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In this episode, artist Aikaterini Gegisian takes us on a journey through her artistic life and work. The music in this episode comes from Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us and her latest album COPIAIn this episode, artist Aikaterini Gegisian takes us on a journey through her artistic life and work.

In this edition of Kunstraum Innsbruck On Air, experimental filmmaker, queer-feminist researcher and curator Masha Godovannaya talks about travelling and being on the road, about migration, about her time in New York and St. Petersburg, about making films, about queerness and solidarity, about words and languages. She will be accompanied by the music of Perfume Genius.

News from orbit from the two break pilots and artists Stephan Pirker & Wolfgang Tragseiler. This time the music for this programme comes from Olgas Boris.

What is worth fighting for? What are you fighting for? Is there a feminist or even female way of fighting? As Ilse Aichinger, for example, wrote: Fight cautiously. Or do we need a different term? Other words? Other approaches? A different vocabulary? Other narratives? Other stories? What will be needed in the future? What is needed now? What does 8 March mean to you? In the new issue of Kunstraum Innsbruck On Air, artists and contributors to the exhibition ‘When we move, it's a movement’ answer these questions. With contributions from Ivana Marjanovic, Karin Ferrari, Katharina Cibulka, Margarethe Drexel, Michaela Schwarz-Weismann with her son Lapo, Nikolina Zunec, Stefanie Haselwanter, Viktualia from the Furia fraternity in Innsbruck, Ursula Beiler, Judith Klemenc and the Comedian Feminists. The music for this programme comes from Gustav, Kae Tempest, Anna Calvi, Soap & Skin, Ruth Goller and Matana Roberts.

In this edition of Kunstraum Innsbruck On Air, Ukrainian filmmaker and artist Oksana Kazmina talks about the artists' collective Freefilmers and about her own work. Together with Ivana Marjanović, Oksana curated the current exhibition “'Freefilmers Mariupol”' at Kunstraum Innsbruck. The music for this programme is by Serviz Propav, a music project by Oksana Kazmina and Freefilmers member Vasyl Tkachenko.

In the current issue of Kunstraum Innsbruck On Air, we show an excerpt from a lecture given by Ayrson Heráclito, one of Brazil's most important contemporary artists, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna on 31 July 2023. He talks about his career, his studies, his religion, about rituals, healing and the open wounds of colonialism.the current exhibition at Kunstraum Innsbruck ‘Ayrson Heráclito - Healing Technologies and Affections’ can be experienced until 4 November.

In this edition of Kunstraum Innsbruck On Air, the two artists Dan and Lia Perjovschi comment on a list of words and concepts: humanity, humour, home, romania, europe, the world, utopia, responsibility, engagement, being a political artist, money, peace, war, ideas, inspiration, intuition, words, language, learning, thinking, feeling, drawing, writing and time. They will be accompanied and interrupted by the sounds and soundscapes of the great artist, composer and musician Michaela Melián. Selected pieces from her albums Baden-Baden, Los Angeles and Monaco will be served.

SHE HAD ALREADY LEARNED HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER

In the new edition of Kunstraum Innsbruck On Air, Sophie Utikal talks about her solo exhibition ‘She had already learned how to breathe underwater’, which celebrates its opening on 10 March 2023. She will be accompanied by music from the two EPs Unknown River and Meta Love by Hyeji Nam. As a contribution to 8 March, the International Women*'s Day of Struggle, Sophie Utikal's solo exhibition shows current works that strengthen concepts of togetherness and resilience in the context of climate and other disasters. From the position of agency, the agency of Women* of Colour, Sophie Utikal deals with bodies, migration experiences, multiple affiliations and the resulting contradictions. The artist creates dream-like scenes and landscapes on textiles that address collective empowerment rituals, practices of care and, more recently, imagined future transformations of life on earth. Sound pieces by the artist and musician Hyeji Nam accompany the exhibition and contribute to the reflection on the creation of new worlds.

In a new edition of Kunstraum Innsbruck On Air, artist Heidi Holleis talks about the ghosts and spirits that have been inhabiting her paintings for some time now and about her current exhibition at Kunstraum Innsbruck entitled no more profit. Her thoughts are accompanied and overpainted by Burial and its spooky world of sounds and noises. Innsbruck-based artist Heidi Holleis presents her current works at Kunstraum Innsbruck, haunted by the ghosts of the past and driven by the question of how we can overcome the capitalist state of exploitation, appropriation and consumption. With references to pop culture, 1980s styles, game cultures or political thinkers such as Karl Marx, Jacques Derrida and Avery F. Gordon, Holleis reflects on criticism and possibilities of resistance within the neoliberal continuous loop.

We are very pleased to present another new radio programme. Alex Iwanov spoke on FREIRAD RADIO on 7 September, on the occasion of our 100th exhibition THE OTOLITH GROUP: Two Sonic Works about the Afro-American composer, conductor, pianist, organist and vocalist JULIUS EASTMAN (1940-1990). On the occasion of its 100th exhibition, Kunstraum Innsbruck is pleased to present Two Sonic Works, the first solo show by The Otolith Group in Austria. Two Sonic Works presents two audiovisual works by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun (The Otolith Group), staging a critical examination of the aesthetics of the black avant-garde.

Cohabitation Part II: A manifesto for solidarity between animals and humans in urban space In this edition of Kunstraum Innsbruck On Air, Alex Iwanov talks to curator Peter Spillmann about the cohabitation of humans, animals and plants in urban space and about the exhibition project Cohabitation. With texts by Fahim Amir and Marion von Osten.

*Marion von Osten initiated the project. She died in November 2020 and the project is dedicated to her.

Cities have never belonged only to people; animals have always been city dwellers too. Parks, cemeteries, wasteland, overgrown ruins, construction sites and the literally multi-layered urban architecture itself provide good living conditions for many species. The migration of animals into cities is currently increasing worldwide. One reason is that the food supply there is often better than in the countryside, which has been shaped by the monocultures of the agricultural industry. At the same time, urbanisation since the beginning of the modern age has caused a large proportion of the consumption of resources and land, which contributes significantly to climate change and species extinction. In the search for ways out of the ecological crisis, we therefore cannot ignore the central and at the same time ambivalent role of cities.

THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN IN THE WORLD

We are delighted to present another new radio programme. This time we are focussing on the great artist, writer and activist Selma Selman. 

In one of her self-portraits on Altmetall, Selma Selman defines herself as the most dangerous woman in the world. Having grown up in a Roma community in Bosnia-Herzegovina, extremely restricted in her living and working opportunities by racism (her family lives from collecting and recycling metal waste), today the artist not only dismantles cars, washing machines and the patriarchy*, but above all attacks the boundaries of class racism. Whether in powerful performances, in paintings that comment on the life of the community, stereotypes and emancipation with irony and humour, or in intimate and expressive portraits and self-portraits, Selma's work is always imbued with enormous agency. This agency, which she fights for through honesty and self-exposure and self-assertion, this inner revolution also permeates her literary works, from which she will read in this programme. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)We are delighted to present another new radio programme. This time we are focussing on the great artist, writer and activist Selma Selman. In one of her self-portraits on Altmetall, Selma Selman defines herself as the most dangerous woman in the world. Having grown up in a Roma community in Bosnia-Herzegovina, extremely restricted in her living and working opportunities by racism (her family lives from collecting and recycling metal waste), today the artist not only dismantles cars, washing machines and the patriarchy*, but above all attacks the boundaries of class racism. Whether in powerful performances, in paintings that comment on the life of the community, stereotypes and emancipation with irony and humour, or in intimate and expressive portraits and self-portraits, Selma's work is always imbued with enormous agency. This agency, which she fights for through honesty and self-exposure and self-assertion, this inner revolution also permeates her literary works, from which she will read in this programme. 

CONVERSATION WITH SEZGIN BOYNIK 

As part of the solo exhibition Jakub Ferris at Kunstraum Innsbruck and the Premierentage 2021, Szegin Boynik and Ivana Marjanović talk about the lively art scene in Pristina and Kosovo, political backgrounds, past and current developments and collaborations. While Ferri's works pulsate in detail, in the ‘small’ and everyday - the places where life explodes despite the capitalist crisis and destruction all around - other artists and actors choose different paths and strategies. Sezgin Boynik (1977), born in Prizren, lives and works in Helsinki and Prizren. He is a theorist and artist and has published on various topics such as punk, Zaum, concrete poetry and leftist avant-garde. He is the editor of Rab-Rab Press (www.rabrab.fi).

MOARA TUPINAMBÁ & EMERSON UÝRA

Ivana Marjanović, director of Kunstraum Innsbruck, and Alex Iwanov, artist and curator, together with the artists Moara Tubinambá and Emerson Uýra as well as the curator of the exhibition Marissa Lôbo and the translator Maira Enesi, talk about colonialism and the resurrections of Brazil and the Amazon.

With music from Brazil and the Amazon region recommended by the artist Moara Tubinambá:

Brisa Flow - Newen
Eric Marky e Gean Ramos - Inversões
Katu Mirim - Força
Kae Guajajara - Territorio Ancestral
Nelson D - Transcendência
Nelson D - Ruka
Nelson D - Wirá-Wasú
As Karuana - Águas do Tapajós

THE FUTURE OF ALPINE CITIES AND THE COEXISTENCE OF HUMANS AND ANIMALS

Ivana Marjanović, director of Kunstraum Innsbruck, and Alex Iwanov, artist and curator, talk together with artists, architects and philosophers about the theme of the current exhibition.

Cities have always been inhabited by animals, both welcome and less welcome. The Cohabitation project at Kunstraum Innsbruck examines the special context of Alpine cities as a controversial habitat for different species and as a starting point for a futuristic vision of an environment that is not exclusively dominated by humans.

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Ivana Marjanović, director of Kunstraum Innsbruck, and Alex Iwanov, starting scholarship holder at Kunstraum Innsbruck, talk to the artist Nina Hoechtl.

Nina Hoechtl has travelled from Mexico City to Innsbruck for her exhibition A Visitation from the Future. As a member of the queer/cuir-feminist collective INVASORIX in Mexico City and co-initiator of the Secretariat for Ghosts, Archival Politics and Gaps (SKGAL) in Vienna, her work is deeply rooted in transnational, collective, feminist and decolonising practices. Nina Hoechtl talks about her experiences with art and politics in Mexico, the USA and Austria.