15. April 2026, 17.00 Uhr Kunstuni Linz, Hauptplatz 8, 4020 Linz (Lecture Hall F - H8.05.03)
The Department of Cultural Studies invites you to a lecture from Michael Turinsky.
Michael Turinsky (Artist, Vienna)
With his idea of art as a ‘redistribution of the sensible,’ Althusser-student Jacques Rancière has provided new impulses to the debate on the relationship between the dimension of the aesthetic and the dimension of the political – impulses which also contemporary dance theory has taken up and worked through in various ways. Based on my work as a physically disabled choreographer and with reference to ‘crip theory’ as it has been formulated by
Robert McRuer and Alison Kafer, I will show how, from a specific ‘crip standpoint,’ my own artistic practice draws on Rancière's considerations, with various emphases each time. Finally, I will describe my recent politically motivated turn to Antonio Gramsci and raise the question of the sensual dimension of what Gramsci refers to as ‘senso comune’ and ‘buon senso’.
Michael Turinsky is a physically disabled artist and theorist based in Vienna. He works at the intersection of contemporary dance and performance, disability, and political and aesthetic theory. After studying philosophy at the University of Vienna, Turinsky began to immerse himself in the world of inclusive dance in 2006. He then went on to challenge the concept of inclusion and referred to his artistic practice, which, among other things, examines the resistant materiality of the body in processes of subversion, as “crip choreography.” His solo Precarious Moves was awarded the Nestroy Prize for Best Off Production in 2021. In 2023, he won the Outstanding Artist Award of the Federal Ministry of the Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport.
All Dates of the lecture series “The Senses in Performance”:
11. März 2026
Introduction by OLFAC – Silke Felber, Freda Fiala and Julia Ostwald
25. März 2026
320 GB im Rucksack – der physische Aspekt digitaler Kunst über Gletscher
Tina Frank (Visual Communication, University of Arts Linz) &
Alexis Dworsky (Media Design, University of Arts Linz)
15. April 2026
Dis_sensual – A crip choreographer’s re-distribution of the sensible
Michael Turinsky (Artist, Vienna)
22. April 2026
Performing Snakes in Modernity and Today
Nicole Haitzinger (Dance Studies, University of Salzburg) &
Christina Gillinger (Tanzquartier Vienna TQW)
29. April 2026
Lingering with Bass (2024, Steve McQueen)
Ulrike Hanstein (VALIE EXPORT Center, University of Arts Linz)
6. Mai 2026
Sinn für Unlösbares
bankleer – Karin Kasböck & Christoph Maria Leitner
13. Mai 2026
Mimi o Sumasu – the Very Act of Listening
Mia Yoshida (Artistic Research and Head of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna)
20. Mai 2026
Tasting skin. On chilis and chills
Karin Harrasser (Cultural Studies, University of Arts Linz and Director of
ifk – International Research Center for Cultural Studies)
27. Mai 2026
Olfactory Violence and the Freedom to Speak: Stink Bombs in Interwar Europe
William Tullett (Early Modern History, University of York)
3. Juni 2026
Sensing the Atmospheres of Painters’ Studios in Nineteenth-Century France
Erika Wicky (Olfactions, Université Grenoble Alpes)
10. Juni 2026
Hee-Hawing Democracy: Somatic Articulations Beyond the Logos - Inhalt folgt
Bettina Wuttig (University of Marburg)
17. Juni 2026
Greetings from the Swamp
Maria Nalbantova (Artist, Sofia)
24. Juni 2026
A loving ear – toward a poetic ecology of feeling
Brandon LaBelle (Independent Researcher, Berlin)