Growth

Students of the Communication, Media, Sound and Interaction Design program at FH JOANNEUM. Supervised by Astrid Drechsler, Daniel Fabry and Michael Kernbichler.In cooperation with FH Joanneum, IDK Growth is a spatially and temporally structured increase, enlargement or division. The media production “Growth”, produced by students of the Institute of Design & Communication at FH JOANNEUM, […]

Special case of the rectangle

In her artistic work, Esther Stocker uses geometric drawing and grid systems to change space and architecture, creating dynamic pictorial spaces that lose their supposed pattern of order. “I need the grid or the order,” says the artist, “in order to be able to describe a deviation from it in the first place. Systemlessness can […]

Nocturne

Julia Dantonnet (lighting design), Shantidas Riedacker (sound)In cooperation with the Volkskundemuseum am Paulustor A landscape of light and shadow unfolds in the inner courtyard of the Folklore Museum, animated silhouettes dance across the façades: Nocturnal animals, deer, owls and foxes emerge from a mysterious forest. The symbolism of the forest, specific to myths and stories, […]

Putting away the light

For KLANGLICHT 2022, Miriam Prantl explores Plato’s cave allegory in nine stations in the side caves of the Schlossberg tunnel. “The eyes themselves do not see; it is through our eyes that we see,” writes Plato in his “Politeía”. Based on this, it deals with glare, clearing, passion of light, illumination, twilight, tail light, modulated […]

Limbo

Studio Antoni Arola, Arthur Haas (Choreography) Antoni Arola is an award-winning designer and artist from Barcelona. For him, light is the beginning of all things, light is order, without light there would be no expression, only chaos. He has therefore made light the primary tool of his work and considers it to be the most […]

Fantastic Planet

Under the collective “Parer Studios”, Amanda Parer creates objects for public spaces, sculptures and paintings that explore nature and its fragility. Oversized. Human-like. Brightly lit. This is how Amanda Parer’s designed art figures explore the Reininghausgründe and Graz’s Schlossberg during KLANGLICHT 2022. Inspired by the Czech-French film Fantastic Planet, the audience encounters these beings from […]

Chronos

MO:YA | Markus Graf (Seismo) | Alexander Friedl The multimedia installation “CHRONOS” by the Austrian collective MO:YA transforms Graz’s landmark, the clock tower, into a light sculpture that can be seen from afar. At regular intervals, like its clockwork, the tower awakens from the darkness and its façade is transformed into a play of light […]

Drawing In Space

In cooperation with the Graz Museum Schlossberg In the installation “Drawing in Space”, Jeongmoon Choi illuminates the darkness of the Stallbastei with a complex geometric arrangement of fluorescent threads that often create a slight and pleasant sensual confusion in the viewer. As the threads reflect the light in the structures designed by Choi, the space […]

Constellations

Detlef Hartung, Georg Trenz, Josef GründlerIn cooperation with the Graz Museum Schlossberg The Graz Museum Schlossberg is a very special place. It offers a unique panoramic view and provides orientation. An interface between heaven and earth. The work “Constellations” by Detlef Hartung and Georg Trenz interprets this place as the zero point of its own […]

Inner, Outer, Other

“Inner, Outer, Other” is a site-specific installation that creates a different world on the Schlossbergbühne Kasematten stage. With the help of light, sound, mirrors, water and air, the German-British artist Sebastian Kite wants to rethink the conventional interpretation of space and its time, and thus subject the concept of the real to a test. Schlossberg […]