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6. Graz Biennial on Media and Architecture

Austria

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a cura di:
Charlotte Pöchhacker




Architecture is everything you think it is not

Since its foundation in 1993, the Graz Biennial on Media and Architecture has followed the principle: "Architecture is everything you think it is not". This research direction is equally valid for all architects who deliberately direct their focus onto the forward-looking possibilities of their medium and who perceive architecture in its comprehensive cultural meaning.

a place for networking, discussion and reflection

Our key concern is the dialogue between art, architecture, society and science. Our interest lies in pushing forward in several directions at once in terms of Deleuze's position and thus opening up zones of unpredictable connections between disciplines, by creating links between different fields of work and traditions of thought. At the same time, we take as a reference George Bataille's term "informé" (formless), which he uses to define the attempt to broaden the meaning of terms beyond the constraints of their original application.

The biennium as a new architecture

This year, on the occasion of our tenth anniversary, the sixth Graz Biennial presents the rethinking of the biennial concept, which will be notable for using the two-year period of the biennium productively and publicly as a new event format in the future. From December 4th to 14th 2003 within the context of the opening festival of the biennium, we will be presenting the main theme "T.S.V.P. - Art and Architecture in Dialogue". This theme is subdivided into three subject areas: "The exhibition as a medium and experiment", "The archive project" and "On territories". Over the course of the ten opening days, a total of 116 fascinating papers and art projects will be presented by internationally renowned architects, artists, filmmakers, literary figures and theoreticians. Over the next two years of the biennium, from 2003 - 2005, these themes will be continuously explored in greater depth with further exhibitions, talks and publications.

T.S.V.P. - the leitmotif of the biennium


This rethinking of the biennial concept, using the two-year period of the biennium productively and publicly as a new events format, is also an expression of the leitmotif of the 6th biennial : T.S.V. P. and so should be seen as the expression of our interest in culture from the perspective of the performative. The changes to the events format indicate a shift in interest towards the activities of creation, production and doing. Hence actions, exchange processes, changes, movements and usage form the focus of debate. This shift in focus could be expressed in the metaphor "culture as performance". It highlights the materiality, mediality and interactive processability of cultural actions, which refer equally to the relationship between artist, artwork and observer and so in the figurative sense to architects, architectures and environments and users. With reference to Francois Le Lionnais' experiment Tournez S'il Vous Plait, conducted in 1962, in which he wrote the performance "t" on both sides of a piece of paper, we have assigned the biennium as a call for participation with T.S.V.P.



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