Independent spaces operate not from a position of external j udgment\, but from within a state of simultaneous empowerment and disempow erment—knowing the problems of precarity\, instrumentalization\, and sel f-exploitation while continuing to work anyway. Drawing on Irit Rogoff's d istinction between critique and criticality\, this discu ssion proposes that independent spaces embrace spontaneity and unpredictab ility not merely as necessity but as methodology\, refusing conventional m etrics and measurement systems. The question is not how to achieve stabili ty\, but how to inhabit precarious conditions differently and produce know ledge from within them.
Panelists:
Natalija Paunić (Autokomanda
\, Belgrade)
Attilia Fattori Franchini &\; Christina Linher (Kunstve
rein Gartenhaus\, Vienna)
Gina Merz (Kunstverein Kevin\, Vienna)