On the following days, the festival program will be livestreamed via Vimeo<\/a> and on the festival website.<\/p>\r\n Thursday, May 12, 2022: Livestream<\/a> from 7\u20138 pm\r\nFriday, May 13, 2022: Livestream<\/a> from 5\u201310:30 pm\r\nSaturday, May 14, 2022: Livestream<\/a> from 4\u201310:30 pm<\/p>\r\n Follow the event live here, no registration required: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/event\/2050623<\/a><\/p>\r\n The Signal group chat is used during the festival as a guide, announcement board, and online forum. https:\/\/bit.ly\/37IRwai<\/a><\/p>\r\n Having difficulties accessing Signal or Vimeo? Please write to us at: fragilesolidarity@akademie-solitude.de<\/a><\/p>","modal_img":null,"modal_video":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/event\/2050623"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_modal","bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(245,237,217)","text_color":"","layout_col_size":3,"modal_active_init":false,"modal_width":"is-half-width","modal_button":"Locations","modal_button_bgcolor":"has-btn-bg-custom","modal_button_bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,102,0)","modal_content":[{"modal_txt":" Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/strong>\r\nSolitude 3<\/strong>\r\n70197 Stuttgart<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Akademie Schloss Solitude can be reached by public transport on bus line 92 to the Solitude stop. For more information about bus line 92\u2019s exact timetable, please visit the VVS website. Akademie Schloss Solitude has designated free visitor parking facilities. A ramp for wheelchairs runs across the backyard, although the path is gravel. The workshop spaces are barrier-free and accessible. There is no wheelchair-accessible restroom.<\/p>\r\n W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein<\/strong>\r\nSchlossplatz 2<\/strong>\r\n70173 Stuttgart<\/strong><\/p>\r\n W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein is an approximately five- to ten-minute walk from Stuttgart's main train station. Exit in the direction of K\u00f6nigstrasse, then take the first street left onto Marstallstrasse, then right onto Stauffenbergstrasse. The nearest U-Bahn station is Schlossplatz. Exit in the direction of Bolzstrasse. On Bolzstrasse, make a left, then turn right onto Stauffenbergstrasse. The WKV\u2019s exhibition and event spaces are barrier-free and accessible. A wheelchair-accessible restroom is available.<\/p>\r\n Merz Akademie<\/strong>\r\nHochschule f\u00fcr Gestaltung, Kunst und Medien<\/strong>\r\nTeckstra\u00dfe 58<\/strong>\r\n70190 Stuttgart<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Merz Akademie can be reached by public transport (U4\/U9 station Bergfriedhof\/Merz Akademie). Please follow Hackstra\u00dfe (passing the Zollamt), turn left onto Teckstra\u00dfe and then take the first entry on the right into the Kulturpark Berg. The Merz Akademie is only partially barrier-free.<\/p>\r\n Kunstverein Wagenhalle & Neue Schachtel<\/strong>\r\nInnerer Nordbahnhof 1<\/strong>\r\n70191 Stuttgart<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Kunstverein Wagenhalle is best reached by public transport. Starting at the main station, the U-Bahn line U6 (direction: Gerlingen), U7 (direction: M\u00f6nchfeld), U5 (direction: Killesberg) or U15 (direction: Stammheim) can be taken. Please exit at the stop Pragfriedhof. At the first intersection, make a right onto Hedwig-Dohm-Stra\u00dfe. Continue to the end of the street and turn right onto Innerer Nordbahnhof\/Kunstboulevard.<\/p>\r\nThe workshop spaces are barrier-free and accessible. A wheelchair-accessible restroom is available. There is parking directly in front of the venue.","modal_img":null,"modal_video":null}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_modal","bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(245,237,217)","text_color":"","layout_col_size":3,"modal_active_init":false,"modal_width":"is-half-width","modal_button":"Inclusion","modal_button_bgcolor":"has-btn-bg-custom","modal_button_bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,102,0)","modal_content":[{"modal_txt":" All events on site and online are free admission except the afterparty at Neue SchachteL<\/p>\r\n The locations W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein and Kunstverein Wagenhalle are barrier-free and accessible, with a wheelchair-accessible restroom.<\/p>\r\n The locations Akademie Schloss Solitude and Merz Akademie are only partially barrier-free. Please find more information in the Locations menu.<\/p>\r\nFree entry<\/strong>\r\n All events are free, except the concert at Neue Schachtel.<\/p>\r\nLanguage<\/strong>\r\n The festival program will be held entirely in English. On request we are happy to provide simultaneous German whispered translation.<\/p>\r\nGuided tours<\/strong>\r\n On request, we are happy to offer guided exhibition tours in German or other languages, as well as sign language, or for blind people. We make every effort to ensure that everyone has access to the exhibition\/festival venue. Please send your individual request to fragilesolidarity@akademie-solitude.de<\/a> by May 2.<\/p>\r\nAwareness<\/strong>\r\n Throughout Saturday, May 14, 2022, an awareness representative will be on site at Kunstverein Wagenhalle and will also be present for the two workshops Queer Artists' Perspective on the Socio-Political Mutations<\/em> and Dreaming As An Active Practice (Dreaming and Dream Tech As Sites of Liberation)<\/em>.<\/p>\r\nLivestream\/Online events<\/strong>\r\n For people who do not wish to attend the events physically or do not wish to travel, parts of the festival program will be livestreamed via Vimeo and on the festival website. Parts of the workshops program will take place online. Please find more information in the Livestream menu or in the program overview.<\/p>","modal_img":33564,"modal_video":null}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_modal","bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(245,237,217)","text_color":"","layout_col_size":3,"modal_active_init":false,"modal_width":"is-half-width","modal_button":"Team\/Contact","modal_button_bgcolor":"has-btn-bg-custom","modal_button_bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,102,0)","modal_content":[{"modal_txt":" For general requests, please write to fragilesolidarity@akademie-solitude.de<\/a>\r\nFor press requests, please write to presse@akademie-solitude.de<\/a>\r\nFor workshop registrations, please write to register@akademie-solitude.de<\/a><\/p>\r\n Festival team A\u2013Z<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Saskia Ackermann\r\nPress assistance, freelance<\/p>\r\n Beria Altinoluk\r\nOnline support, freelance<\/p>\r\n Alina Anderson, Hedda D\u00f6nnges, Hannah Araujo-Ulmer, Peter Carey-Yard\r\nExhibition guides, freelance<\/p>\r\n Roland Batroff\r\nLighting, freelance<\/p>\r\n Konrad Behr, Leon Giacomo Goltermann, Janina M\u00fcller, Marius Schwingel\r\nLivestreaming team, freelance<\/p>\r\n Kimberly Bradley\r\nEnglish proofreading, freelance<\/p>\r\n Angela Butterstein\r\nHead of press department, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n Anita Carey-Yard\r\nArtist support, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n Hannah Araujo-Ulmer, Peter Carey-Yard, Hedda D\u00f6nnges\r\nBar WKV, freelance<\/p>\r\n Lennart Cleemann, Peter Hauer, Artemy Sverbin\r\nExhibition setup, freelance<\/p>\r\n Helmut Dietz\r\nWorkshop management, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n Eva D\u00f6rr,\r\nMedia technical management, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n Jazmina Figueroa\r\nFellow for art coordination, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n Theo Ferreira Gomes\r\nFellow for art coordination, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n Catherine Galliou\r\nAdministrative director, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n Diana Haddad\r\nProject and events coordinator, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n Sebastian Hahnel\r\nEvent\/sound engineering, freelance<\/p>\r\n Jana Hochdorfer\r\nTrainee at press department, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n Fabian K\u00fchfu\u00df\r\nAudiovisual technician, freelance<\/p>\r\n Anne Lippert, Stephan Thiel\r\nGraphic design, freelance<\/p>\r\n Elke aus dem Moore\r\nDirector, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n akiko soyja\r\nAwareness commissioner, freelance<\/p>\r\n Sophia Sadzakov\r\nHead of production management, freelance<\/p>\r\n Denise Helene Sumi\r\nHead of Digital Solitude<\/em> program, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n Kestutis Svirnelis\r\nSet construction, freelance<\/p>\r\n Ivan Syrov\r\nHead of audiovisual technical department, freelance<\/p>\r\n Lara Treffeisen\r\nTranslation\/editing German, freelance<\/p>\r\n With many thanks to Silke Albrecht, Robin Bischoff, Hans Christ, Thomas Dumke, Iris Dressler, Weiny Fitui, Moritz Finkbeiner, Martina Grohmann, Yvy Heussler, Kristina Michaelis, Jonas R\u00fcmmelin, Eric Golo Stone, Marco Trotta, and Sylvia Winkler<\/p>","modal_img":33566,"modal_video":null}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_modal","bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(245,237,217)","text_color":"","layout_col_size":3,"modal_active_init":false,"modal_width":"is-half-width","modal_button":"Forum","modal_button_bgcolor":"has-btn-bg-custom","modal_button_bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,102,0)","modal_content":[{"modal_txt":" Globally, networked technologies have enlivened and uplifted solidarity movements that interconnect diasporic communities to widespread exchanges on translocal and community-based issues. The forum sheds light on such impulses from geopolitical, translocal, queer, intersectional feminist and decolonial perspectives that address shared and specific techno-enviro-socio-political issues disseminated across digital spheres.<\/p>\r\n Artists and experts from the Digital Solitude<\/em> network take on the festival\u2019s theme to consider how the fragility of solidarity, networks, and communities are anchored and explored further in their work. Addressing historical instances, embodied and situated perspectives, and translocal practices, the forum focuses on more radically aligned potentials for future independent (infra)structures, opens new spaces of solidarity in the digital spheres, and brings together creative contributions that define these potentials and\/or challenge existing networks.<\/p>\r\n With contributions by Mac Andre Arboleda, Agnes Cameron and Gary Zhexi Zhang, dgtl fmnsm (Ulla Heinrich and Andara Shastika), Anna Engelhardt (Distributed Cognition Cooperative), Jazmina Figueroa and Theodoulos Polyviou, Format C (Dina Karad\u017ei\u0107 and Vedran Gligo), Margret Frenz, Juan Pablo Garc\u00eda Sossa (JPGS), Ana Mar\u00eda G\u00f3mez L\u00f3pez, Mia Imani Harrison, Kira\u1e47 Kum\u0101r, Aline Xavier Mineiro, Nkhensani Mkhari, Simina Neagu, Elia Nurvista, Pedro Oliveira (OLVRA), Anca Rujoiu, akiko soyja, Eszter Szak\u00e1cs and Naeem Mohaiemen,and Danae Tapia.<\/p>\r\n Digital Solitude<\/em> is an Akademie Schloss Solitude network that operates entirely online, in which artists and experts working across disciplines have extended through their support, participations, and contributions. Since 2016, Digital Solitude<\/em> has engaged with artistic approaches and communities that work with digital media and technology to nurture critical or creative reflections on technology\u2019s influence within our society.<\/p>\r\n The MAIN FORUM forum will take place at Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Thursday, May 12, Friday, May 13, and Saturday May 14<\/span>, and will also be livestreamed online.<\/p>\r\n There will be KICK-OFF artist talks and a screening on Wednesday, May 12, from 7\u201310 pm<\/span> at W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein. This evening will not be livestreamed.<\/p>\r\n Here is an overview of the FORUM program\r\nFurther descriptions can be found in the full program overview.<\/p>\r\n Wednesday, May 11, 2022, W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein<\/span><\/p>\r\n Soft Bread, Hard Times: A History of Food Texture Modification<\/em>\r\nLecture by Agnes Cameron and Gary Zhexi Zhang<\/p>\r\n Yesterday\u2019s Rice, Tomorrow\u2019s Solidarity<\/em>\r\nAnca Rujoiu in conversation with Elia Nurvista<\/p>\r\n A Matter of Course<\/em>\r\nScreening and talk with Aline Xavier Mineiro<\/p>\r\n Thursday, May 12, 2022, Kunstverein Wagenhalle and livestream<\/span><\/p>\r\n Traces of the 1907 Socialist International Congress<\/em>\r\nMargret Frenz in conversation with Grayson Earle and Ana Mar\u00eda G\u00f3mez L\u00f3pez<\/p>\r\n Friday, May 13, 2022, Kunstverein Wagenhalle and livestream<\/span><\/p>\r\n Fantastic Confabulations<\/em>\r\nJazmina Figueroa in conversation with Theodoulos Polyviou<\/p>\r\n The Grave<\/em>\r\nPerformative lecture by Danae Tapia<\/p>\r\n Solidarity Must Be Defended<\/em>\r\nSimina Neagu in conversation with Eszter Szak\u00e1cs and Naeem Mohaiemen<\/p>\r\n Epistolary Ancestries<\/em>\r\nPerformative lecture by Kiran Kum\u0101r<\/p>\r\n Saturday, May 14, 2022, Kunstverein Wagenhalle and livestream<\/span><\/p>\r\n The Internet Farm and the Philippine Circumstance<\/em>\r\nScreening and artist talk with Mac Andre Arboleda<\/p>\r\n Futura Tr\u014dpica \u2013 A Decentralized Network<\/em>\r\nPresentation by Juan Pablo Garc\u00eda Sossa (JPGS)<\/p>\r\n How to Complete a Network?<\/em>\r\nPanel with Juan Pablo Garc\u00eda Sossa (JPGS), Dina Karad\u017ei\u0107 and Vedran Gligo, moderated by Mac Andre Arboleda<\/p>\r\n LET\u2019S WRITE A CURSE<\/em>\r\nUlla Heinrich, Andara Shastika in conversation with Elke aus dem Moore and akiko soyja<\/p>\r\n Aftermath of Future Deaths<\/em>\r\nPerformative lecture by Anna Engelhardt (Distributed Cognition Cooperative)<\/p>\r\n Magandzelo<\/em>\r\nPerformance, guided meditation and discussion with Nkhensani Mkhari<\/p>\r\n Clearing The Traum(a): A Ritual Of Collective Healing<\/em>\r\nPerformance by Mia Imani Harrison<\/p>","modal_img":33736,"modal_video":null}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_modal","bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(245,237,217)","text_color":"","layout_col_size":3,"modal_active_init":false,"modal_width":"is-half-width","modal_button":"Workshops","modal_button_bgcolor":"has-btn-bg-custom","modal_button_bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,102,0)","modal_content":[{"modal_txt":" With its comprehensive off- and online workshop program, the festival offers opportunities for open participation and exchange. Artists and experts share valuable and emancipatory practices, toolkits, and processes for a connected and technologically connect society. Some workshops will be held on-site in Stuttgart as well as online. Further information and Zoom links for workshops will be provided after registration.<\/p>\r\n All workshops are free and open to the public. Registration is required for each workshop. Please register for each workshop by May 9<\/strong> via register@akademie-solitude.de<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n Here is an overview of the workshop program.\r\nFurther descriptions of each workshop can be found in the full program overview<\/p>\r\n Tuesday, May 10, 2022<\/strong><\/span>\r\nModifying Food Texture<\/em>\u00a0with Agnes Cameron and Gary Zhexi Zhang, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n Communal Cooking<\/em> with Elia Nurvista, Akademie Schloss Solitude<\/p>\r\n Wednesday,\u00a0May 11,\u00a02022<\/strong><\/span>\r\nPivilion \u2013 Your Darknet Pocket Gallery<\/em>\u00a0with Format C (Dina Karad\u017ei\u0107 and Vedran Gligo), W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein<\/p>\r\n Thursday,\u00a0May 12, 2022<\/strong><\/span>\r\nExpanding Solidarities in Interactive Digital Videogame Projects<\/em> with Grayson Earle, Peter Polack, Ricardo Miranda Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, Merz Akademie and online<\/p>\r\n Castle of Crossed Destinies: Grounding Workshop<\/em> with Castle of Crossed Destinies (Aouefa Amoussouvi, Sasha Engelmann and Olivia Berkowicz), online<\/p>\r\n Friday, May 13, 2022<\/strong><\/span>\r\nThe Notion of Schiller's \u00bbSpiel\u00ab<\/em> with Spielgruppe, Kunstverein Wagenhalle<\/p>\r\n The Trolley Dilemma<\/em> with Simona Dumitriu and Ramona Dima (Simona & Ramona a.k.a Claude & Dersch), online<\/p>\r\n Saturday, May 13, 2022<\/strong><\/span>\r\nQueer Artists\u2019 Perspective on the Socio-Political Mutation<\/em>s with Giorgi Rodionov, Kunstverein Wagenhalle<\/p>\r\n Dreaming As an Active Practice (Dreaming and Dream Tech As Sites of Liberation<\/em>) with Mia Imani Harrison, Kunstverein Wagenhalle<\/p>\r\n Further information and Zoom-links will be provided after registration.<\/p>","modal_img":33490,"modal_video":null}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_modal","bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(245,237,217)","text_color":"","layout_col_size":3,"modal_active_init":false,"modal_width":"is-half-width","modal_button":"Exhibition","modal_button_bgcolor":"has-btn-bg-custom","modal_button_bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,102,0)","modal_content":[{"modal_txt":" Assemblies, Swarms, and Intricate Webs \u2013 no solidarity exists in a social void<\/em>\r\nCurated by Jazmina Figueroa and Denise Helene Sumi<\/p>\r\n Opening: Thursday, May 12, 2022, 6\u201311 pm, Kunstverein Wagenhalle\r\nOpening hours: Friday, May 13, 2022 and Saturday, May 14, 2022, 2\u201311 pm\r\nGuided exhibition tour with all present artists: Friday, May 13, 2022, 3:30\u20134:30 pm and on request<\/p>\r\n With works by Lark Alder aka. Lark VCR, Agnes Cameron and Gary Zhexi Zhang, Call to Action, Castle of Crossed Destinies (Aouefa Amoussouvi, Sasha Engelmann, and Olivia Berkowicz), Distributed Cognition Cooperative (Sasha Shestakova and Anna Engelhardt), Grayson Earle, Format C (Dina Karad\u017ei\u0107 and Vedran Gligo), Frisch&Schick (Johannes Frick and Jasmin Sch\u00e4dler), Zahra Malkani, Aline Xavier Mineiro, More of Us, Simina Neagu, Anca Rujoiu (invites Medina Bazargali, Alevtina Kakhidze, and Nge Lay for A Gesture a Day<\/em>), Juan Pablo Garc\u00eda Sossa (JPGS) and Peter Polack.<\/p>\r\n Kristina Arlekinova will present a DJ set from 9 til midnight.<\/p>","modal_img":33564,"modal_video":null}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_modal","bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(245,237,217)","text_color":"","layout_col_size":3,"modal_active_init":false,"modal_width":"is-half-width","modal_button":"Sound","modal_button_bgcolor":"has-btn-bg-custom","modal_button_bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,102,0)","modal_content":[{"modal_txt":" Long-established cultural phenomena and shared histories deriving from sound, performance, and time-based works suggest alternative frameworks for fragile networks \u2013 across the technological and translocal themes presented throughout the festival. After each day of the exhibition and forum, we invite festival participants and guests to partake in and come together as assemblages with our partners throughout Stuttgart and the Digital Solitude network. The sound program includes DJs, composers, and performers, all practices rooted in the ephemeral possibilities of collective resonance.<\/p>\r\n Thursday, May 12, 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n approppreciation<\/em> by Kristina Arlekinova\r\n9\u2013midnight, DJ set, Kunstverein Wagenhalle<\/p>\r\n Friday, May 13, 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n DESMONTE (To Become Undone)<\/em> by Pedro Oliveira (OLVRA)\r\n10 pm, Live, Kunstverein Wagenhalle and livestream<\/p>\r\n ZEBULARIN<\/em>\r\n10:30 pm, Live concert, Neue Schachtel, Admission: 5 Euros<\/p>\r\n Saturday, May 14, 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n Xzavier Stone\r\n10 pm, DJ set, Kunstverein Wagenhalle<\/p>","modal_img":33611,"modal_video":null}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"From May 10\u201314, 2022, Akademie Schloss Solitude will organize the festival \u00bbFragile Solidarity\/Fragile Connections\u00ab.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWorking with artists and experts from the Digital Solitude<\/em> community, and collaborating with our local partners in Stuttgart, the festival\u2019s thematic orientation is dedicated to various forms of solidarity, connectivity, cohesion, and togetherness within off- and online spaces. \u00bbFragile Solidarity\/Fragile Connections\u00ab explores the mutual relations of solidarity, networks, and technologies as a means beyond the so-called digital divide and the technology\u2019s exploitative histories.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe festival builds on historical instances, embodied and situated perspectives, and questions of translocal solidarity and interdependencies with technological awareness and its possibilities. It promotes solidarity as an impulse \u2013 rooted in like-mindedness, reciprocity, responsibility, and an active engagement in reaching common objectives between multiple communities that recognize unstable patterns, technologies, and connections. Indicating to connectivity, networks, and solidarity as especially fragile agreements, feelings, or movements that are often conveyed through empty declarations \u2013 are likely to reproduce similar patterns of erasure and complicity they are attempting to resist.\r\n\r\nThe festival asks: What does a delicate, devoted, and fragile network look like from a critically engaged point of view? What are models for solidarity and lateral exchange online and beyond? What moves people to off- and online networks, and under which urgencies? How can we revisit the term solidarity from critical perspective with feminist, queer, and decolonial influences?\r\n\r\nThe festival consists of various online and offline workshops, an exhibition, and an accompanying forum with screenings, artist talks, lectures, and performances. Parts of the program will be streamed live from Stuttgart's Kunstverein Wagenhalle, the main venue of the festival, and is designed by the artist duo Blaue Distanz.\r\n\r\nParticipants: Lark Alder a.k.a. Lark VCR, Mac Andre Arboleda, Kristina Arlekinova, Medina Bazargali, Call to Action, Agnes Cameron and Gary Zhexi Zhang, Castle of Crossed Destinies (Aouefa Amoussouvi, Sasha Engelmann, Olivia Berkowicz), dgtl fmnsm (Ulla Heinrich and Andara Shastika), die Blaue Distanz (Anna Erdmann and Franziska Goralski), Distributed Cognition Cooperative (Sasha Shestakova and Anna Engelhardt), Simona Dumitriu and Ramona Dima (Simona & Ramona a.k.a. Claude & Dersch), Grayson Earle, Jazmina Figueroa and Theodoulos Polyviou, Format C (Dina Karad\u017ei\u0107 and Vedran Gligo), Margret Frenz, Frisch&Schick (Johannes Frick and Jasmin Sch\u00e4dler), Juan Pablo Garc\u00eda Sossa (JPGS), Ana Mar\u00eda G\u00f3mez L\u00f3pez, Mia Imani Harrison, Alevtina Kakhidze, Kira\u1e47 Kum\u0101r, Nge Lay, Zahra Malkani, Aline Xavier Mineiro, Nkhensani Mkhari, Elke aus dem Moore, More of Us, Simina Neagu, Elia Nurvista, Pedro Oliveira (OLVRA), Peter Polack, Giorgi Rodionov, Jonathan R\u00f6ssler and Jan Dietz, Anca Rujoiu, akiko soyia, Spielgruppe, Xzavier Stone, Eszter Szak\u00e1cs and Naeem Mohaiemen, Danae Tapia, ZEBULARIN, Ricardo Miranda Z\u00fa\u00f1iga"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_program","program_title":"Program","program_el":[{"bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,102,0)","program_el_content_collapsible":true,"program_el_content_collapsible_init_state":false,"program_el_content_headline":"Tuesday, May 10, 2022: WORKSHOPS + FOOD ","program_el_content":[{"program_el_content_left":"10 am\u20131 pm\r\n2\u20135 pm","program_el_content_right":"Modifying Food Texture<\/em><\/strong>\r\nAgnes Cameron and Gary Zhexi Zhang\r\n\r\nWorkshop\r\nAkademie Schloss Solitude,\r\nCommunal Kitchen and Courtyard\r\n Registration required by May 5: register@akademie-solitude.de<\/a><\/p>\r\nFood texture modification has the quality of existing on both the extremely human and the heavily industrial simultaneously. Innovations in food texture are intimately bound to shifts in eating and food supply chains. In this workshop, we will explore industrial food texture modification techniques, taking a Xenofeminist standpoint toward food technologies, and through Patrick Gunkel's method of ideonomy. The full-day workshop will consist of a collaborative diagramming exercise with cooking\/food texture research and a development session exploring the science of texture modification.\r\n\r\nAgnes Cameron<\/strong> is a hardware and software engineer with a particular interest in simulation, distributed knowledge, and infrastructural systems. She is currently developing work around food supply chains and industrial food infrastructure.\r\n\r\nGary Zhexi Zhang<\/strong> is a visual artist and writer whose work explores the fiction, infrastructure, and conceptual systems that compose the concrete world, such as ecology, finance, and information.\r\n\r\nGary Zhexi Zhang and Agnes Cameron<\/strong> make work about ecology, simulation and the social dimensions of computing systems and technologies.","program_el_content_img":33512},{"program_el_content_left":"10 am\u20131 pm, \r\n4\u20137 pm","program_el_content_right":"Communal Cooking<\/em>\r\nElia Nurvista\r\n\r\nWorkshop\r\nAkademie Schloss Solitude, Kitchen\r\n Registration required by May 5: register@akademie-solitude.de<\/a><\/p>\r\nIn this workshop, participants and Elia Nurvista will collaboratively cook a meal and share it among the festival attendees. The dishes will be simple, and the menu is a semblance of the tools of Indonesian public kitchens\/soup kitchens and their methods of survival in urgent situations. At the same time, this type of home-cooked food offers warmth between the people and the kitchen.\r\n\r\nElia Nurvista<\/strong> explores a wide range of art mediums with an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the discourse on food. Through food, she intends to scrutinize power, social, and economic inequality in this world. In 2015 she initiated Bakudapan, a food study group, with colleagues from different disciplines. With Bakudapan she has conducted research on food within the socio-political and cultural context. She is also part of Struggles for Sovereignty, the solidarity platform on Land, Water, Farming, and Food.","program_el_content_img":33585},{"program_el_content_left":"7:30 pm","program_el_content_right":"Dinner (with a work by Elia Nurvista)\r\n\r\nAkademie Schloss Solitude, Courtyard\r\n Registration required by May 5: register@akademie-solitude.de<\/a><\/p>","program_el_content_img":""}]},{"bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,102,0)","program_el_content_collapsible":true,"program_el_content_collapsible_init_state":false,"program_el_content_headline":"Wednesday, May 11, 2022: WORKSHOP + ARTIST TALKS + SCREENING ","program_el_content":[{"program_el_content_left":"10 am\u20131 pm\r\n2\u20136 pm","program_el_content_right":"Pivilion \u2013 Your Darknet Pocket Gallery<\/em>\r\nFormat C (Dina Karad\u017ei\u0107 and Vedran Gligo)\r\n\r\nWorkshop, W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein\r\n Registration required by May 5: register@akademie-solitude.de<\/a><\/p>\r\nThis free software and new-media art workshop is based on the idea of utilizing multipurpose, low-cost, SoC computers as autonomous digital arts darknet gallery servers. Participants will structure and create their own darknet multi\/hypermedia galleries and set them up on a GNU\/Linux based system, while considering, applying and discussing digital art\u2019s ethical, aesthetic, and technical aspects.\r\n\r\nDina Karad\u017ei\u0107<\/strong> is an artist active in the areas of visual, digital, and Net Art. Karad\u017ei\u0107 is art director of Format C, an art organization focused on experimental multimedia research and collaborative creation; she also volunteers with many community nonprofits and independent art initiatives.\r\n\r\nVedran Gligo<\/strong> Vedran Gligo is a self-taught DIY hacker\/artist\/cultural organizer. He applies open-source principles to everyday life and practice and works to empower local communities by holding free and open digital workshops in Zagreb\u2019s Autonomous Cultural Center through the hacklab01.org project which he cofounded in 2009.","program_el_content_img":33490},{"program_el_content_left":"7 pm\r\nLecture (45 min.)","program_el_content_right":"Soft Bread, Hard Times: A History of Food Texture Modification<\/em>\r\nAgnes Cameron and Gary Zhexi Zhang\r\n\r\nLecture, W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein\r\n\r\nThe history of food texture modification is intimately bound to developments within imperial food systems. The texture of food we eat impacts the crops grown, the nutritional content of food, and even how we speak about food. All these attributes form the backbone of frequent moral panics about our society. In this lecture, we will explore industrial food processes from a perspective critically engaged with, rather than dismissive of technoscientific developments in food texture.\r\n\r\nAgnes Cameron<\/strong> is a hardware and software engineer with a particular interest in simulation, distributed knowledge, and infrastructural systems. She is currently developing work around food supply chains and industrial food infrastructure.\r\n\r\nGary Zhexi Zhang<\/strong> is a visual artist and writer whose work explores fiction,\r\ninfrastructure, and conceptual systems that compose the concrete world, such as ecology, finance, and information.\r\n\r\nGary Zhexi Zhang and Agnes Cameron<\/strong> make work about ecology, simulation, and the social dimensions of computing systems and technologies.","program_el_content_img":33516},{"program_el_content_left":"8 pm (45 min.)","program_el_content_right":"Yesterday\u2019s Rice, Tomorrow\u2019s Solidarity<\/em>\r\nAnca Rujoiu in conversation with Elia Nurvista\r\n\r\nArtist talk, W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein\r\n\r\nAfter Elia Nurvista\u2019s food workshop on May 10 at Akademie Schloss Solitude, she will address politics, economics, and histories of food as they transpire from the menu created by the artist and in conversation with curator Anca Rujoiu. The entangled histories of rice, alongside tempeh and gado gado \u2014 the main components of the dish \u2014 lay the foundation and structure of this conversation. Within the framework of the recipe, we will delve into Nurvista's past projects, her engagement with different solidarity movements in Indonesia, and the virtues of cooking and sharing meals.\r\n\r\nElia Nurvista<\/strong> explores a wide range of artistic mediums with an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on the discourse on food. Through food she scrutinizes power, social, and economic inequality in this world. In 2015 she initiated Bakudapan, a food study group, with colleagues from different disciplines. With Bakudapan she has conducted research on food within the sociopolitical and cultural context. She is also part of Struggles for Sovereignty, the solidarity platform on land, water, farming, and food.\r\n\r\nAnca Rujoiu<\/strong> is a curator and editor. She curated the web residencies program \u00bbSolidarity is a verb\u00ab (2021) hosted by Akademie Schloss Solitude with ARC Bucharest. In 2019 she was cocurator of the third edition of the Art Encounters Biennial in Timi\u0219oara, Romania. As curator of exhibitions and later head of publications (2013\u201318), she was a member of the founding team of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, with research focused on institution building, artists\u2019 archives, and transnational imaginaries.","program_el_content_img":""},{"program_el_content_left":"9 pm (45 min.)","program_el_content_right":"A Matter of Course<\/em>\r\nAline Xavier Mineiro\r\n\r\nScreening and conversation with with protagonists from A Matter of Course<\/em> mediated by Aline Xavier Mineiro, W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein\r\n\r\nA Matter of Course<\/em> (2022) is a short experimental film and photographic series depicting mothers cutting their own umbilical cords after their babies are born. Documented during different childbirths, the images offer a resource for thinking about the construction of normality and deviance in our society. The piece reflects on how norms of parenthood are embodied at the individual and societal level, looking at family structures and ways of coming into the world today. Since modern times, Western medical professionals have asked men to cut the umbilical cord after their child is born. When women regain agency over such a symbolic act, multiple interpretations and questions are provoked, and the gesture of cutting the umbilical cord can be seen as a form of resistance and transformation.\r\n\r\nAline Xavier Mineiro<\/strong> is an artist and filmmaker working in a variety of media, including video, photography, sculpture, and installation. Starting from ideas of proximity and interference, in her practice, she activates networks of people and places, intersecting art-making with other fields of knowledge such as cultural heritage and personal and collective memory. Her interest in contemporary sociopolitical issues seeks to undo received logics and hierarchies, destabilizing hegemonic practices and paradigms to foster alternative critical and creative perspectives.\r\n\r\nA Matter of Course<\/em> (2022)\r\nVideo | 8 minutes, color, sound","program_el_content_img":""}]},{"bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,102,0)","program_el_content_collapsible":true,"program_el_content_collapsible_init_state":false,"program_el_content_headline":"Thursday, May 12, 2022: WORKSHOP + EXHIBITION OPENING + SOUND ","program_el_content":[{"program_el_content_left":"10 am\u20131 pm","program_el_content_right":"Expanding Solidarities in Interactive Digital Videogame Projects<\/em>\r\nGrayson Earle, Peter Polack, Ricardo Miranda Z\u00fa\u00f1iga\r\n\r\nWorkshop, Merz Akademie and online\r\n Registration required by May 5: register@akademie-solitude.de<\/a><\/p>\r\nThis workshop gives participants the opportunity to present and discuss their interactive video game projects. Participants are given five to ten minutes to demonstrate their projects, followed by a collective discussion. Discussion topics can include the fragile solidarities that games and networked environments provide, especially during the pandemic. Together we will look at biased codes, the accessibility of these environments, who they appeal to, who these exemplary interactive videogame projects and technologies ultimately serve\/address, their potential for facilitating organization in analogue spaces, as well as questions about specific projects.\r\n\r\nGrayson Earle<\/strong> is an American contemporary artist and activist. He uses new media to make political statements. He is known for his guerilla video projections as a member of The Illuminator Art Collective and his co-creation of Bail Blo<\/em>c, a computer program that bails people out of jail.\r\n\r\nPeter Polack<\/strong> is a designer and Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Information Studies at the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA. His work and research address how technical systems are designed to inform our perception, and the role of art-making in illustrating what technology makes perceptible. This focus is informed by his background in game design and data visualization, and by his work with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a grassroots organization that analyzes the social impacts of police surveillance systems.\r\n\r\nRicardo Miranda Z\u00fa\u00f1iga<\/strong> approaches art as a social practice that seeks to establish dialogue in public spaces. The ways that inequality and power manifest themselves in our lives are consistent threads in Ricardo\u2019s work.","program_el_content_img":33519},{"program_el_content_left":"2\u20134 pm","program_el_content_right":"Castle of Crossed Destinies: Grounding Workshop<\/em>\r\nCastle of Crossed Destinies (Aouefa Amoussouvi, Sasha Engelmann, Olivia Berkowicz)\r\n\r\nWorkshop, Online\r\n Registration required by May 5: register@akademie-solitude.de<\/a><\/p>\r\nThis online workshop opens a dialogue based on the Castle of Crossed Destinies (COCD) playing cards \u00bbThe Devil,\u00ab \u00bbAnandamide,\u00ab \u00bb7Mhz\u00ab and monologues, which are informed by feminist principles. Participants are invited to respond to the cards' monologues and questions in various media. The workshop is a space for self-reflection, collecting, and collectively discussing these responses.\r\n\r\nThe Castle of Crossed Destinies<\/strong> was initiated by geographer Sasha Engelmann, curator Olivia Berkowicz, and curator and biophysicist Aouefa Amoussouvi. The collective encounters merge rituals, technologies, feminist narratives in science and art, as well as personal experiences and reflections on transgenerational memories and migrations.\r\n\r\nOpening ceremony of the festival\u2019s venue and exhibition<\/strong>\r\n6 pm, Kunstverein Wagenhalle<\/strong>\r\n\r\nBar open from 6 pm to 11 pm<\/strong>\r\nLivestream from 7 to 8 pm<\/strong>","program_el_content_img":33521},{"program_el_content_left":"","program_el_content_right":"Beyond Borders It\u2019s Made Up of Islands<\/em>\r\ndie Blaue Distanz\r\n\r\nBeyond Borders It's Made Up of Islands<\/em> is the spatial concept for the main venue of the festival \u00bbFragile Solidarity\/Fragile Connections\u00ab at Kunstverein Wagenhalle, designed by die Blaue Distanz. The spatial elements are significantly inspired by the basic principles of solidarity. Sometimes decentralized, sometimes unconditionally supportive, inviting the audience to recharge and explore solidary sharing practices.\r\n\r\nNote: As part of the work of die Blaue Distanz, there will be a fruit bar. Visitors and festival participants are invited to bring fruits to share amongst each other.<\/em>\r\n\r\ndie Blaue Distanz<\/strong> are Anna Erdmann and Franziska Goralski. They have been working together as an artist duo since 2016. Their artistic collaboration focuses on queer ways of living and learning, the possibility of low-hierarchy spaces and the visibility of underrepresented decisions.","program_el_content_img":33587},{"program_el_content_left":"","program_el_content_right":"Assemblies, Swarms, and Intricate Webs \u2013 no solidarity exists in a social void<\/em>\r\nExhibition, curated by Jazmina Figueroa and Denise Helene Sumi\r\n\r\nOpening hours:<\/strong> Friday and Saturday, May 13 and 14, 2022, 2\u201311 pm\r\nGuided tour:<\/strong> Friday, May 13, 2022, 3:30\u20134:30 pm\r\n\r\nWith works by Lark Alder aka. Lark VCR, Call to Action, Agnes Cameron and Gary Zhexi Zhang, Castle of Crossed Destinies (Aouefa Amoussouvi, Sasha Engelmann, and Olivia Berkowicz), Distributed Cognition Cooperative (Sasha Shestakova and Anna Engelhardt), Grayson Earle, Format C (Dina Karad\u017ei\u0107 and Vedran Gligo), Frisch&Schick (Johannes Frick and Jasmin Sch\u00e4dler), Zahra Malkani, Aline Xavier Mineiro, More of Us, Simina Neagu, Anca Rujoiu (invites Medina Bazargali, Alevtina Kakhidze, and Nge Lay), Juan Pablo Garc\u00eda Sossa (JPGS), and Peter Polack","program_el_content_img":33620},{"program_el_content_left":"7 pm (60 min.)","program_el_content_right":"Traces of the 1907 Socialist International Congress <\/em>\r\nMargret Frenz in conversation with Grayson Earle and Ana Mar\u00eda G\u00f3mez L\u00f3pez\r\n\r\nLecture and conversation, Kunstverein Wagenhalle and livestream\r\n\r\nWhat are the traces of the 1907 Socialist International Congress in Stuttgart, both in the archives of this city and elsewhere? This is a conversation on interdisciplinary perspectives related to artifacts, photographs, and ephemera from this event as seen through the eyes of historian Margret Frenz and artists Grayson Earle and Ana Mar\u00eda G\u00f3mez L\u00f3pez. How can these elements be read in the present, particularly through the anti-imperial, feminist, and pacifist legacies of the 1907 Socialist International Congress? Likewise, how can these configure new understandings of international worker solidarity, particularly in light of its overlooked local and global histories?\r\n\r\nMargret Frenz<\/strong> is a historian, with a strong emphasis on global, transnational, and imperial history, as well as comparative social and cultural perspectives.\r\n\r\nGrayson Earle<\/strong> is an American contemporary artist and activist. He uses new media to make political statements, known for his guerrilla video projections as a member of The Illuminator Art Collective and his cocreation of Bail Bloc<\/em>, which is a computer program that bails people out of jail.\r\n\r\nAna Mar\u00eda G\u00f3mez L\u00f3pez<\/strong> is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Amsterdam. She creates durational and body-based projects anchored in self-experimentation and archival research in the history of science.","program_el_content_img":""},{"program_el_content_left":"9 pm to midnight","program_el_content_right":"approppreciation<\/em>\r\nDJ-Set by Kristina Arlekinova\r\n\r\nSound, Kunstverein Wagenhalle\r\n\r\nKristina will play Anadolu Rock, Arabeske, Bossa Nova, Chicha, Disco, Estrada, Fusion, J-Rock, Krautrock, Pop fran\u00e7aise, Phleng Thai sakon, Tropic\u00e1lia, and world music.\r\n\r\nKristina Arlekinova<\/strong> is a media artist and musician. In her artistic practice she creates spaces of interdisciplinary discourse combining film, music, and visual arts. Through research of new aesthetics and overcoming narratives, she makes the devious visible. She creates community by building collective archives.","program_el_content_img":""}]},{"bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,102,0)","program_el_content_collapsible":true,"program_el_content_collapsible_init_state":false,"program_el_content_headline":"Friday, May 13, 2022: WORKSHOP + FORUM + SOUND","program_el_content":[{"program_el_content_left":"10 am\u20131 pm","program_el_content_right":"The Notion of Schiller's \u00bbSpiel\u00ab<\/em>\r\nSpielgruppe\r\n\r\nWorkshop, Reading Group, Kunstverein Wagenhalle\r\nLOCATIONS\/ACCESSIBILITY<\/h4>\r\n \r\n
GUIDE FOR INCLUSION<\/h4>\r\n \r\n\r\nAccessibility<\/strong>\r\n
TEAM\/CONTACT<\/h4>\r\n \r\n
FORUM<\/h4>\r\n \r\n\r\nWednesday, May 11, 2022, 7-10 pm, W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein\r\nThursday, May 12, 2022, 7\u20138 pm, Kunstverein Wagenhalle and livestream\r\nFriday, May 13, 2022, 5\u201310:30 pm, Kunstverein Wagenhalle and livestream\r\nSaturday, May 14, 2022, 4\u201310:30 pm, Kunstverein Wagenhalle and livestream\r\n
WORKSHOPS<\/h4>\r\n \r\n
EXHIBITION<\/h4>\r\n \r\n
SOUND<\/h4>\r\n \r\n