A War in the Distance

Wars are inscribed into the history of steirischer herbst. The Cold War overshadowed its early years while later editions took place with the Yugoslav Wars right next door. This year, the festival deals with this relationship to war, its causes, and lasting effects.

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steirischer herbst ’22

At the core of steirischer
herbst ’22 is an exhibition at Neue Galerie Graz that juxtaposes historical works with contemporary artists’ projects.
It runs through 12.2.2023. Performances, discussions, and further collaborations complete the program.

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22.9.–16.10.22

steirischer herbst ’22 takes place from 22.9. to 16.10. in Graz and Styria, accompanied as usual by musikprotokoll, the literary festival Out of Joint, and a varied Parallel Program. The full program and online tickets are now available.

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A War in the Distance:
Exhibition

23.9.22–12.2.23
Neue Galerie Graz

Calendar
22.9.–16.10.

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Performances and Events

Durational performance

22.9., 18:30–21:00
23.9., 24.9., 25.9., 10:00–18:00

Augustas Serapinas
Margit, Maya, and Vanessa (2022)

22.9., 17:00

Raed Yassin
The Theatricality of a Postponed Death (2022)

22.9., 21:00
23.9., 20:30

Ming Wong
Rhapsody in Yellow: A Lecture-Performance with Two Pianos (2022)

Durational performance

24.9., 25.9., 14:00–17:00

Boris Charmatz [terrain]
Noli me tangere: A Happening for Herz-Jesu (2022)

24.9., 30.9., 2.10., 11.10., 14.10., 18:00

Theater im Bahnhof
Palais Schloßberg: Unterirdische Träume werden wahr – in Graz!!! (2022)
(Schloßberg Palace: Subterranean Dreams Come True—in Graz!!!)

8.10., 18:00, 19:30, 21:00
9.10., 18:00, 19:30, 21:00

Giacomo Veronesi
A Safe Space for Male Bodies (2022)

14.10., 15.10., 16.10., 19:00

Boris Nikitin
Magda Toffler: Versuch über das Schweigen (2022)
(Magda Toffler: Essay on Silence)

1.12., 2.12., 3.12., 8.12., 9.12., 17:00

Navaridas & Deutinger
Emancipation of Wonder (2022)

9.10., 17:00
Kartografie der Lücke
(Mapping the Gap)
Readings, installations, talk, and discussion

4.10., 19:00

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Harun Farocki against War
Exhibition
22.9.–16.10.
Forum Stadtpark

Ideas

24.9., 20:00

The Special Optics of War
Panel discussion with Tom Holert, Olexii Kuchanskyi, and Asia Bazdyrieva

1.10., 17:00

Feminist Solidarity in Wartime and the Limits of Comparison
Panel discussion with Armina Pilav, Nour Shantout, and Yosh

8.10., 17:00

The Return of the Repressed and the Implosion of History
Panel discussion with Michael Marder and Anton Tarasyuk

13.10., 17:00

Filming Colonial Complicities
Screening and talk with Oleksiy Radynski and Herwig G. Höller

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herbst Cabaret

1.10., 21:00

eSeL (Lorenz Seidler)
Fighting Art Fantasy

8.10., 21:00

Les Trucs
Nach uns die Synthflute (After Us, the Synth Flute)

15.10., 20:00

Verena Dengler
Amadeus Mossad und die Probleme unserer Zeit (Amadeus Mossad and the Problems of Our Time)

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Videos

Josef Dabernig
Pastry Friday (2022)

Pavel Brăila
Fragile Podil (2018)

The Special Optics of War
Panel discussion with Tom Holert, Olexii Kuchanskyi, and Asia Bazdyrieva

Pavel Brăila
Vera Means Belief (2022)

Mykola Ridnyi
Temerari (2021)

Assaf Gruber
Never Come Back (2022)

Zoya Laktionova
Diorama (2018)

Dana Kavelina
Letter to a Turtledove (2020)

Raed Yassin
The Theatricality of a Postponed Death (2022)

Zoya Laktionova
Territory of Empty Windows (2020)

Ö1 Festival Podcast

Festivals within the festival

musikprotokoll
6.10–9.10.

Alexander Schubert
Av3ry

7.10., 17:00

musikprotokoll in 3D

6.–9.10., 12:30, 13:30, 14:30, 16:30, 17:30, 18:30, 19:30

Alexander Schubert
Unity Switch

6.10., 18:00

Dominik Grünbühel, Norbert Unfug, Sebastian Pirch
Echtzeitkunstwelt (Real-Time Art World)

6.10., 19:00

Zbigniew Chojnacki

6.10., 19:30

Styrian Improvisers Orchestra
Humans and Machines

6.10., 21:00

Isabella Forciniti / Katarina Gryvul / Aho Ssan
Spacial Adventures

6.10., 22:00
8.10., 17:00

Marko Ciciliani
Why Frets?

7.10., 14:30

musikprotokoll@ARTikulationen ’22
Whodentity—Self and Other in Artistic Collaborations

7.10., 15:00, 16:30, 18:00
8.10., 19:00, 20:30
9.10., 19:00, 20:30

Seppo Gründler, Robert Lepenik, Eva Ursprung, Martin Brachvogel
Grotto Trails Memory

7.10., 8.10., 19:00

Kateryna Suprun
Constellation—Ukrainian Music for Viola Solo

7.10., 19:30

RSO Wien
Shiva Feshareki / Margareta Ferek-Petric / Olga Neuwirth / Luna Alcalay

7.10., 22:00

Ensemble Zeitfluss
Gerd Kühr

8.10., 10:05

musikprotokoll 2022 – on air

Performance, book launch, conversation

8.10., 14:30

Pia Palme
Sounding Fragilities

8.10., 19:30

Ensemble Modern
Mirela Ivičević / Milica Djordjević / Petra Strahovnik / Justė Janulytė / Tania León

8.10., 22:00

Cantando Admont
Adriana Hölszky / Younghi Pagh-Paan / Charlotte Seither / Elisabeth Harnik

Lecture-performance

9.10., 14:30

Yara Mekawei, Ulla Rauter, and Hui Ye
Sonic Exegesis

9.10., 16:30

Aleksandra Słyż
Everything Tends Towards Chaos and Order

9.10., 17:00

Goat Song Project
Shiva Feshareki, Yalda Zamani, Rojin Sharafi, John Eckhardt, Nimikry, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong

9.10., 19:30

Christof Ressi
Avatara

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Out of Joint
11.10.–14.10.

11.10., 19:00

Maja Haderlap
Wer wir waren. Zukunftsrede

12.10., 18:00

Tim Wolff
Best of Sapiens. Zehn Errungenschaften einer gescheiterten Spezies

12.10., 20:00

Raoul Schrott
Erste Erde. Epos

13.10., 18:00

Esther Kinsky
Rombo

13.10., 20:00

Gerhard Roth
Die Imker

Literature show

14.10., 20:00

Roboter mit Senf. Die Literaturshow

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Parallel Program

18.8.–16.10.
eisenerZ*ART (Eisenerz)
Herbert Eichholzer
BLAUPAUSE
Exhibition—Field Trips—Discourse

20.9., 17:00
Werner Fenz Scholarship by the City of Graz for Art in Public Space
Hannes Zebedin
Die Brücke (The Bridge)
Sculptural intervention

21.9.–
Kunst der Verführung (The Art of Enticement)
Six exhibitions about graphic design between art and advertising

22.9.22–8.1.23
Kunsthaus Graz
Hito Steyerl
Animal Spirits
Exhibition

22.9., 20:30
23.9., 29.9., 2.10., 8.10., 15.10., 19:00
WIENDRAMA (Möderbrugg, Fohnsdorf, Gnas, Stainz, Eisenerz, Fürstenfeld)
HÖDLMOSER. Aufstieg und Fall des letzten Ursteirers (HÖDLMOSER: The Rise and Fall of the Last Original Styrian)
Theater

23.9.–23.10.
APORON 21
prekARTe (PrecariART)
Ein Art Prekariat auf 1000 Quadrat im verMöBL XXL (One Thousand Square Meters of Art Precariat at the verMöBL XXL)

23.9.–9.10.
Haus lebt (House Lives) (Hartberg)
Über die Zeit, das Unfertige und das Entstehende (On Time, the Unfinished, and the Emerging)
Temporary cultural center

24.9.–16.10.
Annenstrasse 53,
Screening the Archive
Exhibition, film screenings, and talk

24.9.–11.12.
Grazer Kunstverein
Maria Toumazou
RHYTHM, CITIZEN
Exhibition

24.9., 20:30
1.10., 2.10., 14.10., 15.10., 20:00
Theater Quadrat
Joe Mc Vie alias Josef Thierschädl
Theater

24.9.–18.11.
esc medien kunst labor
MY BODY : MY MACHINE
Exhibition and event series

25.9.22–8.1.23
HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark
Systems of Belief
Exhibition

29.9., 30.9., 16:00–19:00
manuskripte
ZwangLOS! (Away with Constraints!)
Über die Grenzen der Zumutbarkeit (Beyond the Bounds of Reason)
Performance

29.9.–16.10.
Steirische Kulturinitiative
Zurück von den Träumen – Völker verbindende Architekturdenkmäler (Back from Our Dreams—Unifying Architectural Monuments)
Auf den Spuren der Moderne (Tracing the Modern Age)
Exhibitions, bus trips, and performances

6.10., 7.10., 8.10., 18:00
ARGE Oper im Durchbruchstal (St. Barbara im Mürztal)
Regina – ein Fest! (Regina—A Celebration!)
Opera

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