Stefanie Sargnagel
Situation Report
Video series / Commissioned work
Stefanie Sargnagel, Situation Report (2021), video series, video still
Dates
15.–19.9.2021
Details
In the streets of Graz and online
Location
Graz
Production specifics
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ21
Each week of the festival program is accompanied by uniquely performative video reports from the streets and environs of Graz. They are not “coverage” in the traditional sense, but rather artistic and intellectual projects, complementing the festival’s other situations.
During the second week of the festival, Stefanie Sargnagel, one of the most acerbic critics of homegrown Austrian culture and its male chauvinism, drifts through Graz visiting familiar and less familiar places. During the town’s most exuberant expression of local patriotism (and patriarchy?), the folk festival Aufsteirern, she watches teenagers and pensioners alike get dressed up in their leather pants and dirndls, navigating the crowded streets and their drunken mayhem. In the traditional Beisel pubs and in the parks’ dubious nightlife scenes, Sargnagel looks for the darker corners of the city and their brighter sides.
Mediathek
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