Towards more inclusive Artworlds: Film screening and discussion with Eva Egermann

The program features a film screening and discussion with Austrian artist and researcher Eva Egermann. At its center is the film C-TV (When I Tell You I Like You…) (2023, 30 min), co-directed by Eva Egermann and Cordula Thym.

Set in a fictional television studio that continues broadcasting after catastrophe, C-TV presents a talk-show format in which guests with disabilities speak about their everyday lives as well as their artistic and political practices. Radical, humorous, and critically reflective, the film imagines a world in which inclusion, agency, and visibility for people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, neurodiversity, and diverse genders are already reality.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Eva Egermann on discrimination and prejudice against disabled people, on ableism in general and within the art world, as well as on anti-ableist artistic practices and institutional modes of inclusion.

Eva Egermann’s practice moves between art, research, and activism, using experimental formats to question normative ideas of ability and participation.

The event is organized in collaboration between the Bratislava City Gallery ↗ and tranzit sk ↗.

The event is part of the public programmes accompanying the international group exhibition Grey Gold: Touching ↗, which addresses the connections between age, gender, and creativity and is currently on view at the Bratislava City Gallery.

The program is part of tranzit sk’s Towards Other Possible Artworlds ↗ series, addressing inequalities, exclusions and unfair practices within the art world.

EVA EGERMANN is a Vienna-based artist working across film, publication, and research-based practices. She initiated Crip Magazine in 2012, a self-published platform that has become an important international reference for disability culture, art, and activism. Her work has been presented at major institutions and exhibitions, including the 17th Istanbul Biennial, Kunsthalle Wien, Kunsthaus Graz, Kunsthalle Kreuzberg Bethanien, Kunsthaus Zürich, and Total Museum Seoul. Her recent film project C-TV co-directed with Cordula Thym received the Diagonale Award for Innovative Cinema and the Queertactics Golden Medusa Award in 2023. Egermann has taught internationally, she is a member of Disability Studies Austria, and is currently completing her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She has recently participated in a research project on ableism at the University of Vienna.

ERSTE ↗ Foundation is main partner of tranzit.
This project has been supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum Bratislava ↗.