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Intersections of Conviviality: Voices from Communities

Edited by Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek, Asma Aiad, and Anahita Neghabat

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025

This book explores the nuanced dynamics that shape conviviality and examines the different ways in which individuals within communities navigate the challenges of the neoliberal, racializing European landscape by forming alliances that transcend identity, geographical and cultural boundaries. This book offers a very renewed reflection on different communities that are largely marginalized, Black and POC communities, Muslim communities and Trans*, building their context around identities such as migration, LGBTQI+ etc. and thinking out loud about institutional and structural racism, inequalities and also empowerment. Through personal narratives, academic analysis and artistic expression, the book creates a map of stories and narratives that celebrate the potential of communities and conviviality as a way forward. This book aims to make the voices of these communities heard and provides a platform for their stories, struggles, collective experiences, hopes and visions for the future.

Arte crítico y esfera pública / AusArt Vol. 13 Núm. 2 (2025)

Con motivo del cercano 25 aniversario del libro colectivo Modos de hacer: Arte crítico, esfera pública y acción directa (Salamanca, 2001), AusArt quiere rendirle homenaje con un número monográfico que trata de explorar las intersecciones entre el arte crítico y la esfera pública en un mundo de dinámicas sociales y políticas cambiantes. Para ello hemos tratado de reunir voces y perspectivas diversas que planteen una revisión actualizada en torno a los contenidos de aquel Modos de hacer: explorar cómo el arte crítico puede influir en la esfera pública y fomentar un diálogo significativo entre el arte, la cultura y la sociedad.(...)

*Arte crítico, acción política y transformación social

Tjasa Kancler
Universitat de Barcelona. Dep. d’Arts Visuals i Disseny, España

La correspondencia entre el arte, la crítica, las tecnologías, el activismo y la esfera pública tiene una larga historia de prácticas artísticas basadas en la investigación y acción micro/política radical que esta continuamente marginalizada, confinada y/o borrada (...)

The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory

Edited by: Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores – Texas Tech University, USA, Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán – University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni – University of South Africa, Sandeep Bakshi – Université Paris Cité, Augustin Lao-Montes – University of Massachusets, Amherst, USA, Flavia Rios – Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary resource that expands the epistemological and geographical horizons of decolonial thought. This handbook prioritizes the Global South, fostering South-North and South-South inter-epistemic dialogues and situating decolonial thought in sites of struggle. It builds on decolonial thought and praxis from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Palestine, among other regions and countries. Addressing the erasure of knowledge production from the Global South in dominant academic spaces, this handbook brings together decolonial scholars and activist intellectuals from the Global South and engages with politically committed scholars in the Global North. It emphasizes the geopolitics and ethics of knowledge production and the importance of situating one’s work in historically excluded regions and communities.

Symposium: On Queer, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Global Trans* Insurgencies

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.

MUSLIM* CONTEMPORARY 2024

MONDAY,  21.10.2024. I OPENING 18:00

Place: Exhibit Eschenbachgasse I Eschenbachgasse 11, 1010 Wien

Salam Oida invites you to this year’s edition of Muslim*Contemporary, stepping into a world of fairy tales and dreams while raising profound questions about identity, belonging, and social participation. Through performances, exhibitions, and discussions, the festival amplifies the often-unheard voices of artists affected by racism and discrimination, bringing them into public spaces. Under the motto, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, are we too Muslim/too Black/too migrant for this country?” the festival critically examines structural challenges within Austria’s art and cultural sector. Together, we create spaces where dreams and desires can flourish and new narratives come to life.

NOSYMMETRIES – Exposición y Simposio

Exposición Del 17 de octubre al 20 de noviembre de 2024 NOSYMMETRIES es una línea de trabajo de Idensitat que, en el marco del proyecto europeo Care Ecologies (), promueve la investigación y la activación de procesos artísticos vinculados a…

Dissident Histories. Insurgent Futurities

Exhibition: 08 10 2024 – 15 12 2024 

Marina GRŽINIĆ with Aina ŠMID, Tjaša KANCLER, Jovita PRISTOVŠEK

The central reference point around which the concept of Marina Gržinić’s exhibition was organized is the process of reassessing our perspective on the changes taking place in art and culture under the weight of migration. Irreversible.

At the heart of the exhibition lies a focal point on the 40-year journey of video-film and installation work by Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid. This showcase not only celebrates their collaborative oeuvre, which began in 1982 and has left a profound artistic and political impact across former Yugoslavia, Slovenia, and beyond, but also introduces a fresh collaborative venture involving Marina Gržinić, Tjaša Kancler, and Jovita Pristovšek, which began in 2022.