19/09/2007
19/09/2007

Confetti-Urbanism
13/07

Confetti-Urbanism
13/07

Confetti-Urbanism
13/07

Confetti-Urbanism
13/07

Confetti-Urbanism
13/07

Confetti-Urbanism
13/07

Confetti-Urbanism
13/07

Celebration as Architecture!!
04/08

Die Organisation ... zieht ein. 11/08

Die Pause ... wird verquatscht. 18/08

Die Gemeinschaft ... wird geschaffen. Family Day.
25/08

Das Foyer ... ist in Bars überall in Graz.
A social speed dating pubcrawling extravaganca.
01/09

THE THEATRE
Jeden herbst ein neuer Ort der Begegnung zwischen Künstlern und Publikum, ein Ort für Gespräche, Diskussionen, kurz: jeden herbst ein neues Festivalzentrum. Nach der Umgestaltung des Künstlerhauses im vergangenen Jahr geht der steirische herbst 2007 gleich ein paar Schritte weiter und baut am Grazer Karmeliterplatz ein ganzes Theater.

The Theatre ist kein weiteres High End Architekturprodukt für Grazer Fremdenführer, sondern Performance, Show, Gebäude, Interaktion und soziale Struktur, eine temporäre Intervention von International Festival (initiiert von dem Architekten Tor Lindstrand und dem Choreographen Mårten Spångberg).

Bereits im Sommer gab es zahlreichen Pre-Events am Karmeliterplatz und im Stadtraum. Die Eröffnung des Gebäudes The Theatre findet am 21. September ab 21.30 Uhr statt.********
International Festival: The Theatre ...

... is a performance and architecture, a show and a building, a situation where ways of being together become tangible. International Festival The Theatre carries a promise of a different performance, a different architecture that we construct together through our engagement and desire to change the ways things change.

The Theatre is in its first installment a venue and the festival center of steirischer herbst 2007.
The Theatre is a fully functioning theatre including all common features: a stage with auditorium, a theatre machinery, bar, foyer, dressing room, offices etc. The project is realized on the basis of a larger scale performance budget. As a performance the project will tour for three years to different cities and contexts and thus function as an ongoing platform for discourse production. The Theatre will appear in Graz, London, Montpellier, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, in collaboration with prominent local institutions.

The Theatre is a place of stories, characters and illusion of magic, confetti and celebration. A configuration where life and adventure is performed. It is also a frame for different social performances, particular interaction and communication. The Theatre is a situation where we meet, share and exchange opinions and emotions, language and experience. This situation, in all its diversity, carries a potential politics, a promise of a different future.
The Theatre is a project where each implicated individual or group is activated to take a decision, to participate in an ongoing process that is only being completed in and through this particular activation.

The Theatre is an offer to any individual, group or organization to change perspectives and our understanding of theatre as an assemblage of production. The Theatre is open to any client and considers a diversity of contexts and opportunity, in the cultural sector but is also open to educational and commercial engagements. Primary issues of the project concern distribution, accountability and authorization within the field. The Theatre opens for alternative modes of territorialisation as it operates through different organizational, temporal and economical protocols. The Theatre is a blue sky project that will use three years to, in situ, research alternative visions of organization, program, economy and distribution.

The Theatre is an autonomous project commissioned by steirischer herbst in Graz (Austria). The project is financed by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee & the Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs, next to support from corporate economies. The project aims to engage in long-term reciprocal financial relations emphasizing research and knowledge exchange, as well as in short-term engagements with local entrepreneurs in order to differentiate models for financial distribution and responsibility.

The Theatre is developed and realized by International Festival in collaboration with approximately 40 individuals and groups engaged in performance, dance, architecture, theory, education, marketing, activism etc. based in 11 European countries. The process includes a series of conferences set up in different local contexts in Europe.********

Fr 21/09, Karmeliterplatz ab 21.30 Uhr
Die Eröffnung
Informationen:
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