This year’s FACING TIME line-up at the VIENNA ART WEEK is about time. Inspiring international guests from the worlds of art, business, and science will illuminate the topic from different perspectives. This will be followed by a high-caliber panel discussion on “20 editions of VIENNA ART WEEK, 20 years of Vienna as a city of art,” which will conclude with a short presentation of the anniversary publication and an aperitif.

16:45-17:15 “A HISTORY OF POSSIBLE FUTURES: WHAT HISTORY TELLS US ABOUT OUR AGE OF DISCORD” Social and political turmoil in the United States and Western Europe has increased over the past decade. In his research, which combines the analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science, Peter Turchin has identified the deep structural forces that undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. Here he looks beneath the surface of day-to-day political strife and social unrest, focusing on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “age of discord”.

Background reading: Turchin, Peter. 2023: End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration (Penguin Random House, New York and London).

more information here: Line-up 2024: „A History of Possible Futures: What History tells us about our Age of Discord” – Impulsvortrag von Peter Turchin (Sozialwissenschaftler & Autor) | Vienna Art Week 2024 | Vienna Art Week 2024