Inverting Battlefields

For a Borderless Future

07.06. - 30.09.2018

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Duration

07.06. - 30.09.2018

Opening

7th June 2018, 5 pm

Meeting point

Feldbach

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About the
Project

XENOS has begun to engage with our culture and the countries on our borders. In cooperation with cultural institutions as well as committed citizens, artists from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia have been creating valuable works since early 2017 through their engagement with history in workshops and art events, all in support of a European cultural community that is based on the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. The special idea is to link these works with Styria. The Institute for Art in Public Space Styria again carries out high-quality art projects outside of the provincial capital. Feldbach, a city rich in history as a border town, with depth from its past and an open vision of the future, is the Styrian partner and venue for the planned exhibition with corresponding works by both Styrian and international artists.


The Inverting Battlefields project was initiated by the Graz-based association XENOS (Joachim Hainzl and Maryam Mohammadi) and Nayarí Castillo and realised in cooperation with the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria and the municipality of Feldbach.

Works by the following five artists from the former Yugoslavia: Dante Buu/Sarajevo (BIH), Polonca Lovšin/Kočevje (SLO), Liberta Mišan/Pula (HR), Igor Petković/Novi Sad (SER) and Nika Rukavina/Lipa (HR) 
and by five Styrian artists: Nayarí Castillo, Joachim Hainzl, Karl Karner, Maryam Mohammadi and the RESANITA collective

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Opening 7 June 2018, 5 p.m., Kirchenplatz/Feldbach

with music performance by Irina Karamarković

Welcome
Mayor Josef Ober and Cultural Affairs Officer Michael Mehsner

Introduction
Joachim Hainzl and Elisabeth Fiedler
Followed by a guided tour

Programme

17 June 2018, 11:00 a.m.
Meeting point: Tabor Square
Guided tour as part of the NOSW excursion

29 June 2018, 5:00 p.m.
Max-Wratschgo-Europaplatz
Polonca Lovšin: Group performance with ISOP and others

5 July 2018, 10 a.m.
Feldbach City Park
Karl Karner: Performance with guests

13 September 2018, 7 p.m.
Hall in Tabor/Feldbach
What the war has done to us
Conversation with Maryam Mohammadi and Nabil Halawani.

19 September 2018, 7 p.m.
Hall in Tabor/Feldbach
Inverting Battlefields as a contribution to the commemorative year 2018.
A round table discussion open to all.

21 September 2018, 5 p.m.
Max-Wratschgo-Europaplatz
Polonca Lovšin: Group performance 10th anniversary
ISOP in Feldbach

30 September 2018, 2 p.m. Meeting point:
Military cemetery in Mühldorf near Feldbach
Joachim Hainzl and Nayari Castillo: Guided tour with performance

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Call for proposals

The Inverting Battlefields project was developed in response to a call for proposals issued by the Province of Styria / A9 Culture, Europe, External Relations, entitled ‘Strategies for the Future – An Artistic Contribution to the Refugee Crisis’ / Cross-Border Art and Culture Projects 2016, and a further call for proposals issued by the Austrian Federal Chancellery / Section II: Art and Culture, entitled ‘Growing Together – Art and Integration’.