Praxis Konkret:Politics of Hospitality
Hosted by Schauspielhaus Wien
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Praxis Konkret: Politics of Hospitality
Cultural Mediation and Curating With Care
10.10.2024 10-2 pm
with Faris Cuchi Gezahegn and Marissa Lôbo
hosted by Schauspielhaus Wien
[ENG]
This workshop aims to provide critical and practical knowledge by focusing on the intersections of hospitality, cultural mediation, and curation in a global context. Through the lens of "curating with care," participants will explore the political and intentional aspects of welcoming, engaging, and representing diverse communities within cultural spaces.
While the concept of hospitality traditionally evokes notions of openness and generosity, it is also deeply political. Who do we invite into our cultural spaces? How do we create environments where individuals with intersecting identities, voices, and histories are acknowledged, respected, and centered? This workshop will address these questions while examining the power dynamics involved in hosting and mediating cultures, particularly those from and with the global majority.
Through case studies, group discussions, and interactive exercises, participants will leave the workshop with a deeper understanding of how hospitality can serve as a transformative tool in curatorial practice. Whether you are an emerging curator, cultural worker, or involved in community-engaged practices, this workshop will equip you with radical strategies for curating with care, ensuring that cultural spaces are welcoming, honor the sanctity of humanity, and are intentionally designed to dismantle the violence imposed by the imperial core in cultural production.
This event will be held in English. The event is open to all interested artists, cultural workers and activists.
Please register at office@d-arts.at
Faris Cuchi Gezahgen (they/them/theirs) is a femme non-binary and intersectional LGBTQIA*/Human Rights advocate/activist who uses multifaceted mediums as conduits in securing the sanctity of humanity that we all deserve. They are living archivists, Ethiopian ZEGA/QUEER knowledge and culture conjurers/summoners, multidisciplinary artists, poets, style activists, and part of the PCCC (Politically Correct Comedy Club) ensemble and many-festation that will arise in their future selves.
Marissa Lôbo is an artist, free curator, and cultural producer. For 13 years she worked as the curatorial director of the cultural section of MAIZ a self-organized collective of and for migrants. She is currently the co-founder and artistic director of "kültüř gemma! And was the co-curator of projects as “Night School” part of the Wiener Festwochen and Bodies of Knowledge, and projects which live at the interface of art practice and education and decolonization, currently she is the curator of the project Smashing Wor(l)ds Marissa Lobo holds a Magistra degree in post-conceptual art.