7 and 8 May 2021
Lectures, Panels, Film & Musical Performances

The crisis of European border politics and current struggles against deportations and illegal push-backs from EU countries including Austria have led to various political, activist as well as artistic interventions. This transdisciplinary symposium creates a forum to address the potential of cinematic and musical politics and to look into their relation to activist practices and current research.

___Programme

Programme Friday, 7. May 2021
15.00 - 15.30 Opening

Gerda Müller, Vice Rector for Organisational Development, Gender & Diversity: Welcome Adress

Ursula Hemetek, Director of the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology as well as of the Music and Minorities Research Center: Introductory Remarks

Tonica Hunter, Artistic/Music Curator of "METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN", and Faris Cuchi Gezahegn: Curatorial Statement

Faris Cuchi Gezahegn, Dora Deliyska: METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN PART I

15.30 - 16.30 Keynote Lecture (Chair Evelyn Annuß)

Brigitta Kuster: Burning Seas: Junctions and Disjunctions. Mediterranean Sea Crossings and the Audiovisual "Affectics" of Migration (for copyright reasons, this part cannot be made available)

17.00 - 19.30 Film Screening and Panel Discussion (Chair: Evelyn Annuß)

Amel Alzakout and Khaled Abdulwahed: Purple Sea (for copyright reasons, this part cannot be made available)

Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed and Philip Scheffner: Panel Discussion

Programme Saturday, 8. May 2021
11.00 - 12.30 Musical Performance and Keynote Lecture (Chair: Ursula Hemetek)

Faris Cuchi Gezahegn, Ciara Moser: METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN PART II

Ilker Ataç: Is Urban Citizenship the Right Answer to the Crisis of European Border Politics? Entanglement of Non-State Actors with the Local Municipalities Across Europe (for copyright reasons, this part cannot be made available)

Faris Cuchi Gezahegn, Miriam Adefris, Ganaël Dumreicher: METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN PART III

13.00 - 15.00 Paper Presentations and Panel Discussion (Chair: Ursula Hemetek)

Anja Brunner: Contesting (Musical) Boundaries: Women Musicians from Syria in Austria and Germany

Ioannis Cristidis: Challenging Europeanity: Syrian Refugees, Musical Acts of Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism from Below

Evrim Hikmet Öğüt: Street Music Practice as Social Non-Movement: Syrian Musicians' Claim on the Public Space

Anja Brunner, Ioannis Cristidis and Evrim Hikmet Öğüt: Panel Discussion

15.00 - 15.30 Closing

Ursula Hemetek: Closing Remarks

Faris Cuchi Gezahegn: METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN PART IV - FINALE