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Art, Labor, and the Politics of Consumption

Jelena Micić’s artistic practice examines entanglements of labor, consumption, and the metabolic flows of capital. Engaging feminist materialism, post-socialist transitions, and the afterlives of industrial production, how can art render visible the toxic persistence of synthetic matter and the infrastructures of global value extraction? How might non-aligned histories disrupt hegemonic aesthetic and economic orders?

Jelena Micić, artist, Vienna
Elke Krasny, cultural theorist, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Kristin Romberg, art historian, University of Illinois, USA (online)
Heidrun Rosenberg, art historian, University of Vienna
Lorena Tabares Salamanca, writer, curator, Colombia / Portugal

Jelena Micić, Bojna polja, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst 2025

https://youtube.com/live/YOAtgntD-rs

ABGESAGT: Law as an Instrument of Power

Maria Giannacopoulos’ concept of nomopoly presents law (nomos) in Australia not as a universal system, but as a mechanism of settler colonial rule (monopoly). Law as nomopoly is inseparably linked to power structures that create and maintain it, in Australia, this means a continuation of colonial violence that displaces and erases Indigenous laws, peoples, and lands.
Ümmü-Selime Türe analyses counterterrorism laws, citizenship revocations, and migration policies on their contribution to the shrinking of civic space by targeting racialized communities. How do legal structures operate as tools of power, restricting political participation and silencing dissent on a global scale?

Maria Giannacopoulos, School of Law, Society, and Criminology, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Ümmü Selime Türe, Dokustelle Österreich, Vienna
Moderation: Asma Aiad & Marina Gržinić, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

An event by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Studio for Arts and Intervention | Concept.

Crit Cross #25

Verein K has been discussing the role of art and writing in difficult political contexts. As illiberalism continues to rise, they decide to focus on the interface between art and social criticism. Zoran Erić is an astute observer of the rise of the authoritarian regime – and the resistance against it – in Serbia. Having served as curator and chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade until 2021, he is well placed to discuss resistance to totalitarianism in art and beyond.

Zoran Erić, art critic, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
Moderation: Klaus Speidel, Verein K, Vienna

In cooperation with Verein K.

https://youtube.com/live/KyR_h55Kves

Roma Activism and Academia

As part of its ongoing series on antiziganism in Austria in May 2025, initiative Edut asks about transgenerational remembrance of the antiziganist persecution during National-Socialism, new research on Porajmos (NS genocide of Sinti*zze and Rom*nja) and Critical Romani Studies in international research. Maria Bogdan conducts research on eyewitnesses of the Porajmos as well as on cultural trauma of the European Rom*nja. Rufat Demirov is a social rights activist for Rom*nja in North Macedonia and currently working on his dissertation.

Maria Bogdan, Yale University / Vienna Wiesenthal Institute
Rufat Demirov, Central European University, Vienna
Moderation: Johannes Glack, Initiative Edut, Vienna

In cooperation with Initiative Edut and HÖR – Students’ Union of Austrian Rom*nja.

https://youtube.com/live/rexdnTcN2c4

Sculpture and the Un-Conditioning of Architecture

Over the past 15 years, Sam Lewitt has examined the material foundations and operations of infrastructures – from power grids to commodity supply chains. His sculptural practice treats sites as porous constellations, shaped by political, economic, and planetary dynamics. The conversation will explore how sculpture, as a dynamic map of translocal forces, contests architecture’s drive for synthesis and stability, suggesting a form of its un-conditioning.

Sam Lewitt, artist, Berlin / New York
Sebastian Egenhofer, art historian, Vienna

Event as part of the project Site Complexes: Models of Responsive Practices for the 21st Century (University of Vienna / University of the Arts Berlin).