care & action | ARTS of Change – Change of CODE

FLUVIALE Symposium – MODULE 4 – in collaboration with “forum n”

23-25 Oct 2026 | WEST Reallabor FASSFABRIK, Vienna [AT]

PROGRAM

Symposium:

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October 23, Friday

14:00 Open Doors + Coffee

15:00 Factory Art Walk with Fassfabrik, Exhibition walk (DE/EN)

16:30 Dissolutions, performance (EN) by Tomiris Dmitrievskikh (Art University of Linz), Ekaterina Soloveva (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Filipa Reis (University of Applied Arts of Vienna), Simon Shimizu (Art University of Linz), Sarah Wittmann (University of Vienna), 60 min

16:30 (parallel session) common different! Lab, dance impro workshop (DE) by Johanna Tatzgern, Katja Teuchmann, Goldfuß Unlimited, 150 min

18:00 FLUVIALE collaboration, intro (EN) by Thomas J. Jelinek [AT/SE]

18:10 Holobiont, project presentation (EN) by Teodoro Agricola [IT]

18:35 Peradam, online project presentation (EN) by Skade Henriksen [NO]

19:00 BREAK, donation-based buffet + art tombola

20:00 FLUVIALE Codes of CHANGE, lecture (EN) by Thomas J. Jelinek [AT/SE]

20:15 (De)Coding otherwise – Arts and small AI, lecture (EN) by Christoph Hubatschke [AT]

20:30 shared worlds – simulations, presentation (EN) by Tanja Vujinovic [SI]

20:45 Organic Circuits – exhibition project, presentation (EN) by Jennifer Helia DeFelice [CZ/US]

21:00 DJ set, 60 min

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October 24, Saturday

10:00 Open Doors + Coffee

11:00 Threading Waters, workshop (EN/DE) by Filipa Reis, Tomiris Dmitrievskikh, 60 min

11:00 (parallel session) Natural dyes and collective felting, workshop (DE/EN) by Marieluisa Lenglachner, 120 min – registration required*

13:00 BREAK, donation-based buffet + art tombola

14:00 Soft Care-Work and Creativity, interactive lecture (DE) by Christian Bazant-Hegemark, 60 min

14:00 (parallel session) Becoming lichen, workshop (DE/EN) by Hannah Neuhaus, project group “Gesellen,” 60 min – registration required*

15:00 Taking up space!, feminist exchange event with music workshop (EN/DE) by Kollektiv living rooms, Antonia Eckhart, Nora Eckhart, 150 min – registration required*

15:00 (parallel session) Watching for Birds, workshop (EN) by Phin Anibal, 90 min

17:30 Who versus whom?, panel discussion about care work and solidarity (DE) by Ali Dönmez (Bruno Kreisky Forum), Jelena Gučanin, Sara Hassan, Anna Leder (IG 24), 30 min

17:30 What Stands Inside, workshop (EN) by Francesca Brigadni, Tereza Sykorova, Julia Herzog, 60 min – registration required*

19:00 BREAK, donation-based buffet + art tombola

20:00 Kollektives KI Kritzeln, workshop (DE) by Nicole Schadensteiner, 45 min – registration required*

21:00 xaia, concert, 60 min

22:00 DJ set, 60 min

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October 25, Sunday

11:00-13:00 Buzzing Futures, an event about food awareness and care for biodiversity (EN) by Pollinator Ambassadors, Biodiversity Action Europe, 25 European youth, 120 min – registration required*

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*For events with registration required*, please register at info@forum-n.at

Admission to the symposium is free of charge.

Download the Symposium program with the WEST Reallabor FASSFABRIK plan and room designations.
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Exhibition hours:

Friday, Oct 23: 14:00-22:00 (15:00 – exhibition walk)
Saturday, Oct 24: 10:00-23:00
Sunday, Oct 25: 11:00-13:00

Supervised Childcare Corner with creative activities:

Friday, Oct 23: 15:00-19:00
Saturday, Oct 24: 11:00-19:00
Sunday, Oct 25: 11:00-13:00

Symposium CONCEPT

‘forum n’ team:
Julia Herzog, Head of the project • Tereza Sykorova, project assistant and coach • Anna Struth, coach • Suhaidatu Dramani, co-coach

Contributions:
Christian Bazant-Hegemark • Johanna Tatzgern • Goldfuß Unlimited • Katja Teuchmann • Marieluisa Lenglachner • Nicole Schadensteiner • Sabine Maier • Francesca Brigandi • Tereza Sykorova • Nora Eckhart • Antonia Eckhart • Kollektiv living rooms • xaia • Sara Hassan • Sabine Kroissenbrunner • Jelena Gučanin • Ali Dönmez • Phil Anibal

FLUVIALE Lecture: Christoph Hubatschke [AT].

FLUVIALE Key-note and Moderation: Thomas J. Jelinek [AT/SE]

CARE & ACTION by ‘forum n‘

arts of change – change of arts is a mentoring program initiated by the association “forum n”.

Since 2020, the project aims at fostering a deeper understanding of the arts’ role within sustainability movements and changemaking.

Co-created by art students and experts from within and beyond academia, the interdisciplinary public symposium addresses the relationship between care and creativity in the context of social sustainability.

In times of global conflicts, climate crises and socio-ecological ruptures caused by war, many people struggle emotionally, resulting in isolation practices, societal separation and exclusion of vulnerable groups.

This is where creative methods provide purposeful tools to collectively face change, create cohesive communities and help process strong emotions such as fear, numbness and panic.

The symposium aims to create a space for exchange and sharing.

CODES of CHANGE by Thomas J. Jelinek [AT/SE]

The computer is a logical development of our perception – with code as its building block. Yet, instead of partnership, AI generates crises in a distorted value model of late capitalism. Thomas J. Jelinek will explore model-based thinking and alternative methodologies to rewrite our coding.

Lecture presentation: 20:00 on Oct 23, Friday

(De)Coding otherwise – Arts and small AI by Christoph Hubatschke [AT]

Hegemonic AI systems control the decoding and encoding of information and communication, shaping our interactions, societies, and politics. The lecture will explore how we can indeed do AI differently and (de)code the world otherwise through arts-based approaches. (IT:U Austria)

Lecture: 20:15 on Oct 23, Friday

EXHIBITION

Artists from “arts of change 2026”:
Hannah Geesa Neuhaus • Sarah Gait • Sanne Luna Scheepmaker • Prima Mathawabhan • Ekaterina Soloveva • Laura Isselhorst • Filipa Reis • Andreja Miknić • Ciril Todorovski • Magdalena Maller • Tomiris Dmitrievskikh • Simon Shimizu • Verrier Angeline • Wittmann Sarah • Jasmin Schwendinger • Hanna Hofmann

FLUVIALE Artists:
Jennifer Helia DeFelice [CZ/US], Skade Henriksen [NO] • Teodoro Agricola [IT] • Tanja Vujinovic [SI]

Olobionte [Holobiont] by Teodoro Agricola [IT]

Project Holobiont reveals processes of various symbiotic models. Teodoro Agricola (Accademia di Belle Arti Catania) will share his artistic and research work, in which he develops sculptures as illustrative objects through mycelial artistic simulations.

Presentation: 18:10 on Oct 23, Friday

Peradam by Skade Henriksen [NO]

We encounter the starting point of the Peradam artistic research project: a graphite mine on Senja / Sážžá in Troms county, Northern Norway. It began in 2017 with a material interest in graphite – a material connected with drawing, employment for the local community, and the ongoing green transition. (Art Academy, University of Bergen)

Presentation: 18:35 on Oct 23, Friday

shared worlds – simulations by Tanja Vujinovic [SI]

Tanja Vujinović (Ultramono) will present her digital simulation models and 3D worlds (SPHERE 2), which also exist physically, enabling a new definition of reality. By using them interactively, symposium participants will explore them for various conceptual models and theories of action.

Presentation: 20:30 on Oct 23, Friday

Organic Circuits – exhibition project by Jennifer Helia DeFelice [CZ/US]

Organic Circuits (LÁ Art Museum of South Iceland, 2024) brought together artists working between art and science to unsettle anthropocentric perception and propose an ethics of reciprocity grounded in cyclical, more-than-human ecologies. This presentation examines this project’s curatorial framework and the transdisciplinary collaborations.

Presentation: 20:45 on Oct 23, Friday