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Urban Encounters: The Potential of Non-Commercial Creative Space
As part of the Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art Festival (CIVA) in cooperation with VIDC
05.10.2024
Blickle Kino
Belvedere 21, Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien
The evening at Blickle Kino invites reflection on the potential and challenges of independent artistic spaces. What role do institutions play in creating and supporting such spaces? How do commercialization and gentrification affect these spaces? These topics will be examined from a global perspective, taking into account political power dynamics and mobility.
The program includes a film screening, a panel discussion, and an audiovisual live set with Authentically Plastic, Artist in Residence 2024 at kulturen in bewegung, and Viennese artist Tobias Raschbacher.
18:00-19:15 Film Screening
"Wildness" by Wu Tsang
The evening begins with a screening of the film "Wildness" (2012) by Wu Tsang. This work illuminates the club as a site of social and political struggle and offers deep insights into the dynamic and resistant world of queer club culture. "Wildness" portrays the Silver Platter Club in Los Angeles and reflects on complex issues surrounding identity, community, and social change.
19:45-21:00 Panel Discussion
Urban Encounters: The Potential of Non-Commercial Creative Space
We explore the significance of non-productive and non-commercial spaces as essential areas of action in urban spaces, where social relations are negotiated and lived, and where room is created for individual as well as collective thoughts, expressions, exchanges, collaborations, and innovations. What is the potential of collaboratively created art spaces, music clubs, initiatives, and networks as socially relevant places for the creation of interdisciplinary and experimental works and projects?
The discussion will be moderated by Ayo Aloba, actor, producer, and curator at Sounds Of Blackness and CIVA.
21:30-22:00 Audiovisual Live Set
Authentically Plastic & Tobias Raschbacher present POLYCOLLISION (Live A/V)
The evening concludes with the audiovisual live set POLYCOLLISION by Authentically Plastic & Tobias Raschbacher. This performance combines politically charged soundscapes with northern Ugandan rhythms and Afro-futurism. The set is the result of the collaboration between Viennese artist Tobias Raschbacher and Authentically Plastic as part of the 2024 Artist in Residence program of kulturen in bewegung.
Panel Participants
Tayo Alemi aka Authentically Plastic, DJ, producer, artist, performer and essayist from Kampala, Uganda. Tayo talks about their experience as co-founders of the ANTI-MASS collective and label, which created spaces and queer events for FLINTA* artists in Uganda's increasingly repressive social climate.
Therese Kaiser is a political scientist and managing director of the agency period. Interactive. She co-founded the RRRIOT Festival, as well as the women's networks Sorority and Business Riot. She is part of the team behind the club culture festival Hyperreality, co-curates the experimental music series "Dishes," and performs as DJ Terror in clubs.
Mia Meus, curator and designer, creates innovative spaces for interdisciplinary collaboration in art, science, design and technology as co-founder of Design in Gesellschaft and as Art Director at the Institute for Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).
