Symposium Archive - Salzkammergut 2024

The Future of Ceramics

Andreas Kepplinger — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:02:17 +0000

Under the title “Ceramics between time and space”, Gmunden aims to continue to live up to its already established reputation as a city of ceramics on a contemporary level. Here, projects between art and craft, theory and practice, inspiration and innovation come together. The result is a sustainable Austrian competence center for ceramics that creates international relevance – from the Salzkammergut!
With its wide range of offerings, Gmunden will become a center for established and future ceramics experts as well as for ceramics enthusiasts and viewers from Austria and abroad. All of the planned initiatives are about awakening the interests of and involving the residents of the Salzkammergut as well as artists and guests from all over the world. A committed public commitment to the focus on ceramics in a historical and contemporary context.

Speculative tradition

Ceramic objects are particularly suitable for preserving a cultural heritage. This has to do with the fact that ceramic objects have surrounded us every day for thousands of years. Our cultures, our heritages and our histories are therefor continuously inscribed in them through use. Due to its material properties and its durability, fragmented objects being excavated and exhumed after thousands of years in the earth share these histories with us today. In addition there is a rich in heritage of ceramic techniques which still is alive.

Many artists working with ceramic materials relate their work to this tradition not in order to keep tradition alive but to correlate it with the world of today. In this sense the reference to ceramic tradition is not only an opportunity to dissect and analyse our pasts furthermore it raises questions about the contemporary world. The interest or appreciation shown for ceramics these days will also bring up the question to what extents ceramics have the potential to speculate about possible futures in our relation to these materials with all their historic qualities.

Progamme

10:00 Greetings by Mayor Stefan Krapf and Head of Cultural Affairs Dr Andreas Hecht
10:30 Introduction Day #1 by Dr. Rainald Franz, Curator and ceramics specialist
11:00 Giles Round
12:00 Liz Craft
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Matthew Lutz Kinoy
15:00 Thu-Van Tran
16:00 Future perspectives by Genoveva Rückert & Veronika Schreck (OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH)
16:30 Panel discussion led by Dr. Rainald Franz, Curator and ceramics specialist

Revolutionary Tradition (Radical openness)

Artists can approach and work with the medium of clay from a wide variety of attitudes. For some, it is a material who’s specialist, more technical approach is the key to its artistic outcome. For others, the ceramic material is a conceptual world of its own, in which it represents its own value to discover new things again and again. But there are also artist using the qualities of the ceramic materials in their work without even touching clay. Instead these artists cooperate with specialised companies which produce their work.

A crucial point to look at will be the use of modern, and specially digital techniques. Clay has been regarded as a counterweight to increasing digitisation because touching clay connects us to the surrounding material world in a way nearly no other material can. So the current popularity of clay is a result of the lack of experience of materiality. On the other side there is an increasing number of artists researching and sharing on new techniques which can create a competence and sensibility of medium which can bolster and support these artistic positions.

Since there are no right or wrong ways to approach the material of clay here, nor one specific way of working with it, the aim of the second day will be to show a range of cultural attitudes, positions, and artistic practices which push clay to new limits, exploring new approaches to working with the material.

Programm

10:00 Introduction Day #2 by Ranti Tjan, Curator and ceramics specialist
11:00 Lindsey Mendick
12:00 Jennifer Teets
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Mire Lee
15:00 Isabelle Andriessen
16:00 Panel discussion led by Ranti Tjan, Curator and ceramics specialist

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Wool Symposium

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:02:45 +0000

Programme

26/6 10-16 Open felting workshop
26/6 17-21 Carding and combing evening
27/6 14-20 Yarn workshop
28/6 14-20 Conference and wool market

Sheep’s wool is currently only a sustainable by-product of agriculture in many parts of Europe. The processing of wool has a long tradition in the Salzkammergut, but this has become less important in recent decades. Recently, sheep’s wool has been increasingly discussed again in international expert circles as a sustainable textile raw material. The Wool Symposium is dedicated to this trend and its potential significance for the region.

The symposium is an event dedicated to the artistic and artisanal exploration of wool from sheep from the region. It combines tradition, craftsmanship and creative experimentation and offers a platform for networking to bring together experts, craftspeople, farmers, entrepreneurs and wool enthusiasts.

With

Constanze Kroeg and Petra Riedl-Mandak (felting)
Sandra Grünberger and Martina Riedlmayer (spinning)
Katrin Sonnemann (wool processing)
Markus Kücher (sheep shearing)

Pulling 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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Forest culture conference

Andreas Kepplinger — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:43 +0000

Traunkirchen is located in the centre of the European Capital of Culture region between Bad Ischl and Gmunden. FAST Traunkirchen and the FoKuS association want to use this – probably unique – opportunity to familiarise a national and international audience with the forest culture themes that are firmly anchored in the region. The unique cultural and touristic features of the Traunsee region are to be made visible and the regional population made aware of them.

Evening programme Friday

“siniwellen and schoatnpecken”
Bodo Hell, Peter Gruber, Toni Burger
Literary and musical stories about wood production and wood processing on farms and alpine pastures, in rural workshops and in our mountain forests
7:30 pm, Friday, 26 April 2024 in the monastery hall of Traunkirchen Monastery
Buffet with regional delicacies from 18:00
Box office 35€

About the conference venue

The first day of the event will take place at the WALDCAMPUS Austria in Traunkirchen. The forest campus is the largest and most modern forest competence centre in Europe and therefore the ideal venue for a forest culture topic. On the second day, four different forest culture excursions will be offered in the region.

Detailed programme at fasttraunkirchen.at and forst-und-kultur.at/kulturschaetze-salzkammergutwaelder

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Symposium Hallstattkultur

Andreas Kepplinger — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 00:01:01 +0000

The findings and progress made from the first finds to the present day are of fundamental importance for our understanding of early European history. It is therefore essential to bring these findings together in order to reflect on both the historical and current significance of the Hallstatt culture and also to discuss what can be expected for the future of this research.

Furthermore, there is considerable potential in the interaction between scientists, the local population and tourists. Such a symposium can build a bridge that makes scientific research more accessible and enables citizens to develop a deeper understanding and stronger connection to their regional history and identity. It is not only an opportunity to deepen knowledge about Hallstatt culture, but also to discuss its role and importance in our society today and for the future.

www.ooekultur.at/event-detail/symposium-hallstatt-kultur

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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 – 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 – 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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1. Salon: In the Artist’s Eye

Andreas Kepplinger — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:42:02 +0000

In cooperation with the Klimt Foundation's "Second International Gustav Klimt Symposium", the latest findings from Klimt research will be presented, including a focus on the women portrayed by Gustav Klimt mentioned above. In addition to on-site participation, the lectures can also be streamed live.

A dance performance will take place on the evening of 23 March, which will also be the vernissage of an exhibition of valuable original artworks. Grete Wiesenthal's special Viennese dance style, which caused a furore in the young independent scene before the First World War, is the patron of the piece "Glückselig. Was yesterday, wasn't it? An appropriation". The artistic director Andrea Amort and Katharina Senk are now presenting a format that oscillates between conversation and dance, adapted to the intimate ambience of Villa Toscana in Gmunden, from the programme that was originally performed by four female choreographers at Vienna's Theater brut in 2023.
Programme 23.3.2024
09:00 - 18:00 2nd Gustav Klimt - Symposium of the Klimt Foundation
(https://www.klimt-research.com/de/

18:30 Vernissage: Reception in the atrium

19:00 Opening of the exhibition

Stefan Kutzenberger (Curator)
Elisabeth Schweeger (Artistic Director of the European Capital of Culture 2024)
Stefan Krapf (Mayor of Gmunden)
Patricia Spiegelfeld (Curator)

19:30 Performance (salon@villa-toscana.at):
In the dance footsteps of Grete Wiesenthal (Vienna 1885 - Vienna 1970)

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Open Water Dialogues

Andreas Kepplinger — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:41:26 +0000

Friday, 22 March 2024, 5 – 10 pm (PKS-Villa, Bad Ischl-Engleithen)

Get together, keynote speeches by Helga Kromp-Kolb (DE) and Li An Phoa (EN)
Performative contributions: Edgar Unterkirchner (sax), Paloma Obispo and Christa Haager (performance)
Presentation of the experts and artists from Open Water Dialogues (DE/EN)
Installations: water cosmos (Markus Jeschaunig), Fahnenmeer (Artists for Future)
Flying buffet – wine tasting: Söll Winery Gentle Viticulture

Saturday, 23 March 2024, 9 am – 6 pm (Trinkhalle Bad Ischl)

8:30 – Admission
9:15 – Welcome
9:30 – Keynote speeches by Thomas Brudermann, Elisabeth Spitzer, Reinhard Steurer (DE), Rose Kobusinge (EN)
11:00 – WaterDates (4 x 20 min) with Peer Bach, Thomas Brudermann, Elmar C. Fuchs, Markus Jeschaunig, Roman Klymenko (EN), Rose Kobusinge (EN), Helga Kromp-Kolb, Maria Holter, Agnes Peschta, Li An Phoa (EN), Hansjörg Schenner, Jörg Schauberger, Johannes Siegmund, Christine Sindelar, Hannes Söll, Elisabeth Spitzer, Reinhard Steurer, Josef Wanzenböck, Janina Zeleny.
Artistic intervention: “Cut around the World” with Carmen Subota
13:00 – Lunch break
14:00 – ClimateWalk with Artists for Future & Fahnenmeer & drum group Vento Sul
14:45 – Impulse lecture Applied Water Physics or The Mysterious Secrets of Water by Elmar C. Fuchs
14:45 – 16:45 – Workshop I (for young people aged 11 to 15): Water Worlds with Christian Humer from Südwind Upper Austria (open workshop, registration required)
15:15 – 16:45 – Workshop II: Building with the River with Franz Fitzke and Klaus Rauber (DE/EN)
15:15 – 16:45 – Workshop III: Transformative Communities, Reflecting Environmental Privilege and Strengthening Social Action with Natalia Hecht (registration required)
15:30 – 16:15 – Guided tour of the Sudhaus exhibition kunst mit salz und wasser (art with salt and water) with curator Gottfried Hattinger (DE/EN)
17:00 – 18:00 – Panel discussion (DE/EN)

Sunday, 24 March 2024, 9 am – 4 pm (meeting point in the morning: Trinkhalle Bad Ischl, in the afternoon: PKS-Villa Bad Ischl-Engleithen)

8:30 – Admission
9:00 – Everything in Flux/in the River? Lecture by Christine Sindelar (Head of Water Laboratory BOKU Vienna), River Research (DE)
9:30 – RiverWalk with Li An Phoa on the banks of the River Traun (registration required) (EN/DE)
Alternative: guided City tour Bad Ischl (registration required) (EN/DE)
11:00 – Renata Schmidtkunz (ORF, Radio Ö1 recording): In conversation … with Lucía Muriel on the “decolonial perspective of climate movements and questions of social justice”
13:00 – Picnic for Future (PKS-Villa, Bad Ischl-Engleithen)
Encounter with Water – A Water Drinking Ritual by Regina Hügli & Natalia Hecht
Film premiere: “Schaubergers’ Legacy” by Franz Fitzke (DE)
Installations and guided tour of the Schauberger water research showrooms (DE/EN)

Further information

Limited number of participants, registration required (Salzkammergut Ticketing)
Ticket prices freely selectable (“Pay as you wish”), young people up to 26 years free of charge
Most of the lectures and WaterDates will be in German (DE), some in English (EN).
subject to change
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

PKS-Villa: www.pks.or.at
Contact the organising project partner: office@schauberger-natur-technik.at
Phone: 0664 46 28 134

Contributors

Jörg and Ingrid Schauberger (project management and organisers)
Fariba Mosleh (curatorial project management)

Carmen Subota, Edgar Unterkirchner, Elisabeth Spitzer, Elmar C. Fuchs, Franz Fitzke, Helga Kromp-Kolb, Johannes Siegmund, Maria Christine Holter, Markus Jeschaunig, Paloma Obispo, Peter Bachler (aka Peer Bach), Reinhard Steurer, Rose Kobusinge, Stella Bach, Thomas Brudermann, Christine Sindelar, Hannes Söll, Janina Zeleny, Klaus Rauber, Li An Phoa, Lucía Muriel, Natalia Hecht, Regina Hügli, Renata Schmidtkunz, Christian Humer, Hansjörg Schenner, Josef Wanzenböck, Roman Klymenko, Vento Sul, Agnes Peschta, Teresa Wirth (invited Experts from science, art & practice)

Christina Jaritsch (Head of Programme Climate Change, Gender Diversity)

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Smallholder paths

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:41:18 +0000

The world is changing – and so are smallholder farming methods. We are currently experiencing many social, ecological and cultural changes, and many social issues are open and controversial in view of the current crises. At the same time, it is becoming increasingly clear how important diverse, small-scale and sustainable agriculture is for us all. At this conference, the approaches, potentials and challenges of smallholder agriculture will be visualised and discussed.

What is the significance of smallholder agriculture today and in the future? What makes the farming world diverse, liveable and desirable? What are the problems and potentials? What is needed to improve the situation of small farmers?

This conference offers a platform for farmers, committed citizens, cultural workers and food artisans to engage in a comprehensive dialogue on agriculture, food and the environment and to develop concrete measures to improve the situation of small farmers.

Programme:

Impulse lectures by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, and Morgan Ody
Market of initiatives with food coops, Perspektive Landwirtschaft, Solawi, and much more.
Book presentation and exhibition: “Farming for Future: Living and working in small-scale agriculture”
Farmers’ Cabinet “Die Miststücke”
Workshops:

Diverse and small-scale farming landscapes: Labour, animal husbandry and nature conservation
Farmers’ protests and smallholders* in the 21st century (EN/DE)
Smallholder & feminist – Together towards a fairer future
Who owns the forest and pasture? About communal alpine pastures and reforestation rights
Living alpine pasture farming

→ Programme and schedule in detail

Microfarmers Conference

The community events at seven farms and the conference form the framework for talking about the diversity in farming culture and agriculture.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

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Symposium “The revenge of the panel painting”

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:40:56 +0000

The Sammlung Zeichnung – Galerie Tanglberg im Schloss Hochhaus is organizing a discursive discussion format in an open atmosphere that aims to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas about visual art. In the symposium on “The revenge of the panel painting. Statements and Discourse on Contemporary Visual Art” focuses on aspects such as collecting and showing visual art in the field of tension between private and public presentation and reception as well as art in the context of enjoyment. The event is intended to be accessible to a broad public from the fields of art, science and business.
Following the exhibition viewings, art will be discussed over dinner in the restaurant.

Participants:

Wolfgang Kos, radio journalist, author, historian, director of the Wien Museum 2003-2015
Natalie Lettner, art and cultural historian, author, director.
Nina Schedlmayr, cultural journalist, curator, editor-in-chief of the magazine morgen.
Eva Schlegel, internationally successful Austrian visual artist
Thomas Zaunschirm, art historian, author, professor emeritus of art history
Elisabeth Schweeger, artistic director of the Capital of Culture Bad Ischl 2024
On Sunday: Peter Kogler, internationally successful Austrian artist
Moderation: Rainer Rosenberg, radio journalist, author, university lecturer

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interventa Hallstatt 2024

siwa_bdietrichsteiner — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:40:39 +0000

The symposium “interventa Hallstatt 2024” is dedicated to “rural building culture between tradition and innovation”. Baukultur understands the regional space as the sum of its landscapes, architecture and everyday structures. The experts invited to “interventa Hallstatt 2024” are regional and international protagonists of building culture, both avant-garde and traditional. They are practitioners and theorists from the fields of architecture, science, visual and performing arts and cuisine. Together, they analyse and explore analogies, differences, connections and interfaces between future-oriented building culture and applied practice using classic and unconventional formats.

Detailed programme

Thursday (Free admission)
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Visitor information, directions, etc → interventa.at

More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

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European miners’ and smelters’ day

Andreas Kepplinger — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:39:59 +0000

The Salzkammergut region and its miners: this is a connection that has existed from time immemorial and, with the term “Hallstatt period”, marks an entire era. This tradition will be preserved and celebrated with the European Miner & Alpine Shelter Day in Bad Ischl. 2,000 to 3,000 participants from all over Europe are expected: miner’s associations, especially from the mining regions in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and France will be there and celebrate together. A diverse schedule of ancillary programming and a parade by the mining associations on Sunday through Bad Ischl provide an invitation to join the celebrations.

More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

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