aflenz memorial in becoming is a long-term memorialization project by artist Milica Tomić in collaboration with the Municipality of Wagna; Institute for Art in Public Space, Universalmuseum Joanneum; Retzhof - Bildungshaus des Landes Steiermark in collaboration with coop-eb; and IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art, Faculty of Architecture, Graz University of Technology. The project is supported by the State Government of Styria, Department 9 Culture, Europe, Sport (Land Steiermark, Abteilung 9 Kultur, Euro
Evolving from the loaded and manifold agency of soil, the conference “Life of Crops” seeks to uncover the inscription of war and labor within the earth, starting with the repressed history of the labor camp Aflenz an der Sulm in the south of Austria. 1 Learning from post-processual archaeology and employing a wide range of analyses and approaches, soil reveals itself as an agent in building ideological hierarchies of class and race through the relations of labor and property ownership. Against the taxonomic
The "Life of Crops” investigative conference brings together twenty-two internationally renowned authors from the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, cultural theory, feminism, archeology, history, architectural theory, art, and activism to meet and work together on urgent contemporary questions such as war and capital; (neo)colonialism, property and extractivism; migration and labor conditions; environmental, gender, and class justice.