16 May — 18 May 2025
Fünfzigzwanzig, Salzburger Kunstverein, Initiative Architektur, all in Salzburg;
Schloss Linderhof, Ettal in Bavaria

*international research festival featuring a symposium, workshops, performances,
music sets, excursions, and exhibition openings.

*programme

Saturday, 17 May 2025

Initiative Architektur
2 pm
*welcome by Roman Höllbacher (Director Initiative Architektur, Salzburg)

2:15 pm
*panel on non-conformist practices in architecture
Artifacts of Resistance: From the Architectural Archives of Socialist Polyamory by S.E. Eisterer (Asst Prof of History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University)
Villa Kenwin: Queer Domesticity at the Borderline by Sergio Villanueva Preston (Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University)
chaired by N.N.

3:30 pm
*panel on non-conformist practices in design
Empathic Turn: a Laboratory for Architecture Otherwise by Palace of Un/Learning / Bernadette Krejs (architect and researcher, Technical University Vienna)
LOVO Berlin: How to build space for diversity and belonging by Wenke Schladitz (architect, movement researcher, Berlin) and Christoph Wagner (architect, Berlin),
followed by a discussion with Elio Choquette (architect, initiator of Here We Will Be, Tioh’tià:ke / Mooniyang [so-called Montreal])
chaired by Theo Deutinger (architect, curator, author, Saalfelden / Vienna)

4:45 pm
*panel on non-conformist practices in art
Seeing Queerly by Clare Barlow (Director of Peoples History Museum, Manchester)
followed by a discussion with Göksu Kunak (artist, Berlin) and Mikołaj Sobczak (artist, Warsaw)
chaired by Matthias Weiß (Prof of Art History, Paris Lodron University Salzburg)

6:00 pm
*aperó

Fünfzigzwanzig
7:30 pm

Anarchitecture and the Aesthetics of Nothing
*keynote by Jack Halberstam (Prof. of Gender Studies and English, Columbia University, New York)
Negative Space and the Thought of Nothing
*response by Damon R. Young (Assoc Prof of French and Film and Media / Programme in Critical Theory, Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
followed by a conversation and public discussion
chaired by S.E. Eisterer (Asst Prof of History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University)

9:30 pm
*performance by Bhenji Ra (artist, Gadigal land, Eora Nation) / Tati au Miel
10:30 pm
*music-set by Tati au Miel (artist, sound designer, DJ, producer)

*admission is free, limited seats.
*all events are in English language.