Ausstellung in Graz: Ohne Bekenntnis zur Vielfalt wird keine Gesellschaft zu machen sein

Im vierten und vorerst letzten Teil der Ausstellungsserie Guerilla der Aufklärung werden Arbeiten von Künstler*innen gezeigt, die sich mit der Gleichwertigkeit aller Menschen hinsichtlich ihrer Würde und ihrer Rechte befassen.

Ausstellungsdauer: 15.6.–3.8. und 26.8.–7.9.2019
Öffnungszeiten: MO–FR 10:00–18:00, SA 12:00–16:00 MITTWOCH BIS 22:00 UHR

(wortwörtlich via Rotor)

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Prosthetic Ballet

"I wanted to explore what would happen if you could allow a person to perform on pointe 100 per cent of the time. How would ballet change? I wanted to create a tool for someone to take and let their imagination define the capabilities of the product."
"The design of the prosthesis will change to fit the dancer, but also to match the specific movements of the newly developed choreography. However, until I meet this dancer, I will continue to develop as a designer."
Jae-Hyun An

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Manami Ito. Nurse, Paralympian Swimmer, Violinist.

Manami Ito "lost her right arm in a traffic accident in November 2004 when she was studying to become a nurse, which initially forced her to abandon her career. However, when she went to a facility to get her artificial arm, she was impressed by people with a disability playing basketball. Since then, she began swimming as well as returning to study again to become a nurse."
Para swimming, Olympic Games

Ey Alter

"EY ALTER, da bist du ja! Alt oder jung, oder was ist hier die Frage? Du wirst älter, jeden Tag. Und nicht nur du, alle anderen auch. Deutschland gehört bereits zu den ältesten Nationen der Welt. Und jetzt? Kollektiv senil oder lebenslang mobil? „Demokalypse“ oder „Demochance“? Wie siehst du dich selbst, in deinem Alter? Zeit, sich mit der Frage nach dem Alter neu zu befassen. Persönlich, gesellschaftlich, in Unternehmen und Schulen. Denn das Alter hat viele Gesichter – erlebe es selbst!"

"EY ALTER …
… betrachtet den demografischen Wandel als Chance.
… ersetzt Altersstereotype durch Talente und Potenziale.
… entwickelt ein positives Bild zur Zukunft der Arbeit.
… setzt Impulse für neue Formen der Zusammenarbeit von Jung und Erfahren."

"EY ALTER ist eine Ausstellung, die auf Initiative und nach Ideen von Mercedes-Benz entstand.
Sie ist Teil der Demografie-Initiative „YES – Young and Experienced together Successful“, die einen Kulturwandel im Unternehmen anstößt und die Zusammenarbeit von jungen und erfahrenen Mitarbeitern in der Pkw-Produktion fördert. Realisiert wurde die Ausstellung unter wissenschaftlicher Begleitung der Jacobs University in Bremen."

Gasometer Berlin
EUREF CAMPUS 17
Torgauerstr. 12
10829 Berlin Schöneberg
Die Ausstellung ist rollstuhlgeeignet.

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Äthiopische Kaffeezeremonie in Graz

Graz hat ein äthiopisches Restaurant (Café Abol), das nicht nur Speisen, sondern auch die äthiopische Kaffezeremonie anbietet.

"Der Name ABOL stammt aus dem Äthiopischen und bezeichnet den ersten und aromatischsten Aufguss der traditionellen Kaffeezeremonie.
Die Geschichte des Kaffees hat seine Anfänge in Äthiopien - dem ursprünglichen Zuhause der Arabica Pflanze aus der Region Kaffa im Westen Äthiopiens, die noch immer in Hochwäldern wächst.
In Äthiopien, dem Heimatland des Kaffees, kauft man Kaffee auf dem Markt weder gemahlen noch geröstet, sondern in Form noch ganzer grüner Bohnen. Zuhause angekommen, werden diese nicht nur schnell gekocht, sondern mit einer speziellen Zeremonie geradezu feierlich serviert.
Die Äthiopische Kaffeezeremonie ist ein integraler Bestandteil des sozialen und kulturellen Lebens. Eine Einladung zu einer Kaffeezeremonie gilt als ein Zeichen der Freundschaft und des Respekts und ist ein hervorragendes Beispiel der äthiopischen Gastfreundlichkeit. Die Zeremonie ist beim Empfang eines Gastes schon fast obligatorisch - unabhängig von der Tageszeit - Eile ist hier fehl am Platz. Das Zusammenkommen und der Austausch mit Nachbarn, Freunden oder Verwandten ist der Mittelpunkt der Kaffeezeremonie, das Ritual steht für Gemeinschaft und Geborgenheit."
Café Abol

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Tolerance Posters (5) | designmonat graz 2018

Poster by Fares Cachoux (Syria)

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Tolerance Posters (4) | designmonat graz 2018

Poster by Tom Geismar (USA)

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Tolerance Posters (3) | designmonat graz 2018

Poster by Reza Abedini (Iran)

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Tolerance Posters (2) | designmonat graz 2018

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Tolerance Posters | designmonat graz 2018

"Design triggers emotions which are located between aversion and approval, enthusiasm and disappointment, outrage and indifference. Yet, who is the one to say what is beautiful? Who says what works for whom and why? And who judges good taste – and why?
Design is also a question of tolerance. So, Designmonat Graz focuses on the topic of tolerance. It challenges and demands tolerance! And it also challenges you: with an interesting program, with an unusual graphic design and with a lot of design within 4 weeks!"

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"How tolerant does design need to be? And what can design contribute to tolerance? The “Tolerance Posters” are original contributions by international designers and do provide extraordinary answers to these questions. The touring exhibition has already been hosted in the USA, as well as in Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Spain and the Netherlands. It was always displayed in public spaces, hence, locations where tolerance is experienced, discussed and questioned. At each station, the number of exhibits is expanded by a local piece: Herms Fritz, artist and graphic designer from Graz, expands the international show for Austria."

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Old? What is old?

My name is Essie Faria, I am a young 81 and I love to dance, and I just love to be active.

This Lady...

The Mutes from Mars

The Mutes (from mars) is a unique professional rock band that draws on the creativity and passion of a group of incredible musicians, writers and performers who have a range of social and learning disabilities, the challenges of which have not limited the possibilities and talent of six amazing rockers.

The Mutes members are committed to their musical vision of bridging the gaps in society’s understanding and perceptions of people who have been marginalised in our community as well as make and perform great music.

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Save the date: 15. Chiala Afrika Festival

15. bis 17. Juni 2018, Augartenpark Graz

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Save the date: Besuch | Ensemble proArte

"David, Mitte 30, sitzt bei Kaffee und Kuchen und sinniert über die Welt. Witzig, pointiert und auch mal philosophisch beleuchtet er nicht nur sich und sein persönliches Umfeld, sondern auch die Gesellschaft an sich. Er bestellt noch mal Kaffee und bekommt Gesellschaft, mit deren Folgen weder er noch das Publikum gerechnet hat (das Publikum vermutlich noch weniger als er)."

Buch & Regie: Tina Rauchenberger
Mit: Florian Jung, Michael Stark, Tina Rauchenberger

Heute in Graz, morgen am 5. Mai 2018 in Linz, 19:30 Uhr, Urbi@Orbi, Betlehemstraße 1a

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"Dance is dance, whether you're walking or rolling."

Dancing at Ellen's and a short interview with Chelsie Hill: WATCH

Atelier de conversation

Once a week, people from all over the world meet at the Atelier de conversation in the Centre Pompidou in Paris to talk to each other, to improve their French. People who would otherwise probably never meet come together at a place where "social and cultural borders dissolve".

Author and director: Bernhard Braunstein Awards: Opening Film, Cinéma du rèel 2017, Paris/France; Documentary Special Jury Prize, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017, Karlovy Vary/Czech Republic; ARTE Documentary Film Prize, Duisburger Filmwoche 2017, Duisburg/Germany

"The therapy aspect is very important, but there are a lot of other aspects. I think the language is important and there are really people who are struggling and want to learn something and they’re writing down vocabulary. But there are also a lot of people who are coming there to find friends. The people connect and become friends, some help each other to find a flat or even move in together. So, this social part is very important and, of course, they are all going through a difficult experience and they feel that they can talk about it together. This is the therapy part of it."
Bernhard Braunstein

"We need to start to become human, rather than talking about the masses of immigrants that will destroy us, we should see the individuals. I think this is something you can see in my film. You see that these are people, these are humans with a story and not somehow a danger."
Bernhard Braunstein

(via Diversity is Beautiful)

Save the date: 3. Ball der Vielfalt

Am 16. März 2018 ist es soweit, der dritte Ball der Vielfalt findet in Graz statt. Der Ball der Menschlichkeit steht allen offen, ganz im inklusiven Sinne und startet um 19 Uhr in den Kammersälen (via Behindertenrat).

Programm: 3. Ball der Vielfalt

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The Inclusive Museum

Founded in 2008, The Inclusive Museum Research Network is brought together by a shared concern for the future role of the museum and how it can become more inclusive.

No longer the universal individual citizen of our recent modern aspirations, visitors of today are recognizably diverse.

The dimensions of this diversity are material (class, locale, family circumstances), corporeal (age, race, sex and sexuality, and physical and mental characteristics) and symbolic (culture, language, gender, family, affinity and persona). These are the gross demographics, the things that insist on our attention. But if we take the time to look more closely at today’s public, it is qualified by intersections and layers of identity which immediately turn the gross demographics into sometimes dangerous oversimplifications. The paradox of today’s public is that, in an era of globalization, cultures are diverging: dispositions, sensibilities, values stances, interests, orientations, affinities and networks.
So how can one speak to audiences? How does participation work? How can we create meanings which are germane? ‘Inclusivity’ names a paradoxically two sided answer. One side is to recognize particularity. What and who should be represented in the museum? What is it to be comprehensive? What is canonical or definitive? To answer these questions today, we need to move beyond the divisions of high as opposed to popular culture, the techno-scientific as opposed to the everyday, the national-modern as opposed to the ethnographic-traditional. No longer can we solve the problem of difference, of ‘us’ and ‘them’, by dividing people and their objects into separate categories and separating them in spaces unto themselves. We need to anticipate the particularities of visitors.
The other side of this answer requires us not just to catalogue of differences, to check them off from a list of potential points of dissonance. Perhaps we also need to create a new and paradoxical form of universality, the universality of inclusivity. How do we create a museum where the text is open, where every visitor is allowed the space to create their own meanings, where no visitor is left out? The answer in part is in to devise new …

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