Museum work that is critical of racism - (How) is that even possible?
November 18, 2025 University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 8, Aktsaal
The Departments of Cultural Studies and Didactics - Education - Research as well as the cross-university initiative Linz post/colonial invite you to the guest lecture "Racism-critical museum work" and the research workshop Coloniality.
Guest lecture: "Museum work critical of racism - (How) is that even possible?"
Lisa Tackie (disrupt association)
10.00 am, Hauptplatz 8, Aktsaal
DISRUPT is an association committed to anti-discrimination and racism-critical educational work and political participation and offers workshops for museums and schools, among others. Lisa Tackie (DISRUPT association) discusses the basics and challenges of racism-critical museum work between theory and practice.
Lisa Tackie, MA, studies International Development at the University of Vienna. Her focus is on empowerment, anti-racism, black diaspora and intersectionality. She works as a trainer for workshops and training courses on anti-racism and civil courage, including for DISRUPT, the Black Women's Community and asylkoordination österreich. She is also an editor and writing trainer in training.
The guest lecture is part of the seminars "Museum für alle?!" (Gudrun Rath) and "Praxis Kunstvermittlung: Dialog und Dissens in Ausstellungen" (Nora Landkammer).
Round table and research workshop I: Ways out of the colonial museum?
11.45 to 13.00, Hauptplatz 8, Aktsaal
The first part of the research workshop will discuss Andreas Reischek's colonial research and collection practices and his role in the creation of the Francisco Carolinum in Linz. In addition, the emergence of the cross-university initiative Linz post/colonial as well as strategies and necessities in dealing with colonial pasts in museums will be discussed.
Stefan Gassenbauer (KU Linz graduate) and Gudrun Rath (University of Arts Linz) in conversation with other members of the cross-university initiative Linz post/colonial - including Petz Haselmayer (University of Arts Linz), Nora Landkammer (University of Arts Linz) and Hannah Lang (University of Arts Linz) - as well as Lisa Tackie (DISRUPT association)
Research Workshop II: On the presence and interruption of coloniality
14.00 to 16.00, Hauptplatz 8, Aktsaal
The second part of the research workshop brings discussions from projects and plans into dialog on which researchers at the University of Art and Design Linz are currently working: "Artistic-research-mediating practices for the critique and transformation of colonial, white and anthropocentric domination in Vienna Hietzing" (Petz Haselmayer), "Forscher zeichnen. A research example on the coloniality of the art education movement" (Nora Landkammer) and the project "Colonial Infrastructures: Brazil" (Gudrun Rath), which is based at the Vienna Museum of Technology
