Feminist/Utopian/Queer/Futures

“… the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion”, writes Donna Haraway in her 1985 essay Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s. With this, she shouts to the world that science fiction is not just a genre, but a medium that commemorates the past, reflects the present, and helps shape the future. That’s exactly how we need to grab hold of it. That’s exactly how the new exhibition Science Fiction(s): If There Were a Tomorrow at Weltmuseum Wien understands itself.

In this special tour we will venture a queer feminist reading of the exhibition and talk about queer science fiction, which, following the tradition of feminist science fiction, holds a potential of the future that needs to be explored.

Duration: 60 min.
Participation: € 6 (valid museum ticket required)
Tickets available online or at the ticket office
Meeting Point: Hall of Columns