Festival der Regionen 2017
Ungebetene Gäste

30. June - 09. July 2017
Marchtrenk, Oberösterreich

In 2017, the Festival of Regions will make a stop in Marchtrenk, a municipality that has always been characterised by dynamism and demographic change. Aspects of fleeing and movement, hospitality and resentment as well as the artistic approach to them will be thematised under the motto UNGEBETENE GÄSTE.

Künstlerinnen in Syrien

Theory / Discourse by Salwa Saleh

The war that broke out in Syria in March 2011 has made a great number of people leave the country as living conditions have become inhumane.

Drive Thru_

Public Art

Concept Arthur Summereder and Daniela Zeilinger With: Eli Kabir Gold: „Border Crossings“ Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer: „Camera Obscura“ Anna Nowak: „Die kurze Form zum Mitnehmen“ Eugen-Maria Schulak: „Delphi“ Ferdinand Schmalz: „Dosenfleisch“ Tamara Wilhelm: „Handmade Noise Machines“

Kreisky Concert

Kreisky have shown the world how to embrace the Viennese ill-humour, how to cast daily life abysses into song, how to take things seriously, but yourself not so much.

Museum der ungebetenen Gastgeschenke

Exhibition

Expired chocolate boxes for one’s 50th birthday? Poultry shears for vegetarians? Crystal shot glasses after a detox? They are everywhere, sneak in, uninvited guests, holding: a present. The Unwelcome Gift.

Festivalcentre FdR 2017

Installation

Contact point, meeting place and stage for the festival: acquaint, communicate, palaver, eat and drink, celebrate.

CANCELLATION! ZUGEZOGEN Live

Performing Arts

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Wanderuni in Marchtrenk

Intervention

This semester, the Space & Design Strategies study programme is moving, taking, instead of the bridge across the Danube, the longer path around the globe.

Magic Moments in Marchtrenk

Performing Arts

Marchtrenk is a dynamic municipality with great empty area potential and a prime traffic connection at the Salzburg-Vienna axis.

Sag beim Abschied leise Servus

Visual Arts

When It’s Time to Bid Farewell, Softly Say Goodbye

Refugee Open TV

Film / Video / Photography / Media

For ten days, refugees are taking over the programme of dorf tv. Talks. Interviews. Live broadcasts. Features.

BORDER MOVER

Installation by Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak

“Border Mover“ deals with the topic of present-day individuality that is marked by an omnipresent technology and a routine of our everyday life that more and more resembles the monotony of operating machines.

DAS LAND WO MAGERMILCH UND FALSCHER HONIG FLIESSEN

Kochperformance

In “The Land of Skimmed Milk and Adulterated Honey“, his focus is on hospitality, which has always been at the core of good service.

auprinzessin

Visual Arts

What happens if something unwanted suddenly is back outside the door camouflaged as art?

ZUGEZOGEN

Fotografie

Reminding of black-and-white photos, the participants in this “choreographic stroll” through town show up as figures dressed in black and white, forming a monochrome foreign body in an otherwise colourful environment.

Á bout de souffle – Verschnaufen auf Zeit

Installation

“À bout de souffle – Temporary Respite“ is an intervention in public space consisting of an interactive bench that autonomously comments and regulates its own usage.

Gute Gründe

Visual Arts

Contemporary art often tends to be uninvited. So, what good reasons can there be for an increased presence of art in Marchtrenk in 2017?

Das klingende Haus

Performing Arts

The newly founded MARCHTRENK CHAMBER ARTS ENSEMBLE plays DOMESTIC MUSIC like it has probably never been heard before

Running Light

Public Art

“Running Light“ is a light installation that turns Marchtrenk’s water tower into a light signal.

Angezählt/Counted out

Installation

The walk-in sound installation “Angezählt / Counted out“ returns a discovery from the archives of the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a voice recording of Italian prisoners of war in Marchtrenk from the year 1918, to its recording location.