20. – 30. Mai 2011 Villach AT

show.Rooms_regional temporarily intervened in vacant business premises in Villach on the topic of migration and involved artists, scientists and NGOs in the region who work on the topic.

The venue for show.Rooms 11 was Lederergasse in Villach. A street that has been the subject of discriminatory media coverage with regard to migrants, an alleyway with empty objects, with a loud, dazzling night scene, an alleyway "that was no longer visited". In this alley, the first edition of show.Rooms was realized with the theme of migration. Under the title "Räume(n)", migration was addressed from a wide variety of perspectives and the empty spaces were filled with regional interdisciplinary contributions from art, sciences and associations. Every evening, the public was accompanied through these spaces in small groups and experienced installations, short performances and discussions. In total, these guided tours lasted around 1-2 hours. The audience was guided by guides who were personally affected by the topic of migration through their own life stories. They were prepared for their work as guides in biography workshops.

Rooms and Persons:
picture.Rooms: films by Andrea Amenitsch "ausquatiert" (Ö, 2008)
Haris Bilajbegovic "Most" (Ö/Bosnia, 2006)
Ajda Sticker “All-inclusive, no-money-back guarantee” (Ö/Spain, 2010)
As well as performances drawing on texts that were developed in the show.Rooms biography workshops – by the team Alfred Burian / Martin Mittersteiner
speak.Rooms: Radio Agora live - talks with representatives of civil society groups (PIVA, Platform Migration-Villach, Amnesty International, Welcome Neighbor, VOBIS), cultural associations and property-owners
play.Rooms: GLOBO - game and book presentation with Stefan Neuner and Andreas Exenberger (UNI Innsbruck)
rent.Rooms: conversations with people: migrants – in their role as guides – led through the events of the show.Room program
learn.Rooms: presentation of the association Vobis concerning intercultural dialogues
move.Rooms: movement logs of residents, employees and their connections – references and relations are visualized
new.Rooms: in a fictional flat: music performance by Felicity Lee
on.Rooms: magazine DAS BIBER with Ivana Martinovic tells the story of building the award-winning interactive community website
Lecture by Christiane Hintermann (migration researcher) on Austrian history as a history of migration
here.Rooms: fashion designer Christina Berger opens her apartment to the public; Trophies from the everyday life of a FOREIGN world - Installation by Alex Samyi in Lederergasse. The student Jasna Cehic reads stories about life in Bosnia and life here. She is in conversation with Bärbel Gaal-Kranner, who also brings her current manuscript  
Letters to the editor created by Amnesty International (Villach) with Yulia Ismaylova
no.Rooms: The neighborhood mediator Wolfgang Weilharter talks about housing conflicts

Artistic direction: Katrin Ackerl Konstantin
Biographical Workshop: Rosalia Kopeinig
Scenographie: Alex Samyi

The project was funded by: BMUKK - Federal Ministry for Education, Arts, Culture of the Republic of Austria; Province of Carinthia, City of Villach, Infineon Technologies Austria.

A cooperation with the theater festival Spectrum by neuebuehnevillach.

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.