Since April 1, 2024, the Inn has not only separated Austria and Bavaria, but also two language rules: since then, you can only officially use genders on one side of the river. Borders have always been places of exchange and communication. Words are lighter than air and so “Flying Borders” enables us to communicate across our own borders. This installation makes borders surmountable, connects people through words and sound and questions, with a wink, who owns language.
Fill in, post, daydream
In addition to the installation, the artists have set up three colorful mailboxes in the Innviertel. Come by, stop for a moment and write down what moves you: your wishes, your dreams for a gender-inclusive language – for yourself, for others, for a language that has room for everyone.
You can find them here:
Braunau – directly in front of the town hall
Ried – KiK – Kulturverein Kunst im Keller, Ried im Innkreis
Simbach – location to follow
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Paul David Daubek-Puza, born 2000 in Tamsweg, is an architecture student at the University of Art and Design Linz. As part of the collective “architECTS only”, he has already implemented projects such as “Pulmo Pneu” and “Can you wait and feel me breath” as part of the exhibition “Langer Atem- Atemzonen” at Lentos 2024. His works reflect desires and visions coupled with history and complex themes. Through color and form, these take up space and thus become accessible to others.
Celina Maria Sikora, born in Grieskirchen in 2002, has been training to be a primary school teacher at the PH OÖ since 2024 and previously completed a bachelor’s degree in sociology at the JKU. Her first short novel, “Flickenjahr”, was published in 2023 and resulted from a writing competition. Together with Paul David Daubek-Puza, she created a period product dispenser for public spaces in 2023, entitled “Nim mi mid, wennst mi brauchst”.
Clara Sophia Daubek-Puza, born in Linz in 2004, has been performing as a slam poet in Upper Austria and internationally since the fall of 2022. She took part in the ENRS’s “Sound-in-the-Silence” project in Gusen-Mauthausen in October 2022. In March 2023, she competed in the Upper Austrian/Salzburg Championships and in October of the same year in the U20 Championships in Frankfurt am Main. She was nominated for the Upper Austrian/Salzburg Championships in February 2025. Since fall 2023, she has been studying German language and literature at the KF University in Graz.
