23. – 24. Nov. 2015 Villach AT

In 2012, show.Rooms_regional used empty business premises in Villach to showcase contributions from artists, scientists and NGOs concerning the theme of QUEER.

Queer is derived from the German word "quer" and from the English word for strange, odd, eccentric, homosexual. With the title of the event "Queerelen!", a controversy was created that questioned normative structures and played on empty spaces in Widmanngasse and Kaiser-Josef-Platz in Villach: In short performances, the audience experienced a wide variety of contributions in the form of lectures, talks, installations and performances in five rooms. The entire guided tour lasted 1 ½ h. The guides who accompanied them through the evening included people who live a queer lifestyle themselves. They were prepared for their work as guides in biography workshops.

Spaces and people:
learn.Room: queer lectures by Beatrice Frasl and Utta Isop
visual.Room: multimedia art by Barbara Rapp and Evelin Stermitz
hear and listen.Room: sound and listening experiments with Muriel Louveau, unplugged live Clara Luzia and live broadcast with Radio Agora
play.Room: queer performance contributions: Leja Jurišić (dance and performance) and ALEGRIA (forum theater)
free.Room: exchange and networking with material from civil society associations (Queer base, türkis-rosa-lila Villa, HOSI) on the topic of queer

Artistic direction: Katrin Ackerl Konstantin
Biography workshops: Rosalia Kopeinig
Scenography: 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.

A cooperation with the Off-theater festival play off.

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.