As part of our series My View the coordinator of the maiz cultural program, Lia Kastiyo-Spinósa, will present her personal view on the exhibition Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman. Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims.
My View is a program series in which experts, non-experts and interesting people are invited to present their personal view on the exhibition. In this exhibition, the guided tours are aligned with Making Sense.
Free admission.
The guided tour will be held in German and English.
A history of constant fight, pain, and perseverance has allowed our existence as migrant women* in Austria. It is under current uncertainty that maiz celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. But how come that these years are just “gone”? Each trajectory leaves traces, ghosts: the remembrance and utopian longings of that “other reality” the official history tries to ignore and conceal.
What phantasmagoric powerful chants of freedom against injustice and inequality can we hear? What forms of interstitial knowledge does the “migrated” carry in a human modern world defined, unlike global winds and waters, by both physical and imaginary borders?
maiz – Autonomous Center by and for Migrant Women, was founded in Linz in 1994. Since then, maiz has been working in six areas (counseling, education, culture, youth, sex & work and research/knowledge production) with the aim of improving the living and working situation of migrant and refugee women and FLINTA* persons in Austria, promoting their political and cultural participation and bringing about a change in existing, unjust social conditions.
Lia Kastiyo-Spinósa is an editor, author, artist, cultural worker, and coordinator of the maiz cultural program, as well as editor of migrazine – Online Magazine by Migrant Women* for Everyone.