1974
Joannis Avramidis, Plastik und Grafik, trigon solo exhibition view, Künstlerhaus Graz, 1974, photo: steirischer herbst archive / Philipp; © Atelier Avramidis / Julia Avramidis
Dennis Oppenheim, Narrow Mind (1974), fireworks, metal, wood, dimensions variable, at Kunst als Lebensritual—Video/Life/Dokumentation, poolerie, Graz, 1974, photo: steirischer herbst archive / Philipp
Chris Burden at Kunst als Lebensritual—Video/Life/Dokumentation, poolerie, Graz, 1974, photo: steirischer herbst archive / Philipp; © Bildrecht, Wien 2021
Peter Handke, Die Unvernünftigen sterben aus (1973), mit Franz Morak, Schauspielhaus Graz, 1974, Foto: Archiv steirischer herbst / Philipp
Ingeborg Strobl, Anti-Design, Ausstellungsansicht, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 1974, Foto: Archiv steirischer herbst / Philipp; © Bildrecht, Wien 2021
steirischer herbst ’74
Director
Program Directorate
Festival dates
5.–24.10.1974
The artists’ group pool, which included Horst Gerhard Haberl, Karl Neubacher, and Richard Kriesche, were seeking increased contact to politics and business, and so established the performance and exhibition space known as poolerie in a vaulted cellar in the historical center of Graz in 1974. The exhibition Kunst als Lebensritual (Art as a Life Ritual), which Haberl curated, took place at poolerie that same year in conjunction with steirischer herbst. Following Körpersprache—Bodylanguage (1973), the exhibition examined the use of the body, even as far as the total merging of art and life, based on artists such as Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Chris Burden, Takahiko Iimura, Shigeko Kubota, Les Levine, Karl Neubacher, Dennis Oppenheim, Friederike Pezold, and Hannah Wilke. The pool group also organized an event on the related topics of the penal system and steirischer herbst as well as models for socializing prisoners, leading to the attempt to draft posters for steirischer herbst ’74 in cooperation with ten inmates of the Karlau male penitentiary in Graz.
musikprotokoll increasingly expanded its didactic aspirations beyond the borders of Europe, for instance, with a concert evening of Neue Musik from Brazil. Zygmunt Krauze invited visitors to a Fête galante et pastorale composed specifically for the Baroque architecture of Schloss Eggenberg, in which thirteen recording media filled thirteen spaces with sound via twenty-six loudspeakers. In 1974, free jazz concerts were also added to musikprotokoll for the first time. The theater program was flanked by the Austrian premiere of Peter Handke’s Die Unvernünftigen sterben aus (They Are Dying Out), as a guest performance by the Junge Burg theater company from Vienna, and Benjamin Britten’s opera adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice.
Program
visual arts
theatre opera
symposion
literature symposion
television
15. Styrian academy
7. Styrian national exhibition
3. international jazz days
3. Internationale Grazer Jazztage Konzert 25.10.1974
3. Internationale Grazer Jazztage Konzert 26.10.1974, 27.10.1974
Festival opening
5.10., 11:00
Schauspielhaus
Opening by president Rudolf Kirchschläger
5.10., 11:45
Künstlerhaus
trigon solo exhibition 5 - Opening Joannis Avramidis Plastik und Grafik (Sculptures and Graphic Art)
5.10., 16:00
Neue Galerie
Opening Architect Ferdinand Schuster 1920-1972
Venues
Blauer Salon, Graz
Congress Graz / Stefaniensaal, Graz
Festsaal der Arbeiterkammer, Deutschlandsberg
Festsaal der Pädagogischen Akademie Graz-Eggenberg, Graz
Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Franziskanerkirche, Graz
Ganggalerie im Rathaus, Graz
Grazer Messe, Halle 1, Graz
Haus der Jugend, Graz
Joanneum Ecksaal, Graz
Kammermusiksaal (Grazer Kongress), Graz
Kongresshalle, Graz
Kulturhaus Graz, Graz
Künstlerhaus, Graz
Neue Galerie Graz, Graz
Oper Graz, Graz
Palais Attems, Graz
Palais Saurau, Graz
Poolerie, Graz
Schauspielhaus Graz, Graz
Schloss Eggenberg, Graz
Publications
Program booklet of steirischer herbst 1974: steirischer herbst executive secretary's office, steirischer herbst ’74 (Graz: steirischer herbst executive secretary's office, 1974)
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Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Werke der IX. internationalen Malerwochen in der Steiermark (Graz: 1974)
Retrospective
Retrospective