Petz Haselmayer
(they/them) is assistant of the department Learning – Engagement – Research. They interweave artistic, research and art education practices with queer-feminist, post- and decolonial perspectives in remembrance-political interventions and projects. Haselmayer is writing a dissertation on their artistic-research-educational practice and memory beyond colonial futures based on monuments and urban history in Hietzing. They worked with pupils, students and artists in Vienna's urban space (see ReMaking Hügel) on the topics of white supremacy, class and gender.
Petz Haselmayer is known with their alter ego Walter Xenia Ego, for their creative-symbolic, affirmative messages, poetic interventions and humorous performances (e.g. at the PCCC).
Since 2023, Petz Haselmayer has been working together with Magdalena Fischer, Teo Klug, Vanessa A. Opoku and Lisa Schank on artistic research on resistant Carinthian-Slovenian women in Železna Kapla/ Bad Eisenkappel. (See article Feminist and Posthuman Entanglements on Female Resistance and Practices of Care)
They are active as an artist, researcher and educator in the collective Decolonizing in Vienna, which they also co-initiated. Together with Puneh Ansari, Lydia Haider and Mercedes Kornberger, they also founded the feminist-critical literary event series Blumenmontag. Petz Haselmayer works as a curator for kulturen in bewegung for the CLIŠHË TRÄSH festival, as well as on their artist-in-residence program to promote BIPOC artists from the global South in cooperation with studiodasweissehaus.
Relevant Projects: Re-Making Hügel - Versuche dekolonialer Praxen in Kunst, Bildung und Bewusstsein Walter Xenia Ego – Affirmative, poetic and humorous Worldings
Relevant collective Projects and Initiatives: Decolonizing in Vienna! ! (2020–)
Cantina Corazón - eine wandernde Performance-Bar in Wien
Resistant Women in Železna Kapla/ Bad Eisenkappel in Carinthia (2023 –)
Education for Future – An alternative elective Subject (2020 – 2022)
blumenmontag (Founding Member, 2018 – 2019)
Relevant curatorial Practice:
kulturen in bewegung & Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC)
Relevant Publications:
Bobadilla-Jeria, C., Haselmayer, P., & Torres-Heredia, M. (im Erscheinen). Kollektive künstlerische Forschung und Vermittlung. In: De/kolonisierung des Wissens, Hrsg. Barboza, A., & Rodriguez-Rodriguez, M., Heidelberg Verlag.
Fross, B., Haselmayer, P. (im Erscheinen). Education for Future. Ein Versuch, Bildung zu re-futurieren,gegen de-futurierende und apokalyptische Denk- und Seinsweisen, In: Postcolonial Citizens? Dekolonialität in der Politischen Bildung, Hrsg. Kleinschmidt, M., Lange, D., & Möller, L., Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
Bobadilla, C., Haselmayer, P., Heredia-Hernandez, M., Mayerhofer-Deak, M., & Seidl, W. (2021). Österreichs kulturelles Erbe, Decolonizing in Vienna!, Kunsthalle Wien, Online: kunsthallewien.at/KHW_DecolonizingVienna.pdf
Haselmayer, P. (2020). Re-Making Hügel. Versuche dekolonialer Praxen in Kunst, Bildung und kollektivem Gedächtnis, 2016 - 2020, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Online: remakinghugel.files.wordpress.com/2020/koloniale-kontinuitaeten.versuche-dekolonialer-praxen.pdf
Social Engagement:
Umdi – Tischtenniscommunity Wien: Mehr als Tischtennis
Networks:
Linked.In, Facebook, Instagram, Academia, ResearchGate
