2010
feld72, Festivalzentrum im Stadtpark (2010), Festival Center of steirischer herbst ’10, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, 2010, photo: Hertha Hurnaus
Marino Formenti, Nowhere (2010), concert/performance with compositions by Erik Satie, Klaus Lang, and Morton Feldman, at musikprotokoll, Stadtmuseum Graz, 2010, photo: Wolfgang Silveri
Lone Twin, Beastie, performance, Schloßberg, Graz, 2010, photo: Wolfgang Silveri
Gisèle Vienne, This is how you will disappear (2010), play, MUMUTH, Graz, 2010, photo: Wolfgang Silveri
Kader Attia, The Myth of Order (2010), video still, at Utopie und Monument II, courtesy of Kader Attia; © Bildrecht, Wien 2021
steirischer herbst ’10
Masters, Tricksters, Bricoleurs—Virtuosity as a Strategy for Art and Survival
Director
Veronica Kaup-Hasler
Festival dates
24.9.–17.10.2010
Curatorial team
Chief Dramaturge & Curator: Florian Malzacher
Dramaturge: Kira Kirsch
Curator Visual Arts: Reinhard Braun
Artistic Assistant: Gerda Strobl
Advisory Board: Hannah Hurtzig, Frie Leysen, Berno Odo Polzer, Sergej Goran Pristaš, Georg Schöllhammer, Gesa Ziemer
“This year’s steirischer herbst theme plays with all of these aspects of virtuosity, although not all of the artistic works need make direct, obvious reference to them. It is the general frame within which the numerous exhibitions, performances and theory events place their own emphasis and thus complement each other—sometimes intentionally, sometimes surprisingly.”
—Veronica Kaup-Hasler (original booklet translation)
Under the leitmotif Virtuosity, steirischer herbst ’10 examined the spectrum of interpretations ranging from the mastery of an instrument, which has fallen into discredit in the modern period, and the virtuosity of tricksters and pickpockets to Paolo Virno’s reinterpretation of the notion as a necessity and normality when uniting work, private life, and social aspects.
This year the nomadic festival center returned to the Forum Stadtpark (designed by the young Austrian architecture team feld72), where a Casino of Tricks was set up over eight days, along with the film and sound archive Flight Case Archive by Hannah Hurtzig / Mobile Akademie and the two-day Conference on Virtuosity as a Strategy for Art and Survival(curated by Florian Malzacher and Sibylle Peters), with a closing lecture by Friedrich Kittler.
The more conventional meaning of virtuosity was reflected in the choreographies This Is How You Will Disappear by Gisèle Vienne and I Don’t Believe in Outer Space by William Forsythe as well as in the marathon performance by the pianist Marino Formenti and music by the Arditti Quartet and the Klangforum Wien as part of musikprotokoll.
In addition to solo exhibitions by Franz West at the Kunsthaus and Matts Leiderstam at the Grazer Kunstverein, the second part of Utopie und Monument (Utopia and Monument), Über die Virtuosität des Öffentlichen (On Virtuosity and the Public Sphere), examined the potential of public space as a “space of appearance” (Hannah Arendt), with commissioned works by artists including Kader Attia, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, John Knight, and the Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik.
Program
Opening
Festival centre
One Night Stands Konzert 1.10.2010
One Night Stands Konzert 8.10.2010
One Night Stands Konzert 15.10.2010
Saturday Night Live Konzert 25.9.2010
Saturday Night Live Konzert 2.10.2010
Saturday Night Live Konzert 9.10.2010
Theatre / Performance / Dance
This is how you will disappear
I don't believe in outer space
Not every object used to nail is a hammer
Tod eines Bankomatkartenbesitzers
Chiavi in Mano: All Inclusive & Joule
Enzyklopädie des ungelebten Lebens
Exhibitions
Music
155h 4' 33'' (2.044 SPACES OF 4'33'')
Guilty Guitars Konzert 29.9.2010
Guilty Guitars Konzert 6.10.2010
Theory / Discourse / Playing Field Research
Meister, Trickster, Bricoleure
Workshop I: Demon Air Nike Stan Smith Exorcism
Workshop II: Akademie der Trickster
Workshop III: Zwischen Postfordismus und politischer Performance
Open Up I: Virtuosität als Kriegsmaschine
Open Up III: Was heißt Steigerung?
Forschungsworkshop: Sound in immersiven digitalen Performance-Umgebungen
Literature / Book
Children / Young people
Festival opening
24.09., 19:30
Helmut List Halle
Christine Gaigg / Bernhard Lang / Winfried Ritsch / Philipp Harnoncourt (A) - Maschinenhalle #1
Lali Puna (D) - Our Inventions
Venues
< rotor >, Graz
Ausstellungspavillon Tummelplatz, Graz
Camera Austria, Graz
Citypark / Information, Graz
Dom im Berg, Graz
ESC im LABOR, Graz
Festivalzentrum im Stadtpark, Graz
Festivalzentrum im Stadtpark Graz, Graz
Generalmusikdirektion, Graz
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
Grazer Stadtgebiet, Graz
Helmut List Halle, Graz
Ingenous / Business Park Gleisdorf, Gleisdorf
Institut für elektronische Musik, Graz
Jakoministraße 32, Graz
Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
Literaturhaus Graz, Graz
MUMUTH, Haus für Musik und Musiktheater der Kunstuniversität Graz, Graz
Next Liberty Jugendtheater, Graz
Orpheum, Graz
Pavelhaus / Pavlova hisa, Bad Radkersburg
Romantik Parkhotel Graz Bar, Graz
Schauspielhaus Graz, Graz
stadtmuseumgraz, Graz
TU Chemieersatzgebäude, Graz
Öffentlicher Raum, Graz
Publications
Program booklet of steirischer herbst 2010: steirischer herbst festival gmbh, steirischer HERBST (Graz: 2010)
steirischer herbst festival gmbh, herbst. Theorie zur Praxis (Graz: 2010)
→ Available here
steirischer herbst, Archiv Peter Piller. Materialien (D). Peripheriewanderung Graz (Graz: Edition Camera Austria, 2010)
→ Available here
Sabine Breitwieser (ed.), Utopie und Monument. Ausstellung für den öffentlichen Raum. steirischer herbst 2009 - 2010 (Vienna-New York: Springer-Verlag, 2011)
→ Available here
Retrospective
Retrospective