Workshop "Visibility and Critique: Pedagogy of Arts and Design in Dark Times"

17.10.2025

On October 17, 2025, PREDEF hosted the workshop“Visibility and Critique: Pedagogy of Arts and Design in Dark Times”.The workshop brought together contributions from:Liat Brix-Etgar, Noa Fenigstein, Noga Gerzon, Lukas Graf, Gal Hertz, Alexander Kurunczi, Oliver Marchart, Shalini Rendaria, Sergej Seitz, Shaul Setter, and Thomas Traupmann.

Programm

9:30 Opening Remarks and Introduction

Oliver Marchart

10:30 Panel I: Activism in the Present Era. Questions

Chair: Shaul Setter

The Politics of Absence: Melancholy, Anger, and Erasure Around the Tel Aviv Museum

Noa Fenigstein

Um Worte ringen: Struggling for (and circling around) Words

Noga Gerzon, Lukas Graf

Forms of Resistance. Some Remarks on Contemporary Artistic Activism

Thomas Traupmanm

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Panel II: Prefiguring Democratic Futures

Cultural and Theoretical Responses to the Crisis of Political Imagination

Oliver Marchart, Sergej Seitz and Alexander Kurunczi

15:00- 16:00 Conversion

Liat Brix-Etgar and Shalini Rendaria

16:30-18:00 Concluding Discussion

Chair: Gal Hertz

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Contact

PREDEF - erc research project
University of Vienna
Department of Political Science
Universitätsstraße 7, 2nd floor, Room B 211, 1010 Vienna

T: +43-1-4277-494-90
predef.erc@univie.ac.at

This research project is funded by the European Union (ERC, PREDEF, 101055015). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Council (erc). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.