Thursday, November 18, 2021 

Break Down the Walls  (all-day screening program in the video lounge of the Inter Media Art Institute)  

17:00
Greetings (German) 
Ruth Schiffer, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 
Dorothee Mosters, Kunststiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Art Foundation)
Achim Landwehr, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

17:30
Welcome (English) 
Kathrin Dreckmann, Linnea Semmerling, Elfi Vomberg (Düsseldorf, GER)  

Introduction 
18:00
Archival Aspirations (English) 
Linnea Semmerling (Düsseldorf, GER)  

18:30
Break down the Walls: Subcultures in the Archives of the Inter Media Art Institute (English)  Angelika Gwozdz (Düsseldorf, GER)  

Keynote 
19:00
Wild Punk (English) 
Jack Halberstam (New York, NY, US)  

Friday, November 19, 2021 

Break Down the Walls (all-day screening program in the video lounge of the Inter Media Art Institute) 

Introduction

10:00
Beyond Padlocks and Razor Blades: Crossing Boundaries in Punk (English) 
Kathrin Dreckmann (Düsseldorf, GER)  

Panel I: Diversifying Cultural and Media Histories  
Chaired by Dirk Schulz (Cologne, GER)

10:30
Looking Back at Settling the Accounts with Subcultures: A Feminist Critique (McRobbie 1978) (virtual) (English) 
Angela McRobbie (London, UK / Berlin, GER)  

11:00
German Neo-Expressionism and Subcultural Style (English) 
Thomas Love (Chicago, IL, US / Berlin, GER) 

Intervention 
12:30
Every Video Needs a Home (German) 
Chris Regn / bildwechsel (Graz, CH / Hamburg, GER)  

Intervention 
14:30
Bewegungen bewahren! Das archiv für alternatives Schrifttum [Keeping Movements! The archiv für alternatives schrifttum] (German) 
Anne Niezgodka / afas (Duisburg, GER)  

Panel II: Alternative Archives, Alternative Histories  
Chaired by Pinar Tuzcu (Kassel, GER)

15:00
Reexamining Black Diasporic Pop Culture in afro look (virtual) (English) 
Tiffany N. Florvil (Albuquerque, NM, USA)  

15:30
Archives of Resistance: Knowledge of Feminist Movements of Colour in Germany (English) 
Meryem Choukri (Warwick, UK / Gießen, GER)  

16:00
What Remains of Aids: Trauma and queer memory in the Gay Museum in Berlin (English)
Peter Rehberg (Berlin, GER)

Intervention
17:30
grapefruits Listening Session: Issue #05 on Punk (German) 
grapefruits zine (Düsseldorf, GER)  

Keynote 
18:30
Seven Ways of Activating Audiovisual Archives: What to think about when curating digital collections (virtual) (English) 
Dagmar Brunow (Stockholm, SWE / Hamburg, GER)  

Intervention 
21:00
Zwischen Hünen, Hünin und Hühnchen [Between Giant(s) and Chicken] (German) 
Wolfgang Müller and Hermoine Zittlau (Berlin, GER)  

21:45
This is me: From Dario to Dyana Dyamond (German) 
Dario Naunheim / Dyana Dyamond (Düsseldorf, GER)  

DJ Sets by DJ Fiona, Ladieswholunch and Sarah Moshiri 

Saturday, November 20, 2021 

Break Down the Walls  (all-day screening program in the video lounge of the Inter Media Art Institute)  

Introduction 
10:00
Beyond the Fringe (English) 
Elfi Vomberg  

Keynote 
10:30
Politics and Sexuality in Videos of the Subculture Movement of Ljubljana in the 1980s (English) 
Marina Gržinić (Wien, AUS / Ljubljana, SVN)  

Panel III: Queering (Post) Punk  
Chaired by Dirk Matejovski (Düsseldorf, GER)

12:00
Queer-Feministischer Punk: Rebellion zwischen Hardcore Punk und Queer Community  [Queer-Feminist Punk: Rebellion between Hardcore Punk and Queer Community] (German) 
Maria Katharina Wiedlack (Wien, AUS)  

12:30
Artikulierte Dinge: Überlegungen verwurzelt im Hardcore [Articulated Things: Reflections Rooted in Hardcore] (German) 
Marion Schulze (Basel, CH)  

13:00
Reset – Restore – Ignore: Erinnerungspraktiken und feministischer /queerer Punk im (post)sozialistischen Europa [Memory Practices and Feminist / Queer Punk in (Post)Socialist Europe] (German) 
Jennifer Ramme (Frankfurt/Oder, GER)   

Student Panel IV: Forward and Rewind: Perspectives on Punk
Chaired by Sarah Rüß (Düsseldorf, GER)

14:45
Afropunk: Schwarze Ästhetik und Punk-Subversion [Black Aesthetics and Punk Subversion] (German) 
Soraya Nsingi (Düsseldorf, GER)  

Poster presentations  Students of the MA program Media Culture Analysis present current research perspectives  

Panel V: “Weiber wie wir” oder: Oral HERstory [Chicks like us or: Oral HERstory] 
Chaired by Elfi Vomberg (Düsseldorf, GER)

Introview 
15:30
Bettina Flörchinger (Düsseldorf, GER), Östro 430, in conversation with Kathrin Dreckmann (Düsseldorf, GER) (virtual) (German) 

Talking HERstory 
15:35
Female Düsseldorf citizens  in conversation with Elfi Vomberg (Düsseldorf, GER) (German)