Why does the margin have to be in the center? What cultural platforms help us in Vienna and Austria to decode the given rigid form, where we are only recognized if we have the appropriate passport, know the appropriate language, have references, and use a specific vocabulary? How do we change cultural institutions? It may be a long process, but we should be persistent, like kültüř gemma! & D-Arts. Vienna and Austria are migrant societies, and criticism of power and power structures must come from the margins. That’s why the existence of these groups is important because they hear needs and offer solutions. Listen to great guests who talk about the past, change the present moment, and introduce us to future actions…..

Guests: Dilan Sengül, D-Arts & Catrin Seefranz, kültüř gemma!

Dilan Sengül is an urban planner, curator, cultural worker, and currently the office manager of D-Arts – Project Office for Diversity. From 2015 to 2020 she was a project collaborator at ArtSocialSpace Brunnenpassage. In 2016 she received the kültür gemma! Fellowship. She studied acting at the diverCITYLAB Academy and worked as an actress from 2013 to 2016. Dilan Sengül has worked as a curator, producer, and project collaborator in various projects in the independent scene, most recently in the „Close Encounters” project as part of the Wiener Festwochen. She is interested in informal participation processes and the mediation of these through artistic methods. https://www.d-arts.at/

Catrin Seefranz is a cultural worker and cultural scientist with a specialization on Latin American culture. Having been active in the field of art and culture for many years, among others at documenta 12, the Vienna International Film Festival ‘Viennale’ or at the Queer Film Festival ‘identities’, as well as academically in the field of Art Education (Zürich University of the Arts), she tries to thwart hegemonies in the art field in her work. She is one of the founders of kültüř gemma! and of ‘oca: migrations, minorities, arts’, an initiative that realizes projects at the intersection of art, education, and activism, such as the ‘Night School’ (at the Wiener Festwochen). https://kueltuergemma.at/

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