2005
She She Pop, Lagerfeuer (2005), performance, at Bodies—Cities—Subjects, Dom im Berg, Graz, 2005, photo: Kathrin Ribbe
GU—Graz Umgebung: Produktion einer „rurbanen“ Landschaft, project view, Shoppingcity Seiersberg, Graz, 2005, photo: arquitectos; courtesy of arquitectos
Peter Ablinger, Opera/Werke (2000–05), opera, act 7: Das Publikum, directed by Edgar Honetschläger, with Yukika Kudo, Helmut List Halle, Graz, 2005, photo: Lukas Beck
Theater im Bahnhof, Nicht einmal Hundescheiße (2005), performance, City Tower and Sorger-Park, Graz, 2005, photo: Elvira Klamminger / Jakse
Peter Ablinger, Opera/Werke (2000–05), opera, act 4: Die Handlung, Oper Graz, 2005, photo: Peter Manninger
steirischer herbst ’05
polis on display
Director
Peter Oswald
Festival dates
29.9.–30.10.2005
Curatorial team
Assistant to Director, literature: Sabine Achleitner
Chief Dramaturge: Wolfgang Hofer
“It is about the persistent attempt to critically conceive aesthetic and political aspects together. For steirischer herbst 2005, this implies, among other things, exploring radical urban transformation processes with all their overall political consequences that have impacted on the city since the 1980s. With the intensified instruments of aesthetic stocktaking, artistic reflection and artistic intervention. Among other things with regard to the idea of Graz as cultural capital of Europe 2003 guiding concrete continuity, steirischer hebst 2005 focuses particularly on the transformation of the European city. Due to the pressure of globalization, the location terror of a raging economy, many traditional laws of our social order have long been invalidated. Along with a world of politics that has become totally unhinged from established rules and that has delegated key issues and tasks to other political, economic authorities.
The aim is to radically reconsider all these fundamentally changed—and still changing—constellations in all trends. The focus is on comprehensive virtualization, the extreme acceleration of changes in conditions of space and time. Combined with the fragmentation and splitting of experience as a result of the total mediatisation of communication.”
—Peter Oswald (original booklet translation)
The final edition of steirischer herbst under the artistic direction of Peter Oswald was presented with the title polis on display and was dedicated to cities as economic, political, cultural, and social “nodes of the current world order.” Oswald wrote in the foreword to the program booklet, “It is about a sustained attempt to think about aesthetic and political matters together from the perspective of the city. For steirischer herbst 2005, this means, among other things, examining the radical urban processes of transformation that cities have undergone since the 1980s, including their overall political consequences.”
The performance series Bodies—Cities—Subjects, curated by Gabriele Klein, reacted to the making of the “theatricality of the postindustrial city” into an event and allowed the “boundaries between public and theatrical space, artists and non-artists, protagonists and observers” to become permeable over two weeks at various locations in Graz (program booklet). Peter Ablinger transformed Graz into a city of opera in seven acts, titled Opera/Werke (Opera/Works), held at the ESC im labor, the Helmut List Halle, the Opernhaus, and other locations, while the Theater im Bahnhof presented Nicht einmal Hundescheiße—Eine minimalistische Bürgerchoreographie (Not Even Dog Shit—A Minimalistic Choreography for Citizens), “a performance in public space in which the audience has to conceal itself in order to be present” (program booklet).
The Kunsthaus Graz presented M Stadt—Europäische Stadtlandschaften (M City—European Cityscapes; with Maurizio Cattelan, Dan Graham, Deborah Ligorio, and Marjetica Potrč, and others), Ilya and Emilia Kabakov presented Unrealized Projects—Utopische Architekturen at the Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, and BLANK—Urbane Zwischenräume (Blank—Urban Interstices) was shown at the Kunstverein Medienturm. musikprotokoll presented “how a younger generation of Austrian composers in particular found a connection to the international avant-garde with a brilliant phalanx of premieres” (program booklet). The satellite locations of steirischer herbst outside of Graz (Kulm, Pavelhaus, Mureck, Mürzzuschlag, Bruck an der Mur) focused on projects in the thematic areas of urbanism and architecture, some of them included for the last time as series in the festival.
Program
Scenic Art
Visual Art
Vor dem Anbruch der Stadt - oder Wie die warmen Semmeln
watch your steps: EINE TranslationsSKULPTUR
Architecture
Film
Literature
Music
Revue instrumentale et électronique
Verlorene Zeit, wiedergefundene Zeit
stop and go and black and white (and sometimes blue)
Reperta für drei Stimmen und Orchester
Orchestermusik aus “Hin zur Flamme”
gesualdo transcription III - o vos omnes
Con Sordino für zwei Violinen, Viola und Violoncello
Styria
Festival opening
29.9., 19:30
Helmut List Halle
Opening with Kathrin Röggla (Opening Speech)
Music: Ernesto Molinari, Messin’around
Exhibition Opening: Irene Dapunt Lost in the funhouse
Venues
Atelier Expositur
Basilika Seckau
Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz
Dom im Berg
ESC im LABOR
Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino
GRAZ KUNST
Galerie & Edition Artelier
Galerie Bleich-Rossi
Galerie CC
Galerie Centrum
Galerie Kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag
Galerie Lendl
Galerie Malwerkstatt Graz
Galerie Schafschetzy
Grazer Kunstverein
Grazer Stadtgebiet
Helmut-List-Halle
Jakoministraße 9, Grazer Stadtgebiet
Kastner & Öhler
Kristallwerk
Kulturstock 3, Pischelsdorf
Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten
Kunsthaus Graz
Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag
Kunstmagazin Hell
Kunstverein Medienturm
Künstlerhaus, Neue Galerie Graz
Literaturhaus Graz
Mausoleum
Medienkunstlabor
Minoriten-Galerien im Priesterseminar
Neue Galerie Graz
Neue Galerie/Studio Graz
Oper Graz
Palais Meran
Palais Thienfeld
Pavelhaus / Pavlova hisa
Saal Steiermark (Grazer Congress)
Scher-Halle der Böhler Bleche GmbH
Shoppingcity Seiersberg
Sorger-Park, Citytower
Stadtmuseum Mureck
Technische Universität
Werkstadt Graz
Workshop Graz
stadtmuseumgraz
tazl. klassische moderne & aktuelle kunst
Publications
Program booklet of steirischer herbst 2005: steirischer herbst Veranstaltungs GmbH, steirisc[:her:]bst (Graz: 2005)
→ Available here
steirischer herbst, Im spiegel. das herbstbuch der bilder 2000 bis 2005 (Graz: Leykam Buchverlag, 2005)
→ Available here
Thomas Kussin, Andreas R. Peternell, Annette Sonnewend, Brüllen (Vienna: Sonderzahl, 2005)
→ Available here
Retrospective
Retrospective