The Anti Fascist Ballet School at WIENWOCHE 2016

by Elizabeth Ward The idea for the Anti Fascist Ballet School was born late at night while reading an article about the possibility of Trump winning the presidency in the United States. This was December of 2015 and I had recently moved to Vienna from New York City. That autumn I had overheard many conversations … Read moreThe Anti Fascist Ballet School at WIENWOCHE 2016

‘Open working group Cantina Corazon 2016 from today’s perspective’

by Gerardo Montes de Oca Valadez Cantina Corazón[1] was one of the two first open working groups that curators Nataša Mackuljak and Ivana Marjanović created for WIENWOCHE 2016 “Forever Together”[2]. The 2016 edition of the festival aimed to work on the politics of connection, love, and friendship that together with their complexities, ambivalence, and conflicts, … Read more‘Open working group Cantina Corazon 2016 from today’s perspective’

“LANGER WEG DER GASTARBAJT”

While clearly remembering the outcomes of a certain project, what somehow escapes these forms of memory is the working process itself.  Although the work procedure is often neglected and left invisible in the project results, I have always found it the most interesting part of creating content. In other words: how do ideas come about, … Read more“LANGER WEG DER GASTARBAJT”