Exhibition

Land of Human Rights: At the Limits of the Thinkable

Petra Gerschner, "history is a work in process", 2008
Opening of the 2nd exhibition of ”Land of Human Rights“

Friday, March 28, 2008, 8 pm

>> Curatorial Statement
>> Photos of the opening, Friday, March 28, 2008
>> Pictures of the exhibition

Participating artists

Ursula Biemann (Zürich)
The Maghreb Connection: Doa Aly (Kairo), Hala Elkoussy (Kairo / Amsterdam), Raphaël Cuomo / Maria Iorio (Berlin / Genf), Charles Heller (London / Genf)
Michael Blum (Wien / New York)
Luchezar Boyadjiev (Sofia)
Eduard Freudmann / Can Gülcü / Lorenz Aggermann (Wien / Beograd)
Petra Gerschner (München)
Joachim Hainzl (Graz)
Lala Raščić (Zagreb)
Sofie Thorsen (Wien)

Duration: 29.3.2008 - 6.6.2008
Opening hours: MO – FR, 10 am – 6 pm, SA, 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Volksgartenstraße 6a, corner Orpheumgasse, 8020 Graz

Guided tours: Every Saturday at 11 am

The Fortress Europe is expanding and the EU is increasingly working together with its neighboring countries, so that the latter are more and more taking over the defense against migrants. Who nevertheless gets through has to expect that he or she is deported under inhumane circumstances. Within the Union too exclusion is gaining ground, in order to shut off certain segments of the population from public life. Moreover, so called gated communities have emerged, which are to give their residents the feeling of total security.

Wednesday, April 16, at 8 pm
Book Presentation & Discussion: BEOGRAD GAZELA - Travel Guide to a Slum
Afterwards panel discussion with the authors Lorenz Aggermann / Eduard Freudmann / Can Gülcü and Judith Laister, cultural anthropologist and Dieter Halwachs, socio-linguist.
Although there are a great many slums throughout Europe, hardly anyone ever asks how they come into being, how life within them transpires, and what impact such a location has on the day to day life of its residents. One particularly striking example of such a settlement lies under the highway bridge Gazela in Belgrade: tens of thousands pass it daily; nevertheless there is hardly any reliable information about the settlement and the people – the vast majority of whom are Roma – who are forced to live there.
The travel guide focuses attention on a place which is a good representative example for the recent history of the Roma in Southeast Europe. The book provides fundamental information about the social and economic structures inside the settlement and exposes the multi-layered mechanisms of marginalization and discrimination towards its inhabitants. www.beogradgazela.net

Sunday, April 13, 2008, at 1 pm
BUHŠTABENZUPE - a tasteful literary and musical presentation of the bilingual soup noodles by UNIKUM, Klagenfurt/Celovec.
BUHŠTABENZUPE - literarno-glasbena pokušina z dvojezicnim okusom!
>> Photos of the tasteful and musical presentation

After the successful launch of the BUHŠTABENZUPE, an innovative culinary product created by UNIKUM in collaboration with the Finkensteiner Nudelfabrik in Spring 2007 and refined with Hatschek pasta, there is an upcoming first degustation in Graz.
On this occasion the bilingual writer Jani Oswald will disclose his tasty recipes for a soup with C, Š and Ž egg noodles. EXTRA3 feat. Karen Asatrian (keyboards), Stefan Gfrerrer (contrabass) and Emil Krištof (drums) will provide for some musical seasoning.

BILINGUAL TASTES BETTER – check it out!

Po uspešnih pokušinah juhe z dvojezicnimi crkami UNIKUMa in tovarne za proizvodnjo testenin v Bekštanju letos vigredi na Koroškem, sledi
13. aprila 2008 nadaljni obrok v prostorih društva za sodobno umetnost < rotor > v Gradcu. Dvojezicni avtor Jani Oswald bo razodel svoje najokusnejše recepte za pripravo jušne zakuhe s slovenskimi sicniki. Za glasbeno zacimbo bo poskrbel ansambel EXTRA3 – Karen Asatrian (keyb), Stefan Gfrerrer (kontrabas) in Emil Krištof (bobni).

Z DVOJEZICNIM OKUSOM – poskusite še Vi!

In the frame of Galerientage aktuelle kunst in graz: April 11-13, 2008
www.aktuellekunst-graz.at

On this weekend we have extended opening hours:
Friday:     10:00 – 23:00
Saturday: 10:00 – 18:00
Sunday:   10:00 – 15:00

Saturday, March 29, 2008, 3 pm
Artist Talk: Ursula Biemann: „Sahara Chronicle“