Students and teachers of the Social Design Studio and the Institute of Language Arts have looked into the history of Funkhaus for two semesters and established relationships with the building itself and its environs. Setting out from that basis, they shape the House of the Republic for the duration of the festival – with words and physical exertion. They render the unfamiliar interior of the building tangible. Thus the former broadcasting house Funkhaus, including basement, toilets and garden, becomes a place of exchange: a place to listen to each other, to endure each other and to have new experiences together. The students use the House of the Republic as a stage for the entire period, offering formats such as a performative nail studio or even the Love Fight Club. They invite you to perform together and to think about that thing called love: what does it mean, when does it end, and where do we even find it at all? Can it be regulated, tamed, professionalised? The students put on a special edition of Applied Love every Wednesday evening!
Club Club of the Republic
What happens when hearing becomes a secondary matter? The club is a playground that can be felt.
Sound here is not only heard, but resonates through the body. Through the use of vibrating materials and tactile design, music becomes accessible beyond the audible. This club makes space for those who perceive differently.What emerges is a site of shared experience: an playful attempt to include a broader variety of needs when experiencing music, as well as a break from the normative stage of clubbing. What does inclusion within the club culture actually mean and how can we welcome everybody? This space invites to discuss.
Idea and concept room: YCINMC - Your Club Is Not My Club. A project by: Theodora Hergheligiu, Johanna Kalinke, Réka Novák, Lukas Weinlein, Nazgol Sobhani
Idea and concept stage: Felicia RiegelLove Chairs Hallway
Love Chairs furnish the Festival headquarters. Throughout the entire Funkhaus, they invite, challenge, seduce and entice people to sit down, gather and be open for unexpected encounters and events. These special pieces of furniture provide luxury for everyone at the House of the Republic, with a view of the large clock that serves as an urgent reminder of the future.
Idea, concept and participants: Ilia Gromov, Zhengyi Wang, Susanne Büchele, Hannah Horn, Joanna Weise, Akina Hocke, Lucie Urban, Bazzichelli, Markus Feifel Pargas, Ana Dos Santos, Grayson Ruple, Viktoriia Aksenova, Hannah Leimberger, Laura Fellerer, Marie Siebdrat, Milena Nowak, Karlotta Leonie Paul, Simon Wallis
Opening hours: permanentCurtains for Commons Archive
Collected curtains are turned into flags that connect the private and the public, unite individual stories and remind us of exchange, community and cohesion. The wind blows the curtains from the inside out, brushing the façade. The flags symbolise the extended living space - a sign that public space should be understood as a common good, open to all. The curtains from private households occupy the empty space and, in an associative breakdown, explore the question of what the private is without the public and where these categories intertwine. Curtain, text and wind lead through levels of meaning that are constantly shifting. Airy, boundless. Until other curtains stand and blow in the luxury flats planned here.
A project of the Social Design Class and the Language Arts
Esma Ahmedi, Stephanie Bauer, Paul Budniewski, Fanny Dobler, Hannah Leimberger, Ladja Tsvetkov
Opening hours: every Wednesday, 4–10pmThe Relationship Archive
A vessel for exchange through non-human perspectives. The Relationship is a vessel that holds valuables and is a space that accommodates for the creatures that come aboard. The valuables are the understandings and experiences that make up each creatures’ perspective. The ship is a space for exchange, reflection, companionship, and learning together. These engagements help navigate the direction The Relationship is going. Sometimes the path is clear, sometimes the ship is floating and drifting whichever way without control, but it is the experiences of the crew on board that makes navigating difficult waters more secure. By sharing these perspectives with each member of the crew the ship is stabilized which makes the journey easier.
Idea and concept: Susanne Büchele, Daniël Siegersma, Grayson Ruple, Viktoriia Aksenova
Opening hours: every Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday, 4–10pm
More info: www.the-relationship.orgBlush&Flush WC Foyer
Does love liberate? Or does it instead confront us with the standards of a society, with expectations that are too narrow, with inequality and not least with the fear of being rejected? A Funkhaus toilet will be turned into an interactive restroom that gives room to the unspoken, secrets, intimate words that will find their way into the songs of the band LUV.
Idea and concept: Akina Hocke, Lucie Urban, Kerim El-Mokdad
Opening hours: permanent
More info: @blush.and.flushsNails Studio Archive
@snails_megazine unpacks the histories, care work, and creativity surrounding nail culture. Following the launch of sNails Magazine, we’ve invited four Vienna-based nail artists to curate the studio with us—and do whatever they love on nails! Each week, a different artist will take over the space with their unique vision, turning nail care into a playful, expressive, and collaborative experience.
Idea and concept: Viktoriia Aksenova, Mildred Cheng
Nail Artists: 21.5. @trolls_claw, 28.5. @swamp_nailss, 4.6. @laudo.nails, 11.6. @lilsbeautique
Opening hours: every Wednesday, 2–8pm
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