The Fortress of Crossed Destinies

Participants:
Zdenka Badovinac, Ángela Bonadies, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Sebastian Cichocki, Ekaterina Degot, Léuli Eshrāghi, Marina Fokidis, Sophie Goltz, Jennifer Higgie, Flaka Haliti, Ania Nowak/Kem School, Metahaven, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Angelo Plessas, Slavs and Tatars, Tracey Rose, Tanzim Wahab, Munem Wasif, et al.

The public programme The Fortress of Crossed Destinies (2022), curated by Marina Fokidis, independent curator and publisher of the magazine South as a State of Mind.

Events:
Crossing #1 (The High Priestess)
Thursday, 21 July 2022, 7 pm, –Traklhaus
Art and activism as an Inseparable Tool  for Storytelling
Artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas in conversation with Sophie Goltz (Director of International Summer Academy, Salzburg)

Crossing #2 (The Sun)
Friday, 22 July 2022, 7pm – Traklhaus
Seeds Shall Set Us Free
Artist Munem Wasif in conversation with Tanzim Wahab (director of Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography, Dhaka)

Crossing #3 (The Chariot)
Tuesday, 26 July 2022, 7 pm – Traklhaus
Europe, the Fortress of Crossed Wars
Public lecture by Vasyl Cherepanyn (director of  Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv)

Crossing #4 (Strength)
Tuesday, 2 August 2022, 7 pm – Traklhaus
Crossing Continents with Archival Fever at 360 Degrees
A lecture by Léuli Eshrāghi

Crossing #5 (The Moon)
Wednesday, 3 August 2022, 9 pm – Salzburger Kunstverein
Sunset Kino - Motherlands
Short – film programme curated by artist Angela Bonadies

Crossing #6 (The Lovers)
Thursday, 4 August 2022, 7 pm – Traklhaus
Lecture intervention by artist Tracey Rose

Crossing #7 (The Fool)
Tuesday, 9 August 2022, 7 pm – Traklhaus
Everywhere Present, Nowhere Visible (and vice versa)
Lecture Performance and guided meditation by artist Angelo Plessas

Crossing #8 (Temperance)
Thursday, 11 August 2022, 7 pm – Traklhaus
Public Institutions of Arts Responding to Emergencies
panel discussion with Zdenka Badovinac, via Zoom (Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb) Sebastian Cichocki (Chief Curator and Head of Research, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw), Ekaterina Degot (Artistic Director and chief curator, steirischer herbs, Gratz). Moderated by Marina Fokidis (curator and writer)

Crossing #9 (The Wheel of Fortune)
Monday, 15 August 2022, 7 pm – Traklhaus
The Making of the Discourse Bar
A conversation between artist Flaka Haliti and the artistic collective Metaheaven

Crossing #10 (The Empress)
Wednesday, 17 August 2022, 7 pm – Traklhaus
The Mirror and the Palette: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
Book presentation  by writer Jennifer Higgie

Crossing #11 (Justice)
Monday, 22 August 2022, 7 pm – Traklhaus
A Means to Render Our Lives Believable: Of Solitude and Solidarity, or the Whitewashing of Solidarity
Public lecture by Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (founder and artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin)

Crossing #12 (The Hierophant)
Tuesday, 23 August 2022, 7 pm – Traklhaus
Red-Black Thread  public lecture by artist collective Slavs and Tatars

Crossing #13 Queers Night Out with Kem School
Friday, 26 August 2022 – Galerie 5020
Performance with Ania Nowak (choreographer, Poland/Germany), concert with Bella Ćwir (singer, Poland), music sets by DJ Czuły, DJ Jśa, DJ suhlisi, and DJ Krzysztof

Saturday, 27 August 2022, 12 am-4 pm – Galerie 5020
Performance workshop by Ania Nowak / Kem School (choreographer, Poland/Germany)