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/ COMMUNITY / CONSUMERISM
/ COPYRIGHT - COPYLEFT / CORRUPTION
/ DIGITAL NETWORKS / DONATION
/ ECOLOGY / ECONOMY /
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/ METAMORPHOSIS / MILLION
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/ SAVING PEOPLE / SCHAMANISM
/ SPORTS / THEORY /
UNIVERSE / VICTIM - SACRIFICE
/ ZAKAT
WORKSHOP and CONSULTATION
ALTRUISM
Christine Anderwald, head of Marienambulanz
Graz (an institution with 25 voluntary staff members, provides basic
medical care for homeless people, refugees or people with a low
income), Human Rights Award of the regional government of Styria
2006 [Graz]
About the Egoism Involved in Helping Others
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Willibald Posch, Professor
for Comparative and International Law, currently dean of the Law
School, Civil Law of the University of Graz, author of numerous
publications, e.g. Grundzüge fremder Privatrechtssysteme (1995)
[Graz]
The Situatedness of Altruistic Acts by Comparison of Legal Systems
- Europe and America
ANIMALS
Leander Khil, conscientious objector performing
community service, birdwatcher and photographer [Graz]
About Seduction: Playing the Victim as Protection and Defense
Behaviour among Plovers and Other Birds. With Photographic Examples
Leo Kühberger, historian, activist
and farmer [Graz]
Tangible "Swarm Intelligence": The Protest against
the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm
Leo Kuzmits, butterfly researcher and
breeder, social pedagogue [Graz]
To Overcome Death. Learning from the Butterflies' Metamorphoses
Jaschka Lämmert, actress at the Schauspielhaus
Graz, upcoming performance as Christine in Ödön von Horvath's
"Zur schönen Aussicht"(premiere October 9) [Graz]
Slowness. The Decelerating Creation of a Pet Sloth with Text
Examples as a Response to Indiscriminatingly Accepted Acceleration
ART BUSINESS
Adam Budak, curator at Kunsthaus Graz,
co-curator of Manifesta7 (Trentino, 2008), co-founder of post-graduate
studies in curatorial practice and theory at the Jagiellonian University
in Krakow [Krakow/ Graz]
Impossible Architecture of Curatorial Generosity. On Precarious
Life, Ethics of Mutuality and Unavoidable Harassments
Martin Fritz, director of the Festival
of Regions, curator, advisor of art institutions and artists in
organizational and structural issues [Vienna and Upper Austria]
Figures with Symbolic Capital. The Economy of the Art System
Aldo Milohnic, MA in sociology of culture,
editor of the book series "Politike", co-author and co-editor
of publications on performing arts theory, epistemology of the humanities
and cultural policy, researcher at The Peace Institute [Ljubljana]
Art in Love with Law: "Autonomy" of Art as a Present
of the State?
Stella Rollig, exhibition maker, author,
director of Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz [Linz/ Vienna]
Items on Loan. Who Gives What to Whom? Big Art Exhibitions, the
Loan Dealings and their Unwritten Rules of the Game
BEGGARS
DI Michael Bachler, coordinator of the
charitable organization VinziWerke, entered the social sector in
a lateral move [Graz]
Advice in Dealing with Beggars
Gabriel Berky / Mag. Gabu Szeberenyi,
(Translation) for 8 years now Gabriel Berky is coming regularly
from Hungary to Graz to beg [Hostice]
Gabu Szeberenyi is sworn translator for Hungarian, voluntary work
in the Vinzenz community [Graz]
Begging - About the Difficulty of Taking
CHARITY
Mag. Boris Marte, since 2005 Managing Director
of the ERSTE Foundation, since 2001 head of corporate sponsoring
within the Erste Bank group; worked for Erhard Busek, Vice-Chancellor
and Federal Minister for Science and Research (1991 to 1995), Chief
of Cabinet of Peter Marboe, Vienna City Counselor for Culture (1997
to 2001) [Vienna]
Licht ins Dunkel: Charity and Debasement and Exploitation of
Those Who Take
COMMUNICATION
- asymmetrical
Univ.-Prof. Prim. Dr. Rainer Danzinger,
psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Medical Director of the Sigmund Freud
Clinic Graz, main emphasis in his work: psychoanalysis, psychotherapy
of psychoses, social psychiatry, criminology and bio ethics [Graz]
An Undesired Gift. Paternalism in the Doctor/Patient Relationship
- cybernetic
Prof. Dr. Johann Götschl, Professor
for Philosophy of Sciences with a focus on natural sciences, working
on the development of an integrative notion of reality [Graz]
Cybernetic Communication: The Self and the World's Dynamics
- diplomatic
Gudrun Harrer, foreign editor of the Austrian
newspaper Der Standard, visiting lecturer for Modern Arab History
at the University of Vienna and, in 2006, Special Envoy of the Austrian
Presidency of the European Union to Iraq [Vienna]
The Gift in Diplomacy
- educational
Mag. Elisabeth Fleischmann, head of GIBS
- Graz International Bilingual School, co-initiator of various alternative
school projects, Gestalt teacher, supervisor, visiting lecturer
for English Language Didactics at the University of Graz [Graz]
1. About the Intricate Exchange Relationship between Teachers
and Students
2. Nexus and Inconsistence of Learning, Time, Efficiency and Motivation
- self-reflexive
Bernhard Hurch Professor, for Linguistics
at the University of Graz specialized in science history, phonology,
morphology, Basque language studies and the languages of Mexico,
initiated a typologically oriented project on reduplication [Vienna/
Graz]
The Basque Contribution. A Possible Encounter with One's Own
Prejudices
- theatrical 1
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ernst Strouhal, cultural
studies scholar and author, teaches at the University of Applied
Arts Vienna [Vienna]
The Magician's Power. How Magicians Distract, Manipulate and
Control their Audience
- theatrical 2
Rok Vevar, theatre director, dramaturg,
author, member of the editorial board of Maska magazine [Ljubljana]
Taking a Gift of Theatre through the Gaze - The Paranoiac Structure
of a Spectator's Story
COMMUNITY
- administrative
Rastko Mocnik, professor, theoretician
and publicist, teaches "Theory of Discourse" and "Epistemology
of the Humanities and the Social Sciences" at the University
of Ljubljana, one of the founders of a Committee for the Defence
of Human Rights in 1988. Doctor Honoris Causa at the Paisiy Hilendarski
University (2005) [Ljubljana]
Public Services are the Wealth of People
- artistic
Ushi Reiter, artist, web developer; since
2005 director of servus.at/ kunst & kultur im netz, Linz, member
of the Institute for Media Archeology (Hainburg), co-organizer of
Ecletic Tech Carnival [Linz]
About Swapped Indoor Plants and the Transformation of a Train
Station into Some Collective Private Space
- living/dwelling
Univ.- Prof. Dr. Simone Hain, architecture
and design historian (formerly Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
and Bauakademie der DDR), head of the Institut für Stadt- und
Baugeschichte, Graz University of Technology, likes to muse about
anachronisms [Berlin/ Graz]
The Beauty of the Plattenbau: Seven and One Reasons Why Prefab
Concrete Slabs used to be so Popular in the East
- marginalized 1
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth List, Professor
at the Department for Philosophy at the University of Graz, since
1995 head of the study group Theory, Culture and Criticism, since
1998 head of the study group Cultural Studies at the arts faculty
of the University of Graz [Graz]
Blessed Are the Poor. What Handicapped People, Unpropertied People
and Other Have-nots can Give Us
- marginalized 2
Wolfgang Pucher, father of the St Vinzenz
parish in Graz and Lazarite (Vincentine), initiator of the "VinziDorf"
[Graz]
Not Everybody Can Be Rehabilitated into Society - and this is
Okay
- musical
Ed Hauswirth, stage director at Theater
im Bahnhof Graz, before this advisor for amateur theatre at the
Landesjugendreferat for 15 years [Graz]
Film Re-Narration- with Music Examples - of Brassed Off (directed
by Mark Herman, 1996)
- political
Leo Kühberger, historian, activist
and farmer [Graz]
Tangible "Swarm Intelligence": The Protest against
the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm
- religious
Pater Severin Schneider, OSB prior of the
Seckau Abbey, studies of Theology, Philosophy and German Language
and Literature, retired headmaster of the Abbey's grammar school
[Seckau]
The Wisdom of St Benedict's Rule for the Community and One's
Own Personal Lifestyle
- social 1
DSA Mag. Andrea Trenkwalder-Egger, lecturer
at the FH|University of Applied Sciences study programs for Social
Work at the Management Center Innsbruck and at the FH|University
of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg; Social therapist for role play with
fairytales and myths; member of the managing committee of the professional
association of Austrian social workers [Innsbruck]
The Hidden (and Uncanny) Economization of the Social. The Loss
of the Gift in Public Life and its Cosequences
- social 2
Ernest Kaltenegger, member of the Landtag,
leader of the KPÖ (Communist Party) in the Styrian Landtag,
since 1981 in the Graz City Council, since 1998 City Counsellor
for housing [Graz]
"Giving instead of Taking" - as a Principle against
an even Stronger Drifting Apart of Society
CONSUMERISM
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Katschnig-Fasch,
Professor at the Department for European Ethnology of the University
of Graz, research focus: late-modern cultural change in everyday
culture (dwelling, lifestyle), urban anthropology, cultural theories
and gender research [Graz]
About the In-Human Toll of the Consumer Society
Bojana Kunst, philosopher and performance
theoretician, researcher at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty
of Arts - Department for Sociology [Ljubljana]
Objects of Desire. Promising Commodities Across the Border: Slovenian
Shopping Tourists Travelling to Graz in the 80ties
COPYRIGHT/ COPYLEFT
Dr. Maja Breznik, researcher at The University
of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts and at The Peace Institute, received
PhD degree in sociology, publishes on cultural history, sociology
of culture and cultural policy in various journals and books [Ljubljana]
New Relations of Social Dependencies: The Author's Rights as
Gift Exchange
Janez Janša, visual artist, numerous
exhibitions a.o. TERROR=DECOR: ART NOW, The Slovenian pavilion at
the 50th Venice Biennale [Ljubljana]
Property of Intellectuals (a selection of pirated DVD`s classic)
Univ.-Prof. DI Winfried Ritsch, developer
of electronic music instruments, cybernetic models of controlling
them and experiments on the interactive creation of computer music,
president of the Graz-based NetArt network mur.at, Internet music
label tonto.at, lecturer at the Department for Electronic Music
and Acoustics at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts [Graz]
Copyleft
CORRUPTION
Matthew Igboamalu, chaplain and speaker
of the African community in the multi-cultural parish of St Andrä,
studies Christian social ethics at the University of Graz; subject
of his doctoral thesis: "The Fact of Corruption in the Nigerian
Society- a Hindrance for Human Development" [Enugu/ Graz]
The Fact of Corruption in the Nigerian Society- a Hindrance for
Human Development
Mag. Veronica Kaup-Hasler, director of
the festival "steirischer herbst", previously dramaturge
at the Theater Basel and at the Wiener Festwochen, 2001-2004 artistic
director of the festival "Theaterformen" (Braunschweig
and Hanover) [Graz]
Corruption through Subvention. Canvassing from Door to Door -
but By the Book
DIGITAL NETWORKS
Reni Hofmüller, media artist and activist,
operator of ESC (Graz), president of Radio Helsinki (Graz), member
of IMA - Institute for Media Archeology (Hainburg, AT), co-organizer
of Ecletic Tech Carnival, international feminist tech network [Graz]
Why Free Software? How to Support Free Software Even if You Have
No Programming Skills
Roland Jankowski, free networks initiator,
Funkfeuer Graz, hoarder of precarious employment contracts [Graz]
Back to Unregularized Networks. A Cartography of the 150 Antennas
of Funkfeuer Graz
Jaromil, open source developer of the
liveCD dyne:bolic GNU/Linux and software such as MuSE, FreeJ and
HasciiCam for running a web radio, veejaying and manipulation of
video in realtime, in charge of research and development for the
Netherlands Media Art Institute [Amsterdam]
1. Piracy, Privacy and File Sharing between Reality and Cyberspace
2. Tools and Tips for a Hacker`s GNU Media Kit
Ushi Reiter, artist, web developer, since
2005 director of servus.at/ kunst & kultur im netz, Linz, member
of the Institute for Media Archeology (Hainburg), co-organizer of
Ecletic Tech Carnival [Linz]
How You Help Make Google Rich
Univ.-Prof. DI Winfried Ritsch, developer
of electronic music instruments, cybernetic models of controlling
them and experiments on the interactive creation of computer music,
president of the Graz-based NetArt network mur.at, Internet music
label tonto.at, lecturer at the Department for Electronic Music
and Acoustics at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts [Graz]
Manipulation of Social Spaces on the Web
DONATION
Luitgard Eisenmeier, artist, working residencies
in Luxembourg and Egypt, founding member of Der Blaue Kompressor
(since 1981), works on unique copy books and magazines, presents
Gustav Deutsch's project "Cheque Presentations" [Vienna]
Photo Collection of Cheque Presentations Published in the Daily
Paper Luxemburger Wort, April - October 1984 and April - October
1985
Mag. Dr. Angela Heide, dramaturge and
cultural manager, activities in the fields of history and theory
of theatre and the city, since 2001 direction of artminutes, since
2002 co-director of WOLKE 7 [Vienna]
The Scar: About the Unsightly and Undesirable of the Gift
ECOLOGY
Arch. Erwin Kaltenegger, architect, own
architecture firm since 1993, focus: innovative, energy-optimized
building concepts and solar construction [Passail]
The Friendly House - About the Activities of Passive Houses
ECONOMY
- Fair Trade
Mag. Christian Eigner, Büro für
Perspektivenmanagement (together with Michaela Ritter), which is
specialized in organizational development and science communication,
graduated psychoanalyst, Graz
Swelling Fairness - About the Post-Economic Search for a Fair
Global Economy
- for free
Mag. Dr. Wolfgang Zinggl, member of WochenKlausur,
member of the National Council (speaker for cultural and minority
issues of the Green Party) [Vienna]
From the Series Empty Phrases: "What is for Free is of No
Value"
- Free Money
Lia Rigler, visual artist, student of Giacomo
Manzu and Oskar Kokoschka; daughter of Michael Unterguggenberger,
the initiator of the Wörgl (Free-Money) Experiment, which received
worldwide attention [Graz]
The Wörgl (Free-Money) Experiment 1932/33
- Lending
Dr. Maja Breznik, researcher at The University
of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts and at The Peace Institute, received
PhD degree in sociology, publishes on cultural history, sociology
of culture and cultural policy in various journals and books [Ljubljana]
Keeping while Giving: A Gift Exchange in Renaissance
- Neoliberalism 1
Dr. Claudia Schmied, since 2007 Federal
Minister for Education, Art and Culture; formerly lecturer at the
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration with
the research focus "The Role of Economy in Literature"
[Vienna]
1. Management, Career and Self-Abandonment in Top Dogs by Urs
Widmer
2. The Efficiency Principle: A Little Reading of Rolf Hochhuth's
McKinsey kommt
- Neoliberalism 2
Dr. Doris Weichselbaumer, economist, gender
theorist, assistant lecturer at the Department of Economics and
the Department for Gender Studies at Linz University. Her main subject
areas are discrimination on the employment market and feminist and
experimental economy [Linz]
Who Gives Something, is Given Something? About Reciprocity and
the Repression of Intrinsic Motivation
- Poverty
Tatjana Kaltenbeck-Michl, city counsellor,
deputy chairperson of the SPÖ Graz, responsible within the
city government for youth and family, women and the social sector
[Graz]
About the Allocation of Wealth and Why Poverty Is Female
- Sex
Sarah Fötschl, student of Philosophy
and Art History, script writer, text worker, permaculture gardening,
program board Forum Stadtpark [Graz]
Prostitution and Sex Worker. About the Interrelationship of Consumer,
Whore and the Austrian Social Insurance Authority for Business
(SVA)
FEMINISM
Reni Hofmüller, media artist and activist,
operator of ESC (Graz), president of Radio Helsinki (Graz), member
of IMA - Institute for Media Archeology (Hainburg, AT), co-organizer
of Ecletic Tech Carnival, international feminist tech network [Graz]
A Little Introduction to Cyberfeminism, which Does Not Exist
GARBOLOGY
Mag. Joachim Hainzl, social pedagogue,
social historian and collector, researches a.o. on issues related
tom begging and the marginalization of social groups [Graz]
1. How 26,640 Cigarette Packs Explain the World
2. Waste Scavenging as a Method of Biography and Everyday Culture
Research (with photographs and practical examples)
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Christine und Mag. Irene Hohenbüchler,
artists, numerous exhibitions, a.o. documentaX and the Venice Biennale
in 1999. Christine is Professor for Graphic Design and Visual Languages
at the Vienna University of Technology [Eichgraben]
About Forgotten, Lost and Reevaluated Things
GIFT/ PRESENT
Werner Korn, co-director of echoraum -
Raum für Theater, Musik und andere Künste, mail project
"Tagebuch" together with 14 co-writers since 1997 [Vienna]
To Write Something - Forget it - Find it Again, by Chance / To
Give a Present to Oneself
Dr. Marc Ries, culture and media theorist,
projects and publications at the interface of the media/ culture/
architecture and art, teaches at the HGB Leipzig [Vienna]
Television: Our Common Table for Presents
Dr. Adelheid Schrutka-Rechtenstamm, Adj.
Professor, cultural anthropologist, visiting lecturer at the Department
for Folklore and Cultural Anthropology Graz, research areas:
giving, traveling, rituals [Vöcklabruck]
How Power Relationships Find their Expression in Gifts
Eva Ursprung, artist, musician (zlan,
squant, hurennoise), installations, interactions, interventions
in the public, social and electronic space, networks and collective
processes [Graz]
Souvenirs from Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Novi Sad, Belgrade,
Vidin, Russe and Sulina. The Danube Streaming Show (2003), a Project
with Veronika Dreier and Doris Jauk-Hinz
GIFT/ TALENT
Corinna Draschl, mnemonic prodigy, Junior
World Champion in memory training (2006), invited to the Oprah Winfrey
show "Smartest Kids of the World" (2007) [St. Peter am
Kammersberg]
About Memorizing Numbers, Cards, Names and Faces. With Practical
Examples
Dr. Andreas Fink, researcher at the Department
of Psychology of the University of Graz, research and teaching on
the neuroscientific fundamentals of personality and creativity [Graz]
The Realization of Creative Potential
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Aljoscha C. Neubauer,
head of Department and lecturer for personality psychology at the
Department for Psychology of the University of Graz, scientific
director of "Top-Talente-Check", William Stern Award 1997
of the German Society for Psychology, author (Lernen macht intelligent)
[Graz]
GIFTed: Genes, Education or Fate?
Mag. Dr. Helene Rucker, coordinator of
the regional government of Styria for the assistance of gifted pupils
in Styria, Landesschulrat (Styrian education authority) and Pedagogical
Institute Styria, Graz, lecturer for the subject area of talents
at the Department for Psychology of the University of Graz [Graz]
There are Talents everywhere. You only have to find them and
foster them!
Dr. Josef Zollneritsch, clinical psychologist
and health psychologist, speaker for school psychology and educational
counseling of the local government of Styria and since 1994 head
of the department of the same name at the Landesschulrat für
Steiermark (i.e. the Styrian education authority) [Graz]
Gift, Origin and Social Stability
HOSPITALITY
Schwestern Brüll (Gudrun, Karin, Monika),
researchers, artists, DJs, glamour girls, theorists, fashion makers,
radio makers, singers, enthusiasts, graphic artists [Vienna]
Jausnen (The Traditional Austrian Way of Taking a Snack). Strategies
of Realizing an Ideal Identity. Synchronous Choreography with an
Organigram Accompanying a Kaffee-, Tarviser- and Speckjause
Rose Mild, runs the Graz downtown family
business "Feinkost Mild" (deli & hangout) [Graz]
51 Years of Roast Pork Sandwiches, Poems and Smoke. The Stories
of the Innkeeper Rose (food and drink included)
LANGUAGE
El Awadalla, chief employee representative
and payroll accountant at the Literaturhaus Vienna, comedian, writer;
won a million euros in the "Millionenshow", the Austrian
version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", chairperson
of the Ö.D.A., an association of Austrian dialect authors [Vienna]
About the Mutual Gains and the Merging of Slang, Jargon, Dialect,
Text Messaging and Standard Language (which thus does not exist)
Dr. Rainer Götz, copy editor at the
literary publishing house Droschl and co-editor of the literary
magazine manuskripte [Graz]
From the Written to the Printed to the Read
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Leopold Neuhold, Professor
at the Department for Ethics and Christian Social Ethics of the
Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Graz, research
fields: football and ethics et al. [Graz]
On the Asymmetrical Relationship of Humor. With Joke Examples
Mag. Camilla Nielsen, studies of translation
sciences, contemporary history and philosophy in Vienna, freelance
translator (English, Spanish, French, Modern Greek) since 1985,
since 1991 lectureships at various universities (University of Vienna,
University of Lüneburg, University of Applied Arts Vienna)
[Vienna]
How Words Wander: Translation and Language Change (according
to Fritz Mauthner's Wörterbuch der Philosophie)
Dr. Rainer Vesely, doctorate in German
Language and Literature Studies, currently campus library of the
PÄDAK/PH Vienna [Vienna]
Things to Know About Vladimir Nabokov's Novel The Gift
LOVE
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fröhlich,
philosopher, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Science
Theory at the Johannes-Kepler- University Linz [Linz]
Technologies of Desire. How to Find the Man/Woman of One's Life
with Tightening and Distinction
MMag. Hermann Glettler, father of the
multi-cultural parish St Andrä, opening of the parish premises
for African immigrants, hospitality vis-à-vis contemporary
art in the church space, work for the Caritas, projects for a timely
Christian annunciation with the help of the Emmanuel Community [Graz]
Life as Gift and Surrender. A Change of Paradigms for an Up-to-date
Spirituality
Rudi Klein, creator of text and image
combinations for Der Standard, Profil, Falter, fm4 [Vienna]
Sketching Love
Wolfgang Poier, buddhist (Buddhist Center
Graz of Karma Kagyü Austria), secondary school teacher, visiting
lecturer at the University of Graz and the University of Applied
Sciences Campus02 [Graz]
In the Flow of Giving: Wisdom and Love
Dr. Adelheid Schrutka-Rechtenstamm, Adj.
Professor, cultural anthropologist, visiting lecturer at the Department
for Folklore and Cultural Anthropology Graz, research areas: giving,
traveling, rituals [Vöcklabruck]
Gift Careers in Love relationships/ or Gifts as Gender-specific
Signs in a Relationship
MEDIALITY
Claus Philipp, head of the cultural department
of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard [Vienna]
I Can See Dead People. The Gift in "The Sixth Sense" and
other Horror Thrillers
Dr. Manfred Schiffne, lawyer and energeticist,
lecturer, author, trainer for meditation and deep relaxation, contacts
to spiritual healers all around the globe [Köflach]
Spiritual and Remote Healing
METAMORPHOSIS
Leo Kuzmits, butterfly researcher and breeder,
social pedagogue [Graz]
To Overcome Death. Learning from the Butterflies' Metamorphoses
Bambo Sane, artist, cook, dancer, construction
engineer, manager of the Intercultural Café Auschlössl
[Graz]
The Encounter Senegal - Styria in the Cooking Pot. With Example
Dishes (e.g. Mango Salad with Pumpkin Seed Oil)
MILLION
El Awadalla, chief employee representative
and payroll accountant at the Literaturhaus Vienna, comedian, writer,
won a million Euros in the "Millionenshow", the Austrian
version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", chairperson
of the Ö.D.A., an association of Austrian dialect authors [Vienna]
Of How Great or How Little Importance is Winning a Million Euros
Mag. Sigrid Weiss-Lutz, "Millionenshow"-winner
in 2003, secondary school teacher [Graz]
How to Deal Carefully with Unhoped-for Manna from Heaven
MUSIC
Rainer Binder-Krieglstein, drummer, music
producer and musician, last album: "Alles Verloren" (2007),
produced by Shantel for Essay Recordings [Graz]
The Perception of Music from the Producer's, the Consumer's and
the Drummer's Perspective
Mag. Monique Fessl, physicist, music producer,
djane and musician (nimai), recently working on her second album,
"who knows" [Graz]
About the Strange Exchange Relationship between Physics and Music
Prof. Dr. Johann Götschl, Professor
for Philosophy of Sciences with a focus on natural sciences, working
on the development of an integrative notion of reality [Graz]
Philosophizing on Music in the Grid Square (with listening examples)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Harald Haslmayr, musicologist,
historian, specialist in German studies, qualified as a professor
for "Evaluation Research and Critical Aesthetics of Music"
in 2003, Professor at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts
[Graz]
1. The Silver Rose - Gifts and Presents in Music Theatre
2. This Picture is Enchantingly Beautiful - About Giving and Taking
in Mozart's Master Operas
Mag. Christoph Marek, sociologist, journalist,
music maker (Marek, bumm bumm produktionen) and writer (Pop/ Schlager)
[Graz]
We want your soul! The Colonization of the Hearts by Means of
Pop (with listening examples)
Fritz Ostermayer, Radio host ("Im
Sumpf"/FM4), writer, DJ and musician [Vienna]
Geh nicht vorbei [Don't Walk Past Me] - The Claiming of the Gift
of Love in the German Schlager Music of the Sixties and Seventies
(with listening examples)
Berno Odo Polzer, artistic director of
the Wien Modern Festival, dramaturge in dance and performance projects,
music curator [Vienna]
Cui bono? Heathen Human Sacrifice. Objectives, Composition and
Choreography of Le Sacre du Printemps by Igor Stravinsky
Mag. Christian Scheib, programme director
of "musikprotokoll", radio Ö1 music editor, music
guru, recorder player [Vienna]
An Enigmatic Gift: The "Musical Offering" by Johann
Sebastian Bach, composed for Emperor Frederick II. (the Great) (with
listening example)
MYTHOLOGY
DSA Mag. Andrea Trenkwalder-Egger, lecturer
at the FH|University of Applied Sciences study programs for Social
Work at the Management Center Innsbruck and at the FH|University
of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, social therapist for role play with
fairytales and myths, member of the managing committee of the professional
association of Austrian social workers [Innsbruck]
The Gift in Fairytales and Myths. In the Saligen, Cindarella
and Other Mythological Figures
PARASITISM
Manfred Erjautz, sculptor [Vienna]
Parasites in the Public Space: Stickers
Nicolina and Goran Sergej Pristas, choreographers,
directors, dramaturgs, performers, members of the artistic collective
BADco [Zagreb]
The Parasite and the Host - What Parasites Have to Offer and
Give to the Ants
Martina Reuter, member of WochenKlausur,
managing director of the Depot [Vienna]
The Main Social Welfare Freeloaders in Austria
POTLATCH
Fritz Ostermayer, radio host ("Im
Sumpf"/ FM4), writer, DJ and musician [Vienna]
The Potlatch as a Killer Gift or The Economy of Waste
David Schalko, writer and TV director
(e.g. "Sendung ohne Nanmen" and "Dorfers Donnerstalk"),
his debut novel Frühstück in Helsinki was published in
2006 [Vienna]
"Who Gives Takes." Exploitation through Giving - The
client gets 500 euros!, as gift in return she has to tell as much
as possible about herself (women only!)
PUBLIC SPACE
Tatjana Kaltenbeck-Michl, city counsellor,
deputy chairperson of the SPÖ Graz; responsible within the
city government for youth and family, women and the social sector
[Graz]
Beggars and Punks Not Wanted. The Public Space as a Catwalk for
the Rich and the Beautiful. From the Citizens' City to the Tourists'
Stronghold
Otmar Pfeifer, head of the 'Sozialinterventionsstelle',
a municipal social intervention office of the City of Graz; cooperation
with ErfA (an association and employment project for people in need)
[Graz]
Colourful People for the City - A City for Colourful People
Dr. Anna Schober, cultural studies scholar,
historian; research on the aesthetics of the public space and on
movements in cinema, lecturer at the University of Vienna, gender
studies, Department for Art and Design, Vienna University of Technology
[Vienna]
Art in Public Space. Calculating the Public and/or a Gift of
the Moment?
RECIVILIZATION
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Weibel, artist, exhibition
curator and art and media theorist, head of ZKM Karlsruhe, since
1993 head curator of the Neue Galerie at the Landesmuseum Joanneum
Graz, honorary doctor of the University of Art and Design Helsinki
(2006), [Karlsruhe/ Graz]
About the Mechanical Aspects of Creativity
SAVING PEOPLE
Dr. Do Bauer, head of the Social Circle
in the St Leonhard parish Graz, voluntary staff member at the Marienambulanz
in the fields of street work with drug addicts and mobile outpatient
clinics [Graz]
The Impossibility of Saving People
Claus Philipp, head of the cultural department
of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard [Vienna]
Gifted Through Disaster: US Superheroes and Saviors of the World
Stefan Schmitzer, author, publications
in various magazines (manuskripte, perspektive, schreibkraft), event
programming for the Forum Stadtpark [Graz]
The Role Model of the Superhero in Myths and Films: Gilgamesch,
Spiderman, Batman, Matrix
SCHAMANISM
Dr. Wolfgang Kölbl, general practitioner,
specialist for holistic medicine, medical director of the Institute
for Naturopathy & Transpersonal Sound Therapy and the Research
Institute for Bio-Physical Health Research PHOTON in Fehring [Styria]
Vibrancy as a Cure. From Physics to Medicine to Shamanism
SPORTS
Detlev Eisel-Eiselsberg, city counselor,
assigned departments of the Graz municipal administration: Office
for Business and Tourism Development, Office for Sports [Graz]
Competition as a Stimulant. Sports as a School of Life
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Leopold Neuhold, Professor
at the Department for Ethics and Christian Social Ethics of the
Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Graz, research
fields: football and ethics et al. [Graz]
The Pass in Football. If You Give Something, You also Get Something
THEORY
- Theodor W. Adorno
Janez Janša, theatre director, performance
artist, author, 1999-2006 director of Maska, a non-profit organization
in publishing, production and education [Ljubljana]
No loot, no toot! (No Party - No Gift). After Adorno (part of
ongoing project program!)
- Georges Bataille
Mag. Dr. Erwin Fiala, visiting lecturer
for Media Philosophy and Cultural Philosophy at the University of
Graz, teaches Media Design/ Communication at the HTBLuVA Graz-Ortweinschule,
Department for Art and Design, curator, cultural publicist and essayist
[Graz]
The Gift - An Economy of Expenditure (Georges Bataille) or an
Economy of Deferment (Jacques Derrida)?
- Jean Baudrillard
Univ-Prof. Dr. Peter Weibel, artist, exhibition
curator and art and media theorist, head of ZKM Karlsruhe, since
1993 head curator of the Neue Galerie at the Landesmuseum Joanneum
Graz, honorary doctor of the University of Art and Design Helsinki
(2006), Käthe-Kollwitz-Award (2004) [Karlsruhe/ Graz]
The Symbolism of Exchange in Jean Baudrillard's Work
- Pierre Bourdieu 1
Christine Frisinghelli, curator and editor
of Camera Austria, Graz, numerous exhibitions ("Pierre Bourdieu
in Algeria: Testimonies of Uprooting.", Graz 2003 et al.) [Graz]
Participatory Observation. Pierre Bourdieu's Photographic Documentations
in Algeria, 1957 - 1961
- Pierre Bourdieu 2
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fröhlich,
philosopher, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Science
Theory at the Johannes-Kepler- University Linz [Linz]
1. Bourdieu for Social Climbers. A Consultation
2. Technologies of Desire. How to Find the Man/Woman of One's Life
with Tightening and Distinction
- Jacques Derrida 1
Mag. Dr. Erwin Fiala, visiting lecturer
for Media Philosophy and Cultural Philosophy at the University of
Graz, teaches Media Design/ Communication at the HTBLuVA Graz-Ortweinschule,
Department for Art and Design, curator, cultural publicist and essayist
[Graz]
The Gift - An Economy of Expenditure (Georges Bataille) or an
Economy of Deferment (Jacques Derrida)?
- Jacques Derrida 2
PD Dr. Krassimira Kruschkova, has a degree
in drama studies, head of the theory center of Tanzquartier Wien
and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna [Vienna]
The Ethics of the Gift in Jacques Derrida's Writings. Reading
in Accordance with the Incalculable
- Alexander Kluge
Dr. Stefanie Carp, literary scholar and
dramaturge, co-director of Schauspielhaus Zürich in collaboration
with Christoph Marthaler (2000-2004/5), as of 2008 drama director
of the Vienna Festival ("Wiener Festwochen") [Berlin/
Vienna]
Strategies from Below: Concepts of Society in the Literary Work
of Alexander Kluge
- Karl Marx
Leo Kühberger, historian, activist
and farmer [Graz]
The Story of Unhappy Mr. Peel (Karl Marx, The Capital, Volume
1)
- Marcel Mauss
Dr. Albert Müller, historian, working
at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science
(Salzburg and Vienna) since 1984, since 1998 Department for Contemporary
History at the University of Vienna, secretary general of the Heinz
von Foerster Society [Vienna]
Marcel Mauss and the Gift - Reciprocity in History
- Anatol Rapoport
Dr. Albert Müller, historian, working at the Ludwig
Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science (Salzburg and
Vienna) since 1984; since 1998 Department for Contemporary History
at the University of Vienna, secretary general of the Heinz von
Foerster Society [Vienna]
TIT FOR TAT. Anatol Rapoport's Game of Cooperation (with historical
examples)
UNIVERSE
Arch. Erwin Kaltenegger, architect, own
architecture firm since 1993, focus: innovative, energy-optimized
building concepts and solar construction [Passail]
The Logarithmic World of Scales or the Meldody of Creation: Global
Scaling - An Introduction into Hartmut Müller's World Model
Birgit Stransky, partner of Freie Waldorfschule
Graz OEG, learning support teacher [Graz]
Cosmos and Body. Development of Mankind and Development of the
Child in the Curriculum of the Waldorf Schools
VICTIM/ SACRIFICE
Leander Khil, conscientious objector performing
community service, birdwatcher and photographer [Graz]
About Seduction: Playing the Victim as Protection and Defense
Behaviour among Plovers and Other Birds. With Photographic Examples
Berno Odo Polzer, artistic director of
the Wien Modern Festival, dramaturge in dance and performance projects,
music curator [Vienna]
Cui bono? Heathen Human Sacrifice. Objectives, Composition and
Choreography of Le Sacre du Printemps by Igor Stravinsky
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ernst Strouhal, cultural
Studies scholar and author, teaches at the University of Applied
Arts [Vienna]
Chess or Life? Better Sacrifice One's Own or the Opponent's Chess
Pieces?
ZAKAT
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Willibald Posch, Professor
for Comparative and International Law, currently dean of the Law
School, Civil Law of the University of Graz, author of numerous
publications, e.g. Grundzüge fremder Privatrechtssysteme
(Böhlau Vienna, 1995) [Graz]
The Obligation of Charity (Zakat) in Islam
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WORKSHOP
Manfred Erjautz, sculptor [Vienna]
LEGO Bricks & Religion and LEGO Bricks & Weapons (with
samples)
Georg Klüver-Pfandtner, make-up artist
and stylist working for theatre and film, but also experienced in
acting, costumes and stage design, member of the free artists' collective
"Gruppe Dagmar" [Graz]
1. Take a Look into the Future - Rapid Aging: Your Face Ages
at least 10 Years within 30 Minutes
2. To Take One's Make-up off: What is Lying Under the Make-up of
the Profession?
Jaschka Lämmert, actress at the Schauspielhaus
Graz, upcoming performance as Christine in Ödön von Horvath's
"Zur schönen Aussicht"(premiere October 9) [Graz]
Slowness. The Decelerating Creation of a Pet Sloth with Text
Examples as a Response to Indiscriminatingly Accepted Acceleration
CONSULTATION
Paul Böhm, venture capitalist, Hacker-Space/
Community organizer, safety advisor and conference organizer, contracted
a passion in startups as well as in strategies and patterns in complex
self-organizing systems Metalab [Vienna]
Consulting for Startups and Setting up Business in the Field
of Software, Web Applications and Peer-to-peer Software
Ed Hauswirth, stage director at Theater
im Bahnhof Graz, before this advisor for amateur theatre at the
Landesjugendreferat for 15 years [Graz]
Advice: Creation Collective - How to Create some Kind of Performance
with a Group of People within 2 Days
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Höldrich,
head of the Department for Electronic Music and Acoustics at the
University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz, publications on topics
such as art and electronic media, music and computers, sound analysis
and synthesis, digital signal processing [Graz]
Hearing Advice (Auditory Training): Acoustic Live Inspections
of the Blackmarket
Janez Janša, media artist and president
of the management board of "Problemarket.com - The Problem
Stock Exchange" [Ljubljana]
Consulting Service: How to Make Profit out of (Your) Problems
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