This seminar is organized together with: İpek Hamzaoğlu  LV-Nr. S05778

 

In this seminar, we engage with resistance, representation, and critical narratives. We focus on self-historicizing exhibition practices and storytelling as a queer-feminist, post-migrant method of art production and expanded knowledge dissemination, centering on the ways narratives shape our understanding of history, memory, and belonging. This semester, we will engage deeply with A Glossary of Haunting by Eve Tuck and C. Ree, and counter archives using haunting as a framework to examine histories of joy, care, violence, dispossession, and resistance that persist in the present.

 

The collective MUSMIG advocates for a Museum of Migration in Austria. Since 2024, MUSMIG has been based in Vienna’s Otto-Wagner-Areal at the invitation of the Volkskundemuseum Wien. As a seminar group, we will collaboratively develop a glossary that centers the following questions:

 

How can storytelling be an instrument for breathing, resistance, mattering; for connecting the living and the non-living?

How can storytelling support an ephemeral museum?

Whose stories are being told and how?

How can post-migrant stories and self-empowering aesthetic practices gain greater visibility and space?

How can storytelling unsettle dominant narratives and create room for silenced or marginalized voices?

To what extent is the re-telling of history connected to transformative processes in critical art and cultural education?

How can activism and protest be archived?

 

 

Regular critical participation (min 80 percent); development and presentation of the glossary, participation in KKP Forum on the 24.11.2025.

About MUSMIG: Since 2019, historians, social and cultural scientists, artists, and activists have been working together in a growing collective. MUSMIG is represented by Ljubomir Bratić, Gabriela Urrutia Reyes, Elena Messner, Mehmet Emir, Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur, Mariama Nzinga Diallo, Lia Kastiyo-Spinósa, Anna Seidel, Savo Ristić, Yvonne Živković, Natalie Deewan, Magdalena Winkler, Katharina Kulesza, Hanna Salentinig, Joel Souza Cabrera, Goran Lazičić, among others.