++++ Hedwig Saxenhuber is a freelance curator and co-editor of springerin, a journal for contemporary art and lives in Vienna. From 1992 to 96 she was a curator at Kunstverein Munich. Numerous publications including 'Yvonne Rainer', 'Oh boy, it's a girl' 'Trinh T. Minh-ha', 'Louise Lawler'. Most recent exhibitions: 'Translocation (new) media/arts', Generali Foundation, 'Erlauf recollects...', a project in public space, 'you are the world', Künstlerhaus/Vienna Festival.

++++ WHO’S AFRAID OF THE ‘BOGEY MAN’? / How wide open are the spaces of art for political counter-strategies? Do artists have a potential to draw attention in an emancipatory way to present problems of migration, globalization, poverty and Disneyization? How have the working conditions and artists' concept of the art work changed through the impact of these problems? Is the attention being paid to geographical zones other than the hegemonic ones only a short flash, or have the set of senses for a changed geography developed in the meantime through networking and intermeshing institutional relations? Is it not sexy and is it almost like an anal fixation to analyze social relations of power? To what extent do artists cut off their room for free movement when they react to social deficiencies and when that is even expected of them? Using examples from aesthetic and curatorial practice, the productive contradictions and ambivalences of such questions are to be discussed.