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Book presentation - photos
“My story has become liquid and has left solitary confinement. Now it marbles with the colors of other life stories and steps out of the loneliness of wordlessness and wants to be told.”
Preparations are in full swing, the layout is getting the finishing touches! The publication “Queer-feminist city history(ies) from Villach/Beljak and Klagenfurt/Celovec a kind of graphicNOVEL” is currently being finalized. It contains 19 biographical queer-feminist stories that invite you to get to know the two cities from a personal perspective. The stories were written by the performers of two schau.Räume productions and edited as a graphic novel.
More about the two performances that are the “prehistory” of the publication find here and here…
29th of June 2025
3 to 5 pm Workshop “Living diversity”: In this workshop, Mitch Noah Münzer, who works in the field of adult education, opens up spaces for diverse stories, perspectives and attitudes. In the context of the book publication, he explores with the participants in the protected setting of the schau.Räume how diversity becomes visible - and how we locate ourselves within it. More information you find here…
6 pm Book presentation: The presentation includes a short introduction to the book, readings of selected passages by the authors, a discussion about the potential of comics and queer feminism with the expert Marina Rauchenbacher as well as insights into the design process and, of course, an exchange with the audience, signing opportunities and book sale.
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schau.Räume Lab, Draupromenade 6, Villach
The entire event will be translated into sign language.
Free Entrance, please register: info@schau.raeume.cc
Intervention
“The New Ones" - photos
An intervention in public pace centered around the children's book of the same name by Susanna Isern and Sonja Wimmer, published by Carl-Auer Verlag, which deals with deportation and inclusion and offers two different endings. This book is the starting point for three interventions that performatively retrace the content in public space: Characters from the book appear immersive as animal masks and deal scenically with questions of arrival, migration and inclusion. After each intervention, there will be an opportunity for a follow-up discussion in the schau.Räume, Draupromenade 6, Villach. Director: Katrin Ackerl Konstantin. Performers: Amalia Contarini, Martina Konrad, Rosalia Kopeinig, Maria Leeb, Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp and Anita Winkler. Assistance Mitch Münzer. The actors are players of the applied theater of schau.Räume as well as performers of the -freakout Tanztheater-. In cooperation with the Gymnasium St. Martin/Villach and Theresa Pasterk, there will also be a workshop with pupils.
Thursday, July 3, 9:00-9:30 “Landing” at the Drauterassen Villach landing stage, follow-up discussion: 11:00 a.m. Photos
Saturday, October 11, 11:00-13:00 “Arriving” In the city center of Villach, follow-up talk: 14:00
Thursday, November 27, 16:00-17:00 “Staying” In front of the schau.Räume, Draupromenade 6, follow-up talk: 18:00
The events and talks are free to attend and invite participation. They are part of the production schau.Räume_regional “UND/I” on the topic of PostBalkan, which will take place in vacant buildings in Villach in the fall.
show.Rooms_regional
“PostBalkan"
Post-migrant. Post-Muslim. Post-Balkan.
These are not labels - they are statements.They stand for lifestyles that cannot be reduced to origin, religion or migration history. They arise from all of this - but do not remain stuck in it.These terms break expectations. They undermine common categories and demand new narratives. They create space for contradictions, for ambivalences - for a self-image that does not have to be constantly explained or legitimized. What they have in common is a critical attitude towards social attributions. They reject the role of the “other” - and inscribe themselves in the middle of plural societies. Reflexive. Multi-layered. Beyond folklore of origin and integration rhetoric.
show.Rooms_regional are regional performative interventions in several vacant commercial spaces dedicated to a marginalized topic.
From November 29 till December 10, 2025 show.Rooms is realizing a show.Rooms_regional event series entitled PostBalkan. Preparatory biography workshops take place throughout the year. They are offered monthly on different topics and provide the opportunity to participate.
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Free Entrance
More about the Biography Workshops find here…
Regularly
Applied Theater
Applied theater is offered as an intensive workshop with theater techniques. be come pART!
The dates are regularely offered throughout the year
on the third Friday of the month, 4 pm till 7 pm
Next events: September 19th Friday and 20th Saturday - intensive workshop (time as usual)
Inquiries and Registration: rk@schau.raeume.cc
More information about applied theater can be found here.
Biographical Storytelling
Giving space to biographies and excerpts from life, opens up a space for sharing and reconstructing. be come pART!
Next biographical workshops on post-migrant topics: Urlaubsmigration
June 26th, 6 pm till 8 pm, show.Rooms LAB and SAFE SPACE, Draupromenade 6, Villach
Inquiries and Registration: rk@schau.raeume.cc
FREAK OUT Dance training
FREAK OUT Dance training is contemporary dance for an inclusive society. The regular offer is in cooperation with Lebenshilfe Ledenitzen and is aimed at people with and without special needs who are interested in dance. be come pART!
The training sessions are held regularly twice a month on Wednesdays from 10:30 - 12:30
Trainings: Every second and fourth Wednesday of the month ( in January the third and fourth Wednesday!)
Inquiry and contact: kk@schau.raeume.cc
More about FREAK OUT can be found here.
Ongoing
show.Rooms is part at the exhibition of the Council of Europe
“The virtual mapping of the unseen” which is part of a show.Rooms research project, was selected for the digital exhibition of the European Council titeled „Free to create – create to be Free“ (70th anniversary on convention of human rights). The project was selected as the Austrian contribution by an expert team of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, the Austrian Commission for UNESCO and the Austrian Working Group for Cultural Diversity.
The digital exhibition is open 24 hours: https://freetocreate.art/
More information about the reserach project is available here: The virtual mapping of Mapping the Unseen
