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Installation at the MQ Art Box

Exhibition at EIKON Schauraum, MQ Schauräume as part of Immediate Matters at Klima Biennale Vienna

Installation at ASIFAKEIL, MQ Schauräume

in the MQ Main Courtyard

How can we rethink tourism in an era of climate crisis, wars, the threat of further pandemics, a shortage of skilled labour and an ongoing energy crisis, and steer it in a more sustainable direction? What is the role that spatial planning and architecture are playing in this? The exhibition sheds light on key aspects of tourism, such as mobility, city tourism, interdependencies with agriculture, climate change, the privatisation of natural beauty and the change in accomodation typologies, and explores the question of whether and how tourism development is planned. Above all, however, the exhibition looks at the potential for transformation.

This children's opera based on the well-known classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm about love, friendship and inner beauty is based on the music of Engelbert Humperdinck, the famous fairy tale composer ("Hansel and Gretel" and others), who explored this material but never completed the work.

Exhibition at Schauraum Angewandte

What's it like growing up in the city? I like taking taxis and the underground, I want to ring other people's doorbells and go through every door, I want to get on every moped and say hello to the people I choose. It's often loud in the city, I prefer to be loud myself and sometimes I'm very quiet and watch the ducks.

Hechenblaikner gives a guided tour of the exhibition "Toourism" in a conversation with an Az W guide, while referencing his archive of photographs of contemporary Alpine tourism: an expansive, romantic rural Alpine setting for an après-ski culture that has distorted tradition beyond recognition while also leaving scars in the landscape. It is time to think about a new kind of tourism.

In a collaborative process, Karin Pauer is developing a performance for the immersive installation "testing grounds" by visual artist Katrin Hornek.

Every year the excitement over the country's “white strips of snow” ramps up in the media. Last year a satirical broadcast on the "Lake Neusiedl Desert" caused a wave of cancellations there. Tourism and climate change are two controversial topics everybody is talking about.