KUNSTHALLE EXNERGASSE

The starting point for the project ZOZAN are comprehensive multimedia documentations of Kurdish everyday cultures by Werner Finke and Mehmet Emir, created between 1964 and 2024 in Turkey. They reflect traditional ways of life and socio-political transformations.

Book presentation “VIYANO. A passion for Kurds and life in the mountains: The Werner Finke Collection.” With a music performance.

The starting point for the project ZOZAN are comprehensive multimedia documentations of Kurdish everyday cultures by Werner Finke and Mehmet Emir, created between 1964 and 2024 in Turkey. They reflect traditional ways of life and socio-political transformations.

Performance by Nigar Hasib and Shamal Amin (Lalish Theaterlabor).

The book Intersections of Conviviality: Voices from Communities brings together fifty contributions from scholars, artists, and activists based in Austria and beyond.

The ATLAS creates dialogical communication channels by facilitating and experimenting with the findings and outcomes of the research process. DIALOGICAL PERFORMANCES will merge the concert musical/sound performances and visual art exhibitions/presentations along with panels, workshops, lecture-performances, and performances.

The Atlas is an artistic research project that maps out a comparative analysis between curating and conducting. It aims to discover new ways of perceiving creative mechanisms in contemporary art (curated after 2000) and concert music (conducted after 2000).

building >< against refers to the non-conformist production of space, resistant buildings, protest architectures, autonomous and functionally open architectures, the preservation and cultivation of places, radical reconstructions. And even more radical practices of not building at all.