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6/6/2013

Festival of Regions

Different venues, Eferding

From 7 to 16 June the Festival of Regions will be exploring and cultivating the third oldest Austrian town of Eferding. Under the motto of Digging Up, a dense and multi-faceted program with 38 contemporary art and culture projects and 110 events will be presented. Almost 600 persons will be participating in the projects.

“All the themes, motifs and interventions relate to history and stories, to social relations and structures in the region,” says the festival’s artistic director, Gottfried Hattinger, communicating one of the main aims. Through the Festival of Regions, unusual perspectives on normality are supposed to be evoked and a nutritious soil for new artistic plantings, including rare plants and hybrid mutations, prepared. The provincial governor, Dr Josef Pühringer, comments, “I congratulate the Festival of Regions on its ambitious, high-quality work. Many of its initiatives have been and still are effective impulses for current artistic and cultural work in our federal state and beyond. I am particularly glad that its role as model is being maintained in the twentieth year of its existence”

Twenty years Festival of Regions
In 2013 the Festival of Regions is celebrating its 20th year. To date 10 festivals with 275 projects, and several thousand participants and collaborators have taken place at 120 venues in Upper Austria. Numerous projects in the festival’s history turned out to be exemplary for present-day forms of site-specific art and culture, art in public spaces, everyday culture, performance and participatory practice. In 2011 the Festival of Regions was awarded the Upper Austrian State Culture Prize for its achievements in the area of innovative cultural work.

Digging Up: Festival opening on 7 June
On the first of ten days of the 2013 Festival of Regions, the Vegetable Orchestra will be presenting a new interpretation of the Eferding March by Fridolin Dallinger. On the opening day, the start of a cosmic cucumber invasion will take place, staged by the Polish group Teatr Cinema in daily performances. The play, Ads (Eferding), is being excitedly expected. At the invitation of the New York City Players, twenty Eferding residents will express publicly their personal convictions. By means of a special protection technique, the protagonists will not appear personally, but in the form of 3-D projections..

Festival Centre on the town square
In the centre of town as part of the evening program, the Festival of Regions will be presenting bands and musicians from the region. The Festival Centre will appraise the rural environs and their ‘everyday attractions’ by repurposing bits and pieces in the form of disused silos, greenhouses and vegetable crates. For the festival’s duration, it is the place to meet, to communicate and also to gather information. Each day, on-site live explorations of places in the environs will be publicly broadcast. A Running Pork Roast will provide quick food in a miniature form.

300 Voices
In the town parish church of Eferding under the title, 300 Voices, ten a capella pieces by renowned composers will be premiered that have been written especially for the Festival of Regions. The brilliant finale will be a Locus iste with all the participating choirs.

History and present-day of the region
In Starhemberg Castle, the Festival of Regions will be showing an exhibition of several installations engaged especially with the town’s history and the present day. The backgrounds of the seasonal migration of harvest workers into the region will be investigated, the passions of musical creativity presented and local events dug up. The installation, HistoryPath, questions official historiography and recollects events from far-off and more recent times. Stories of deserted farms will gain attention in a radio play.

38 projects, 110 events
Eferding is temporarily given an Art Inspectorate. One cubic metre of air will be set back 80 metres over 10 days. A ski-jump will be made to artistically resonate. The festival will be accompanied by the home-grown Eferding author and journalist, Helmut Neundlinger. He will report as a blogger and chronicler on the “festive overturnings” in his home-town. Radio FRO will listen to what’s going on in Eferding and broadcast background reports on the Festival of Regions. What sounds like a dense program is a multi-faceted and multi-genre artistic enterprise in a small Upper Austrian town.

Participating artists and groups
Peter Ablinger, Elfi Aichinger, Alien Productions, Peter Arlt, Miriam Bajtala, Klaus Buttinger, Christoph Cech, Collective ika, dorf tv., EF.K.K., Siegfried Fruhauf, Gemüseorchester, Margit Greinöcker, Gymnasium Dachsberg, Julius Deutschbauer, Cordula Hanisch, Christian Hasucha, Bodo Hell, Christoph Herndler, Ana Hušman, David Jagerhofer, Karl Heinz Jeron, Rudolf Jungwirth, Wolfram P. Kastner, Matthias Klos, Alexander Koller, Lisa Kortschak, Anna Katharina Laggner, Tanja Lažetić, Nelly LiPuma, Medienwerkstatt Linz, Dominika Meindl, Sigrid Meindl, Laura Mello, René Monet, Wolfgang Musil, Helmut Neundlinger, NMS Eferding Nord, New York City Players, Georg Nussbaumer, Stephan Pirker, Sabine Pollak, Bernd Preinfalk, Rabtaldirndln, Radio FRO, Nika Radić, Alfred Reitinger, Gerald Resch, Markus Roithner, Christian Scheib, Georg Schobert, Didi Sommer, Hannes Stelzhamer, Studierende der Kunstuniversität Linz Architektur/Urbanistik, Balduin Sulzer, Karo Szmit, Teatr Cinema, Barbara Ungepflegt, Wolf Vostell, Christoph Weidinger, Erwin Wurm and many collaborators.

Thanks to our sponsors and partners
The Festival of Regions is made possible through support from the State of Upper Austria, the Federal Ministry for Culture (BMUKK), The City of Linz, the Town of Eferding and Kulturkontakt Austria. The Festival of Regions would like to thank the first three for their support over many years. The town of Eferding and Starhemberg Castle are owed great thanks for their generous and open welcome. Without the support also of companies, the Festival of Regions in this form would not be possible. The willingness to embark upon the shared adventure of culture fills us with gladness, gratitude and respect. Thanks are due also to the media partners who help to transmit the festival to the rest of the country. (Detailed list in the appended information sheet)

Festival of Regions
The Festival of Regions is one of the most visible contemporary cultural festivals in Austria. It has been taking place since 1993 every two years at changing venues in Upper Austria and since then has developed into one of the focal events for contemporary site-specific art and culture.

Detailed information on all the projects and participants at www.fdr.at.

Admission, tickets
All events have free admission except:
- Concert Vegetable Orchestra (advance purchase: EUR 14/10)
- Theatre play Ads (advance purchase: EUR 14/10)
- Choir concert 300 Voices (advance purchase: EUR 7/5)
- Workshop Music for Rotten Vegetables (contribution to costs: EUR 10)
Tickets available at www.fdr.at or telephone +43 (0) 680 401 3 973. Concessions: Ö1 Club, OÖN-Card, Der Standard newspaper, AK Kultur, LILO day-ticket, day-ticket Linz AG Lines, students and pupils, Campaign Hunger for Art and Culture.

Art communication – guided festival tours
- On the opening day 7 June at 4:15 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. (duration about one hour)
- Saturdays, Sundays: 3 p.m. (followed by conversation with artists, duration about two hours) and 6 p.m. (followed by a single-focus discussion of about two hours, except on Saturday 15 June) — topics and guests will be announced at short notice on www.fdr.at
- Monday to Friday: 6 p.m. (duration about one and a half hours)
We request registration on the Festival Infoline +43 (0) 680 401 3 974 or directly at the Festival Centre on the town square (opening hours: 2 to 8 p.m.)

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