24. - 29. Apr. 2018 Spittal an der Drau AT

schau.Rooms_regional realized performances, installations and talks on the topic of mental illness in vacant business premises in Spittal in 2018.

"STIMMEN" (title of the event series) took the audience on a tour of 6 empty spaces and rooms in the city of Spittal on the subject of mental illness. The entire tour lasted 1 ½ h. The audience experienced short performances, installations and lectures by regional and national scientists, artists and contributions from NGOs. Among the guides who accompanied the audience from room to room were individuals who were currently engaged with the topic in their personal and professional environments. They were prepared for their work as guides in biography workshops.

Rooms and people:
connecting.Room: Scenography by Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp
inner.Room: Installation and texts by Franziska F., Music by Foolish Green
dark.Room: Interviews with relatives and friends of mentally ill people - Design by Andreas Hudelist
play.Room: An "exploratory internship" from the play 'PSYCHIATRIE!' by Gabriela Hütter;
"My white world" by neuebuehnevillach with Amrei Baumgart (performance) and Steffan Zefferer (text)
"accumulation#shivering" a dance piece by Netzwerk AKS - Plattform for Contemporary Dance + Art, Choreography by Andrea K Schlehwein, Dance and performance by Margherita Malinconi and Maayan Reiter
"Four completely normal days" by Stadtbühne Spittal, text and direction by Gertrud Reiterer-Remenyi, acting by Alfred Rindlisbacher
listen.Room: live broadcast with Radio Agora
learn.Raum/teach.Room: Lecture on "Psychiatry back then" with Helge Stromberger
Lecture on "Psychiatry Today" with Tobia Darimont
new.Room: Exchange and networking with materials from NGOs with Lichtblick, pro mente, Migrant*innenberatung, Frauenberatung Spittal on the topic of mental illness, as well as film screenings of "Hergebrennt" by Sicke cylixe and “Voices” by Sylvia Toy 

Concept and curation: Katrin Ackerl Konstantin
Biography workshops: Rosalia Kopeinig
Scenography and door installation: Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp

This project was funded by: BMUKK - Federal Ministry for Education, Arts, Culture of the Republic of Austria; Province of Carinthia - Department of Culture, City of Spittal an der Drau.

show.Rooms_regional is an intervention on a marginalized topic in several vacant business premises of a city together with regional artists, scientists and associations that work on the topic. A more detailed explanation of the format can be found here.