Mi You

Cosmotechnics for the Future

brut nordwest
Keynote MITTEN In English
Wiener Festwochen

Diving into the deep-time of Eurasia, various cosmological, mythical and technical networks can be explored. Beyond their anthropological and historical value, they provide us with cosmotechnic tools that relate us to time, space and communities differently. How can critical lenses and operational models from the past serve as alternative and futurist social forms? How can a commons-based relational network encompass nature as much as the social realm?

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Mi You

To coincide with the questions about the future that the Wiener Festwochen have chosen to address, the festival has invited four personalities to give inspiring keynote presentations. Drawing on outstanding artistic, curatorial and academic practices, the lectures held on four consecutive evenings are certain to unleash the imagination.

As part of the Predictably Unpredictable lab, which reflects on the festival of the future, the issues raised will be explored further the following day. The keynotes are part of MITTEN am Abend, a four-day series that combines lectures, performances and music into a highly diverse programme.

Curator and researcher Mi You teaches at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and is one of the curators of the 13th Shanghai Biennale. Her transhistorical and transcultural research establishes connections between antiquity and futurism. Her interest in the politics of technological futures led her to work on ‘implementable speculations’, as in the exhibition Sci-(no)-fiction.

Dates & Tickets

September 2021

Fri. 10.09.2021, 20:00
anmission free

brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
accessible

Event recommendations

11.09.2021, 20:00

Philippe Parreno

Im Gespräch with Andrea Lissoni

WHENABOUTS

Keynote
MITTEN
in englischer Sprache

10.09.2021, 21:00

Sööt/Zeyringer

Women who kill and other categories

Performance
MITTEN
in English

March 2026
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brut all over Vienna

brut nordwest

accessible

Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)
accessible

March 2026
Taking the time
March 2026
LIFT Tanzkollektiv (Liv Schellander, Irene Giró, Fia/Sophia Neises, Tanja Erhart)
BIOFUCK
March 2026
marhaba مرحبا at brut with IZRAA, Noura Hashem, Anahita Neghabat & Khashajar Hani
March 2026
Touch Tour
March 2026
tanz.sucht.theater
BUZZ
March 2026
BUZZING around
March 2026
gergo d. farkas
rascal
March 2026
imagetanz Closing Party with a DJ set by Yinna
April 2026
cARE (core Artistic Research Ensemble)
Philosophy on Stage #6: Notebook of the Heart
April - May 2026
DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche)
Auflösung
May - June 2026
Nesterval
Nestervals Nibelungen: Donaugold
June 2026
Karin Pauer & Aldo Giannotti
FOR NOW
June 2026
Queereeoké
Unmute yourself!
June 2026
BRUT HARD SOFT KISSEN After Pride Edition with KISSEN, GATAFIERA (live) & DJ Sets by anxxxious_t, aua&angst, yves, Dia, Shepperd, nas.delphine

studio brut

not accessible

Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Subway: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
not accessible

March 2026
Cat Jimenez
ruins of a shell
March 2026
Carolina Cappelli
B-MOVIES
April 2026
Frans Poelstra
THIS MOMENT WITH YOU

Bears in the Park Art Place

not accessible

Eyzinggasse 12, 1110 Vienna
U-Bahn: U3 (Gasometer) Bus: 72A (Gasometer), 76A, 76B (Simoningplatz)
not accessible

March 2026
Handle with care feat. Huggy Bears Part 1 & 2
March 2026
Handle with care feat. Huggy Bears Part 3 & 4
March 2026
10 Years of Huggy Bears

WUK performing arts

barrierefrei

Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna
Subway: U6 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), Tram: 40, 41, 42 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), 5, 33 (Spitalgasse), 37, 38, 40, 41, 42 (Spitalgasse / Währinger Straße)

March 2026
Viktor Szeri
unseen
March 2026
Closing Cocktail

Der Betrieb

accessible

Vogelweidplatz 13, 1150 Wien
Subway: U6 (Burggasse-Stadthalle) / Bus: 48A (Moeringgasse) / Tram: 9 (Camillo Sitte Gasse)

April - May 2026
Der Betrieb / Alexander Gottfarb
The Season of Narratives