the colonial divide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Performative talks and interventions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Departing from the reflection of the topic of death and history after World War II the aim is to think against enduring processes of systematic violent acts that cut through the present time. Or the aim is to COUNTER the systematic violent acts and horror chronologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Positions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asma Aiad, Ines Mahmoud (Vienna)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anna Campbell (USA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jill H. Casid (USA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bogdan Popa (Romania)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with Marina Gr\u017eini\u0107, Tja\u0161a Kancler and Jovita Pristov\u0161ek<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Colophon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kultur in Graz (KiG)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lagergasse 98 a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A \u2013 8020 Graz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Insurgent Flows.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thriving of Black, Brown, Indigenous, Queer and Trans Vitalities.<br>White Topographies of Coercion and Emancipation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curators: Anita Hofer, Eva Ursprung<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authors of the exhibition and of the symposium: Marina Gr\u017eini\u0107, Tja\u0161a Kancler, Jovita Pristov\u0161ek<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Positions in the exhibition: Marina Gr\u017eini\u0107, Tja\u0161a Kancler, Jovita Pristov\u0161ek, Jill H. Casid, Bojan \u0110or\u0111ev, Sini\u0161a Ili\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameo appearance: Anita Hofer, Eva Ursprung<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Positions in the symposium: Asma Aiad, Ines Mahmoud, Anna Campbell, Jill H. Casid, Bogdan Popa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with Marina Gr\u017eini\u0107, Tja\u0161a Kancler and Jovita Pristov\u0161ek<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leafleat concept: Marina Gr\u017eini\u0107, Jovita Pristov\u0161ek<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Print run: 200<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to: Mara Ambro\u017ei\u010d Verderber, Maria Pallier, Dejan Sluga, Martina Vovk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special thanks: Aina \u0160mid, Anita Hofer, Eva Ursprung and all the members of KiG, Bojan Radovi\u010d \/ Luminus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In charge of KiG: Anita Hofer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Production exhibition support by: Piran Coastal Galleries (Slovenia); Conviviality as Potentiality (FWF-PEEK AR679) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Photon Gallery, Ljubljana \/ Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graz 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cv\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asma Aiad is a conceptual artist, activist and co-founder of Salam Oida. In her various works such as \u201cThis is not a headscarf\u201d or \u201c(Un)Seen Sacred Spaces\u201d she deals with her Muslim identity in Austria and Europe and issues such as discrimination, representation and art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ines Mahmoud is a UI\/UX designer and content creator from Graz. She is co-founder of Salam Oida and has extensive experience as UI\/UX designer, especially in public and healthcare projects for one of the world\u2019s largest IT companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anna Campbell\u2019s sculptures, installations, and ephemera mine history and queer desire. Campbell\u2019s most recent solo exhibition, Dress Rehearsal for a Dream Sequence, was on view at Participant, Inc in New York in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jill H. Casid, theorist, historian and artist, is a Professor of Visual Studies in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women\u2019s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Casid is completing Necrolandscaping, the first part of a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bogdan Popa is a researcher at the Center for Cultural Innovation and Creativity at Transilvania University of Brasov. Popa is an intellectual historian specializing in the history of ideas in 19th and 20th century Europe. His last book is De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and after the Cold War (Manchester University Press, 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mixed-media installation Insurgent Flows. reflects on death and history after World War II. The wars of the present and recent past have entirely changed geopolitical relations. The capitalist imperial powers of the United States and its NATO allies, along with various regional powers, have destroyed Africa (Libya), the Middle East (Iraq), and Afghanistan with colonial appetites. Social and political space is disintegrating under the pressure of global capitalism. The recent \u201ccrises\u201d fuel the perpetuation of the history of racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, sexism, and homo- and transphobia. 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