Curated by Barbara Mahlknecht

Opening on 13 November 2024

Exhibition: 13 November 2024 – 30 November 2024

The art project Ho altro da fare (I Have Other Things to Do) opens a shared time and space of care to explore with collective survival amidst capitalist excess, neo-colonial exploitation as well as the privatisation and commercialisation of care work. In the artistic contributions, a radical imagination blossoms that serves as a call to action, inspiring collective research methods, shared memory, listening and embodied resistance. The project invites the audience to go beyond individual experience and explore communal forms of care that transcend boundaries and pave the way for a collective good life.

In The Reading (2017), Adelita Husni-Bey invites attendees to a film screening and a live tarot reading with artist Pêdra Costa to explore practices of protection and healing and draw attention to inequalities and the urgency of a sustainable future.

Špela Petrič’s work Performative Ethnographies of X (2024) and AIxxNOSOGRAPHIES (2023) investigates invisible structures of care and reflects on consumption and the environment through a guided tour of Vienna’s waste incineration plant.

With Taking Care Inside and Outside (2024), SKGAL (Nina Höchtl and Julia Wieger) commemorates a collective fight in 1982 for a shared house for womxn who were released from Schwarzau prison, and honours the feminist struggle for safer living spaces.

Sophie Utikal, inspired by Octavia Butler, presents 4 Mothers (2024) – four mothers who generate resilience and care, committing themselves to a new evolutionary phase for humanity.

Netta Weiser invites participants to a collective listening session to explore listening as a political and somatic act, integrating diasporic memories and transgenerational knowledge.

Programme

Wed 13 November 2024, 19:00 – 23:00

Opening, tour and artist talk with SKGAL (Nina Höchtl and Julia Wieger), followed by refreshments from art.mosaic.project and music by DJ Thea

Wed 20 November 2024, 19:00 – 21:00

Film screening of The Reading (2017) by Adelita Husni-Bey and live tarot reading with Pêdra Costa (No registration required)

Tue 26 November 2024, 20:00 – 22:00

Collective listening session with Netta Weiser and live broadcasting with Radio ORANGE 94.0 (No registration required)

Wed 27 November 2024, 19:00 – 21:00

Film screening: AIxxNOSOGRAPHIES (2023) by Špela Petrič and artist talk

(No registration required)

Thu 28 November 2024, 14:00 – 17:00

Tour and participatory observation at Vienna’s waste incineration plant with Špela Petrič. Meeting point: 13:45 at MVA Spittelau, Spittelauer Lände 45, 1090 Vienna. Register at: mahlknechtbarbara@gmail.com