Kunsthalle Wien

Concept: Ana de Almeida, Anke Dyes, Nina Kerschbaumer, and Inka Meißner

With contributions from: Mz* Baltazar‘s Laboratory, Rachal Bradley, Carolin Brendel, Coleman Collins, Ana de Almeida, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anke Dyes, Oier Etxeberria, Julia Grillmayr, Johan Hartle, Anna Lena von Helldorff, Peter Hermans, Ute Kalender and Aljoscha Weskott, Nina Kerschbaumer, Leigh Claire La Berge, Yulia Lokshina and Samuel Fischer-Glaser, Doreen Mende, Sighard Neckel, Axel Stockburger, Lia Sudermann, Jakub Vrba, and Christian Wimplinger

The event took place partly in English (April 23) and partly in German (April 24).

The event series Sharing and Responding is a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Kunsthalle Wien.

Even if hardly ever described in such terms anymore, cybernetic feedback systems and their logic are ubiquitous today. The idea that, alongside flight paths and temperatures, social interactions and all kinds of decision-making processes can be regulated by now stands beyond question. With a program structured by the horizontal interconnectedness of various keywords, the symposium Sharing and Responding is dedicated to this condition, while simultaneously reflecting the inevitability of cybernetic reciprocity and interference.

Central to the four thematic blocks under discussion is the question of how regulatory structures are appropriated today—not least by those who are not enriching themselves through them. The program begins with the idea of anticipatory control that is at the heart of cybernetics (future/fiction/scenario), moving on to an exploration of the relationship of complex systems to individualized feedback (guilt/debt/responsibility) and ideas of self-management and labor (behavior planning/self-optimization/employment) before concluding with a look into the kinds of outcomes that can be generated from self-regulating networks (autofiction/desire/conspiracy theories).

The Sharing and Responding symposium is the second instalment of a series of events of the same title, and follows an online workshop in June 2020 with Amy Lien, Enzo Camacho, and the Zurich-based group The Field. The series examines cybernetic structures in language and art, planning, and surveillance. It thus picks up on the thematic framework of a two-semester seminar series that is part of the Master in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as on the exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor, curated by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oier Etxeberria.

Fr, 23/4

12 pm–3 pm

Welcome

Panel 1:
> Future/Fiction/Scenario
>> Play/Role/Speculation/Alternative
>>> LARP/Queer-feminism/Extractivism/Hardware/DYI

With: Mz* Balthazar’s Laboratory, Oier Etxeberria, Julia Grillmayr, and Doreen Mende
Chair: Ana de Almeida

Fr, 23/4

5–8 pm

Panel 2:
> Guilt/Debt/Responsibility
>> Financial instruments/Complexity science/Risk
>>> Body/Climate/Education/Model/Virtue Signaling

With: Rachal Bradley, Carolin Melia Brendel, Coleman Collins und Leigh Claire La Berge
Chair: Inka Meißner

Sat, 24/4

10 am–1 pm

Welcome

Panel 3:
> Behavior planning/Optimization/Work
>> Open Plan Office/Realism/Poverty/Digitalization
>>> Glitches/Hippies/TED Talks/Charisma

With: Johan Hartle, Ute Kalender and Aljoscha Weskott, Lia Sudermann, and Christian Wimplinger
Chair: Nina Kerschbaumer

Sat, 24/4

3–6 pm

Panel 4:
> Autofiction/Desire/Conspiracy theories
>> Pattern/Performativity/Surveilance/Shame
>>> QAnon/Gaming/Ecology/Cyborg/Anthropos

With: Diedrich Diederichsen, Peter Hermans, Yulia Lokshina and Samuel Fischer-Glaser, Sighard Neckel, and Axel Stockburger
Chair: Anke Dyes

Concept: Ana de Almeida, Anke Dyes, Nina Kerschbaumer, and Inka Meißner

With contributions from: Mz* Baltazar‘s Laboratory, Rachal Bradley, Carolin Brendel, Coleman Collins, Ana de Almeida, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anke Dyes, Oier Etxeberria, Julia Grillmayr, Johan Hartle, Anna Lena von Helldorff, Peter Hermans, Ute Kalender and Aljoscha Weskott, Nina Kerschbaumer, Leigh Claire La Berge, Yulia Lokshina and Samuel Fischer-Glaser, Doreen Mende, Sighard Neckel, Axel Stockburger, Lia Sudermann, Jakub Vrba, and Christian Wimplinger

The event took place partly in English (April 23) and partly in German (April 24).

The event series Sharing and Responding is a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Kunsthalle Wien.

Even if hardly ever described in such terms anymore, cybernetic feedback systems and their logic are ubiquitous today. The idea that, alongside flight paths and temperatures, social interactions and all kinds of decision-making processes can be regulated by now stands beyond question. With a program structured by the horizontal interconnectedness of various keywords, the symposium Sharing and Responding is dedicated to this condition, while simultaneously reflecting the inevitability of cybernetic reciprocity and interference.

Central to the four thematic blocks under discussion is the question of how regulatory structures are appropriated today—not least by those who are not enriching themselves through them. The program begins with the idea of anticipatory control that is at the heart of cybernetics (future/fiction/scenario), moving on to an exploration of the relationship of complex systems to individualized feedback (guilt/debt/responsibility) and ideas of self-management and labor (behavior planning/self-optimization/employment) before concluding with a look into the kinds of outcomes that can be generated from self-regulating networks (autofiction/desire/conspiracy theories).

The Sharing and Responding symposium is the second instalment of a series of events of the same title, and follows an online workshop in June 2020 with Amy Lien, Enzo Camacho, and the Zurich-based group The Field. The series examines cybernetic structures in language and art, planning, and surveillance. It thus picks up on the thematic framework of a two-semester seminar series that is part of the Master in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as on the exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor, curated by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oier Etxeberria.

Fr, 23/4

12 pm–3 pm

Welcome

Panel 1:
> Future/Fiction/Scenario
>> Play/Role/Speculation/Alternative
>>> LARP/Queer-feminism/Extractivism/Hardware/DYI

With: Mz* Balthazar’s Laboratory, Oier Etxeberria, Julia Grillmayr, and Doreen Mende
Chair: Ana de Almeida

Fr, 23/4

5–8 pm

Panel 2:
> Guilt/Debt/Responsibility
>> Financial instruments/Complexity science/Risk
>>> Body/Climate/Education/Model/Virtue Signaling

With: Rachal Bradley, Carolin Melia Brendel, Coleman Collins und Leigh Claire La Berge
Chair: Inka Meißner

Sat, 24/4

10 am–1 pm

Welcome

Panel 3:
> Behavior planning/Optimization/Work
>> Open Plan Office/Realism/Poverty/Digitalization
>>> Glitches/Hippies/TED Talks/Charisma

With: Johan Hartle, Ute Kalender and Aljoscha Weskott, Lia Sudermann, and Christian Wimplinger
Chair: Nina Kerschbaumer

Sat, 24/4

3–6 pm

Panel 4:
> Autofiction/Desire/Conspiracy theories
>> Pattern/Performativity/Surveilance/Shame
>>> QAnon/Gaming/Ecology/Cyborg/Anthropos

With: Diedrich Diederichsen, Peter Hermans, Yulia Lokshina and Samuel Fischer-Glaser, Sighard Neckel, and Axel Stockburger
Chair: Anke Dyes

Concept: Ana de Almeida, Anke Dyes, Nina Kerschbaumer, and Inka Meißner

With contributions from: Mz* Baltazar‘s Laboratory, Rachal Bradley, Carolin Brendel, Coleman Collins, Ana de Almeida, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anke Dyes, Oier Etxeberria, Julia Grillmayr, Johan Hartle, Anna Lena von Helldorff, Peter Hermans, Ute Kalender and Aljoscha Weskott, Nina Kerschbaumer, Leigh Claire La Berge, Yulia Lokshina and Samuel Fischer-Glaser, Doreen Mende, Sighard Neckel, Axel Stockburger, Lia Sudermann, Jakub Vrba, and Christian Wimplinger

The event took place partly in English (April 23) and partly in German (April 24).

The event series Sharing and Responding is a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Kunsthalle Wien.

Even if hardly ever described in such terms anymore, cybernetic feedback systems and their logic are ubiquitous today. The idea that, alongside flight paths and temperatures, social interactions and all kinds of decision-making processes can be regulated by now stands beyond question. With a program structured by the horizontal interconnectedness of various keywords, the symposium Sharing and Responding is dedicated to this condition, while simultaneously reflecting the inevitability of cybernetic reciprocity and interference.

Central to the four thematic blocks under discussion is the question of how regulatory structures are appropriated today—not least by those who are not enriching themselves through them. The program begins with the idea of anticipatory control that is at the heart of cybernetics (future/fiction/scenario), moving on to an exploration of the relationship of complex systems to individualized feedback (guilt/debt/responsibility) and ideas of self-management and labor (behavior planning/self-optimization/employment) before concluding with a look into the kinds of outcomes that can be generated from self-regulating networks (autofiction/desire/conspiracy theories).

The Sharing and Responding symposium is the second instalment of a series of events of the same title, and follows an online workshop in June 2020 with Amy Lien, Enzo Camacho, and the Zurich-based group The Field. The series examines cybernetic structures in language and art, planning, and surveillance. It thus picks up on the thematic framework of a two-semester seminar series that is part of the Master in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as on the exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor, curated by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oier Etxeberria.

Fr, 23/4

12 pm–3 pm

Welcome

Panel 1:
> Future/Fiction/Scenario
>> Play/Role/Speculation/Alternative
>>> LARP/Queer-feminism/Extractivism/Hardware/DYI

With: Mz* Balthazar’s Laboratory, Oier Etxeberria, Julia Grillmayr, and Doreen Mende
Chair: Ana de Almeida

Fr, 23/4

5–8 pm

Panel 2:
> Guilt/Debt/Responsibility
>> Financial instruments/Complexity science/Risk
>>> Body/Climate/Education/Model/Virtue Signaling

With: Rachal Bradley, Carolin Melia Brendel, Coleman Collins und Leigh Claire La Berge
Chair: Inka Meißner

Sat, 24/4

10 am–1 pm

Welcome

Panel 3:
> Behavior planning/Optimization/Work
>> Open Plan Office/Realism/Poverty/Digitalization
>>> Glitches/Hippies/TED Talks/Charisma

With: Johan Hartle, Ute Kalender and Aljoscha Weskott, Lia Sudermann, and Christian Wimplinger
Chair: Nina Kerschbaumer

Sat, 24/4

3–6 pm

Panel 4:
> Autofiction/Desire/Conspiracy theories
>> Pattern/Performativity/Surveilance/Shame
>>> QAnon/Gaming/Ecology/Cyborg/Anthropos

With: Diedrich Diederichsen, Peter Hermans, Yulia Lokshina and Samuel Fischer-Glaser, Sighard Neckel, and Axel Stockburger
Chair: Anke Dyes

Concept: Ana de Almeida, Anke Dyes, Nina Kerschbaumer, and Inka Meißner

With contributions from: Mz* Baltazar‘s Laboratory, Rachal Bradley, Carolin Brendel, Coleman Collins, Ana de Almeida, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anke Dyes, Oier Etxeberria, Julia Grillmayr, Johan Hartle, Anna Lena von Helldorff, Peter Hermans, Ute Kalender and Aljoscha Weskott, Nina Kerschbaumer, Leigh Claire La Berge, Yulia Lokshina and Samuel Fischer-Glaser, Doreen Mende, Sighard Neckel, Axel Stockburger, Lia Sudermann, Jakub Vrba, and Christian Wimplinger

The event took place partly in English (April 23) and partly in German (April 24).

The event series Sharing and Responding is a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Kunsthalle Wien.

Even if hardly ever described in such terms anymore, cybernetic feedback systems and their logic are ubiquitous today. The idea that, alongside flight paths and temperatures, social interactions and all kinds of decision-making processes can be regulated by now stands beyond question. With a program structured by the horizontal interconnectedness of various keywords, the symposium Sharing and Responding is dedicated to this condition, while simultaneously reflecting the inevitability of cybernetic reciprocity and interference.

Central to the four thematic blocks under discussion is the question of how regulatory structures are appropriated today—not least by those who are not enriching themselves through them. The program begins with the idea of anticipatory control that is at the heart of cybernetics (future/fiction/scenario), moving on to an exploration of the relationship of complex systems to individualized feedback (guilt/debt/responsibility) and ideas of self-management and labor (behavior planning/self-optimization/employment) before concluding with a look into the kinds of outcomes that can be generated from self-regulating networks (autofiction/desire/conspiracy theories).

The Sharing and Responding symposium is the second instalment of a series of events of the same title, and follows an online workshop in June 2020 with Amy Lien, Enzo Camacho, and the Zurich-based group The Field. The series examines cybernetic structures in language and art, planning, and surveillance. It thus picks up on the thematic framework of a two-semester seminar series that is part of the Master in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as on the exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor, curated by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oier Etxeberria.

Fr, 23/4

12 pm–3 pm

Welcome

Panel 1:
> Future/Fiction/Scenario
>> Play/Role/Speculation/Alternative
>>> LARP/Queer-feminism/Extractivism/Hardware/DYI

With: Mz* Balthazar’s Laboratory, Oier Etxeberria, Julia Grillmayr, and Doreen Mende
Chair: Ana de Almeida

Fr, 23/4

5–8 pm

Panel 2:
> Guilt/Debt/Responsibility
>> Financial instruments/Complexity science/Risk
>>> Body/Climate/Education/Model/Virtue Signaling

With: Rachal Bradley, Carolin Melia Brendel, Coleman Collins und Leigh Claire La Berge
Chair: Inka Meißner

Sat, 24/4

10 am–1 pm

Welcome

Panel 3:
> Behavior planning/Optimization/Work
>> Open Plan Office/Realism/Poverty/Digitalization
>>> Glitches/Hippies/TED Talks/Charisma

With: Johan Hartle, Ute Kalender and Aljoscha Weskott, Lia Sudermann, and Christian Wimplinger
Chair: Nina Kerschbaumer

Sat, 24/4

3–6 pm

Panel 4:
> Autofiction/Desire/Conspiracy theories
>> Pattern/Performativity/Surveilance/Shame
>>> QAnon/Gaming/Ecology/Cyborg/Anthropos

With: Diedrich Diederichsen, Peter Hermans, Yulia Lokshina and Samuel Fischer-Glaser, Sighard Neckel, and Axel Stockburger
Chair: Anke Dyes

On April 23 and 24, the symposium Sharing and Responding took place in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the context of our exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor. Over two days and four panels, cybernetic structures in language and art, planning and surveillance were under discussion . Concept by Ana de Almeida, Anke Dyes, Nina Kerschbaumer and Inka Meißner.

On April 23 and 24, the symposium Sharing and Responding took place in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the context of our exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor. Over two days and four panels, cybernetic structures in language and art, planning and surveillance were under discussion . Concept by Ana de Almeida, Anke Dyes, Nina Kerschbaumer and Inka Meißner.

On April 23 and 24, the symposium Sharing and Responding took place in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the context of our exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor. Over two days and four panels, cybernetic structures in language and art, planning and surveillance were under discussion . Concept by Ana de Almeida, Anke Dyes, Nina Kerschbaumer and Inka Meißner.

On April 23 and 24, the symposium Sharing and Responding took place in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the context of our exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor. Over two days and four panels, cybernetic structures in language and art, planning and surveillance were under discussion . Concept by Ana de Almeida, Anke Dyes, Nina Kerschbaumer and Inka Meißner.

“The cultural industry produces stars: camera, light, and editing charge the image of a hairy chest, the blink of an eye, with an artificial sexual energy, and then the viewers pay a lot of money to get closer to a fictional character who never existed.

Želimir Žilnik’s materialist cinematic art is the antithesis of this. His cheerful approach to his protagonists, his relaxed and composed curiosity about real people allows their lust for life, their corporeality to grow into his films – as a headstrong stubbornness that quite naturally and sometimes unconsciously confronts unjust circumstances.

Never does he let the disenfranchised become bodies of evidence for his worldview. They always remain the authors of their own desires, their life plans, the lust of their imperfected muscles, butts, feet, wishes, plans, teeth. This infuses his films with a smack of sensuality and anarchistic wit. It lures the appetite of the audience not to the big screen stars but to real, imperfect humans in their – our – own lives.

We exit Žilnik’s cinema, kiss the next best, and start a revolution together.”

Tina Leisch is a film, text, and theatre maker and a political activist.

My View is a series of tours in which experts, amateurs, and interesting people are invited to present their personal view of the exhibition.

Curator Diedrich Diederichsen gives an introduction to the exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor and explains the origins and the evolution of the concept of cybernetics and how it has changed over the course of time. Furthermore, he describes the reciprocities between cybernetics and art (today) based on selected works of participating artists.

“Pirate Care” is mapping collective practices that are emerging in response to the various aspects of the neoliberal crisis of care, ranging from the criminalization of migration to the rollback of reproductive rights or the introduction of workfare regimes. As part of the exhibition “…of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak introduce the collective Pirate Care Syllabus and the technopolitical decisions behind it.

In the “Mixed Double” format, two people from different departments of Kunsthalle Wien guide through the exhibition and give their personal view on the topics which are discussed within the exhibition. This time Hektor Peljak from exhibition management and art educator Michael Simku tell you a bit more about the works of artists Milica Tomić, Ines Doujak, Oliver Ressler,Vlatka Horvat, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, and Jessika Khazrik.

In the “Mixed Double” format, two people from different departments of Kunsthalle Wien guide through the exhibition and give their personal view on the topics which are discussed within the exhibition. This time Adina Hasler from marketing and art educator Martin Walkner tell you a bit more about the works of artists Adji Dieye, Dan Perjovschi, Melanie Ebenhoch and Marlene Streeruwitz.

Join Eva Böhm (sign language interpreter) and Wolfgang Brunner on a video tour through the exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” and experience the exhibition from a new perspective.

Our Sunday tours “Desires, Dreams and Demands” through the exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” are now taking place on the web – every week you can experience the exhibition from a new perspective in a video tour.

The exhibition Hysterical Mining analysed the material worlds we are creating through technology and technology’s role in shaping local and global configurations of power, forms of identity, and ways of living. We talked to artists of the exhibition about their contributions and recorded conversations, lectures and performances.

Annette Kelm’s exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien turns the spotlight on works in which architecture, design, or constellations of seemingly mundane objects are revealed to be visual manifestations of complex genealogies.

The exhibtion Antarctica looks at the pattern underlying alienation – this “relationship based on the absence of a relationship.” Showing numerous contemporary artworks; the exhibition explores how the term “alienation” functions in our world today.

A series of talks with artists, publishers, and graphic designers discussing artistic publishing activities is part of the exhibition project Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989–2017