Abstract (eng)
Based on the question how feminist, queer*feminist and anti-racist theory and practice can be conveyed beyond academic borders, this thesis examines modes of intervention at the intersection between science, activism, pedagogy, and art. The focus is on alternative ways of interacting with knowledge production, as the feminist, queer*feminist and postcolonial movement involves itself into contradictions by entering universities and by reproducing the involved dominant methods of practicing knowledge. On the one hand, academical structures offer a social legitimation frame for the movement, on the other hand modes of reaching people outside of academical discourses are lost due to normative procedures in the practice of knowledge creation at universities. The question thus is how the ambivalent conditions can be transformed productively according to the movement. As this transformation requires a creative playing with societal relations, the research issue of the thesis is: How does the art look like that intervenes and intercedes at the same time.
To answer that question, feminist, queer*feminist and postcolonial theories about education are merged with approaches of critical public pedagogy. Following these theories, the feminist, queer*feminist and postcolonial movement that becomes part of the academic conduct must not only produce more engaging modes of knowing but also unlearn many of the traditional.
The necessity is claimed to find ways of communicating feminist, queer*feminist and postcolonial ideas, that can reach more people, without trading it against the radicalness of the critique. In the empirical part of the thesis, two projects from Vienna and Linz, alongside their strategies of taking the theory into practice are discussed. The work examines, how it can be possible to practice criticism towards institutional role models, and methods, without reproducing social exclusion mechanisms inside the feminist, queer*feminist and postcolonial movement.