Workshop
December 2025
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
Resist Together! Modes of Coexistence
4.12.2025
Remembering the past is meaningful, but its impact on our agency is meaningful only in relation to the present and future. If we fail to reflect on and learn from past experiences, we are bound to be confounded time and time again. Remembering Genocide and its prevention are no exception. Anchored in the interdisciplinary project The Arts of Resistance, Resist Together! Modes of Coexistence aims to develop a toolkit from workshops in Johannesburg and Vienna that combine historical research, critical analysis, and co-creative artistic practice in a dynamic process. This toolkit will then be provided for further use in an educational and civil society context. Thus, this project explores new ways of facilitating and distributing remembrance work through and with the arts.
Resist Together! Modes of Coexistence uses artistic means such as storytelling, somatics, performative methods and visual media to create spaces for encounter, dialogue and joint action. At its core is the question of new forms of remembrance: How can historical experiences, testimonies of survivors and perspectives of the second and third generations be translated into joint action against violence, exclusion and authoritarian developments? Available for free download once it is completed, the toolkit will enable users to conduct workshops with different groups of people (schoolchildren, adults) independently, without further scientific or artistic support. It shall include step-by-step instructions with texts, sources and templates for discussion and feedback rounds.
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photos © Anderwald + Grond
Programme of the Workshop
10:00
Getting to Know Each Other:
Somatics: ATM for the eyes
Introduction to resistance/fascism
11:00
Personal Life Stories (Small Groups)
Recognising disturbing moments
What could I have done?
12:30
Break
13:30
Activist Tai Chi
14:00
Historical and Artistic Contributions
Sharpening Our Awareness of Injustice
14:45
Coffee Break
15:00
16:00
16:20
17:00
Resist Together! Modes of Coexistence is made possible by the generous support.
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Resist Together! Modes of Coexistence
4.12.2025
Remembering the past is meaningful, but its impact on our agency is meaningful only in relation to the present and future. If we fail to reflect on and learn from past experiences, we are bound to be confounded time and time again. Remembering Genocide and its prevention are no exception. Anchored in the interdisciplinary project The Arts of Resistance, Resist Together! Modes of Coexistence aims to develop a toolkit from workshops in Johannesburg and Vienna that combine historical research, critical analysis, and co-creative artistic practice in a dynamic process. This toolkit will then be provided for further use in an educational and civil society context. Thus, this project explores new ways of facilitating and distributing remembrance work through and with the arts.
Resist Together! Modes of Coexistence uses artistic means such as storytelling, somatics, performative methods and visual media to create spaces for encounter, dialogue and joint action. At its core is the question of new forms of remembrance: How can historical experiences, testimonies of survivors and perspectives of the second and third generations be translated into joint action against violence, exclusion and authoritarian developments? Available for free download once it is completed, the toolkit will enable users to conduct workshops with different groups of people (schoolchildren, adults) independently, without further scientific or artistic support. It shall include step-by-step instructions with texts, sources and templates for discussion and feedback rounds.
Programme of the Workshop
10:00
Getting to Know Each Other:
Somatics: ATM for the eyes
Introduction to resistance/fascism
11:00
Personal Life Stories (Small Groups)
Recognising disturbing moments
What could I have done?
12:30
Break
13:30
Activist Tai Chi
14:00
Historical and Artistic Contributions
Sharpening Our Awareness of Injustice
14:45
Coffee Break
15:00
Group Work: Imagine Rosa Riedl, the Guardian Ghost, helping you out in a difficult situation.
What difference would it have made for you to have her there?
16:00
Balance Training
16:20
Discussion and feedback round – goodbye
17:00
End
Resist Together! Modes of Coexistence is made possible by the generous support.
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre is a place of memory, education, dialogue and lessons for humanity. The JHGC explores the history of genocide in the 20th century with a focus on the case studies of the Holocaust and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. As a centre of memory, education, dialogue and lessons for humanity, the JHGC focuses on human rights issues such as prejudice, racism, ‘othering’, antisemitism, homophobia and xenophobia.
Facilitaters
Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond are artist-researchers and guest professors at ARC Artistic Research Center, mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (2025), and affiliate members of CSS Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal/Tio’tia:ke. From 2021 to 2024, they have been professors for the Ph.D. in Art programme at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Their projects include EU-funded The Arts of Resistance (2024–25, CREA2027), ART WORKS! (2019–21, Erasmus+), and FWF PEEK-funded Navigating Dizziness Together (2020–24, AR 598), Dizziness–A Resource (2014–17, AR 244). Having curated for Whitechapel Gallery London, Kunsthalle Wien, or U-jazdowski Castle Warsaw, with curator Sergio Edelsztein, they develop Iliggocene–The Age of Dizziness (2025–28), a KSB-funded networked exhibition, performance, and discursive series with contributions by Amanda Beech, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Tim Etchells, a.o., in cooperation with KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art.
Barbara Staudinger was born in Vienna, studied History, Theatre Studies, and Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna, and earned her doctorate in 2001. From 1998 to 2013, she worked at the Institute for Jewish History in Austria (St. Pölten), and from 2005 to 2007, she served as a curator at the Jewish Museum in Munich. From 2013 to 2018, she worked as a freelance curator in Vienna and was a member of the curatorial team for the Austrian exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial (opened in 2021). From 2018 to 2022, she served as Director of the Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia. Since July 2022, she has been Director of the Jewish Museum Vienna.