The MAKING TRUTH line-up concludes VIENNA ART WEEK. The focus is on socio-politically active artists as well as the work of activist groups, who have contributed in recent years with their projects to uncover social ills and to stimulate broad discussion. Their artistic commitment measures the pulse of time and, ideally, can help make the world a little truer as well as a little better. The varied series of talks and discussions culminate in a performance created especially for the VIENNA ART WEEK, which thematises the search for truth in the context of dealing with the past. The line-up includes FA’s Manager, Sarah Nankivell, who will introduce FA’s practice and methodologies, focusing on evidence production as a social and political process of verification, which works across different types of institutions, knowledges, and perspectives. In particular, as FA’s work has increasingly come to engage and intersect with a range of cultural and artistic spaces, this talk will address the aesthetic dimensions of knowledge production and how FA uses cultural, as well as legal, political, and media forums, as a means of open and engaged dissemination of investigative practices.

Programme:

15:00: Introduction: Rektor Johan F. Hartle, Robert Punkenhofer (artistic director, Vienna Art Week)

15:00–15:30: Gerald Nestler (artist, Vienna) in conversation with Haim Bodek (High Frequency Trading Strategist und Record-Breaking SEC Whistleblower)

15:30–16:00: Robert Punkenhofer in conversation with Sinan Aral (David Austin Professor of Management/MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts)

16:00–17:15: Talk “Women in the Art World”: Sabine Breitwieser (curator and author, Vienna), Svetlana Cemin (filmmaker, founder of 610film, New York/Belgrade), Elke Silvia Krystufek (artist and author, Wien), Moderator: Barbara Steffen (curator, Vienna)

17:30–18:00: Lecture Cesy Leonhard (Centre for Political Beauty, Berlin)

18:00–18:30: Lecture Santiago Sierra (artist, Madrid)

18:30–19:00: Lecture Sarah Nankivell (Forensic Architecture, London)

19:00–19:30: Lecture Issa Touma (filmmaker and photographer, Aleppo, Syrien)

19:30–20:30: Talk “Making Truth“: Eva Blimlinger (politician, Vienna), Cesy Leonard (Centre for Political Beauty, Berlin), Sarah Nankivell (Forensic Architecture, London), Santiago Sierra (artist, Madrid), Issa Touma (filmmaker and photographer, Aleppo/Syrien); Moderator: Angela Stief

20:30–21:00: Performance “The Celebration” by Regina José Galindo