"Blickwechsel", is VIDC's podcast for a another, a new look at the world. With this Podcast we want to bring those voices into the spotlight that we rarely hear in Austria: Activists and scientists from the Global South; people who come from our focus regions, who are directly affected, with whom we collaborate on events or studies. Who have an insight that we don't have, whose views open up new perspectives for us.
Sybille Straubinger, Director of the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation, guides this Podcast. The VIDC is a think tank founded in 1962 by the later Chancellor Bruno Kreisky together with prominent politicians of the so-called Global South. Being in dialogue, always on the basis of equality and respect, and making the voices from the South heard in Austria (and not talking about them), that is the basic premise of our work - and of this Podcast.
Art and culture in times of war and displacement: Sudan’s ongoing political instability has forced millions of people — including countless cultural workers and artists — to flee their homes. At the same time, new artistic networks and forms of solidarity are emerging across borders. Sudanese artists combine political rap with regional sounds to address social change, resistance, and collective memory. Sybille Straubinger speaks with Sudanese artist Hiba Elgizouli, artist in residence at the cultural department of VIDC, about war, displacement, and the power of artistic cooperation.
