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Fear of Life - Barbara Holub: Save to dare – the artist as risk consultant introduced by La Schan

Barbara Holub is an artist and ar- chitect based in Vienna. With Paul Rajakovics she founded transparadiso, a platform for an engaged urbanistic practice, for direct urbanism. Many of her projects and activistic interventions deal with topics of social inequality. During the last years transparadiso has dealt especially with issues of migration and has been working on a „welcome quarter“. This should provide both a conceptual and built infrastructure in order to serve as a model for innovative formats of living together, pro ting from diverse cultural impacts. www.transparadiso.com; www.barbaraholub.com Fear of Life. The City as a Habitat to All The actual (and not entirely surprising) political conditions of life in Austria and its neighboring countries is a burning as well as starting point to the planning of this international symposium. Fear respectively the creation of anxieties has become a much too powerful instrument of political persuasion. Solidaric processes are undermined if not destroyed, future is discount­ ed: if circumstances do obviously not improve at least they should not change anymore. How do notions of innovation come into play in an atmosphere of re­bordering Europe? How could artists, how should intellectuals act now? And from where? Should they change the contexts of their work? Should they start to focus already on much younger generations? Or should they establish safe spaces inside institutions? Big questions and maybe the answers could be found in distinct if not even pungent words, in highly precise and detailed actions, in repeated societal acupunctures in both virtual and ana­ logue spaces?