Project archive: city_potential

Angelika Wischermann, visual artist Innsbruck
Fariba Mosleh, cultural manager and curator Vienna
Doris Mitterbacher (Mieze Medusa), author, slammer, rapper and publisher Vienna

The public jury meeting took place on September 18, 2024 and was broadcast via audio livestream. Click here for the audio livestream

Cornelia Dlabaja, sociologist/cultural scientist and artist, Vienna
Alina Zeichen, author and cultural scientist, Klagenfurt
Tuncay Acar, cultural activist/networker/organizer/blogger/DJ and musician, Munich

The public jury meeting took place on September 14, 2023 and was broadcast via audio livestream. Click here for the audio livestream

Kathrin Aste, architect, University of Innsbruck
Maurice Kumar, freelance writer
Angelika Burtscher, design and arts, freelance designer

Martin Fritz, writer, Innsbruck
Hannah Crepaz, cultural organizer, Hall
Petra Unger, cultural mediator, Vienna

Paul Klumper, ITS district coordinator Reichenau, Innsbruck
Carmen Brucic, artist, Innsbruck
Elke Rauth, Editor, Association for Urban Research, Vienna

A project by: Sigrid Moser

Grant amount: 15,450 euros
Implementation: 2024/2025

What is it about?

The ‘Die Bogengazette’ project aims to create a magazine that sheds a new, deeply personal light on Innsbruck’s viaduct arches by telling their stories. ‘Die Bogengazette’ seeks to discover what the residents of Innsbruck think of the so-called ‘arches’, what they associate with them, and what memories they cherish. 120,000 people live in Innsbruck, and every single one of them has their own perspective on this special street and a personal story linking them to the arches.

At the heart of the project is a writing competition that invites people to share their very own personal story of the ‘Bögenmeile’. The submitted texts will be read and assessed by a jury. This jury consists of people who are very familiar with the area – for example, bar owners, regulars and cultural workers. They will select the stories that will ultimately be printed in the magazine. The aim is for this to be available for sale at the Bogenfest 2025. This will further emphasise the importance of this social space.

The aim of the project is to shed more light on this subcultural hub, on the one hand to understand the significance this street holds for the people of Innsbruck, and on the other hand to identify what we need in future to ensure that this mile is preserved, its value to the local community is recognised, appreciated and enhanced, so that everyone can continue to live together harmoniously.

A project by Helena Lea Manhartsberger and others

Grant amount: 17,050 euros
Implementation: 2024

What is it about?

The transdisciplinary project ‘Perspektivenwandel’ by ipsum and lilawohnt uses visual and photographic methods to highlight the realities of life for homeless women. Through generative image-making – a qualitative and process-oriented method – the capacity for agency is strengthened in culturally diverse contexts.

The project aims to document the often-overlooked experiences of homeless women. Participants, including researchers, interns and women affected by homelessness, photograph their everyday lives. These photographs serve as a basis for in-depth discussions and reflections within the group.

Peers with similar experiences support the participants and reflect on their own experiences. They accompany the project both during and between the workshops. The participants document their everyday lives using disposable cameras, and the resulting photographs are discussed within the group. The continuous role reversal between photographer and viewer fosters a dynamic group process.

A key aspect is the constant comparison of self-perception and how others perceive them. The photographs are scrutinised and analysed by all participants in order to uncover hidden aspects.

The project raises awareness of and understanding for the realities of life faced by homeless women and empowers them to take action. It addresses structural issues such as high rents and gender-specific disparities.

The photographs produced in the workshops are intended to break down stigma. With the participants’ consent, they will be displayed in an exhibition where peers and participants can share their stories. The aim is to give these women a voice and to make their lived realities visible. The focus is on feminist achievements as well as on grievances that still exist. To mark the 40th anniversary of lilawohnt, the project will conclude with a celebration.

A project by Miriam Tiefenbrunner

Funding amount: 10,000 euros
Implementation: 2025

What is it about?

Until the artist became pregnant, she lived with her partner in a satisfactorily equal relationship. She had to realize that this is currently not possible with a child in Tyrol. During pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, she was hardly allowed to make medical decisions on her own. The couple loses money because they share parental leave equally. ... Why didn't anyone say this earlier? Surely it can't seriously be our claim that "luckily everything went well anyway and everyone is healthy"?

The artist uses a press review to confront the political actors with questions and possible solutions. In addition, experience reports from different generations are incorporated into the participatory, performative presentation and questioning. The research results will be made accessible in the form of an installation.

A project by the Postmodern Talking association

Funding amount: 15.500 Euro
Realization: 2025

What is it about?

Plötzlich Besitzer - Eine Antifa Komödie is a stage format of the Innsbruck theater and show ensemble Postmodern Talking, which deals with the topics of housing, gentrification, property and alternative forms of coexistence with and between the formats of tabloid and mixed-up comedy, discourse theater and live radio play. We write, stage and perform the play ourselves. The plot is set in Innsbruck and deals with the problems of exploding rents in the provincial capital, real estate transactions and ownership structures (such as the René Benko case), as well as the reclaiming of public space. The premiere is scheduled for autumn 2025, with possible venues including Treibhaus, p.m.k, BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck or Theater Praesent (or a squat, if one is available).

A project by EAT network (Barbara Alt)

Grant amount: 12,000 euros
Implementation: 2025

What is it about?

Empower And Transform– with this approach, the EAT network challenges dominant patriarchal structures in the club and events scene, with the aim of bringing about lasting change to create more diverse and inclusive structures both on stage and behind the scenes.

EAT is an informal network, largely consisting of FLINTA* DJs from a wide range of genres (FLINTA*: women, lesbians, inter*, non-binary, trans* and agender people*).

Through the D.A.N.C .E project, weaim to create a safer and more inclusive space for FLINTA* DJs and artists in Innsbruck. The current club and cultural scene is often characterised by discrimination, particularly against FLINTA* people, which makes it difficult for them to participate and be involved.

Through our project, we want to promote collaboration and community-building amongst FLINTA* DJs. At the same time, raising awareness is essential to combat multiple forms of discrimination in clubs and to support FLINTA*s as well as BIPOCs (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour).

The target group comprises FLINTA* DJs and artists who wish to network and pursue their artistic activities, as well as event organisers and club owners from the local scene for awareness-raising and educational work.

Through these measures,D.A.N.C.E. aims to make Innsbruck’s cultural landscape more non-discriminatory and inclusive, which is of great importance to the city’s diverse and vibrant music and arts scene.

A project by Die Bäckerei/UniNEtZ

Funding amount: 10,000 euros
Implementation: 2023/2024

What is it about?

Sustainable Development Goals, socio-ecological transformation, energy transition, mobility transition, food transition, circular economy, resilient cities, climate-friendly cultural institutions, universities with a transformational mission... all these terms are currently omnipresent in the public debate. There is hardly anyone who doubts the need for a profound social transformation.

However, opinions differ widely on HOW the transformation should take place. For some it is not happening fast enough - for others it is happening far too fast, some are relying on technology-based solutions - others are propagating degrowth and consumerism, some believe that it is up to politicians - others say that the turnaround must be supported by the population.

All of these opinions and approaches are present in a pluralistic society and are legitimate to a certain extent. The question is, how do we deal with them?

For the necessary transformation to succeed, all stakeholders must act: civil society with its associations and communities, science and universities, politics and administration, companies..

Joint action requires understanding: and this understanding requires dialog, it requires a platform on which conflicts of interest are not denied but openly negotiated.

With our project, we want to provide such a platform and bring important issues relating to transformation - especially in the context of Innsbruck - onto the proverbial stage and discuss them with the stakeholders involved. We want to argue about our future. Friction creates warmth. At a societal level, this means living democracy.

A project by Soliarts on the topic of housing and need

Funding amount: 18,000 euros
Implementation: 2024

What is it about?

2024 marks 30 years since the murder of homeless man Wolfgang Tschernutter. He was beaten to death by two young people, one of them with a neo-Nazi background, who called him "potato salad". In the 1990s, the discourse surrounding homeless, begging and/or job-seeking people was deeply characterized by devaluation towards them.

The Soliarts association wants to use the year 2024 as a year of remembrance and draw attention to the issue of housing and homelessness with drei campaigns:

• Short documentary "Wolfgang" (past): The short documentary âWolfgangâ aims to create a visibility that reflects social asymmetries.
• Performance âVerdrängungenâ (present): A street performance will be developed that gives stage to contemporary voices of homeless people and people in housing need as well as taking up the current political discourses in Innsbruck.
• Podcast "Under the roof" (visions of the future): In the podcast, people are interviewed about their future visions of housing, in line with the motto 'everyone should live'. People from different areas have their say.

A project by Die Zeitlos

Grant amount: 8,000 euros
Implementation: 2023/2024

What is it about?

Die Zeitlos is an Innsbruck-based magazine with 57 members, which plans to use the requested grant to fund its twentieth anniversary print edition, due to be published in March 2024. Our vision is to tailor our next issue to the city of Innsbruck and its particularly colourful facets: we all perceive the city differently and have either fallen in love with certain of its quirks or come to recognise its less attractive sides.

Our members – some of whom were born in Innsbruck, whilst others moved here whilst studying – write about their experiences within the city’s independent cultural scene in their own words. In doing so, they naturally draw on topics of current relevance, and the diversity of our editorial team ensures an interdisciplinary approach.

Our project is ideally suited to the ideas behind stadt_potenziale, as in our anniversary issue we will be exploring in depth our personal relationships with the city and the independent cultural scene in Innsbruck.

Furthermore, in this issue we will provide a platform for various Innsbruck-based artists. We envisage an intermedia magazine in which visual artworks are presented side by side with poems, journalistic pieces, craft-based art and musical compositions. We invite you to join us on our magazine’s journey through Innsbruck and, in doing so, to see the city in a whole new light.

A project by Evamaria Müller and Verena Nagl

Funding amount: 25,000 euros
Realization: 2024

What is it about?

A stinger is usually a pointed structure on the head, skin or hindquarters of animals that is used for protection, feeding or egg-laying. Under certain circumstances, it can cause injury and pain, but it is also able to provide, protect and fertilize. 'The Golden Spike' refers to the latter, wants to be an incentive, a driving force, a stimulus. It gathers needs and concerns, shows and preserves interests and desires, points to potential worth protecting.

Driif the Stachl is inserted, it can sit deep and become actively involved if desired. In this way, it is able to positively stimulate existing processes at the smallest level or initiate actions, experiments and new perspectives.

In the function of a mobile urban laboratory, the 'Golden Stachl' travels through two areas in Innsbruck disguised as a caravan, observing and studying what is happening and what is not happening over a period of seven days. By means of interviews, audio recordings and photographs, an inventory is then made, a "zoom in", a current (partial) picture of the city is recorded. Through a forced exchange with the local residents, smaller interactions can then take place if necessary.

The aim is to create an identity-creating and -preserving, value-free visualization/interpretation of two urban areas in Innsbruck, which can have a stimulating effect on their surroundings.

A project by Anna Wacholder

Funding amount: 10,000 euros
Implementation: 2023/2024

What is it about?

"The Fantastic City" is an illustrated children's book that aims to show Innsbruck from a new perspective. In addition to familiar places, it is dedicated to the unexpectedly curious, exciting and unknown - in short, to all places with an inherent magic. Some of them are accessible to the public, but possibly only known to people in the same part of town. Others are hidden, in backyards or high up on rooftops.

The book tells a story for children in text and pictures and is supplemented by a glossary with historical, architectural and general information about the places featured. An illustrated city map provides the basis for a city walk for children and adults that leads to all the places featured. The story is told at the original locations. Exciting details from the research are revealed.

The plot of the book begins with a child's walk home. It leads past an Innsbruck curiosity - the metal Drathat lines the entrance to a small villa in the Wilten district of Innsbruck. The child seemingly brings the mythical creature to life, whereupon the two set off together on an exploration tour of Innsbruck. Equipped with creativity, the two play with the space and experience unexpected and sometimes adventurous things.

The children's book is an imaginative exploration of Innsbruck and is intended to inspire a joyful exploration.

A project by Carolina Schutti

Grant amount: 9,000 euros
Implementation: 2023/2024

What is it about?

Our society is undergoing change; the pandemic, Russia’s war of aggression, climate change and inflation – the actual consequences for our coexistence are impossible to foresee. In this era of polarisation and uncertainty of all kinds, a literary exploration of existential questions (and death) is essential – it makes an important contribution to the wider discourse.

Bringing literature and (cemetery) architecture together, connecting the living and the dead through language, linking the past and the present, and stimulating public debate: these are the objectives of ‘Rest in Poetry’. Specifically, we invite writers to take on a challenge: to read in cemeteries (for the dead) without an audience, accompanied only by the ‘Rest in Poetry’ team – Tina Feyrer (camera) and Michael Stavaric (concept, production) – as well as the respective local partners. Tina Feyrer’s unique cinematic language blends literary dialogues with a part of the public space that is entirely dedicated to the dead.

This project takes up an idea that originated elsewhere, transforms it, and is also intended to pass the baton on to another location once the project is complete: particular attention is paid to cross-regional and cross-border collaboration.

A project by Melanie Gandyra

Funding amount: 19.550 Euro
Implementation: 2023/2024

What is it about?

The project "Von Nutz & Zier" ("Of Use & Adornment") is a book that aims to make a place that is so important for Innsbruck, but which is rich in shadows, more visible and accessible. The Hofgarten and the Palmenhaus, form a welcome opportunity in the city for green everyday escape. At the same time, they are full of history and information that even most Innsbruck residents tend to keep hidden.

Over 600 years of garden history entwine themselves between the branches and leaves of the Hofgarten. Ancient trees line up in front of the alpine mountain panorama, forming one of the oldest and most pristine pleasure gardens in Europe.

In "Von Nutz & Zier" (Of Use & Adornment) the origin of the court garden, as well as important persons in the time events are to be processed historically and as graphic narration. The structure of the garden with site plans, maps and infographics will be explained and thus serve as a guide for the inspection of the

the places. In the same way, the plants that can be admired there are to be presented in a visually accessible and understandable way. It is intended to provide a journey through European garden art history, which, underpinned with basic botanical knowledge, aims to raise awareness of the special features of the Hofgarten, but also of colonial theft of nature.

The book project is intended to have an informative effect parallel to a visit to this place in order to make it more comprehensible. Green oases in the urban space are rare in Innsbruck and it is all the more important to protect and preserve them.

A collaborative project between TKI – Tyrolean Cultural Initiatives and Initiative Minderheiten Tirol

Grant amount: 9,000 euros
Implementation: 2023

What is it about?

Culture for all and culture by all! This slogan, coined in the 1970s, marked the beginning in Austria of a state cultural policy aimed at the democratisation and decentralisation of cultural activities, as well as the start of a state funding system that was not intended to be accessible only to representatives of so-called ‘high culture’. A great deal has happened since then; many cities – including Innsbruck – have established public funding schemes for the arts and culture. Yet the aspiration of ‘culture by all’ has still not been realised to this day. On closer inspection, it becomes clear that even the municipal funding system is not equally accessible to everyone. Cultural associations and artists with a migration background and multiple identities face invisible barriers, which can stem from a number of reasons – language barriers being just one of them. We, the TKI – Tyrolean Cultural Initiatives and the Initiative for Minorities in Tyrol, have set ourselves the aim with this project, in collaboration with representatives from migrant (cultural) organisations and individuals, to identify the structural mechanisms of exclusion within the city’s cultural funding system and to jointly develop concrete proposals for more inclusive and diverse cultural funding. We believe that improving access to cultural funding will benefit all cultural actors in Innsbruck and that our pilot project can also serve as inspiration for other towns and local authorities.

A project by Studio Fundus

Grant amount: 19,550 euros
Implementation: 2023

What is it about?

Over the course of one week in May, the Wilten neighbourhood will come alive in a variety of ways. Each day, a different invitation will be extended to residents and visitors to the area. An invitation to engage in conversation. An invitation to share stories and photos. An invitation to individually redefine the neighbourhood’s boundaries. An invitation to make one’s voice heard and to experience the response. An invitation to change one’s perspective and to reposition oneself within the neighbourhood.

Each activity, each invitation, builds on the one that came before. Over the course of the week, a new audiovisual portrait of the neighbourhood emerges, shaped by the experiences of its residents and visitors.

The programme is complemented by talks and discussion sessions led by organisations, associations and experts active in the neighbourhood. At the weekend, there is also a programme for children, and last but not least, there is the chance to eat together and perhaps even dance!

A simple mobile structure forms the scenography for the programme. It marks the location, attracts attention and, at the same time, serves as a display for the collected contributions and interventions from the active audience. It is erected on Wiltener Platzl, examines its role as a neighbourhood centre and moves from there into the surrounding streets.

A project by Aesthetics Athletics

Funding amount: 12.900 Euro
Implementation: 2023

What is it about?

The mosh pit.

Is the uninhibited, wild colliding of mostly strangers at a concert still contemporary? Does the mosh pit represent a hierarchy according to the motto "the strongest person wins" and cannot be reconciled with values such as equality or the inclusion of all groups of people? Do we need to make loss of control a taboo?

We say, no.

The mosh pit is created by charged emotion, by the positive & active exchange of energy between individuals. In the moment of the moshpit, all that often seems to get lost in our ever faster society is discharged: the emotions between us.

But: Hierarchies always belong to be questioned.

Based on this conviction, we would like to reinterpret the moshpit, which in reality is usually a phenomenon characterized by classical hierarchies.

The term "Safe Space" plays a role in this. In this spectral space, existing structures that lead to harassment, exclusion or even physical violence are to be counteracted through education & self-examination.

The project "Moshpit" aims to bring a discourse about "Safe Space" into the urban consciousness of Innsbruck through performance, flashmob, discussion & exhibition with direct participation possibility, not accepting fundamental truths underlying first impressions and exploring the dynamic-progressive space of the moshpit.

A project by Kulturkollektiv Contrapunkt

Funding amount: 21.000 Euro
Realization: 2021/2022

What is it about?

The Covid 19 pandemic has made social conflict lines visible and swept across social life like a tornado. The pandemic made so some social conflicts visible and . The cultural collective ContrApunkt wants to address these open social fault lines and will raise questions in the form of the Discourse(iv) Festival gegen.WART - your Discourse(iv) Festival for heterogeneous positions. On the one hand, the focus will be on negotiating heterogeneous positions; on the other hand, we are also interested in making visions and utopias the subject of discussion. As a common thread of the festival, we want to explore the question of what kind of society we actually want to live in. For the festival we are defining six different thematic fields, to which we are inviting theoreticians, activists and practitioners, i.e. people who see society as something made and changeable.

A project by Nicole Weniger

Grant amount: 15,675 euros
Implementation: 2021/2022

What is it about?

With the project HORIZONT bitte, the artist Nicole Weniger aims to draw attention to the concept of broadening one’s horizons in a spiritual and intellectual sense, and to bring this desire for openness to the new and the unknown into the public sphere. HORIZONT bitte can be understood as a demand, a reminder and a wish. It is a call to keep the boundaries of one’s own thinking flexible, to highlight that this is an active process that must be consciously fostered, and a wish for the city to facilitate the broadening of horizons within Innsbruck’s cultural life.

The ‘HORIZONT bitte’ lettering marks the banks of the River Inn as a new landmark for the city of Innsbruck and also serves as a venue for several performances. Alongside the installation of the ‘HORIZONT bitte’ lettering, invited artists can present their interpretations of the theme of the horizon. ‘HORIZONT bitte’ invites you to dream, lets your thoughts run free and opens up new perspectives. For a short time, the banks of the River Inn are transformed into a heterotopia of vistas.

A project by the Cognac & Biskotten Literary Society

Grant amount: 7,000 euros
Implementation: 2021/2022

What is it about?

The Innsbruck-based urban literature club Cognac & Biskotten, which has been tirelessly realising innovative cultural projects and bringing culture to neighbourhoods for 24 years, is dedicating its latest experiment to the ‘Marktviertel Poesie’ – a neighbourhood that only reveals itself at second glance.

Fifteen artists from Innsbruck will creatively explore a part of their city through text, music and imagery. To this end, we are seeking local writers and musicians who wish to engage with the Marktviertel and the city as a general theme in their work, or who have already done so. Visually complemented by large-format, painterly photographs by an Innsbruck-based artist.

Following a six-month production phase, the resulting programmes are to be presented to the public via live performances at seven different venues in the Marktviertel. Seven days a week, a different pair of artists will take to the stage at a different venue each day, performing their literary and musical works for around half an hour.

Exploring questions such as: How does a city shape its artists, and how does the city flow into poems, stories, music and images? Through artistic diversity, ‘street art’ will be created in the truest sense of the word, and a stage will be provided for urban ‘homeland densification’.

A journey of discovery into the seemingly trivial, away from the well-trodden tourist paths and glossy worlds. An exploration of ‘non-places’ which, on closer inspection, reveal their fragile poetry.

A project by the Freifall Association

Grant amount: 9,800 euros
Implementation: 2021/2022

What is it about?

The project ‘Letter to (y)our future city’ – Workshop | Installation | Performance – aims to explore ways of moving from a ‘closed’ city towards an ‘open’ city. This will be explored through a workshop in collaboration with various institutions in Innsbruck, followed by an installation in a public space (Innsbruck Market Square) and a performance based on the workshop’s findings. In the workshop, participants will write two letters to their future city. The first letter will be about their personal vision of this future city, whilst the second ‘open’ letter will draw on the visions of the other participants and be addressed to a specific location in Innsbruck.

Together, we may find ways to move from a closed city of order, surveillance and marginalisation towards an open city of lively disorder, of responsible coexistence and living side by side – from rigidity and the predetermined to openness and appropriation. We want a city in which people of all languages, skin colours, ages, artistic disciplines, occupations, chromosomal arrangements and sexual orientations – as well as animals and plants – can flourish, meet, unsettle and reassure one another. The letters will then be presented to the public in an installation on the market square in Innsbruck and will form the foundation and content for a transdisciplinary performance taking place there: A wish list for the city of Innsbruck!

A project of Black Community Innsbruck

Funding amount: 10.000 Euro
Implementation: 2021/2022

What is it about?

"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive"

(Audre Lorde)

Who we are

The Black Community IBK came into being during the protests against the murder of George Floyd, following the need to organize together, sustainably and lovingly, to advocate for the freedom and justice of Black people in Innsbruck. Our work is consciously aimed at forming and promoting a Black community in the struggle against racism and deprivation that is aware of its history and does not use the same mechanisms of oppression against each other.

We want to write a piece of 'Black History' in Innsbruck with the project #wegonnabreath.

Black History

Our work strives to create access to "their" history for Black people in Innsbruck, in order to be able to comprehend current social structures and individual inclusion based on this. Black people have been part of Austrian society for centuries and thus also part of Austrian history. Nevertheless, we are structurally excluded or described as foreign in the local culture of remembrance and history. Essentialist notions of national belonging are to be sustainably rejected on this path.

We want to get in touch with people and their biographies, stories, everyday life and creative, working and thinking, which are otherwise hardly heard in Innsbruck. We want to research, discover, learn, celebrate, chill and document everything together.

We, the Black Community Innsbruck, are making plans for this project and have been for a while: so the time is now ripe to implement them, to step into the public eye, to strengthen our community and let it grow.

With our work we want to advance our ideas of an open, more solidary and plural society. To do this, it is necessary to show that such a society has long been there, and that it holds great wealth. With the project we want to show that people from the African Diaspora shape the culture and history of Innsbruck in many ways and that there is much to learn from them.

Background of the project

More than 60 years ago, the African-American writer James Baldwin came to Europe and stated: Most Europeans:inside had never seen a black person. Baldwin felt like a sight to behold: "If I sat in the sun for more than five minutes, some particularly brave creature was sure to come up to me and anxiously put his hand on my hand and wonder why the color didn't come off," he wrote in "Stranger in The Village" in 1955. Much has changed since then, Austrian society is becoming increasingly pluralistic, black people are part of everyday life and will continue to shape Austria in the future.

What about Innsbruck?

Innsbruck, its mountains and tourism are a central place for history, migration and life. Black people have come and continue to come from many different countries and for many different reasons. Many were born here as Austrians, others come from America, Africa, many are asylum seekers. But hardly anyone knows our history. Who are we? What are our stories? How do we live in Innsbruck? What experiences do we have here? What connection do we have to the city and its inhabitants? What can we change and how can we make change work? What experiences of discrimination (from racist club door politics to institutional racism) do we face in Innsbruck?

Our project wants to change this. The focus is on Black people, our voices were and are often the least heard. We work with the goal of fostering a network that recognizes and applies the everyday experiences and empowerments of each Black person - given age, actual or perceived gender identity, sexual orientation, economic or social status, immigration or residency status, religious belief or non-belief - to end all forms of oppression.

We believe we have an obligation to make our activities family-friendly in order to enable parents and children to participate in a sustainable and active way. In doing so, we aim to break away from westernized, patriarchal ideas and family structures by viewing each other as extended family. In concrete terms, this means supporting each other and taking an interest in each other together.

Each one teaches one - intergenerationality

We are committed to fostering an intergenerational and community network free of age discrimination. We believe that all people, regardless of age, have capacities for learning and teaching. Moreover, we see intergenerational collaboration as a valuable resource that connects diverse spectrums of experience to new visions and enriches our community-based work ideologically and conceptually.

A project of the association Women from all countries

Funding amount: 14.689,13
Implementation: 2020/2021

Project description

In terms of content, the exhibition aims, on the one hand, to highlight the perspectives of those women who helped shape the results now on display during the 2019 workshops, as well as their view of Innsbruck and the city. On the other hand, it also aims to provide food for thought for a (self-)critical examination of issues relating to mobility and movement in public spaces, as well as privileges in this context. To make the exhibition accessible to as many people as possible, it will be adapted for educational purposes by two German language tutors, and workshops will subsequently be offered for women with a history of migration and/or displacement.

Exhibition opening: The city belongs to us all.

Migrant women make their voices heard in public spaces.

Building on these questions, a series of workshops was held in 2019 with women from all countries as part of the project ‘The City Belongs to Us All’. During these workshops, a group of migrant women explored Innsbruck as a city and as a living space. They shared their experiences of life in Innsbruck, went on excursions to places that were important to them, and processed their impressions in creative ways. This led to the creation of a travelling exhibition comprising 11 thematic roll-ups as part of the ‘Stadtpotenziale 2020’ initiative. In it, the group presents their perspective on the city whilst simultaneously claiming a space within it. The exhibition also offers food for thought, aiming to prompt reflection on the barriers and opportunities for participation in city life.

The travelling exhibition was on display until 4 March 2022 in the foyer of the BFI Tirol as part of the ‘aus.grenzen:auf.machen’ series of events.

A project by Zweitgeschichte

Funding amount: 9.356,18
Implementation: 2020/2021

What is it about

In this project we tell the story of the day the Ibiza affair came to public attention from the point of view of several members of the Initiative Schwarze Frauen* Innsbruck. This will be done by means of a paper theater, which brings an art form that has fallen into the past into the present. Paper theater is a low-threshold form of theater-making. Paper figures glued on wood play in front of changing paper locations. Our political theater addresses the impact of right-wing populist politics on marginalized groups in our society, with the goal of making political moods and attitudes palpable.

A project by Postmodern Talking – Franz-Xaver Franz

Grant amount: 13,000 euros
Implementation: 2021/2022

Project description

"Ischgl. An ‘après après-ski’” is a semi-documentary theatre piece that examines, from various perspectives, the events surrounding the happenings in Ischgl (and throughout Tyrol) which caused a stir across Europe in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.

We want to focus on those people who, as is so often the case, remain largely invisible: the migrant seasonal workers who work in Tyrol not only in agriculture – in such large numbers that without them the economy would face collapse (harvest workers) – but also in tourism. It is they who guarantee Innsbruck’s wealth, who safeguard our prosperity on the city’s doorstep. We want to follow in their footsteps, out of the city, to areas such as Ischgl, St. Anton and the Zillertal – places that, to me at least, seem more distant and unfamiliar than Berlin or New York.

What did the project involve?

A madcap journey through two years of the pandemic, from Ischgl to Europe’s external borders, from Wuhan to Bergamo and back, to the winter sports mecca, where some have got everything right and others think they know it all better. Today, the question is no longer whether Tyrol can survive without tourism, but despite tourism. In Ischgl. In *The Penguins’ Revolt*, mass tourism becomes a mass test; penguins plot a revolt; hoteliers end up in a monastery; and Xaver Schumacher and Meera Theunert prove that they’ve lost everything – except their sense of humour.

Written and performed by: Xaver Schumacher and Meera Theunert. A Postmodern Talking production

Research: Sónia Melo. Costumes: Wiebke Strombeck. Artistic collaboration: Lia Sudermann, Martin Fritz, Elias Candolini

A project by Zweiwerk - Carolin Bohn and Anna von Schrottenberg

Funding amount: 10.130 Euro
Implementation: 2020/2021

Project description

Lie, Cunning, Denial. Workshop on a European culture/history with performative precipitation

The theater workshop on "Lies, Cunning and Denial" opens a space that, beyond a moral embodiment, asks questions. What use is this or that lie to us? Is it worth it? Is it even possible to live without it? What would a world - and a politics - look like without lies? What would a world look like in which a distinction is made between good and bad lies? What would one look like in which this question does not play a role? With Corona, we live in a time of uncertainty; no one knows what to do, whether they are infected, how dangerous the pandemic is, whether the global curfew is doing its job. Not having a plan is like chaos in the mind, extremely unsettling: can this still be an opportunity? Can we, in the midst of and after the first Corona wave, still delude ourselves, or are we deluding ourselves of safety all the more? Does lying still work, how does it currently work? Is it still helpful or is it just abolishing itself?

We research on site and interview passers-by, participants of the workshop and in institutions such as old people's homes, schools, city administrations, prisons, universities, therapy centers. In the end, a kaleidoscope of individual and institutional strategies of lying and deception, personal gains and losses through lying and deception, disillusionment and vision in regard to the everyday tool of dissimulation is created. The results will be dramaturgically prepared and presented for a final performance with workshop participants.

Project performance: Lie, Cunning, Denial

Was my last lie useful? What is its price? Is denial worth it? What would a world without lies look like? Is the lie still useful? Is it just doing away with itself?

A dizzying kaleidoscope of individual denials and institutional lying strategies emerged at www.luegen.net: Stories of personal gain and painful loss through lies, of disillusionment through deception, of grand visions and unbelievable impudence with regard to the everyday tool of dissimulation join together - beyond moral claims or evaluations.

Starting in May 2021, the project initially appeared in an online guise; in July, the project leaders Anna von Schrottenberg and Carolin Bohn - in alignment with the respective Corona regulations - realized workshops and a work-in-progress exhibition around the theme of lying: telling, listening, playing, writing, drawing. The website was populated with stories of lies, and the project was accompanied by a blog.

Every story of lies was welcome, every thought and feeling about lies, cunning, denial. Anyone who still has a story in stock can submit it by email to info@luegen.net.

Kaleidoscope

The Lie List Denial Kaleidoscope to hear, see, read ... was live in July 2021 and has since been available online at: www.luegen.net/kaleidoskop

Workshops

An overview of the workshops that were realized as part of the project can be found at www.luegen.net/workshops

Exhibition

In July 2021 an exhibition took place in the Kesselhaus at Karmelitergasse 21 in Innsbruck. More details at www.luegen.net/ausstellung

A project by Nicola Nagy and Marlene Schlichtenhorst

Funding amount: 13,700 euros
Implementation: 2020-2022

Project description upon submission
(Under the title "Adam's heirs - a family biographical search for traces between city and country")

Von Vätern und Söhnen is an ethnographic documentary about the movement from the city to the countryside as well as from the countryside to the city and the resulting connections from the perspective of men of three generations of a Tyrolean family. Grandfather, father and son share their biographies against the background of different socio-spatial positioning in the city, the countryside and in between. The focus is on the generational relationship and the traditional as well as changing ideas of masculinity in the life plans of the three protagonists.

Hugo has lived in the Pitztal for 85 years, Martin left the valley of his childhood at an early age, Jeremias is a stranger to this (grand)paternal home, having grown up in Innsbruck. The filmmakers moderate an open-ended encounter between the three men, a social experiment that points beyond itself: Adam's Heirs superficially portrays a very personal family biographical conversation about city and country. But what is expressed through it is exemplary for numerous Tyrolean family biographies and the directly related questions of identity and perpetuating family dynamics, in light of religious convictions as well as ideas of tradition, homeland and masculinity.

How much rural valley lives on in the city? How much city is carried into rural life? What notions of masculinity manifest themselves across generations and in different lifestyles in urban and rural areas? These questions form the common thread for the film Adam's Heirs, which sees itself as a family biographical search for traces as well as a critical questioning of social constructions of masculinity.

A project of the association Freifall

Funding amount: 9.124,69 Euro
Implementation: 2020/2021

Project description

Michael Ende once wrote a note on a piece of paper. He kept writing notes on little pieces of paper. He called them notepads. One of them is called "The Lost Man" and reads as follows: "He hands himself in at the lost and found, sits down on the shelf there. Now and then he asks the clerk if an owner hasn't come forward. After year and day, he gets himself, since he is the finder."

We want to create a space in which we can give ourselves up for a moment, in which we can give ourselves up, in which we can stop time or in which we can take our time. A shelter. A catch basin. A bunker. A base camp. A cave. An igloo. A temple. A modern chapel. A space capsule. A spaceship. A time machine with which we can look into the past and into the future. But above all, a time machine that allows us to look into the present. A space in which we can, as I said, stop time and take a break from the hectic, fast-paced and noisy life outside. A space of silence. A space of contemplation. A space for new ideas. For new ways of encountering ourselves and the whole world. A space where we can find ourselves and where we can give up (ourselves). (To) give up may not mean to turn away from the world. It may mean just the opposite. Turning toward the world.