Lecture Archive - Salzkammergut 2024

Non-binary in Austria

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:00:17 +0000

Changing rooms, pronouns, retirement age: the distinction between men and women is as ubiquitous as it is self-evident. In conversations with non-binary people, Jona Moro explored the fact that the omnipresence of binary gender does not end with the ‘toilet issue’, but is inscribed in the lives and identity of non-binary people: What does it mean to live in a society that negates one’s own (gender) existence? What changes do non-binary people demand from politics and society?

Lecture by Jona Moro, actor, gender researcher, activist, Vienna

Salzkammerqueer

In order to facilitate the exchange of experiences among like-minded people and those looking for support in rural areas, the women’s centres are helping to establish a queer community in the Salzkammergut with this project. The aim is to initially provide a home base and infrastructure for an active community that will exist beyond the duration of the project. The second goal is an experimental short film series and artistic photo positions that communicate queer life in the Salzkammergut via social media.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

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30 years of the Salzkammergut Women’s Forum

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:00:21 +0000

The Salzkammergut Women’s Forum has been a local feminist organisation in the region for 30 years. We want to celebrate and use the anniversary to reflect on feminist lifestyles in the countryside together with companions and colleagues from art, science, counselling and activism.

Programme

10:00 Welcome by board member/chairwoman
10:30 Keynote by Gunilla Plank (murauerInnen)
11:15 Talk: Local makers in search of space, moderated by Lena Schartmüller
12:00 Lunch break
13:00
Session 1 – Event room Frauen*forum Salzkammergut, Soleweg 7/4
Workshop: Woman – do you know YOUR rights? Speakers*: Gertrude Eigelsreiter-Jashari & Gerti Schwinner-Oppikofer
Session 2 – Seminar room Zeitgeschichte Museum, Kirchengasse 5
Workshop: A good life for all? Speaker: Tamara Geyer
Book presentation: Wirbelfeld – Contributions to contemporary art and culture in rural areas Speakers: Magdalena Hubauer & Katharina Spanlang
Session 3 – Seminar room Zeitgeschichte Museum, Kirchengasse 5
Lecture: The Matriarchy, Speaker: Maria Haas
Lecture: Women – Education – Democracy, Speaker: Birge Krondorfer
Lecture: Role models up close – Resistance and forbidden behaviour in the Nazi era, speaker: Brigitte Menne
17:00 Ceremony, Cinema Ebensee, Schulgasse 6
18:30 Dinner – Buffet
19:30 Musical entertainment: Mama Frida
Afterwards: Music & Dance with Caorli

Registration for the conference until 7. October at frauenforum-salzkammergut.at/30-jahre-ffs

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Dialogue: Creative Industries

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:00:22 +0000

Impulse: Eberhard Schrempf (GF Creative Industries Styria)
Dialogue partners: Stephan Skrobar (ski guide & alpine instructor, head of a communications agency, Bad Mitterndorf) & Sophie Rastl (graphic designer, artist, Altaussee)
Moderation: Günther Marchner

Traditionally, work and business in rural regions are clichédly associated with agriculture, crafts and tourism, even though the service sector dominates everywhere. Almost unnoticed, new employment potential and, above all, micro-enterprises in the creative industries are emerging in rural regions: be it in the music industry, in communication and advertising or in the diverse applications of digitalisation. Many of these jobs are no longer confined to urban centres. If the connection to the right networks is right, the village can also become a workplace. For example, when two locals work in the communications industry in Vienna and Bad Mitterndorf at the same time. When new health and exercise programmes grow. When a co-working space revitalises the village centre or when you can work in the advertising and communications industry or software development for companies in metropolitan areas without having to move.
But what is actually meant by “creative industries”? What are its special features? What strategy is the province of Styria pursuing in this regard as a business location? What potential do the creative industries have in rural regions? What potential lies dormant in the Ausseerland-Salzkammergut tourism region?
Eberhard Schrempf, Managing Director of Creative Industries Styria, will provide an insight into the diverse and growing world of the Styrian creative industries and the potential in rural regions. In the subsequent dialogue, Stephan Skrobar, ski guide & alpine instructor, head of a communications agency and co-initiator of the coworking spaces “Das Färberhaus” and “BM4” (Bad Mitterndorf) and Sophie Rastl, musician, graphic designer and visual artist (Altaussee) will share their approaches and experiences with their industry and with self-employment in the region as representatives of this sector.

The “Zukunftsbühne Hinterberg” focuses on “New perspectives for rural regions beyond the mainstream” as the centrepiece of the Capital of Culture activities of the E.I.K.E.-Forum – Woferlstall. It searches for traces of future potential and innovative approaches in the region – with a view to general and European developments.

Details & Registration → eike-forum.at

More about the project East End Salzkammergut at salzkammergut-2024.at

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CircleSalon

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:01:48 +0000

1st part of the evening:

Scarlett de Mehigan (bodyworker/soundhealer) will once again open the evening with a cocoa ceremony.
Judith Raupp (performance artist) will help us to experience our own physical limits in a body-related workshop. The movements of the group will form a performative dance harmony.
Dr. med univ Doreen Jaenich (physician and psychologist) will specifically address the innermost, individual sensitivities as an artist in a guided group constellation. Creative blockages and the flow of inspiration will be explored.

2nd part of the evening:

We will then be invited to the table. Dinner will be served and together, over a glass of wine, we will reflect on the input of the previous evening.

Scarlett Dee has been a spiritual practitioner for over 30 years. Her journey has taken her deep into the practices of yoga, tantra, and breathwork, where she has dedicated herself to guiding others on their paths to self-discovery and empowerment, especially through yoga teacher trainings and retreats. Scarletts true passion lies in helping women connect with their inner strength, build unshakable confidence, and live authentically. She specifically loves holding space for women who want to be badass, fully confident, and unapologetically empowered through the power of their breath.
And that’s exactly what she is going to do for us, opening the nights to get us all on the same level.

Judith Raupp lives and works in Vienna. She is currently studying site-specific art at the Angewandte and works at the interface between sculpture and performance.
In her workshop, she will introduce physical exercises from somatics, yin yoga and theatre work to loosen up the body and move through the space together in a protected setting.

Dr Doreen Jaenichen is a specialist in integrative and general medicine and runs the Mayrlife health spa in Altaussee. For 30 years, she has been working on the interaction of various natural healing methods, spirituality and conventional medicine, effectively supporting healing processes.
Being completely there. How can I live my own expression in times full of expectations from outside and high demands from within? How can I give myself and my creativity space and a voice?
How can I live a healthy relationship with myself and with others?
A short keynote speech at the beginning will open up the space. We will playfully embark on a journey to ourselves, feel where we can discover new sides of ourselves and express them. Relaxed, we will experience and create an evening full of vitality, lightness and joy and also integrate the unloved where it has not yet been allowed to be part of the whole.

CircleSalon

The focus of the women’s circle is on the exchange of experiences among the artists on topics such as the “female working body” and “the task of being a woman”
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

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CircleSalon

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:01:47 +0000

1st part of the evening:

Scarlett de Mahigan (bodyworker/soundhealer) will open the evening with a cacao ceremony.
Annuza Prinz (spiritual teacher and Reiki practitioner) will open the evening’s theme with her talk on “authenticity and power”.
Yatra Mann (musician and performing artist) will use body- and voice-based exercises to help us find our inner authentic voice.

2nd part of the evening:

We will then be invited to dine. Dinner will be served and together, over a glass of wine, we will reflect on the input of the previous evening

Anuza Prinz is a long time yoga practicer and teacher. But she is probably better known for her master in Reike and Karuna Healing. Her work is focused Prana and the Chi FLow. These skill Set Anuza uses as a Life Coach. She will be talking about the Authentic self and how to open this force up. The talk will be held in English and if needed translated live.

Yatra Mann is a singer/songwriter and performance artist. She is studying International Relations. Her heart beats for the “beyond” and the question of how man can be united with man. She is currently focussing on voice training and acting classes in Vienna and Munich.
She will lead a workshop focussing on finding the inner “true” voice of our guests.

CircleSalon

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Academy of Games – Opening

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:00:24 +0000

Keynote

Playing with perceptions
Heiner Goebbels

“His melodic and rhythmic flair form a strong foundation on which emotionality, attitude and humanity are expressed in equal measure. He has constantly challenged the audience’s perception. “*

The work of the internationally renowned and multi-award-winning composer and theatre maker Heiner Goebbels is characterised by his play with perceptions. The artist creates spaces for the imagination with challenging aesthetics that can take the audience’s breath away or be as harsh and gloomy as a landscape with open-cast lignite mining. He finds audiences all over the world who are happy to accept this challenge and who, according to Goebbels himself, should ideally be “curious and very open-minded”. Because they will experience something with all their senses, something unheard of, something new and therefore strange. The artistic border crosser’s search for the unknown and unnoticed is accompanied by social commitment and political awareness.

(*Jury of GEMA’s 12th Music Authors’ Prize, which Heiner Goebbels was awarded in 2021)

Academy of Games

An exploration of the paths between the sciences and the arts.
More about the programme at salzkammergut-2024.at

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The flora of Bad Aussee

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:55 +0000

Gravity and Growth

To what extent is the human being a part of nature and how can we shape a sustainable world? The alpine garden in Bad Aussee is known as an oasis of botanical diversity. In times where knowledge regarding landscape and gardening is becoming increasingly lost, its significance as a place of recreation and mediation must be emphasized. In this project, it serves as a basis and space of yearning for the scientific and artistic examination of biodiversity, ecosystems as well as nature- friendly sustainability strategies and the relationship of human beings to the pre-alpine and alpine landscapes.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

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New European Bauhaus Festival | Side-Event

Andreas Kepplinger — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:01:27 +0000

In particular, this discussion also allows us to sound out the design possibilities that arise when tourism construction and the associated investment potential is understood and pursued as a driver of integrally conceived, sustainable development. More specifically: If it is programmatically and concertedly aligned with what is being formulated today in the light of the Sustainable Development Goals and is already being implemented in many places on a pilot basis in initiatives such as the “New European Bauhaus” and its guiding principles of sustainability, aesthetics and inclusion.

The Salzkammergut is rich in examples of the diversity and the aesthetic as well as socio-cultural significance of tourist building culture – from the “Imperial Bad Ischl”, the summer houses in Ausseerland, the hotels and apartment buildings that have emerged in the course of increasing mass tourism, to the chalet villages that have emerged more recently and are associated with new forms of parahotels.

For “Salzkammergut 2024”, too, the question arises as to what form and “face” sustainable tourism could take in the future and what development would be desirable for all those involved. In this context, the event “Touristic building culture – motor of sustainable development” is intended to examine the role that tourist building culture can play in this development. The leitmotif triad of the New European Bauhaus – sustainability, aesthetics and inclusion – will serve as a framework.

Detailed programme & Registration: initiative-bauhaus.at

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Dialogue of Competences: Intercontinental Radio-Bridges

Andreas Kepplinger — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:43 +0000

You will gain an insight into the projects’ activities. In addition, a Radio-Bridge on the topic of water will be produced and presented for the conference by pupils in Zambia and Pettenbach.

This event is hybrid and can also be attended via zoom. Registration at: office@inforelais.org

With: Sylvia Amann (inforelais), Julian Ehrenreich (Freies Radio B138), Linda Mudimba (Binga School), Claudia Wegener (Radio Transfer – Communities in Dialogue), Henrik Sand Dagfinrud (Bodø 2024), Barbara Eigner and Eva Mair (Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024) and others

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Flax – cultivation and tradition

Andreas Kepplinger — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:01:37 +0000

In this lecture, Christiane Seufferlein, a flax expert with roots in the Salzkammergut, imparts a great deal of knowledge about the cultivation and care of flax. This means that anyone interested can grow flax themselves at home, regardless of whether they have a windowsill, a balcony, a garden or a whole field at their disposal.

Christiane Seufferlein will also provide insights into her research into the history of flax textiles in Austria and internationally. She presents the project “Berta’s Flax”, in which she collects women’s stories from her adopted home of Mühlviertel in this context.

Drawing a Thread

The former weaving and spinning mill Ebensee is the hub of the project, which addresses the history of the working world of women, role attributions, social achievements and controversies.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

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Courtyards, houses, potential

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:01:24 +0000

What opportunities arise from the utilisation, preservation and further development of existing buildings? What visions become reality when we revitalise what is already there? We take a closer look at good examples from all over Austria, consider the perspective of the owners and ask: “What can good planning do?”
Finally, Rurasmus students show what the housing of the future could look like. During an “Auf-Land-Semester” in the Salzkammergut, they have fictitiously brought existing buildings back to life.

Programme

Welcome & introduction
Martin Pelzer, Mayor of Altmünster
Josef Schilcher, Head of Altmünster Building Authority
Anneke Essl, LandLuft
Rebuild, continue to build, utilise
Jürgen Wirnsberger, Hohengasser Wirnsberger Architects
Planned – Inhabited
An interview with Caroline Rodlauer (rosa Architekten) and Doris Gugler (owner of the Aschbach-Markt community centre)
Existing buildings have potential!
Rurasmus flashes “Living of the future – for Salzkammergut 2024” with a short think tank

Moderation: Elisabeth Leitner, LandLuft
Followed by open-air snack & music

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Lehár Festival “The Star Gazer”

Andreas Kepplinger — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:01:33 +0000

It is probably the finest and most enchanting music that Lehár has ever written,” was one critic’s comment on the premiere of the operetta “Der Sterngucker” in 1916.
Nonetheless, the operetta fell into oblivion and can hardly be found on the repertoire today.

In addition to Lehár’s musical genius, the play has a typically cheerful and romantic plot: Four young ladies from high society are looking for happiness in love. However, a reluctantly engaged architect, a jealous brother and an odd astronaut all get involved and turn their endeavours into hilarious chaos…

The Lehár Festival Bad Ischl presents this long-hidden musical treasure in a semi-staged production with a high-calibre cast.

Lehár Festival Bad Ischl www.leharfestival.at

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Clay as a building material of the future

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:01:41 +0000

In Africa, his artistic impulse gained global perspectives. Sculpting with clay grew into the aspiration of building artistic design with earth. The modeling of tiles and stoves turned into sculpting and constructing on a larger scale: the reshaping of the ground into a habitable (spatial) sculpture. From the beginning, he was particularly interested in the rammed earth technique, a process in which the material is not subsequently disguised or embellished.

Simple Smart Buildings

What materials and techniques were used in the past to build resilient houses? Which of these construction methods have proven to be durable, sustainable and beautiful in the long term? An exploration with workshops and lectures as a participatory knowledge transfer.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

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Hallstatt Think Lab 2024

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:01:34 +0000

The findings and impulses from the multi-year process – including the think tank completed in 2022 and the publication presented in 2023 – are incorporated into this format. In dialogue with the region and residents, architecture students from the Housing and Design research area at TU Wien are developing new perspectives and approaches to housing and living issues of the future. Hallstatt railway station as a transit and former vacant site will become a creative laboratory for the think tank.

Opening day

10 – 13.30: Lectures, dialogue & brunch I HTBLA Hallstatt Werkstatt W4, Aufsatzplatz 192, 4830 Hallstatt
14 and 14.30: Boat crossing with large wooden trolley (Mutzen) I limited places
15.00 : Opening exhibition – Hallstatt station

Programme here (pdf, in German)

As part of the multi-part format, young people engage in a dialogue with the region on the housing and living issues of the future and develop new ideas, perspectives and approaches together with the residents.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

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Meditate: Perceiving and letting go

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:01:38 +0000

11 July
Experienced meditator Thierry Borcard will lead a meditation session at 15:30 at the Buddhist Centre pond.

18 July & 25 July
Experienced meditator Erric Solomon will lead a mediation session at 19:00 at the Buddhist Centre pond.

Afterwards you can visit the “Sites of Transformation” and make your own experiences in meditation at the places.

Through the instrument of mindfulness we train our perception to experience spaces and their effects more precisely. The open attitude and inner letting go that is practised in meditation allows us to take a refreshed view of things.

Donation value: 10 euros

Gomde – Sites of Transformation

Architecture students design and realize pavilions in Scharnstein on the grounds of the Center for Buddhist Studies, which invite you to find peace and quiet.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

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Hangover breakfast

Andreas Kepplinger — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:01:00 +0000

from 10:00
The Salzkammergut region – Frühschoppen (morning pint)
Trachtenverein D‘Ischler
→ Parish hall

10:00 – 18:00
Exhibition sudhaus – art with salt and water
→ Altes Sudhaus (Tickets)

10:00 – 18:00
Installation Ballet Mécanique and musik maschine
→ Lehár Theater / Hettegger (extension)

11:00
1st World Salon: “Europe in transition”
Talk with Aleida Assmann (D), Nava Ebrahimi (IRN/D), Fiston Mwanza
Mujila (COD). Keynote speech and moderation by: Herfried Münkler (D
→ Stables of the imperial villa

13:00
Concert-performance “Inner City”
What is the ideal city? In a long musical poem dealing with this question, the trio attempts to describe the city of their dreams or their ideal city. A utopian reflection. With Fiston Mwanza Mujila/text (COD), Patrick Dunst/saxophone (AT) and Christian Pollheimer/drums (AT).
Dramaturgy: Eva-Maria Voigtländer (D)
→ Stables of the imperial villa

14:00
Great Space Walk
Presentation of the audio artwork by Christoph Viscorsum (AT), a multi-day audio and hiking journey from civilisation to the Dead Mountains. A personal experience in five days. From the bathroom via church, mountain pasture and desert (Totes Gebirge) to everyday life. Visitors wander through different spaces. Audio tracks act as waymarks.
With Christoph Viscorsum, Aleida Assmann, Andreas Hagelüken, Christoph Hüthmair, Christian Öhler, Ariadne von Schirach, Elisabeth Schweeger.
Afterwards: Walk along the Bad Ischl parish church section of the trail.
→ Welcome: Stables of the imperial villa (14:00)
→ Listening: Path to the Bad Ischl parish church (14:30)
→ Trinkhalle (15:00)

from 16:00
Tavern Lab Bad Ischl
indulgence lab of the 4 HLa of the Bad Ischl Tourism School and Christoph “Krauli” Held (Siriuskogl)
→ Former railway station restaurant Bad Ischl

18 Uhr
A woman who knows what she wants
Why shouldn’t a woman have an affair”, the Jewish-Austrian composer Oscar Straus has his “Frau, die weiß, was sie will!” sing, thus not only composing a masterpiece that epitomises the operetta style of the Weimar Republic, but also reflects the new image of women at the time – lascivious, fresh and cheeky. A furious guest performance by the Komische Oper Berlin.
operetta by Oscar Straus, directed by Barrie Kosky
→ Congress and Theatre House (online advance booking)

More about the opening → salzkammergut-2024.at/opening

Opening Folder with Programme, Timetable and Map (pdf, 8MB)

Arrival

Leave your car at home! On the main day of the opening weekend, there will therefore be a comprehensive range of special services and more frequent services on the Salzkammergut Railway as well as late services until well after midnight.

→ TIMETABLES, SHUTTLE SERVICE & CAR PARKS

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Lecture: k.u.k. critical and controversial

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:42:55 +0000

k.u.k. critical and controversial

Sometimes the imperial legacy weighs heavily on Bad Ischl, and alternative perspectives are largely ignored – kitsch and clichés dominate, with history being clotted in the shadow of the Habsburg myth. An exhibition in the public space as well as talks and statements by European experts dare to take a differentiated look at the imperial and royal period.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

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Lecture: k.u.k. critical and controversial

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:42:54 +0000

k.u.k. critical and controversial

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Lecture & discussion: k.u.k. critical and controversial

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:42:52 +0000

k.u.k. critical and controversial

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architecture is a tool to improve lives

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:42:51 +0000

As a vision and motivation for her work, she explores architecture as a medium to build cultural and individual trust, support local economies and individual trust, support the local economy, and promote the ecologicalbalance, thus improving people’s lives.
For her, a building possesses sustainable and aesthetic value only when, if its design, structure, technology, and use of materials are in harmony with the location with the site, the user and the socio-cultural context.

Simple Smart Buildings

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Unconvention – COUNTER CULTURE

Andreas Kepplinger — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:42:35 +0000

The “New Right”, which started in France in the 1960s and spread rapidly in the German-speaking countries, sees itself as a countercultural elite to the decadent West and advocates a renewal of Europe in the national-ethnic sense. It seeks a connection and influence in the middle of society and uses social crises to achieve this. It does this with new language and new concepts, as the terms “metapolitics” or “ethnopluralism” of the “Identitarian Movement” show. A musical counterpoint as a follow-up to the dialogue is provided by the gipsy swing jazz of the Quartet Paganin-Soatn.

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Unconvention – BEATS, HIPPIES, ALTERNATIVE, DROPOUTS

Andreas Kepplinger — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:42:35 +0000

About the “Beat” generation and hippie movement of the 1960s and its roots, about the alternative and dropout culture of the 1970s and 1980s, about its effects and consequences – with a literary program (Benaglio).

Musical accompaniment will be provided by Matthias Neitsch, Edi Gugenberger and Arthur with classic protest songs – Selina Fuchs will be exhibiting her paintings and handicrafts.

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Unconvention – GANDHI & CO

Andreas Kepplinger — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:42:35 +0000

The cultural scientist and artist Sandra Chatterjee gives an insight into “The 200-year counterculture of anti-colonial resistance”. Since the beginning of European colonialism, there has also been a history of cultural and political counter-designs for the liberation and renewal of colonized societies. This critique of the “West”, which has developed over centuries, has produced important intellectuals such as Rabindranath Tagore (the first Asian Nobel Prize winner for literature) and Aimé Fernand Césaire, as well as leaders of national liberation movements such as Hồ Chí Minh, Mao Zedong and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. In the lecture, Sandra Chatterjee discusses some examples of different models of anti-colonial resistance.

The Aussee duo Franz Thalhammer & Toni Burger will provide a regional musical counterpoint with “Songs from the Undergrowth”.

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Unconvention – SALZKAMMERGUT UNCONVENTIONAL?

Andreas Kepplinger — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:42:34 +0000

Unconventional. Against the mainstream. Counter-culture. Against those up there? When one thinks of this term in the context of the Salzkammergut, something obvious comes to mind: Independent. Stubborn. Resistant. Whether reality or cliché, somehow the idea of the unconventional and of demarcation against central power (also a legacy of Protestantism?), against appropriation and conformity seems to be associated with this region – even if it is perhaps only half the truth. This concerns the history of the region, especially the history of a regional workers’ culture that came into opposition and resistance to National Socialism. And it concerns the emphasis on what is special and unique about the region – right up to tourism marketing. It concerns youth cultures and cultural initiatives that fought (or fought) for a place for a different, own culture – also against the dominating power of traditionalism and “folk culture ideology”. It concerns resistance against the raging madness of a development of growth and civilisation that has gone off the rails. A resistance that expresses itself in various forms of drop-out and withdrawal: as a flight to the countryside or as a retreat to ideal islands and closed communities. It concerns independent music cultures and literary experiments beyond the mainstream of the music industry, whose protagonists find their own artistic and musical forms of expression – from the underground to folk music. The forms of expression and manifestation of the unconventional to the point of countercultural are endless. They can also be found in this region in particular.

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Unconvention – A Search for Traces

Andreas Kepplinger — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:42:33 +0000

Programme: Artistic projects on the theme
(23 – 26 May 2024, during the day)

Following the quote: “Modern arts [are] often an aesthetic expression of countercultures” (Behrens, 1999), “UnConvention” invites artists to explore the topic of counterculture. The performers and visual artists bring the theme to life in a wide variety of formal languages. The reference to Bad Mitterndorf and the region follows an accompanying guiding question of “UnConvention”: “What does counterculture have to do with our region?”. To this end, the Woferlstall presents the following artists with “UnConvention”: Linda Luv, Jacqueline Korber & Nina Fountedakis, Michael Pöllinger, Judith Raupp, Maria Kanzler & Leah Dorner.

Linda Luv (Frankfurt am Main) presents herself with small performative actions in public space, which will culminate in a lecture performance. She deals with the personal everyday space of the mother/woman as a potential for counter-cultural action. Everyday life is an individual space of experience, a space that is revolutionised by her actions “visible disruptive factors”. In the course of the UnConvention days, we will work on examples of performative tactics to produce (each individual) disturbances and thus queer prevailing cultural practices.
Michael Pöllinger (Bad Mitterndorf) known as Pölliösopoda intervenes in public space with the means of a peculiar and publicly accessible hut erected in the town centre. Based on traditional Tippie-like huts built by travelling shepherds, visitors can attend interactive performances during UnConvention. There will also be a “Live Disembarkation” and an invitation to “Bush Craft” (living in and from the forest).
Judith Raupp (Vienna/Munich) will use the public space, in the Bad Mitterndorf area she will trace her Röttingen roots. (Röttingen is a partner municipality of Bad Mitterndorf). Her strongly localised approach will be made comprehensible in a playful act. The coincidence of the card game is intended to mix counter-cultural fragments of the two partner communities and lead to a new historical narrative, a new memory.
Jacqueline Korber (Atzbach & Bad Mitterndorf) will develop a linguistically performative framework in collaboration with Nina Fountedakis (Austria). The themes of punk, anti-sexism and veganism will be interwoven and embedded by the artists in the thesis of veganism as a counterculture in the present day. Jacqueline Korber will visually underpin the readings with one of her renowned photo series.

Contributors
Project organiser: Association E.I.K.E.-Forum – Woferlstall
Project management Salzkammergut 2024:Lisa Neuhuber / Martina Rothschädl

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