as a tool
for the destruction of
structural discriminations
We are a group of artists, activists, students, workers, migrants who are organizing an art auction with the purpose to collect money to fight austria racist laws and administrative regulations against those coming to study from countries outside of the european union.
1) If you want to come to study to austria from specific countries outside of the european union —from places that are nephariously called third countries— you face tough regulations in order to get the visa and the papers to stay temporarily. It is required to have in a proper bank account an amount of up to €15,000, supposedly as a proof that one is able to cover the costs of living without working for a year in advance. This is not only a bureaucratic hurdle, but has a clear political nature. It is a racist and class discriminatory regulation that prevents many to come to study to austria!
2) Therefore we make an auction as an activist intervention to deconstruct the auction as a capitalist craft and to collect money to help such students but as well to point to the absurdity of the whole situation. We take the space of the classical art auction as a space to collect money, to perform and to protest the perversity of the state discriminatory regulations and the fine arts capitalization.
3) We ask you to donate artworks that can be auctioned during the rundgang days (January 2012). We need your works, your money, your time, your will!
See you at the auction!
AAAAR Artists Activists Auction Against Racism
http://aaaar.org
aaaar@riseup.net
Fr. 20.01.2012 Open doors days
Aula of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
18.00 - 19.00 Buyers registration and artshow
19.00 - 21.00 Performance and live a(u)ction
Auctioneer: Esther Attar-Machanek
An initiative from:
Imayna Caceres, Miriam Raggam, Ekoj, and Joanna Wilk.
Thanks to:
Sarah Binder, Anastasia Bruelle, Annalisa Cannito, Cain Chui, Christian Diaz-Orejarena, Petja Dimitrova, Ana Paula Franco, Eduard Freudmann, Miltiadis Gerothanasis, Andreas Görg, Can Gülcü, Sophie Haas, Tatiana Kai-Browne, Daria Kirillova, Philip Leitner, Marissa Lobo, Verena Melgarejo-Weinandt, Laura Nitsch, Peter Palme, Richard Reisenberger, Peter Tauber, Claudia Tomassetti, Michael Walk, Konrad Wolf and Freie Klasse, Esther Attar-Machanek and Jacqueline Nowikovsky.
And all artists that supported this project:
Tal Adler, Betsabeh Aghamiri & Gerald Grestenberger, AIKO Kazuko Kurosaki, Alaa Alkurdi, ANTCAR (RCAP, PACR), ANTI BLA / Martin Hollerweger, Andrea Baczynski, Alfredo Barsuglia, Christian Bazant-Hegemark, Erwin Bohatsch, Monica Bonvicini, Anna Ceeh, Gunter Damisch, Paul Deflorian, Carola Dertnig, Julius Deutschbauer, Petja Dimitrova, Veronika Dirnhofer, Rouven Dürr, Eva Egermann, Christian Eisenberger, Michael Endlicher, Luca Faccio, Vasilena Gankovska, Marina Grzinic & Aina Smid, Jens Haaning, Daniel Hafner, Yves Hayat, Andrea Heyer, Reni Hofmüller, Barbara Anna Husar, IRWIN, Anna Jermolaewa, Olivia Kaiser, Klub Zwei / Maiz, Mario Kiesenhofer & Amelie Zadeh, Jakob Lena Knebl, Edgar Knoop, Martin Krenn, Andrea Lambrecht, Miriam Laussegger, Roberta Lima, Naja Maria Lundstrøm, Stefan Malicky, Gustavo Mendez-Liska, Sissa Micheli, Monochrom, Julia Mundl, Robert Muntean, Aki Namba, Erik Norden, Maria Pavlova, Sasha Pirker, Marion Porten, Thomas Redl, Richard Reisenberger, Raphaela Riepl, Isa Rosenberger, Marusa Sagadin, Hubert Scheibl, Hans Scheirl, Toni Schmale, Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair, Clemens Stecher, Jane Stravs, Martin Sturm, Malies Surtmann, Peter Tauber, Michael Wegerer, Stefan Wirnsperger, Erwin Wurm, Mira-Marlene Zajicek, Osama Zatar, Heimo Zobernig, Robert Bodnar.
Special thanks to:
Marina Grzinic, Seraina Renz and Eva Blimlinger.
