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KLANGHAUS UNTERGREITH PROJECTS
Our work is rooted inthe ‘here and now’,always looking towards the future.
The Klangzeit festivals are designed to make a significant contribution to regional cultural diversity, artistic excellence, education and sustainability, audience participation and to enrich our valuable arts and cultural landscape.With the Klangzeit festivals, we create a platform for art that is necessarily free, we communicate and present new art and culture, and we create networks between ourselves, our artists and partner groups in the region, in the landscape and in broader society across borders.
KLANGZEIT FESTIVALS
take place three times a year. We invite local and international artists and organise events that are characterised by diversity and openness. Our festivals serve as a platform and space for encounters, exchange, networking and dialogue, especially between artists and visitors. The shared experience of art is central to the atmosphere and narrative of our cultural offerings. In summer and autumn, the Klangzeit Festivals take place in Untergreith. We also take our projects and initiatives across borders throughout the entire Alps-Adriatic region at regular intervals. Through our presence and events in Slovenia, Croatia and Italy, we have created a lasting platform and increased visibility and audibility for a wide range of Styrian artists in new regional synergies.
GLOBAL KIDS
is a participatory programme offering young people the opportunity to experience and learn new creative tools. By taking part in artistic and creative workshops with renowned artists, participants of various age groups experience new things on many levels. In addition to enjoying music, dance, movement, language or intermedia creativity, participants experience what it means to be artistically active, to create together and to see things differently. What they learn, e.g. in an improvisation workshop for all abilities, leaves them with skills and approaches that also have a formative and beneficial effect in everyday life. Through their children, parents and families also participate and experience the significance and added value of participating in art and culture.
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Klanghaus Sankt Johann runs an artist in residence programme for artists who are invited to work in the Klanghaus studio, present their works in the Klanghaus gallery and to offer workshops and seminars for local residents, children and young people from regional schools and music groups.
Artists come to south-western Styria (often for the first time) and immerse themselves in the environment. During their stay, they get to know the people and the landscape and have space to develop their work. The primarily site-specific works created during the residencies are presented not only at Klanghaus but also at other locations. In this respect, our residents also act as ambassadors for Untergreith and south-western Styria.
NETWORKING, DISCOURSE AND DIALOGUE
A new programme point starting in 2026 is an additional emphasis on conversation and dialogue. As part of our public events, there will be exchanges between artists and visitors, but beyond that, panel discussions, symposia and other discussion formats will also be used to promote active dialogue. We are convinced that political change in the State of Styria, in Austria and internationally is a symptom of various social developments that can be mitigated through communication and openness. We see an urgent need to share these working methods and approaches in conversation and to create a platform for dialogue within our cultural work.
KLANGHAUS PROJECT NETWORKS
EU PROJECTS
MICS – music in the countryside 2022–2023
MICS – Music in the Countryside took place in Untergreith and Graz in Austria, Hrelji in Croatia and Tolmin in Slovenia. European and international musicians participated in a dynamic exchange of sound, music and dialogue across borders. The project created lasting synergies between the participating regions and between cultural actors, musicians, composers and a wide audience, all of whom were able to participate in MICS events.
MICS was an Enterprise Z and Klanghaus initiative that was realized together with Mani d.o.o. / Hrelji 45 and Zveza Mink Tolmin / Sajeta Festival.
RESCUE – regeneration of industrial sites through creativity in Europe 2019–2021
RESCUE took place during the pandemic. Despite the challenges posed by Covid-19, we were able to fully realise the project both online and live as a Creative Europe Cooperation Project. Highlights organised by Klanghaus included a 360° virtual tour of the Römerhöhle cave in Aflenz with educational, cultural and interactive features (published on the website below). We were also able to offer artistic and creative workshops, and present projects and performances in Austria, including RESCUE @ Ars Electronica, RESCUE – post-industrial dynamics on air on ORF OE1 Kunstradio, creative workshops for children in Styria and an interactive workshop on RESCUE & Cultural Heritage in collaboration with the Cultural Department of the Province of Styria and the ESC in Graz. www.resuce-eu.com
Lead Partner Commune di Santo Stefano di Magra (IT)
Partners Klanghaus (AT), X-OP (SI), Ibug ev (DE), Associazione Culturale Gli Scarti (IT)
ECHOES from invisible Landscapes 2016–2018
Echoes was a two-year EU project in the Alps-Adriatic region. Echoes emerge from the individual and collective stories of people and their natural and constructed environment. Landscapes represent tangible and intangible cultural assets that form the basis of individual identity and collective society. Echoes was interactive and interdisciplinary; artists, researchers and the public engaged with layers of the landscape and created new works and reflections that still resonate today.
Lead Partner Enterprise Z
Partners Wieser Verlag Klagenfurt/Celovec (AT), University of Klagenfurt (IT), Zveza Mink Tolmin (SI), Mani d.o.o. (HR)
PHONART – The Lost Languages of Europe 2010–2012
Phonart was a two-year EU project led by Enterprise Z. Artists and researchers were invited to reflect on lost and endangered languages and forms of communication. New works and synergies emerged through residencies, workshops and live events. In 2012, the book ‘Phonart – the Lost Languages of Europe’ was published by Wieser Verlag Klagenfurt / Celovec.
Lead Partner Enteprise Z / (AT)
Partners Ring Ring / Bojan Djordjevic (RS) and Mamapapa / Martin Janicek (CZ).
PHONOFEMME
PhonoFemme is an international platform for sound art, transmedia projects, experimental music, and performance art by women. Since 2009, PhonoFemme has been held biennially in Vienna, online, and repeatedly featured on Ö1 Kunstradio / Sound art: Art for Listening. In 2025, PhonoFemme will focus on the theme "TOGETHERNESS – Society, Solidarity (among Women)."
ALPEN-ADRIA PROJEKTE
LiveMX – EFFEA
Slow Light – Seeking Darkness
PhonoFemme on Tour –Voices of Protest
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