Art Practices in the Migration Society

The established cultural sector is facing a paradigm shift. At the center of this change is the demand to do justice to the diversity of the population. The handbook opens up strategies for implementing art practices that are critical of discrimination, and for reaching new dialogue groups. Successes in partnerships with unequal cultural institutions are analyzed, and concrete strategies for action are shown on the basis of eleven documented productions. Starting point are the insights from the artistic practice in Brunnenpassage Vienna, founded in 2007. The handbook sets practice-relevant impulses for cultural workers, artists, and cultural policy-makers.

Ivana Pilic is a curator and cultural scientist. She is working on her doctoral thesis on »discrimination-critical art practices« at the University of Salzburg and the Mozarteum. Before that she was artistic director at the Brunnenpassage. Her work focuses on research concerning transcultural formats and the development of diversity-critical concepts in the cultural sector. She is also active as a juror, among other things in the »Tandem Interculture« of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and on advisory boards and committees, among other things for the European Commission as an expert on »Intercultural Dialogue«.
Anne Wiederhold-Daryanavard is an actress, organizational psychologist, co-founder and artistic director of Brunnenpassage. Her work focuses on developing formats for transcultural art, socially engaged art, diversity development in cultural policy, and experimental and documentary theater. She works as a juror as well as in committees, among others for the European Commission, as an expert for diversity in the cultural sector. Since 2020 she has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Volkstheater Vienna.