The aim of this workshop and publication was to analyze how deregulation continues to regulate the social with a focus on how gender and “otherness” are produced and which socially resistant practices hold relevance within such scenarios – such as artistic practices, queerness, political activism etc. – and through this to open up a politicized space for analysis, creating a history together, mapping how social divisions have been used as a landscape for violence and ultimately for economic productivity, as the contribution to a continuous platform for discussions, analyzing the influence and continuities of capitalist imposition and nationalistic policies onto the bodies and social landscape worldwide. The workshop took place as a performative articulation of theory, encompassing lectures, artworks, screenings, and discussions (in English and German), so that virtual political space was brought to a concrete local space at the VBKÖ on October 3rd, 2009.

The project built a three-part platform for questioning those points within contemporary political and artistic practices – as it is art, culture and education that can intervene in the “reproduction” of ideologies. Therefore, reproductive labor theory was taken from feminist theory to analyze how art can intervene into political and social conditions. The project networked internationally active protagonists and established a specific space for planning strategies of resistance, for future meetings, talks, exhibitions and publications on contemporary questions of gender, queer and political theory.