𝗌𝖺𝗂𝗇𝗍 𝗇𝗈𝗂𝗋.

AREA[404] x CREATIVE DAYS VIENNA Fair P[l]ay 21st May, Westbahnstudios WORKSHOP 17-19 CONCERT 20-22 ~ Streaming platforms have restructured how music moves through the world. A small number of corporations now operate as the primary gatekeepers of distribution, accumulating revenue and data while returning fractions of a cent per stream to the artists whose work sustains them. The algorithm decides what gets heard. The platform decides what gets paid. And social media has made promotion an unpaid condition of survival. Fair P[l]ay is a hands-on workshop examining the political economy of music distribution and the alternatives practitioners are already building. The workshop surveys tools and models building outside that logic: cooperative platforms, decentralized networks, netlabels, open-source distribution, and the strategic return to physical formats. It is aimed at musicians, creatives, and anyone who works with platform economies and wants tools for thinking differently about distribution, ownership, and audience. ~ Followed w/ concerts by 9abriela & Jung An Tagen 9abriela @cupasoup 9abriela is a visual artist, exploring time structures through sonic narratives. Her approach comes from a self-tough exploration of electronics, media technologies in combination with an early musical education. Her fascination for found instruments & devices keeps her in the search of new arrangements to play and improvise. She lives and works in Vienna. Jung An Tagen (ETAT, Editions Mego) Backed up by 2 decades of discographic activity under diverse pseudonyms and multiple collaborations on labels such as Editions Mego and Diagonal, Jung An Tagen (Stefan Juster) performed at Festivals like Unsound or Sonic Acts, researching the boundaries of techno and dissociative computer music. Testing strategies of physical disorientation and forceful sonic phenomena, encouraging minds and bodies to calculate and intuit their own place in spacetime. - Many thanks to @wirtschaftsagentur_wien for the warm invite. Design @masharudakova_work

Habit Role & school present: Brooklyn J. Pakathi (collective reading) @brooklyn.pakathi Brooklyn J. Pakathi is a transmedia artist with an ongoing studio practice in Vienna. Much of their most recent work interrogates the ontology of emotion. through material and spatial interventions. Operating at the intersection of phenomenology and affect theory, sentimental longing, melancholy, and various other configurations of intimacy affirm their practice. Pakathi constructs objects, images, and environments to connect and abstract the underlying architecture of these complex psychological forces. Their practice challenges the perceived boundaries between the tangible and the intangible, inviting a reconsideration of how we embody and externalize our inner emotional landscapes. The artist’s work engages in a dialectic between the personal and the universal, through language of form, space, and materiality. By recontextualizing the familiar, they reveal the latent emotional potentialities inherent in our material world. Pakathi also works as an independent curator and cultural producer. Their curatorial work is shaped by an interest in decolonial curatorial practices and a search for alternative curatorial strategies that can be used to embed cultural equity. Brooklyn works in actioning cultures of technology, developing inclusive and alternative definitions of the technological and using spatial strategies to situate artistic practice and discourse outside of the modern colonial world system. On Sunday, 19th of April, they will host a collective reading that expands on their text ‘Assembled Affinities: Technologies of Perception’ which was written for Habit Role Vol. 1. Location: school, Grüngasse 22, 1050 Wien Sunday, 19th of April ++++ ⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️ limited capacity at the venue - we advise you to get a presale ticket to ensure entrance (via link in bio or kupfticket.com) - limited tickets on the door 🚪 See you there 🧡 Support by MA7 & BMWKMS

As 𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 slowly concludes, we invite you to 𝑫𝑬𝑺𝑭𝑹𝑼𝑻𝑨, its finissage hosted by Marissa Lôbo & Pêdra Costa. Join us for a soft, collective moment of sharing—food, music, and joy. Thank you for being part of this temporary infrastructure, for sitting with us in love, distance, and desire. We look forward to seeing you on 25.02.2026 from 7 to 9 PM. ___ Marissa Lôbo is an artist, curator, and cultural producer, as well as a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts. Her work is dedicated to practices of hospitality, care, and affection, nurturing transformative and political artistic practices. Lôbo was a member of @vereinmaiz , a self-organized collective of and for migrants, and is the co-founder and artistic director of @kueltuergemma . Marissa’s curatorial projects include “Night School” at the Wiener Festwochen; Smashing Wor(l)ds: Cultural Practices for re/Imagining & un/Learning Vocabularies; Vivências | Art as Vessel to Conjure Space of Softness; and Soft Club. She is currently the artistic director of Space MEZEKERƎ for Global Majority Arts, Politics & Care. Pêdra Costa is a maker shaped by lived experience, attentive to what must be done. Their practice unfolds across many life paths, where necessity, adaptability, and action emerge as creative forces. ___ desfrutar : Portuguese verb [ transitive ]. /ʤɪsfɾu'taɾ/ : to enjoy (EN), gozar (ES), استمتع (AR), uživati (HR), لذت بردن (FA) Thousand thanks to the beautiful ecosystem of 𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 ♡ @brooklyn.pakathi , @everythingtmy , @a.made.up.reality , @bitabell , @xzxzjyuhurd , @marissa.lobo , @pedraxcosta and everyone who has shared this experience ♡

Thank you so much for joining us at the opening of Closer Still by Brooklyn Pathaki, last week. Closer Still presents a body of work that lingers with longing at its most delicate point, when closeness feels present yet already under strain. The exhibition turns toward that small, uncertain interval where relation settles into form, where affection begins to take shape and acquires its own internal clarity. Here, longing appears as a way of living with another and with oneself, as a field of adjustments in timing, attention, and distance. Nearness becomes a practice that holds together desire and restraint, approach and delay, presence and the sense that something may slip away. Photos by Miloš Vučićević. @kajmakmedia_com ♡ Stay tuned for our public programme announcements.

Vernissage: 03.12.2025 7 - 10 PM Exhibition Duration: 04.12.2025 - 27.02.2026 Closer Still presents a new body of work by Brooklyn J. Pakathi, shaped around longing at its most vulnerable. The title speaks as both a command and a confession, holding together an urge to remain near and the uncertainty that such closeness entails. The exhibition turns to that precarious interval where relation takes shape and where feeling acquires form through measure and clarity. Closer Still offers an account of love that privileges attention, recognition, and measure. The exhibition composes nearness as a living practice and affirms that desire endures through the ways we look, the ways we wait, and the ways we remain. The exhibition is accompanied by a public program that translates its conceptual concerns into collective, bodily practices. The workshops, led by Tayla Myree (@everythingtmy ), Samo Zeichen, Bilal Alame (@xzxzjyuhurd ), and Bita Bell (@bitabell ), create shared time for hesitation, approach, and articulation. Through poetry, sound, mapping, and movement, they offer methods to practice orientation, to give form to personal geographies, and to make the discipline of tenderness a communal exercise. The program concludes with a finissage hosted by Marissa Lôbo (@marissa.lobo ), a final soft gathering that honors the ways we sustain proximity. The exhibition and Public Programme are kindly supported by MA7, BMWKMS and 15. District Curated by Ale Zapata @azapatat

Next exhibition opening at AIL: 5 Nov 2025, 18:00 • Thinking Through Weibel. Beginnings, Diversions, Elsewheres Artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Nancy Baker Cahill, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jakob Lena Knebl, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Thania Petersen, Eva Schlegel, and Peter Weibel Curated by Valerie Messini and Brooklyn J. Pakathi ‘Thinking Through Weibel’ gathers key works out of the Peter Weibel Archive, held by the Collection and Archive at the University of Applied Arts and positions them in relation to contemporary practices by invited international artists, that unfold through distinct conceptual and material approaches. Their contributions do not follow or extend the logic of artist, curator, and art- and media theorist Peter Weibel (1944–2023), but move across and against it, forming intersections without fixing relationships. Attention turns particularly to Weibel’s earlier years, when sculptural inquiries merged with performance, film, and written language. That early period reveals a restless movement across mediums and media, driven by a desire to test the limits of perception and to upend disciplinary borders. The presentation highlights the entwined currents of politics, sexuality, and playfulness that animate Weibel’s experiments. Performative actions, text works, and spatial propositions from Weibel’s early practice appear alongside the works of the participating artists. These juxtapositions are not structured as reflections or responses. Rather, they allow for a set of overlapping gestures, divergences, and refusals. The exhibition stands as an open field where inquiry coexists with irreverent disruption, underscoring how creative freedom remains inseparable from sociopolitical stakes. Opening hours: Mon–Fri: 11:00–18:00 Guided Tours: 14 Nov, 17:30 27 Nov, 17:00 11 Dec, 17:00 8 Jan, 17:00 Exhibition program and all details: ail.angewandte.at An exhibition by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, initi­ated by the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures in collab­oration with Collection and Archive and the AIL. @dieangewandte @weibel.institute

༺⟢ 𝐄𝐗𝐇𝐈𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 "Past Tense" ⟣༻  curated by @brooklyn.pakathi feat.  BELINDA KAZEEM-KAMIŃSKI FRIDA ROBLES HUDA TAKRITI @bel.kamkaze @fri.dance @huda_takriti The exhibition Past Tense invites us into an intimate encounter with time as a political dimension. Through installation and media art, the works expose how temporal frameworks structure power and ask how other temporalities might emerge when memory, sound, and image intervene in historical silences. Each work functions as a temporal intervention. They move beyond representation and actively reconfigure how time is experienced. Opening: Wed, 3. September, 16:00 – ifk arkaden (Reichsratsstraße 17, 1010) Opening Hours: ifk arkaden Wed, 3. September, 16:00-18:00 Thu, 4. September, 15:00-20:00 Fri, 5. September, 12:00-18:30 Sat, 6. September, 14:00-18:30 Free entry! - UNSAFE+SOUNDS 2025 "𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐑𝐡𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞" 02. - 07. September  Various Venues, Vienna / AT

Habit Role🕳️ Augend&Addend presents: 🕳️Brooklyn J. Pakathi (reading) @brooklyn.pakathi ++++ Brooklyn J. Pakathi is a transmedia artist with an ongoing studio practice in Vienna. Much of their most recent work interrogates the ontology of emotion. through material and spatial interventions. Operating at the intersection of phenomenology and affect theory, sentimental longing, melancholy, and various other configurations of intimacy affirm their practice. Pakathi constructs objects, images, and environments to connect and abstract the underlying architecture of these complex psychological forces. Their practice challenges the perceived boundaries between the tangible and the intangible, inviting a reconsideration of how we embody and externalize our inner emotional landscapes. The artist’s work engages in a dialectic between the personal and the universal, through language of form, space, and materiality. By recontextualizing the familiar, they reveal the latent emotional potentialities inherent in our material world. Pakathi also works as an independent curator and cultural producer. Their curatorial work is shaped by an interest in decolonial curatorial practices and a search for alternative curatorial strategies that can be used to embed cultural equity. Brooklyn works in actioning cultures of technology, developing inclusive and alternative definitions of the technological and using spatial strategies to situate artistic practice and discourse outside of the modern colonial world system. ++++ Location: Zacherlfabrik, 1190 Vienna Saturday, 28th of June 2025 4PM-10PM Presale 1: 13€ (link in bio) Presale 2: 17€ (link in bio) AK: 20€ *dm for solidarity pricing/cheaplist ++++ Habit Role Vol. 1 “Assembled Affinities” • Featuring interviews with: Les Urbaines, PTP, Subbacultcha, Abby Thomas, Spice Mixers and King Vision Ultra • Text contributions by: ad0/Aptive, Felice Moramarco, Lain Iwakura, Kenneth Constance Loe, Lau Lukkarila, Brooklyn J. Pakathi, Mara Never and Winona Hudec WILL BE AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER \\\\\ x ASSEMBLED AFFINITIES x See you there 🩵 ⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️ Supported by MA7 & BMKOES

We’re very happy to finally introduce you to the jurors for the QMA Open Call 2025! If you want to apply, you can still do so until Monday, the 17th of February 2025 via the application form on our website (link in bio!). Together with our curators the jury will select the artists we’ll be working with this year. Stay tuned for more information and the names of this year’s curators in the next days! JURY: Brooklyn J. Pakathi @brooklyn.pakathi Brooklyn J. Pakathi (They/Them) is an independent curator and cultural producer. Their curatorial work is shaped by an interest in decolonial curatorial practices and a search for alternative curatorial strategies that can be used to embed cultural equity. Brooklyn works in actioning cultures of technology, developing inclusive and alternative definitions of the technological, and using virtual space to deploy artistic practice and discourse outside of the modern colonial world system. Frederike Sperling @frederikesperling Frederike Sperling is the artistic director at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in Vienna. In this role, she has worked on new commissions, performative exhibitions, and live and discursive events with OMSK Social Club, Deva Schubert, P. Staff, and Sophie Utikal, among others. In the past, she was head of programming at Das Weisse Haus and a curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21). Before, she was curatorially involved at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Melly Institute, Rotterdam. In addition to serving on juries and teaching, she regularly contributes to art magazines and artistic publications.

🌍✨ BETWEEN WORLDS: Technology, Spirit & The Digital South opens Friday, November 22, 2024, 7 pm until Saturday December 21, 2024 open on Saturdays, 5–8 pm and by appointment This curatorial research investigation unearths how ancestral knowledge emerges through modern technology and virtual spaces, focusing on the artistic praxis and aesthetics developing from the Digital South. Researcher/curator duo Mekhala Dave & Brooklyn J. Pakathi examine how ancestral (Indigenous, communal, spiritual) knowledge systems can fundamentally reshape our understanding and use of modern technology.  Through fieldwork, conversations with artists, and curatorial interpretations, they investigate how traditional ways of knowing—from mythmaking to dreaming, communal relations to nature, and collective care practices—can offer alternative frameworks to dominant technological narratives. Their methodology combines curatorial research with artistic practice, using exhibition space as a site for methodological inquiry and experiential encounters. They examine the interfacing of ancient methodologies with modern technological tools, where place-based knowledge and ancestral wisdom conjure spaces of intimacy between humans and all life forms. 📍 The display presents a methodology for thinking through and with the physical, spiritual, and virtual realms of being, featuring text excerpts and fragments of artistic process. Between Worlds: Technology, Spirit & The Digital South a research investigation curated by Mekhala Dave & Brooklyn J. Pakathi @mdave19 @brooklyn.pakathi Thanks for support: BMKOES & Stadt Wien Kultur & Bezirkskultur Margareten

꧁ EXHIBITION  ꧂ Visit our video-exhibition at WUK Projektraum! The opening is happening today at 18:00 🪐 Opening hours are 13-22   Future Tense, a group show, curated by Brooklyn Pakathi, presents four video works that shift an understanding of time, society, and digital existence. Each piece constructs a distinct world, pushing against familiar narratives and sparking new thoughts about our interconnected lives. The works on display span from personal rituals to broad societal structures. They prompt questions about the foundations of our digital and physical worlds, shifting between virtual and real, ancient and futuristic, local and global. Pierre-Christophe Gam's The Sanctuary of Dreams fuses West African divination with digital art. This virtual temple guides participants through a ritual of future-dreaming, merging ancient wisdom with technological innovation to unlock personal aspirations. In feminism is a browser, Charlotte Eifler introduces Yeva, a cyber entity born from a feminist network. Through Yeva's journey, we question the internet's past and future, highlighting the crucial role of diverse voices in shaping our online spaces. Anna Ehrenstein's The Balkanization of the Cloud dissects the fragmentation of digital sovereignty. With sharp satire and hypnotic elements, Ehrenstein reveals how nation-states manipulate online cultural production, challenging viewers to recognize nationalistic ideologies embedded in our digital infrastructure. Rohan Ayinde's Swallow Utopia uses Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer neighborhood as a starting point to examine place-making, immigration, and the ongoing effects of racial capitalism. Ayinde's work intertwines multiple histories, prompting us to reconsider how we construct our physical and social environments. Viewers will encounter digital temples, cyber entities, fragmented clouds, and contested neighborhoods. Each video opens a window to a different possibility, where current rules are suspended, remixed, or rewritten. These aren't just new visions; they're active attempts at world-building, creating new systems of meaning. @annaehrenstein @charlotteeifler @pierre.christophe.gam @rohanayinde @brooklyn.pakathi

Get readyyyyy for Brooklyn Pakathi (@brooklyn.pakathi ) at MEZEKƎRƎ 💫 we are counting down the days, just two weeks left 🖤 🫴🏽 „all of this, for you, for now, forever“ Brooklyn J. Pakathi is a transmedia artist with an ongoing studio practice in Vienna. Much of their most recent work concerns itself with the language and materiality of emotion. Sentimental longing, melancholy, and various other configurations of intimacy affirm their practice. The Vienna-based artist/curator constructs objects, images and virtual spaces to connect and abstract the underlying architecture of these profound and complex psychological forces. Photo (c) Courtesy of the Artist