show.Rooms_regional: AND/I

From November 29 to December 10, 2025, vacant commercial sites in Villach/Beljak will be transformed into temporary performance and discourse spaces. The focus will be on the terms post-migrant, post-Muslim, and post-Balkan—not labels, but statements. They speak of life paths that transcend origin, religion, or migration history, transforming these experiences into sources of new expressions of culture, connection, and belonging. The audience will be guided through various rooms, accompanied by guides from the biographical storytelling workshops. These workshops form the basis of the artistic work – they open up spaces for storytelling and listening, in which personal experiences are interwoven with social issues.
Each tour lasts around 70 minutes and takes place on the following days: November 29, December 3, December 4, December 5, December 7, December 9, and December 10 – at 6:00 p.m., 6:30 p.m., and 7:00 p.m. each day.
Each guided tour lasts around 70 minutes and takes place on the following days: November 29, December 3, December 4, December 5, December 7, December 9, and December 10—each day at 6:00 p.m., 6:30 p.m., and 7:00 p.m..
UND/I connects art, science, and civil society opening spaces for dialogue and perspectives on belonging, memory, and social participation. The project views migration not as an exception, but as an integral part of our shared reality. It demonstrates how movement creates community and how diversity shapes new forms of coexistence. The event series continues schau.Räume_regional's artistic exploration of socially marginalized topics in Carinthia/Koroška. 

More about show.rooms_regional AND/I find here…

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Intervention

“The New Ones" - photos from the two interventions: landing & arriving available here and a video 

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 at schau.Räume, Draupromenade 6, Villach. Director: Katrin Ackerl Konstantin/Amalia Contarini. Performers: Amalia Contarini, Martina Konrad, Maria Leeb, Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp, Ingrid Türk-Chlapek and Anita Winkler. Assistance: Mitch Münzer/Rosalia Kopeinig. 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, they will design different endings of this story. 

Thursday, November 27, 16:00-17:00 “Staying” In front of 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 Fall.

Publication

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.”

The publication “Queer-feminist city history(ies) from Villach/Beljak and Klagenfurt/Celovec a kind of graphicNOVEL” is finalized and available in bookstores or if you contact us directly! 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. The presentation offers the oportunity to learn about the origins, content and background of this extraordinary publication, to engage with experts and community mebers and to participate in a workshop.

More about the two performances that laid the groundwork for the publication here and here.

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: November 21th  (time as usual)

Inquiries and Registration: rk@schau.raeume.cc

More information about applied theater can be found here.

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: November 12 and 26. 

Inquiry and contact: kk@schau.raeume.cc

More about FREAK OUT can be found here.

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