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
Fünfzigzwanzig 10 am – 1 pm atopia / utopia / dystopia / heterotopia
*workshop by Jack Halberstam (Prof. of Gender Studies and English, Columbia University, New York) and 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)
*preparatory readings will be provided upon registration.
Fünfzigzwanzig / Salon Rosa Beige 10 am – 1 pm “Transing” Architecture: Gender, Disability and Undesigning Diversity
*workshop by Elio Choquette (architect, initiator of Here We Will Be, Tioh’tià:ke / Mooniyang [so-called Montreal])
*admission is free, limited seats.
*all workshops are in English language.
*registration is required until Sunday, 11 May 2025, please email organisation@5020.info.
Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, out in 2020, from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy.
Damon Ross Young is associate professor of French and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches in the Program in Critical Theory. He is author of Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies (Duke, 2018, shortlisted for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize), as well as numerous essays on film theory, psychoanalysis, queer theory, pornography and digital media. He is co-editor, most recently of Meme Aesthetics, a special issue of Representations, and his current book project, Century of the Selfie, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press.
Elio Choquette is a bilingual queer and trans disabled person from Tioh’tià:ke/Mooniyang (so called Montreal, Canada). They are a licensed architect primarily working in Canada, who’s particularly passionate about inclusive design, disability justice, and 2SLGBTQIA+ advocacy. Elio’s multidisciplinary practice mixes architecture, photography and creative writing. They received a Canada Council for the Arts grant for their project called Here We Will Be, a visual and written archive of queer and trans joy, that they’ve been curating since 2023. Their research work on using queer liberation as a new framework for architecture has been published in several journals, and most recently, in the Wandering Concepts anthology by the KunstHalle Bratislava, alongside works by Judith Butler and Jack Halberstam, to name a few. They have been a guest speaker, panelist and presenter at various universities and conferences.
