Wiener Festwochen:
WiseUpRadio explores another club culture avant-garde music festival, called Hyperreality. Hyperreality is part of the traditional Wiener Festwochen, a cultural event in Vienna, which is happening since the 1950s and is showcasing for 5 weeks in early summer new cutting edge cultural productions in music, theatre or fine arts.
This year a new creative director and curatorial team started their work to enable innovative and challenging productions with political relevance. Needless to say that this is most of the time creating as well moments of conflict and critique, as what is good or necessary art always is bound to subjectivity. Postcolonial approaches and issues on diversity or gender framed the agenda of a program that wanted to address high culture as well as sub- or counterculture, enable glamour alongside avant-garde and utopia, foster participation, discourse and a new welcoming culture not only for the traditional audience but for refugees.
You will hear an interview with Marlene Engel about the new format Hyperreality and another interview with Johannes Maile and Nadine Jessen about the events at the space Performeum which they conceptualized. These interviews give also an insight on cultural politics (and as we know politics are always a bit dirty) and are accompanied by a soundtrack that features artists who played at Hyperreality.
The show also presents live-recordings of the Hysteria fraternity @ Simmeringer Frühshoppen, their Festwochen event. Hysteria is one of the largest and oldest organizations in Austria (and probably Europe) for women and transgender artists & cultural activist.
Links:
facebook.com/BurschenschaftHysteria/
facebook.com/wienerfestwochen