On the 8th of July 1986, a wooden horse was placed on Vienna’s Stephansplatz, furnished with an SA-hat and SA-band. It was Austrian president Kurt Waldheim’s inauguration day (© Lukas Beck / Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion). Leaflet cover design by Out of Sight 2018

Participants : Ruth Beckermann, Collectif Mémoire Coloniale et Lutte contre les Discriminations: Geneviève Kaninda, Tony Kokou Sampson, Kalvin Soiresse Njall, Nejra Čengić,  Marina Gržinić, Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur, Sophie Lillie, Pedro Monaville, Max Silverman, Shirley Anne Tate, Šefik Tatlić, Sophie Uitz, Gloria Wekker, Ruth Wodak and Markus Rheindorf Concept : Marina Gržinić and Sophie Uitz Technical and organizing support : Valerija Zabret und Ruth Kager Project team : Sophie Uitz and Šefik Tatlić Head of the project : Marina Gržinić Symposium on the silencing of colonialism, anti-Semitism, and contemporary turbo-fascist nationalism in Belgium, Austria, and former Yugoslavia. Re-examining counter-memory and counter-history projects, interventions, and processes of resistance in order to open up spaces for new directions in politics, futurity, and collective struggles. This symposium is organized as part of the arts and theory based research project »Genealogy of Amnesia: Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality«, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, project number AR439 (2018-2020). https://archiveofamnesia.akbild.ac.at/