Am Südrand: [On the Southern Edge]Co-industrial life worldsThe area around the former city borders to the south of Graz can be wild and romantic or rather run-down, depending on how you see it. It is home to brownfield sites, shabby blocks of rented flats, warehouses and what is known in Austrian German as “Gstettn” – unused open fields. Smack in the middle, the independent studio house “Schaumbad” with its more than forty members set-up camp on the 2,300 square metres of a former lemonade bottling plant – between waste disposal equipment, carcass disposal equipment and an idyllic streamscape with a green beach. Some artists spent their childhood in this area and now focus on this once familiar, but now alien place. Others turn their hand to research, studying local animals, plants and the human species. But no matter whether it’s a hug or a scientific excursion – the exhibition focuses on an area that so far hasn’t even been given a name yet. There will also be Schaumbad branch offices, joint walking tours and expeditions. The aim is to examine the subjects of home and arrival, community and difference.
Artists: Martin Behr (AT) / Martin Osterider (AT), Alexandra Gschiel (AT), Elisabeth Gschiel (AT), Joachim Hainzl (AT), Martin Heide (AUS), Keyvan Paydar (AT/IR), Karin Petrowitsch (AT), Zoncy Phyu (MM), Robert Riedl (AT) / Stefan Lozar (AT) / Martina Edelmüller (AT) / Gudrun Lang (AT), Gregor Schlatte (AT), Edda Strobl (AT), Myriam Thyes (CH/DE), Eva Ursprung (AT), Markus Wilfling (AT), zweite liga für kunst und kultur (AT) / Stefan Schmid (AT), Studierende der Universität für angewandte Kunst / Institut für Sprachkunst, Wien, der Universität der Künste / GWK, Berlin, des Hyperwerk, Basel, geleitet von Orhan Kipcak (AT), Stephan Porombka (DE), Thomas Düllo (DE), Karl Flender (DE), Max Spielmann (CH). Exhibition from 27.9. – 31.10. Co-produced by steirischer herbst & Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz
In cooperation with www.blauebibliothek.at, Ressidorf, Stadtteilzentrum Triester Straße, Universität für angewandte Kunst / Institut für Sprachkunst, Wien, Universität der Künste / GWK, Berlin & Hyperwerk, Basel
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