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Reflecting Oil: Book launch, June 3, 2025, 5 pm // Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL)/ Vienna

In our global society, oil is one of the most important resources of the modern age. In the face of rapidly advancing global warming, we are facing a radical transformation into a post-fossil fuel era. Understanding our current culture, which is shaped through and through by oil, is an important
foundation for a successful transition to a sustainable future.

The publication Reflecting Oil, which is based on the artistic research project of the same name at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Angewandte) under the lead of the artist Ernst Logar,

Open Call for residency at Lungomare/ Bolzano (I) // Deadline: June 20, 2025

As a partner of the Creative Europe Cooperation project “Situated Creative Practice for the Pluriverse” (SIT-PLU) Lungomare together with other partners have launched the Open Call SIT-RES for a year-long residency program at Lungomare.

SIT-PLU is a project that aims to address contemporary socio-ecological challenges through cross-disciplinary research and site-specific artistic interventions. It seeks to develop creative, context-responsive methodologies that bridge rural, peri-urban, and urban landscapes.

More here https://sitplu.substack.com/

The Residency at Lungomare will focus on the river context within the wider project FLUX –

Call: Curators-in-residence program Stockholm: submission deadline: June 13, 2025

A project by Public Art Vienna: the call is open for curators with a relation to Vienna.
2-months-residency: September – October 2025
Submission deadline: June 13, 2025
For more information see here

Symposium „Kunst im öffentlichen Raum. Strukturen, Programme und Konstellationen“

22. & 23. November 2024
Dortmund

Das Symposium „Kunst im öffentlichen Raum. Strukturen, Programme und Konstellationen“ untersucht die Bedingungen, unter denen neue Projekte und Kunstwerke initiiert werden und der Unterhalt des Bestandes an Kunst im öffentlichen Raum gewährleistet wird.

Insbesondere wird die Beteiligung von (externen) Fachexperten, politischen Gremien und den Verwaltungen an den entsprechenden Prozessen beleuchtet. Die Analyse konzentriert sich geografisch auf das Gebiet der Bundesrepublik und chronologisch auf die letzten zehn Jahre.

Deconstructing Gentrification

The second issue of the Amsterdam Museum Journal ‘Deconstructing Gentrification’ focuses on the complex dynamics of gentrification and its impact on the social and physical structures of cities worldwide. By sharing diverse voices and perspectives, it offers a detailed exploration of gentrification as a multifaceted phenomenon.
See e.g. “Site-specific Performances and Community Activation: Participative Theatre in Florence beyond Overtourism and Gentrification” by Benedetta Bronzini, who is also part of the EU-Project SPACEX.