Barbara Holub
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  • PROJECTS
    • 2018 >
      • Times of Dilemma
      • The Blue Frog Society
    • 2017 >
      • Shared Values, Ambulant Gardens, and Other Spaces
      • Harbour for Cultures
      • pursuing, advancing
    • 2016 >
      • Design of the Square in Pottenhofen
      • Commons kommen. Ankommen.
      • The Turn
    • 2015 >
      • The Laughter that Gets Caught in Your Throat
      • Je suis arabe
    • 2014 >
      • Du bakchich pour Lampedusa
      • On the Slim Probability
      • 1st World Congress of the Missing Things
      • 2nd World Non-Congress
      • The Dignity of Man
      • Revolution Without Movement
    • 2013 >
      • Botendienst Unplugged
    • On Urban Periphery
    • The Blue Frog Society
    • Listen to the Quiet Voice
    • untitled (what we did not dare to wish)
    • Devotion to Unintentionality
    • Handled confidentially
    • The system: prêt-à-porter
  • CONTACT
  • TEXTS
    • New Stakeholders of Urban Change
    • Räume des Ankommens
    • Das Bienvenue - Ein Recht auf Raum für alle
    • Kunstbulletin 9/2016
    • Planning Unplanned
    • The Games are Over
    • Performing Public Art
    • Direct Urbanism
    • archithese
    • Centerpoint Now
    • found, set, appropriated,
  • CURATORIAL
    • Urgent Perspectives #1
    • KunstRaumGaragen
    • Waste Value Rising
The Island is What the Sea Surrounds
Valletta 2018
- European Capital of Culture

Opening of the exhibition:
March 24, 7 pm, Exam Centre,
Valletta/ Malta
Exhibition: March 24–May27, 2018

Curated by: Maren Richter

Artists: Heba Y Amin (Egypt), Hela Ammar (Tunis), Bettina Hutschek (Germany/Malta), Raphael Vella (Malta), Gilbert Calleja (Malta), Fernando Sanchez Castillo (Spain), Lida Abdul (Afghanistan), Adrian Paci (Albania), Susan Philipsz (Scotland), Aidan Celeste (Malta), Ibrahim Mahama (Ghana), Wael Shawky (Egypt/America), Antoine Cassar (Malta), Aaron Bezzina (Malta), Center for Political Beauty collective (Germany), Embassy for the Displaced/Scan Lab/Stevanos (International), Kristina Borg (Malta), transparadiso (Austria), Tania El Khoury (Lebanon), Fleeting Territories (Austria/Sweden), Manaf Halbouni (Syria/Germany)

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IUAV - Università di Venezia
Venice

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transparadiso are visiting professors at IUAV:
workshop with transparadiso:
Feb.12-16, 2018
talk by transparadiso: Feb. 14, 4:30 pm

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4th Ural Industrial Biennial
Ekaterinburg/ Russia

International Forum: Culture as an Enterprise
Oct.23-24, 2017

Key speakers: Nicolas Bourriaud, Xavier Dectot, Barbara Holub, Vitaly Kurennoy, Lukasz Pancewicz, Lyudmila Petrova, Andy Pratt

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Workshop for the "Missing Things":
Barbara Holub and Dmitri Moskvin
Sennaya Square, Ekaterinburg
Oct. 22. 2017, 1-4 pm

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Urban Transformations and Qualities of Life in the Growing City

Symposium
14.9.-15.9.2017, FH Campus Vienna


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Panel discussion: 15.09.2017
"Vienna’s Peripheries – Urban Transformations and Qualities of Life in International Comparison "

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HafenCity University Hamburg
a performative walk by Barbara Holub
(guest scientist at HafenCity University)
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A Walk on the Wild Side: Hafencity from Oversea via Osaka to Trieste

Date
: July 3rd, 2017, 6-8 pm
meeting point: U-Bahn HafenCity Universität
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KU Leuven / Belgium
Dept. Urbanism and Strategic Planning

Talk by Barbara Holub:
Direct Urbanism. The Role of Art and Artistic Strategies for Socially Engaged Urban Planning

March 21, 2017

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Art & Function
Kunsthaus Mürz / Mürzzuschlag (A)

opening: Nov.11, 2016: 7 pm
exhibition: Nov.12, 2016 – Jan.15, 2017
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curated by: Sabine Kienzer
artists:
Gerry Ammann, Katrina Daschner, Carla Degenhardt, Ines Doujak, Sylvia Eckermann, Manfred Erjautz, Mathis Esterhazy, Sofia Goscinski, Christine und Irene Hohenbüchler, Ewa Kaja, Mihaela Kavdanska, Brigitte Kowanz, Constantin Luser, Sabine Ott, Werner Reiterer, Hans Schabus, Nita Tandon, Jochen Traar, transparadiso, Markus Wilfling.

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Fear of Life
– The City as a Habitat to All

Social Design Symposium #3

Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Vienna
Oct.7, 2016, 9:30 am - 8 pm

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with: Ruth Wodak, Barbara Holub, Oto Hudec, Ton Matton, Katerina Seda, Angelika Fitz, Antonio Cosme, Andrew Herscher, Pawel Althamer
curated by: Brigitte Felderer

+ Presentation of the Social Design Reader #1:
Barbara Holub (ed.): Das Bienvenue: Ein Recht auf Raum für alle


http://socialdesign.ac.at/archive/2016/10/7/save-date-social-design-symposium/index.html

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Workshop for Dan Peterman
by transparadiso

in the frame of the exhibition "Waste Value Rising"

Kunsthaus Vienna
Aug.26, 2016, 3-6 pm

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Special guest: Basak Senova
(curator, Istanbul/ Ankara)

The particpants will have the opportunity to expand the "Mobile Models" by Dan Peterman and engage in a discussion on their personal and possible collective "values". We will continue building the growing structure of a "network-cloud" out of wasted bike joints and bamboo freshly harvested in Vienna.

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Book launch: Planning Unplanned

AIL/ Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna
Sept.24, 2015, 7 pm

Welcome:
Gerald Bast (president/ University of Applied Arts, Vienna)
Discussion:
Stefan Gruber (architect), Barbara Holub (artist), Maren Richter (curator), Rudolf Scheuvens (dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Vienna University of Technology)
Moderation: 
Elke Krasny (curator)

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Request for the unrequested interlinguality


Date: May 14, 2016, 4-7 pm
Location: Gemeindezentrum Pottenhofen / Lower Austria

www.publicart.at

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A collective bilingual German-Czech Scrabble Game for producing the design of a sculpture for the new square in Pottenhofen | Lower Austria
a project by transparadiso

Opening of the public art project:
July 15, 2016

Nejprve budeme hrát simultánně ve dvou jazycích hru Scrabble: Při hře chceme vytvářet poetická slovní spojení mezi českým a německým jazykem. Ta se promítnou do objektu na sezení
a stolování, který bude slavnostně odhalen 15. července 2016 na náměstí v Pottenhofenu.

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Ars Electronica
Post-City

3.9.-7.9.2015, LInz

http://www.aec.at/postcity/1001modell/

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Die „größte“ Architekturschau Österreichs, gestaltet von ArchitektInnen und Stadtplaner-Innen: Im Rahmen der diesjährigen Ars Electronica sollen ihr Ideenreichtum, ihre Visionskraft und Planungs-kompetenz sichtbar werden und zwar in Form möglichst vieler Architektur-modelle.

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Die politische Dimension der Kunst

Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil
Symposium: 20. - 21.04.2018

Speakers:
Jochen Becker, Alice Creischer, Helmut Draxler, Barbara Holub, Holger Kube Ventura, Annette Kulenkampff, Marc Lee, Christian Kosmas Mayer, Hermann Pfütze, Nasan Tur, Wolfgang Ullrich, Georg Winter

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CrossSections.Potentials
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

Opening: Jan.10, 2018, 7 pm
Exhibition: Jan.11-20, 2018

Presentation of the Blue Frog Society by Barbara Holub: Jan.12, 5 pm

Curated by: Basak Senova

Artists: Heba Y. Amin (EG/DE), Yane Calovski (MT), Ramesch Daha (AT), Ricarda Denzer (DE/AT), Nikolaus Gansterer (AT), Barbara Holub (AT), Otto Karvonen (FI), Bronwyn Lace (ZA), Marcus Neustetter (ZA), Isa Rosenberger (AT), Lina Selander (SE), Tamsin Snow (IE/UK)

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URGENT PERSPECTIVES #1

Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna (A)

Opening: Nov.9, 7 pm
Artists conversation: Nov.11, 2017,
2 pm
Exhibition: Nov.10.-11,.2017

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Artists: Dalila Gonçalves (AIR/Portugal), Vida Guzmić (AIR/Croatia), Nika Kupyrova (A), Gabriele Sturm (A)

curated by Barbara Holub for Kulturkontakt Austria

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SINOPALE - 6th Sinop Biennial
“Transposition / Aktarım”

1th August – 17th September 2017, Sinop, Turkey
http://sinopale.org/

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Sinopale Forum: Aug.20, 2017
Speakers: Nike Baetzner, Jonatan Habib Enqvist, Melih Görgün, Barbara Holub, Mahir Namur, Işın Önol.

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HARBOUR FOR CULTURES

8th CEI VENICE FORUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART CURATORS
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 2017

Symposium: Friday, May 12, 2017, 14.00 – 19.00
Location: Venice, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe Palazzo Zorzi, Castello 4930

curated by: Giuliana Carbi, Barbara Holub, Elisabetta Porro, Paul Rajakovics


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SPEAKERS
Iara Boubnova (ICA, Sofia), Maja Ćirić (independent curator, Belgrade), Călin Dan (general director National Museum of Contemporary Art,  Bucharest), Shamina de Gonzaga (executive director World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, USA), Beral Madra (BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul), Maren Richter (Valletta European Capital of Culture 2018, Malta), Mick Wilson (head of Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg).
The complete list of speakers and contributors is available here

The full program of the event

There is no fee for participation but you have to register online


Curated by: Giuliana Carbi (trieste contemporanea), Elisabetta Porro, Barbara Holub, Paul Rajakovics
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OUT NOW:
Barbara Holub (ed.): Das Bienvenue: Ein Recht auf Raum für alle
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Social Design Arts as Urban Innovation (editor), 2016
116 pages, color and b/w images
German/ English
Graphic Design: Schienerl A/D

ISBN-10: 3741272450
ISBN-13: 978-3741272455

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Request for the unrequested
voluntary inter
linguisticality

Design of the Square in Pottenhofen/ Lower Austria
by transparadiso

Opening: July 15, 2016, 5 pm

www.publicart.at

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Konferenz: Wir sind nie urban gewesen

7.10.-9.10.2015, Wien

Institut für Europäische Ethnologie | Universität Wien, Hanuschgasse 3, 1010 Wien

middletownurbanities.com

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Konferenz: Social Urban Art
12.11.-13.11.2015
HCU, Hamburg

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https://www.hcu-hamburg.de/universitaet/veranstaltungskalender/veranstaltungen-der-hcu/vorschau/

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KAPITAL HEIMAT
Artistic strategies and urban
interventions
Opening: March 10, 2016, 7 pm
Exhibition: March 11–May 13,2016



Projektraum des Deutschen Künstlerbundes
, Berlin


Curated by: Christina Paetsch
Artists:
Winfried Baumann | Stefan Fahrnländer | Pia Lanzinger | Christina Paetsch | transparadiso – Barbara Holub/ Paul Rajakovics


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Open Studio Day Tour //
Vienna Art Week:
Atelier transparadiso
Sa, 21.11.2015, 13:00

Treffpunkt:
Atelier transparadiso
Große Mohrengasse 34/3,
1020 Wien

Tour 2.Bezirk mit Nika Koupyrova: Atelier Ronald Kodritsch, tat ort (Berlinger, Fiel), Atelier Konrad Strutz

http://viennaartweek.at/de/program/176

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Book Launch:
"Planning Unplanned - Can Art Have a Function? Towards a New Function of Art in Society"

(eds.) Christine Hohenbüchler/ Barbara Holub

Thu, Sept.24, 2015, 7pm, AIL / Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna http://www.ailab.at
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3,
1010 Wien
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Bodied Spaces - Discursos cruzados entre corpo e espeaço

Cadernos do Rivoli 06

Editorial coordinator: Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro
Launch of publication: Jan 20, 2018,
Café Rivli, Porto (PT)

Published by:
Teatro Municipal do Porto
Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda
2018
184 p, Portugiese/ English

Texts/ contributions by:
Ana Mira, Ana Rita Teodoro, Barbara Holub, Boris Charmatz, Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro, Juao Fiadeiro, Juao Mendes Ribeiro, Jorge Andrade + José Capela, Teresa Fradique, Tiago Guedes

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The Bartlett School of Architecture/ London

Talk by Barbara Holub
Nov.23, 2017, 6:30 pm

lecture series "constructing realities"
at Here East/ Situated Practice

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Public Art Thinking: Symposium and Publication Launch

Eastside Projects
Birmingham

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
1 – 5.30 pm

Panel discussion with:
Andy Reeve, Barbara Holub, Gavin Wade, Mel Jordan, Robert Garnett, Rosalie Schweiker, Vanessa Boni
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OUT NOW:
New Stakeholders of Urban Change: A Question of Culture and Attitude?
Perspectives in Metropolitan Research 4
Hilke Marit Berger / Gesa Ziemer (eds.)
Jovis, 2017

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Times of Dilemma
Valletta 2018/
European Capital of Culture, Malta


a public art project by transparadiso
for "The Island is What the Sea Surrounds" (curated by Maren Richter)

Workshops:
for producing issues for a collective għana (traditional Maltese folk music) dialogue addressing current conflicts in urban and societal developments in Malta, which will be performed in a dialogical installation between land and sea, from March-June 2018.

Dates:
July 19, 2017, 5:30-7:30 pm
July 20, 2017, 5:30-7:30 pm

Location:
St Elmo Examination Centre,
St Elmo Place, Valletta / Malta

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TU Braunschweig (D)

Talk by Barbara Holub
23.05.2017

Barbara Holub stellt die Methode des direkten Urbanismus und künstlerisch-urbanistische Strategien anhand von exemplarischen Projekten, sowie ihre Forschung zu “Planning Unplanned”
und die neue, transdisziplinäre und über die fluide Rolle des „urban practitioners“, vor.

https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/arch

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transcript - Urban Studies, 2016 240 Seiten, kart., zahlr. Abb.
ISBN 978-3-8376-3448-8

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Waste Value Rising/
Abfallwert steigend

Opening: July 13, 2016, 7 pm
with workshop by Dan Peterman:



July 14, 3–6 pm

Exhibition: July 14-Oct.30, 2016
Kunsthaus Wien/ Garage

Artists: Folke Köbberling/Martin Kaltwasser (D), Dan Peterman (USA), RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co,
F/ CH), transparadiso (A)

Curated by: Barbara Holub

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Bodied Spaces
Discursos cruzados entre corpo e
espaço | Crossed discourses between body and space
| Festival Dias da Dança | Porto

Faculdade de Belas Artes | Aula Magna
April 28, 2016, 4 pm

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Espaço público e performatividade |
Public Space and Performativity


Talk by Barbara Holub
and discussion with:

Ana Rita Teodoro and Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro

Coordination and Moderation:
Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro

video of the talk

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THE TURN
Art in Post-Spring Societies

Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien

Opening: March 17, 7 pm
Exhibition: March 18–May 14, 2016

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curated by: Christine Bruckbauer   
and Patricia K.Triki
Artists:
Omar Abusaada, Noutayel Belkadhi,     Mohamed Allam, Irena Eden, Stijn Lernout, Moufida Fedhila, Reem Gibriel, Inkman, Helmut Kandl, Johanna Kandl, Halim Karabibene, Huda Lutfi, Selma Ouissi, Sofiane Ouissi, Hamdy Reda, Faten Rouissi, Arslane Bestaoui, transparadiso
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Creating Common Good
Kunsthaus Wien
Opening: Nov.16, 6 pm
Exhibition: Nov.17, 2015-Jan.10, 2016

www.kunsthauswien.com
Vienna Art Week
Curated by: Ursula Maria Probst and Robert Punkenhofer

Artists: Akram Al Halabi, Atelier Van Lieshout, Joseph Beuys, Bernhard Cella, Ramesch Daha, Democracia, Ines Doujak, Teresa Estapé, Peter Friedl, Leon Golub, Tamara Grcic, Gruppe Uno Wien, Markus Hiesleitner, Heidrun Holzfeind, Anna Jermolaewa, Folke Köbberling, Ernst Logar, Teresa Margolles, Adrian Melis, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Lisl Ponger, Pedro Reyes, Martha Rosler, Isa Rosenberger, Tim Sharp, Santiago Sierra und Jorge Galindo, Axel Stockburger, tat ort, Johanna Tinzl, transparadiso, Patricia K. Triki, Nasan Tur, Anna Witt, Ina Wudtke, Sislej Xhafa
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Shared Values, Ambulant Gardens, and Other Spaces

exhibition by transparadiso
trieste contemporanea, Trieste

Opening: Nov.25, 2017, 6 pm
Exhibition: Nov.28 - Dec.29, 2017

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Harbour for Cultures
Trieste (I), Oct.28, 2017

13:00-15:00: H/C workshop by transparadiso: Production of desires for a Harbour for Cultures: Shared Values, Ambulant Gardens, and Other Spaces
meeting point: in front of the Hydrodynamic Power Station, Porto Vecchio
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15:30-19:00: EIGHTH CEI VENICE FORUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART CURATORS FROM CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE. Trieste session.
HARBOUR FOR CULTURES. Continental Breakfast 2017.
Location: Magazzino delle Idee

19:00: H/C opening of the exhibition
exhibition: October 29 - December 13, 2017

Studio Tommaseo

For more information please see: www.triestecontemporanea.it

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Barbara Holub / solo show

Pursuing, advancing
Nachgehen, vorgehen

Peithner-Lichtenfels Gallery, Vienna
Opening: June 8, 2017, 7 pm

Artist Talk: June 21, 7 pm
with Barbara Holub and Lucas Gehrmann (curator, Kunsthalle Wien)

Exhibition: June 9-July 7, 2017

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Barbara Holub presents selected projects she conceived for various urban contexts during the past years, in which she addresses the vital issue,
what possibilities art has for establishing new social and communal values. The projects are connected by the essential questions: What kind of
visions do we have? And how do we take initiative to pursue them?


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PICTURE Budapest – Østfold

Symposium: Feb.15-16, 2017
Location: Csepeli Munkásotthon (Csepel Workers’ House),
1215 Budapest Árpád u. 1.

curated by: PLACCC Festival/ Budapest
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PLACCC Festival, in cooperation with its partner from Norway, Scenekunst Østfold and with the support of EEA Grants will realise the project PICTURE Budapest – Østfold focusing on the possible roles art can play in the redefinition of urban spaces.

Further info and program:
PLACCC Festival

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Filmfestival "This human world"
Vienna, Dec.1-11, 2016

screening by transparadiso:
date: Dec.3, 2016, 3:30 pm
location: Top Kino, Vienna

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transparadiso will screen three videos on recent urban interventions dealing with migration, corruption and risk – for the first time as "trilogy":

Du bakchich pour Lampedusa (Sousse, Tunesien, 2014), 4'56"
Je suis arabe - a right to poetics (Salzburg Museum, 2015), 12'40"
The laughter that gets caught in your throat (Performing Public Art Festival/ Vienna Biennale, 2015), 4'49"

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East Centric Architecture Triennale Bucharest 2016
Agora Experiments

Oct.8, 2016, 10 am:
One direction versus many:
Public debate with Barbara Holub
Moderated by: Andreea-Livia Ivanovici

Oct.8, 2016, 4 pm:
Keynote by Barbara Holub

Bucharest National Theatre
bucharest-triennale.eu/events/schedule/barbara-holub

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Theorie im Keller #14
Planning Unplanned

AFO Linz
March 15, 2016, 7 pm

Discussion with:
Barbara Holub and Peter Arlt
Concept and moderation:
Tobias Hagleitner and Franz Koppelstätter

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KunstRaumGarage
Votivpark-Garage, Vienna

March 16, 2016, 4-10 pm
Performances and installations
in a parking garage

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Curated by: Barbara Holub

Artists/ students of the University of Applied Arts Vienna:
Joanna Zabielska, Lisa Puchner, Hana Krizanova, Oliver Alunovic, Kollektiv OutSight, Matilde Igual, Feng Lei, Sarina Scheidegger, Marie Huth

www.wipark.at
www.angewandte.at


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"Performing Public Art"
Book Launch@urbanize
4.10.2015, 10:30-12:30

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Gerald Bast, Peter Weibel, Herwig Steiner (Hg.)
De Gruyter Verlag | Erscheint in der Buchreihe „Edition Angewandte“ der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

with contributions by: Erdem Gündüz,
transparadiso/Barbara Holub & Paul Rajakovics, Johan Lorbeer, Barbis Ruder, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Amy Spiers & Catherine Ryan, Artur Żmijewski and Wiener Beschwerdechor

urbanize.at/2015/event/performing-public-art
angewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte/main.jart


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