On the Art of (Re)membering Resistances | Guest lecture by Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur
Guest lecture moderated by Njideka Stephanie Iroh, organized by Elke Krasny, Institute for Education in the Arts, Art and Communication, Noit Banai, Institute for Art History. University Vienna, and Marina Grzinic, Post-Conceptual Study Program, Institute for Fine Arts.
The lecture treats the politics of memory and representation in connection to marginalized resistances. Examining the dialects of repression and resistance, the talk focuses on Austria as a neocolonial and postnazistic space.
Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur is the cofounder of PAMOJA – The Movement of the Young African Diaspora in Austria and of the Researchgroup on Black Austrian History and Presence/Pamoja. She is currently working on her interdisciplinary doctoral thesis on Resistances in the African Diaspora in Austria and teaching at Howard University in Washington D.C., USA.
Njideka Stephanie Iroh is a poet, writer, artist and activist. Her work focuses on youth and education in the context of language, linguistics, power relations, decolonisation and empowerment. Her political work is part of PAMOJA – The Movement of the Young African Diaspora in Austria and in cooperation with other local and global Black and migrant organisations.