
(c) Photos: Dejan Markovic
Decolonizing in Vienna - Knowing decolonial perspectives on the city
Guest lecture and walk by
About the lecture/and lecture walk
Decolonising in Vienna! is a forum for the exchange of post- and decolonial theories, methods and practices between engaged science and art, which also takes up views on forgotten or repressed history(ies), climate change, sustainability and many other socially significant topics between actors from the Global South and the Global North. It sees itself as an invitation to look at the supposedly all-too-familiar world in a slightly different, post- and decolonial-inspired way. Petz and Marcela took students through the city and stopped at key sites of colonial history which are present in symbolism, aesthetics and often regarded as part of its cultural make up. Instead students are engaged critically in order to reassess the positioning and (im)permanence of colonial remnants in a city’s cultural heritage and how that impacts its present and its future.
About the artists
Marcela Torres Heredia was socialised in Bogotá, where she studied social sciences and worked as a teacher in different educational contexts. Since arriving in Vienna in 2012, she has been involved in various collective initiatives where research, educational practices and activism are intertwined. The intersection of these fields has enabled her to engage with perspectives of decoloniality, Southern feminism and
feminist political ecology. Inequalities in relation to the production and reproduction of knowledge, invisibilities in different fields of knowledge, social inequality and intersectionality are her main areas of work. Most recently, as part of the author collective Biwikefenpom, she was involved in the publication of the book Femi(ni)zide: Collectively Challenging Patriarchal Violence. Here, knowledge practices in the activist environment of the alliance against patriarchal violence Claim the space, originated in Vienna, are highlighted. She is currently a PhD student in social and cultural anthropology at the University of Vienna.
Petz Haselmayer (they/them) interweaves artistic, research and art educational practices with queer-feminist, post- and decolonial perspectives, in remembrance political interventions and projects with students and artists in Viennese urban space (see ReMaking Hügel). They are co-founders of Decolonizing in Vienna, as well as the feminist-critical literary event series Blumenmontag, and currently work as a curator for kulturen in bewegung on the CLIŠHË TRÄSH-Fest as well as their Artist-in-Residence program endorsing BIPOC artists from the global south. They are currently – for the first time of their family of origin – working at a University and doing their PhD. More precisly, they work at the University of Arts in Linz as an assistant for/with Nora Landkammer at the Institute for Art and Education in the field of didactics - engagement - research. Next to that, they are known artistically with their alter ego Walter Xenia Ego for creative affirmative and humorous interventions, messages, poetry and standup-performances (for instance at the PCCC).
Decolonising in Vienna! is a forum for the exchange of post- and decolonial theories, methods and practices between engaged science and art, which also takes up views on forgotten or repressed history(ies), climate change, sustainability and many other socially significant topics between actors from the Global South and the Global North. It sees itself as an invitation to look at the supposedly all-too-familiar world in a slightly different, post- and decolonial-inspired way. Petz and Marcela took students through the city and stopped at key sites of colonial history which are present in symbolism, aesthetics and often regarded as part of its cultural make up. Instead students are engaged critically in order to reassess the positioning and (im)permanence of colonial remnants in a city’s cultural heritage and how that impacts its present and its future.
About the artists
Marcela Torres Heredia was socialised in Bogotá, where she studied social sciences and worked as a teacher in different educational contexts. Since arriving in Vienna in 2012, she has been involved in various collective initiatives where research, educational practices and activism are intertwined. The intersection of these fields has enabled her to engage with perspectives of decoloniality, Southern feminism and
feminist political ecology. Inequalities in relation to the production and reproduction of knowledge, invisibilities in different fields of knowledge, social inequality and intersectionality are her main areas of work. Most recently, as part of the author collective Biwikefenpom, she was involved in the publication of the book Femi(ni)zide: Collectively Challenging Patriarchal Violence. Here, knowledge practices in the activist environment of the alliance against patriarchal violence Claim the space, originated in Vienna, are highlighted. She is currently a PhD student in social and cultural anthropology at the University of Vienna.
Petz Haselmayer (they/them) interweaves artistic, research and art educational practices with queer-feminist, post- and decolonial perspectives, in remembrance political interventions and projects with students and artists in Viennese urban space (see ReMaking Hügel). They are co-founders of Decolonizing in Vienna, as well as the feminist-critical literary event series Blumenmontag, and currently work as a curator for kulturen in bewegung on the CLIŠHË TRÄSH-Fest as well as their Artist-in-Residence program endorsing BIPOC artists from the global south. They are currently – for the first time of their family of origin – working at a University and doing their PhD. More precisly, they work at the University of Arts in Linz as an assistant for/with Nora Landkammer at the Institute for Art and Education in the field of didactics - engagement - research. Next to that, they are known artistically with their alter ego Walter Xenia Ego for creative affirmative and humorous interventions, messages, poetry and standup-performances (for instance at the PCCC).
Decolonizing in Vienna - Knowing decolonial perspectives on the city
November 15, 2023, 9:30h
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Students
- Rimon Alyagon Darr (Participant)
- Anna Buchner (Participant)
- Rebeka Csombordi (Participant)
- Stefan Gorka (Participant)
- Theresa Hajek (Participant)
- Markela Koniordou (Participant)
- Dejan Markovic (Participant and photos)
- Rebecca Lucia Martínková (Participant)
- Leo Olson-Ury (Participant)
- Daniela Inés Peláez Robles (Participant)
- Carolina Páez Vélez (Participant)
- Flora Safar (Participant)
- Dunia Sahir (Participant)
- Xavi Sosa (Participant)
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Team
- Tonica Hunter (Participant)