Presented alongside tableaux vivants by Vienna-based artists Jakob Lena KneblĪnd Markus Pires Mata. At 19:00, the evening continues at Congress Graz with the OpeningĮxtravaganza, featuring an immersive installation by Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, On the opening day, 19 September at 17:00, the festival kicks off with a speech byĮkaterina Degot at Landhaushof, followed by political oration by artist Zorka Grand Hotel Abyssįeatures artistic contributions by more than forty artists/artist collectives. Some of its elementsĪre installations, others performances, and, still others, discursive events or panelĭiscussions, all specific to the larger parcours in time and space. The various artistic contributions form aīigger, comprehensive narrative which takes the form of an extended overallĮxhibition spread over roughly thirty venues in Graz and Styria. Steirischer herbst ’19 is the second instalment curated by Director and Chief CuratorĮkaterina Degot and her festival team. Where praise of heirloom products might have creepy crypto-nationalist undertones. Gastronomy, wellness, and organic comfort arising in times of heightened inequality, Region of Styria as a culinary and aesthetic pleasure zone, one of many bubbles of Lukács’s image rhymes with the self-presentation of Graz and the surrounding This could not come atĪ more appropriate time, given Austria’s recent political woes.
Of departure for a meditation on hedonism in troubled times. The festival takes the combination of holiday pleasure and political crisis as a point The title of the core programm Grand Hotel Abyss is a striking metaphor usedīy philosopher Georg Lukács in the 1930s to describe the European intellectual andĬultural scene in the face of approaching fascism. On 19 September, steirischer herbst ’19 opens its doors to the public in Graz and
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