When the experiences from Japan and Austria intersect, when we talk about growing up in the countryside, when we open up the topics of challenges, learning and the unlearned… how should we follow that toxic heteronormative patriarchal narrative, and how is it when we look at it all from a queer, feminist perspective…. should we be soft, or aggressive, gentle or… listen, it’s very interesting!!!

Guests: Mika Maruyama, Multiple Spirits & VBKÖ and Petz Haselmayer, Decolonizing in Vienna

Monday, February 19, you can listen to Radio ORANGE 94.0 again from 1 pm to 2 pm = Ženergija expands the format to PresenD-Arts

Mika Maruyama, was born in Japan and based in Vienna.  Writer, curator, researcher, and editor whose theoretical work deals with the intersections of queer and feminist theory, and the convergence of media culture and technology. In 2018, she started “Multiple Spirits,” a queer feminist art zine with artist Mai Endo. She a board member of the Austrian Association of Wom*n Artists (Vereinigung bildender Künstler*innen Österreichs, VBKÖ).

Petz Haselmayer (they/them) is the assistant of the department Learning – Engagement – Research. They interweave artistic, research, and art education practices with queer-feminist, post-, and decolonial perspectives in remembrance-political interventions and projects. Petz Haselmayer is known with their alter ego Walter Xenia Ego, for their creative-symbolic, affirmative messages, poetic interventions, and humorous performances (e.g. at the PCCC). Active in the collectives Decolonizing in Vienna,  Blumenmontag, curator for kulturen in bewegung for the CLIŠHË TRÄSH festival, studiodasweissehaus.

 As part of the Fellowship program kültür gemma! x d D-Arts,

Ženergija expands the format to PresenD-Arts

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