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“And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?” writes the Chilean poet and activist Cecilia Vicuña in her 1971 poem Precarious. With this question, which Kunsthalle Wien and Wiener Festwochen have now chosen as the title for their joint project, Vicuña counters anthropocentric and hetero-patriarchal urges with healing and appreciation, reviving the aesthetic and spiritual bonds between human and non-human entities and worlds.

Averklub Collective is a loosely organized group with no fixed structure. Its core is constituted by several residents of the Chánov housing estate, which is considered to be the largest Roma settlement in the Czech Republic. The collective expands and contracts as it sees fit, adapting with various configurations of artists, theorists, and activists depending on current projects and needs.

A three day workshop as part of KinderUniKunstFor children from 6 to 10 years

Mariam Elnozahy’s project begins with the notion of “Soros Realism,” a term coined by Miško Śuvaković in his seminal essay The Ideology of Exhibition: On the Ideologies of Manifesta (2002). Śuvaković used the term to refer to the type of politically and socially engaged art produced through the Soros Center for Contemporary Art Network.