Dirty Pink Waters of Collectivity

KKP talks, workshops series and film screenings on intersectional art pedagogies 2026

The KKP Dirty Pink series on intersectional art pedagogies address questions of collectivity in the arts and education, which empower intersectional and post-migrant positions. Art education becomes world-making, when it makes space for relationality, unlearning, and the condition of unknowing. Art education enables space for conflicting, meshing and fluid identities, and for the contamination of the dominant language(s). 
Save the Dates:
  • 14.04.2026, 19:00 - R21 aka Restoring Solidarity, ein Film von Mohanad Yaqubi
  • 17.04.2026–18.04.2026, 10:00–17:00 - Workshop mit Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh
  • 20.04.2026, 11:00 - Germaine Acogny – Die Essenz des Tanzes, ein Film von Greta Marie Becker
  • 06.05.2026, 14:00–18:00 - Critical Reflection Circle with Hint Verein Wien
  • 20.05.2026, 18:00 - Lecture by Nabila Irshaid
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R21 aka Restoring Solidarity, ein Film von Mohanad Yaqubi
in collaboration with Movie Nights and yasmine eid-sabbagh 
Date: 14.04.2026  
Time: 19:00 

Film: Original with English subtitles
Discussion: English and German

Synopsis
The growing struggle for Palestinian self-determination between 1960 and 1980 was supported by radical left-wing movements worldwide, also in Japan. This is illustrated by a collection of 16mm films by militant filmmakers from various countries, which were dubbed and screened in Japan. Their Japanese audiences felt oppressed by the US after World War II, and not only sympathized but also identified with the Palestinians.
Stylistically, the films vary widely. They include interviews with PLO leaders, documentary impressions of life in refugee camps, experimental films, and instructional films for tourism purposes. Mohanad Yaqubi has drawn on this material to create a film that might be seen as a conclusion or epilogue. He shows how two very different peoples can feel connected through images, and also raises questions. Where is the line between support and propaganda? And to what extent can a local struggle be translated internationally?

Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyPhrUSW_GI


Workshop: Fotografische Archive, Kollektivität und Solidarität
with 
yasmine eid-sabbagh
Date: 17–18.04.2026
Time: 10:00 – 17:00 

This workshop combines photography as a medium with questions of archives, collectivity, and solidarity. Through this process, we want to explore possible approaches to working with our own photographic (family) archives. Participants will learn and experiment with ways to link individual biographies to collective, larger histories and contexts. They will browse through their own (family) archives and develop potential narratives that articulate these connections.


Germaine Acogny – Die Essenz des Tanzes
Film by Greta Marie Becker

hosted by Jo Schmeiser
Date: 20.04.2026
Time: 11:00 - 14:30

Documentary
Deutschland/Senegal/Frankreich
89 min / 2025 / Französisch, Englisch, Wolof, Fon

GERMAINE ACOGNY – THE ESSENCE OF DANCE is a feature-length documentary by director Greta-Marie Becker about the world-famous dancer and choreographer Germaine Acogny.
Born in Benin and raised in Senegal, Acogny studied in Paris and travelled the world for more than five decades. Her unique dance technique has entered the international canon of modern dance. Cinema audiences accompany this exceptional talent on stage and are present as she is honoured with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Dance Biennale in Venice in 2021, as well as with the Grand Prix de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2023. Acogny’s dynamic present and remembered past are interwoven through documentary scenes, carefully selected archival material, and dance sequences staged specifically for the film. At 81, she continues to dance and to encourage new generations of African and international dancers at her unique school, l’École des Sables, in Senegal.
Watch the trailer


Zweifelhafte Vergnügungen – Vielfalt und Kritik in der Leopoldstadt
Critical Reflection Circle with Hint Verein Wien

Date: 06.05.20206
Time: 14:00 - 18:00


Creative Resistance – the role of cultural work under occupation
Lecture by Nabila Irshaid

Date: 20.05.2026
Time: 18:00
Event
Film Screening Mohanad Yaqubi
14. April 2026, 19:00
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Applied Photography Studio, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
Workshop by Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh
17. April 2026 - 18. April 2026 10:00 - 17:00
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Room 306, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
Filmscreening with Greta Marie Becker
20. April 2026, 11:00
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Auditorium, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna
Critical Reflection Circle
06. May 2026, 14:00 - 18:00
Lecture by Nabila Irshaid
20. May 2026, 18:00