ECHOES OF AUTHORITY.
Three Days of Workshops, Discussions, Exhibitions, Performances, and More.

Contemporary societies are shaped by enduring and contested forms of authority that operate across cultural, political, historical, social, epistemic, and linguistic domains. These forms leave traces and resonances that structure everyday life, culture, knowledge production, and political imaginaries, while also generating sites of tension, resistance, and transformation.
Over the course of three days, the festival examines these echoes of authority and the conditions under which they persist, fade, or are actively challenged. By convening scholars, artists, and practitioners from different fields, it offers a space for dialogue and critical exchange, fostering interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary challenges.

TUESDAY, March 24

20:00 "L’Argent" by Robert Bresson, 1983, FR
Film screening with an introduction by Nina Kerschbaumer, followed by a conversation with Mischa Suter. Venue: Arthouse Cinema Piccadilly

WEDNESDAY, March 25

From 10:00 “The Postscriptum Observatory”
continent. in collaboration with Luis Sanz

14:00 Workshop “Amok”
Claudia Bossard, Mine Pleasure Bouvar, Diedrich Diederichsen, Adam Knowles, Mischa Suter. Moderated by Nina Kerschbaumer

18:00 Discussion “Under Pressure: Diffuse Origins and Concrete Outcomes”
Mine Pleasure Bouvar, Diedrich Diederichsen, Yuvviki Dioh, Clara E. Mattei, Olga Reznikova. Moderated by Nina Kerschbaumer

19:30–21:30 Exhibition openings “Hazlo con otrxs” / “Poetry of Power”

THURSDAY, March 26

10:00 Instant reading group “Opacity as Counter-Resonance”
By Hannah Wallenfels

14:00 Workshop “The Infrahuman”
Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Dennis Hansen, Nadia Mazouz, George Paul Meiu, Anna Schmid, Mario Wimmer. Moderated by Zainabu Jallo

18:00–19:30 Discussion “Ruling Grammar: Language and Authority”
Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Dietmar Dath, Pierre-Héli Monot, Hannah Wallenfels. Moderated by Anouk Luhn

FRIDAY, March 27

10:00 Instant zine-making “A Collective Space for Creation”
Maya Ober with Zainabu Jallo and Victoria Seca

14:00 Workshop “The Politics of Youth”
Alexandre Dafflon, Emma Gomez Nicolau, Valentina Holecz, Philipp Kerler, Camila Ponce Lara, Hannah Werner. Moderated by Victoria Seca

18:00 Sonic Art Performance “Bad Words #7: LOOK (Solmaz Sharif)”
Schlechte Wörter / Bad Words with Logan February, Moshtari Hilal, Tanasgol Sabbagh, Fabian Saul

19:00 Closing “All These Wires Between Us”
Zainabu Jallo, Anouk Luhn, Nina Kerschbaumer, and Victoria Seca

20:00–22:00 DJ-Set
Mine Pleasure Bouvar