‘Violence and Form: Infrastructures of Critique in Contemporary Art’ at WHAT IS INFRASTRUCTURAL CRITIQUE? In Memory of Marina Vishmidt, at University of Applied Arts, Vienna, October 29-31, 2025
‘Unsettling Aesthetics. Instability of Form. Art, Capital and Planetary Crisis’ Global Surrealisms Conference, University of Iceland, 6-7 June 2025
‘When men [sic] die, they enter into history. When statues die, they enter art’. On the political aesthetics of anti-colonial and anti-fascist surrealism’ invited lecture at Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz, 22 May 2025
‘Unsettling Aesthetics: Art, Gender, Migration, and the Unevenness of Global Capitalist Modernity’, Invited in the lecture series, Flight, Migration and Gender Dynamics at University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 26 March 2025
Discussant at finissage/artist talk: Anahita Asadifar, Retrospectral, at Fotogalerie, Wien, 8 March 2025
‘Unsettling Aesthetics. Instability of Form. Art, Capital and Planetary Crisis’ invited lecture at Nordic Journal of Aesthetics symposium, Museum Jorg, Denmark, 6-7 March 2025
‘On Violence and Form’, invited talk at Marina’s Cues, Infrastructures of Disalienation, organised by Kerstin Stakemeier and Danny Hayward at LIAS Leuphana, Germany, 28-30 January 2025
‘Landscapes of Abstraction, Between Violence and Reciprocity, or The Work of Art in the Age of the Planetary Mine’, keynote lecture for the conference, ‘Landscapes and Identities’, University of Latvia, 5 December 2024
‘Landscapes of Abstraction: Contemporary Art, Extraction, Violence, Economy’, at Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, University of London, UK, November 7-10, 2024
Marina Vishmidt Memorial Panel, at Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, University of London, UK, November 7-10, 2024
‘The Chambers of the Hands, the Vaults of the Head, Forbidden Rooms and other border territories: notes on art, form and the unevenness of global capitalist modernity’, co-organised panel, Surrealism as Social Critique and Theory of Emancipation, at ISSS Conference, Paris, France, October 28-30, 2024
‘Untimely Landscapes. Notes on the Body Space’, invited lecture, Zuzeum, Riga, Latvia, October 12, 2024
Discussant of Hannah Proctor’s book, Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024) at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Panel and Jury member, Streitkunst Preis Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria, 11 April 2024
‘How Does One Get to Own a Mountain?’ invited lecture and discussion with Philipp Sattler and Markus Gönitzer (co-organised lectures and discussion as part of the public programme of the exhibition, Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman. Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims, at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, curated by Andrea Popelka), November 2023
‘How Does One Get to Own a Mountain?’ invited lecture with Philipp Sattler at Worlds of Lithium ERC project, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, May 2023
‘The Measure of Land, or, How on Earth does one get to own a mountain?’ with Philipp Sattler, at Groundings, Linnaeus University, Sweden, December 2022
‘Questions’, invited panellist at VALIE EXPORT Research Centre 5 year anniversary event, Linz, November 10, 2022
‘Invisible, Reproductive Labour and Dispossessed Care’ invited moderator for the introduction to the Theory Programme at Wien Woche, with panelists: Prof. Dr. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Dr. Lina Dokuzović, Dr. Ana Vilenica, September 19, 2022
Launch panel for Kunst und Politik-Keywords for Marxist Art History Today, Marxism in Culture Seminar, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London, London, March 6, 2020
‘The Fantasy of Misogyny as World Structure’ invited lecture at THE WHITE WEST III, Automating Apartheid, Kunsthalle Wien and Burgtheater, organised by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Kader Attia, February 14, 2020
‘Figuring the Repressed: VALIE EXPORT, Birgit Jürgenssen, and Renate Bertlemann’ invited lecture at Untimely Media / Domestic Techniques, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
‘Restaging or Unworking: Notes on strategies against historical and current fascist tendencies’, invited lecture in the Critical Studies Lecture Series, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
‘Disfiguration, Deformation: Der Körper im Werk von VALIE EXPORT’, University of Art and Design and VALIE EXPORT Center for Performance and Media Art, Linz
‘Fascism as a Cultural Force in Austria Today’, invited lecture, at THE WHITE WEST: The Resurgence of Fascism as Cultural Force, La Colonie, Paris, France. Organised by Kader Attia, Giovana Zapperi and Ana Teixeira Pinto
‘Artistic Labour on Violence’, contribution to the workshop: Elfriede Jelinek: Alterity, Xenophobia and Cultural Translation at Vrije Universiteit, Brussels in collaboration with the Elfriede Jelinek Research Centre, University of Vienna
‘Misogyny: Fantasy Operations in its Repudiation and Reproduction Today’, Historical Materialism Conference, Beirut, Lebanon
‘VALIE EXPORT: Violent Vicissitudes’, On the Dialectics of Procedural Violence in Post–WWII European Art, 1949–65 panel organised by Dr Jaleh Mansoor and Dr Vanessa Parent, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, USA
‘She Said’, a collaboration between Christina Chalmers, Rose-Anne Gush, Amy Tobin, Hannah Proctor, Feminist Readings 2: Theory, Practice and Politics of Reading Today, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
‘“From one Body to Another Body”: Sexuality and Psyche in Direct Art and Feminist Actionism’, invited speaker at Reality Check: Art, Psycho-Politics and the Limits of Community, History of Art Department, University College London, London
‘“Nothing should be moist; art becomes hygienic”: The meaning of action in art after Aesthetic Theory’, Istanbul Critical Theory Conference: Adorno and Politics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
‘Feminist Actionism: Anti-Art and the Philosophy of Contemporary Art’, Society for European Philosophy Conference, University of Utrecht, Utrecht
‘Contemporary Service Work in Tino Sehgal’s These Associations’, Performance and Labour Symposium, History of Art Department at UCL and CRMEP, London
EVENTS
Co-organiser of the international conference WHAT IS INFRASTRUCTURAL CRITIQUE? In Memory of Marina
Vishmidt, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, October 29-31 2025
Co-curator of Besessene Berge/Possessed Mountains with Marwa Arsanios, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, PARA, Georges Senga and Rose-Anne Gush and Philipp Sattler at Forum Stadtpark, Parallel Programme, Steirischerherbst 2025, with Philipp Sattler, Robin Klengel, Johanna Pichlbauer
Participant in Lisbon Praxis Summer School in Global Critical Theory, University of Lisbon, 14-18 July 2025
Organiser, lecture and workshop with Andreas Petrossiants, ‘Class Composition and Urban Space: Autonomist Feminist Infrastructures’, related to the course, Tools for Infrastructural Critique, 6 May 2025
Organiser, lecture and workshop with Danny Hayward, ‘Housing as Infrastructure: Gentrification, Organisation and Infrastructural Critique’, related to the course, Tools for Infrastructural Critique, 11 April 2025
Artistic research residency, Critical Raw Cartographies, at Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (March 2024)
Organiser: film-screenings and workshops with Marwa Arsanios (Who is Afraid of Ideology: Part IV Reverse Shot, 2022) and Blaise Kirschner (UNICA, 2022); archive excursion to VALIE EXPORT Centre within the course: (Re-) Production and its Discontents, November 2023
Organiser for excursion for the course When the Dust Unsettles, workshop with FieldArts (Jeff Diamanti and Fred Carter), workshop with Cassandra Troyan (In the Mouth of the Polar Bear), workshop with Worlds of Lithium (ERC project, Dr Pablo Ampuero Ruiz and Michelle Geraerts), exhibition visits, May 2023
Organiser and moderator, Olia Sosnovskaya, ‘Outdoors, gunpowder burns quietly.’ Exhibition, performative lecture and discussion with Olia Sosnovskaya at Annenstrasse 53, January 2023
Organiser and moderator, lecture, Marina Vishmidt, ‘Entropy and Atrophy: Non-Identity in Non-Essential Infrastructure’, at IZK, TU Graz, December 2022
Co-organiser and moderator (with Anousheh Kehar and Philipp Sattler) public programme for the course How Does One Get to Own a Mountain? in cooperation with StadtmacherInnen, Wolfsberg: Screening: Ines Doujak and John Barker, Masterless Voices (2014); Lecture: Dr Jackqueline Frost, ‘The Rumor of the Earth: Nuclear Imperialism and Caribbean Ecology’; screening and discussion: Andrina Mračnikar, Verschwinden/Izginjanje (2022), November 2022
Organiser and moderator of poetry reading and lecture: ‘Loading Terminal, Marina Vishmidt and Danny Hayward’ at Annenstrasse 53, May 2022
Organiser of screening and discussion, ‘Free Cinema’ with films by Nii-Kwate Owoo, Onyeka Igwe and Assia Djebar and lectures by Pavle Levi and Nikolaus Perneczky at Annenstrasse 53, March 2022
Organiser and moderator, lecture, Jacob Bard-Rosenberg, ‘The writing on the wall destroyed’, at Annenstrasse 53, February 2022
Co-organiser and co-moderator, lecture, Samia Henni, ‘Colonial Impositions and Their Non-Effects: The Problem of French Domestic Norms and Forms in Colonized Algeria’, for IZK project for Gender Taskforce at TU Graz. 2022
Co-organiser and co-moderator of workshop Kinship Cosmo-Technology for the research project, Mythopoesis for Techno Living Systems with Ursula Mayer and Attilia Fattori (PEEK funded) with contributions by Federico Campagna, Jenna Sutela, Barbara Kapusta, Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, Florian Cramer, K Allado Macdowell, Rachel Hill, Nisha Ramaya, Nora Khan, 2022
Co-organiser of ‘Free Cinema’, with Daniella Shreir (Another Gaze/Another Screen) as part of Steirischer Herbst Parallel Programme at Annenstrasse 53, September – October 2021
Organiser and moderator, lecture, Łukasz Stanek, ‘From Eastern Europe to Africa: Women Architects in the Global Cold War’ for IZK project for Gender Taskforce at TU Graz
Organiser and moderator, lecture, David Frohnapfel, ‘Alleviative Objects: Solidarity & Conflict in the Art World of Port-au-Prince’, online, Annenstrasse 53 and IZK- TU Graz
Organiser, ‘The European Dream’ – Performance at Halle für Kunst Steiermark - a collaboratively written script and performance produced within the IZK MA seminar: Through the Looking Glass, the Realities We Found There, led by Rose-Anne Gush, with assistance from Christina Chalmers and Federico Campagna
Organiser and moderator: ‘Poetics of Unlearning: Myung Mi Kim, Momtaza Mehri and Christina Chalmers’, poetry reading and discussion, online, Annenstrasse 53 and IZK- TU Graz
Co-organiser and co-moderator, discussion, Nina Kolowratnik and Markus Miessen, ‘The Language of Secret Proof: Indigenous Truth and Representation’, online, Annenstrasse 53 and IZK- TU Graz
Co-organiser and co-moderator: ‘Annenstrasse 53, - Opening Statement with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay and Wayne Modest’, online, Annenstrasse 53, and IZK- TU Graz
Co-organiser (with Barbara Kapusta) ‘Feminism Against Family’ screening films: Martha Rosler, Born to Be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M, With Paper Tiger Television, 1988, 35 min; Maria Lassnig, Soul Sisters. Bärbl, 1974/1979, 5 min; Annette Kennerley, Norrie, 1997, 21 min; Tala Madani, The Womb, 2019, 3 min) and lecture by Sophie Lewis, Full Surrogacy Now (Verso, 2019) at mumok-kino, Vienna, Austria
Co-organiser (with Luisa Lorenza Corna), ‘Subject and Matter in Moderation’, screening and workshop with filmmaker Anja Kirschner (now Blaise Kirschner) on their film Moderation (2015). School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Co-organiser (with Gill Park, Tom Hastings, Sophie Jones), ‘Speak, body: Art, the Reproduction of Capital and the Reproduction of Life’, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, Keynotes: Martha Rosler and Marina Vishmidt; Introduction: Griselda Pollock
Co-organiser (with Gill Park) ‘Proper Faultless Enemy I and II’, a screening programme at the University of Leeds with films by Tina Keane, VALIE EXPORT, Melanie Gilligan and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz. Funded by CePRA
Co-organizer (with Svenja Bromberg), ‘Goldsmiths Graduate Conference: Crisis and Critique of the State’, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK. Keynotes: Sara Farris, Bob Jessop, Massimiliano Tomba
Curator of ‘Militant Cinema: Films on Operaismo’ with Huw Lemmey at LimaZulu Project Space, London, UK