Office of Open Questions

Paranoia TV Zentrale
Herrengasse 26, 8010 Graz
24.9.–18.10., 10:00–18:00

© Augenhaptik

Once again, the Office of Open Questions ensures that you can participate in the festival in a slightly more intensive and interactive fashion. In the spirit of Paranoia TV, we broadcast our events on different channels from our back office on the second floor of our headquarters. So get ready to immerse yourself in different artistic projects with us, gathered around a large table filled with impressions and excerpts! All of this entirely at your discretion, depending upon your preference regarding time management, your readiness to travel, your health condition and your current need for intimacy. We look forward to your visit.

No matter which channel you choose, we invite you to, as always, examine the steirischer herbst program with open questions in mind. While up to now our Open Questions card game had been the pivot of our discussions, this time around it’s your turn: tell us your questions about the artworks or the festival and Paranoia TV itself. They will be collected with a web tool and—supplemented by comments from the Paranoia TV team—made available in the online Archive of Open Questions_2020. In this way, you can also be inspired by what went through others’ minds when faced with the artworks. Please do not hesitate to send further questions directly to education [​at​] steirischerherbst.at or to fill in the question cards which you will find on the website under the information on individual artists.


Educational formats

Im Fokus: Club digital
Schause: Schauen + Pause with Geheime Dramaturgischen Gesellschaft
miniPARANOIA: Use It! & Gimme Shelter!
Analog Sonntag zu Gast beim Büro der Offenen Fragen
Deep Fake_Fake News
Escape Paranoia
Geheime Botschaften in Zeiten von Corona

Educational formats for Schools

Festivalfilme_goes_Watchparty
L’Opra Fatale—An Intervention by Lulu Obermayer
Die Kunst ist meine Baustelle
Paranoia_Learningscapes

Discourse

Suddenly and forever. Kulturvermittlung im Festivalkontext


Educational formats and dates

Im Fokus: Club digital

With your feet on the analogue ground and your head in the digital sky—or vice versa?! As in the past two years, we would like to take a closer look at and discuss individual artworks with you while trying out different perspectives. Although we can’t offer tours to artworks at various locations in Graz this year, we do invite you to join us for lively conversations at the large shared table via Zoom conferencing—no matter where you are, how you feel and whether you want to get out of your sweatpants or not.

Participation free of charge, limited number of participants

Information and registration:
t +43 (0) 664 2450089
education [​at​] steirischerherbst.at

Fri 25.9., 17:00 Im Fokus: Judy Radul
Sat 26.9., 17:00 Im Fokus: Roee Rosen
Thu 1.10., 17:00 Im Fokus: Gelatin/studio ASYNCHROME
Fri 2.10., 17:00 Im Fokus: Vadim Fishkin
Sat 3.10., 17:00 Im Fokus: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Sun 4.10., 11:00 Im Fokus: Akinbode Akinbiyi
Thu 8.10., 17:00 Im Fokus: Igor Samolet
Fri 9.10., 17:00 Im Fokus: Pirici & Lund
Sat 10.10., 17:00 Im Fokus: John Smith
Sun 11.10., 11:00 Im Fokus: Josef Dabernig
Thu 15.10., 17:00 Im Fokus: Liv Schulman
Fri 16.10., 17:00 Im Fokus: Joanna Piotrowska
Sat 17.10., 17:00 Im Fokus: Ahmet Ögüt
Sun 18.10., 11:00 Im Fokus: Sung Tieu

In addition to the fixed dates, you can book Im Fokus: Club digital for groups of five or more people, also in the following languages: Arabic, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, German, English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Booking free of charge

Information and registration:
t +43 (0) 664 24500 89
education [​at​] steirischerherbst.at


Schause: Schauen + Pause with Geheime Dramaturgische Gesellschaft

An interrupted public viewing

Have you ever wanted to interrupt a film and ask the director about her ideas or the actors about their experiences? Now you can. At our online watch parties showcasing selected festival films, you can request a break via chat before you forget your most urgent questions in the face of new impressions.

With the friendly support of Geheime Dramaturgische Gesellschaft

Participation free of charge, limited number of participants

Information and registration:
t +43 (0) 664 24500 89
education [​at​] steirischerherbst.at

Mo 5.10., 20:00, Schause: Dani Gal in German and English, running time: ca. 90 minutes
Mo 12.10., 20:00, Schause: Theater im Bahnhof in deutscher Sprache, running time: ca. 90 minutes


miniPARANOIA

TV format on the current festival program for children and curious people, aged 9 to 99, for those who are in afternoon care and those give afternoon care, at school, at home or in a nursing home.

Use It! – Silent Crafting mit den Dingen des täglichen Lebens

(Use It! – Silent Crafting with Everyday Objects)

Zoom workshop

Let us appease the spirit of the age and show that we understand it through our offerings. That it probably wants us to create and develop things in the here and now. That, in a time that keeps us apart, it is important to maintain a connection. This connection should run (on) through a string: Knotted, woven, entwined, a ribbon should tie us together.

With jersey ribbons of our own design, we drill, sew, weave and wrap practical, necessary, absurd and reprehensible things. All you need is: discarded T-shirts! Upcycling at its best!

Online workshop with Isabel Toccafondi for children and curious people, for those who’re in afternoon care and those give afternoon care, for Pinterest followers and handicraft nerds, aged 9 to 99, at school, at home or in a nursing home.

24.9.–18.10., Mon–Fri 14:10
Running time: 15 minutes

→  www.paranoia-tv.com/silentcrafting

Gimme Shelter!

Interactive workshop via Actionbound

Do you know this situation? Especially in times of paranoia, homeschooling and home office, a safe haven is needed to protect one against supposed threats such as carefree time. So let your children build such a harbor, with blankets, cushions or shipping boxes, and discover pertinent artistic projects of Paranoia TV at the same time! Just scan the QR code, launch Actionbound and let the kids build! By the way: Gimme Shelter! can also be quite exciting for parents.

For children between 4 and 10 years, alone or with their parents/minders

The workshop can take place in your home or in other childcare contexts.

Dates upon agreement, free slots can be found on our homepage at the start of the festival.

Information and registration:
t +43 (0) 664 24 500 89
education [​at​] steirischerherbst.at

→  Actionbound link


Analog Sonntag zu Gast beim Büro der Offenen Fragen

(Office of Open Questions feat. Analog Sonntag)

Interactive workshop

Going for a walk with homemade distance-keeping devices? So far, so coronavirus. But this particular performance has nothing to do with the virus: we build distance-keeping devices in the shape and size of cars, showing how much space cars take up compared to people. Join us and get in! Directly on site at Paranoia TV Headquarters or at home via Zoom. Only the curb can stop us!

For hobbyists and tinkerers, aged 9 to 99

Workshop and performance direction: Fabian Knöbl / Analog Sonntag

27.9., 10:00–14:00
Presentation: 27.9., 14:00

Paranoia TV Headquarters
Herrengasse 26, 8010 Graz

Information and registration:
t +43 (0) 664 24 500 89
education [​at​] steirischerherbst.at


Deep Fake_Fake News

Interactive tour via Actionbound

Would you like to enter the world of Paranoia TV through selected artworks or study and discuss them further? Without our interactive tour Deep Fake_Fake News you can—no matter the time and place. Just scan the QR Code and off you go! But beware: this tour could lead to a long-term relationship with steirischer herbst.

Interactive online tour via Actionbound for curious and playful people aged 12 to 99, alone or in small groups or classes

In German and English

You’ll need one or several smartphones with the Actionbound and Zoom apps

Information and registration:
t +43 (0) 664 24 500 89
education [​at​] steirischerherbst.at


Escape Paranoia

Interactive escape Zoom room

Do you love art and games? Do you appreciate both the thrill of serious artistic exploration as well as challenging escape rooms? And do you want to enter the world of Paranoia TV through selected artworks or take a closer look at them? Then why not take part in our one-hour long Escape Paranoia challenge, in which you and three other players must solve tasks and puzzles based on specific artworks. A word of caution is advised: cooperation in times of paranoia can be quite tricky ...

For curious and playful people aged 16 to 99, in one or two groups of 4 to 24 people

In German and English language

Dates by agreement, free slots can be found on our homepage at the start of the festival.

Each group needs its own Zoom room. In addition, each participant needs a smartphone with the Actionbound app and a PC or tablet with camera and microphone for Zoom.

Information and registration:
t +43 (0) 664 24 500 91
education [​at​] steirischerherbst.at


Geheime Botschaften in Zeiten von Corona

(Secret Messages in the Times of Coronavirus)

Individual virtual tour through Graz

Just like always, we take you on a tour of selected artistic projects of this year’s steirischer herbst through the city center of Graz. Yet, in the spirit of social distancing, your guide is your smartphone, which, with the help of the Actionbound app, leads you from one work to the next, asks questions and invites you to discuss them. So, whenever you have time: scan the QR code and off you go! In the spirit of Paranoia TV, we are always there for you on the tour, even if you may not notice it at first sight.

For curious and adventurous people aged 16 to 99, alone or in small groups

Dates by agreement, free slots can be found on our homepage at the start of the festival.

Information and registration:
t +43 (0) 664 24 500 89
education [​at​] steirischerherbst.at

→  Actionbound link



Educational formats for Schools

Festivalfilme_goes_Watchparty

Film screenings with directors’ talks

Watch party feeling in the classroom? We’re giving it a try and visit schools with exceptional short films, popcorn and exciting guests—courtesy of a delivery service (disinfection included) and Zoom conferences!

Our films strive to create lasting impressions rather than just temporary entertainment. They catch our attention and play with our perception, thus raising questions that we can discuss with your students* and the filmmakers. It doesn’t matter whether half the class or the whole class is enjoying homeschooling or attending in person. We can make arrangements for you. You only need a projector in the classroom.

The program, including short descriptions of the individual films, can be found in our online leaflet Festivalfilme goes Watchparty.

For pupils aged 12 and up

Booking free of charge

Information and registration:
t +43 (0) 664 2450089
education [​at​] steirischerherbst.at


L’Opra Fatale—An Intervention by Lulu Obermayer

Online workshop

Building on her practice of critically deconstructing gender roles, Lulu Obermayer occupies Graz’s opera building together with an ensemble of female singers to temporarily recast the canonical role of the woman in the opera.

How much do children and young people today reflect on role models? How strongly are they influenced by TV, pop, and high culture? And how relevant is opera in this context? Take a walk with your pupils on the digital paths to high culture to deconstruct its course into the 21st century.

From 4.10. onwards
Dates upon agreement
Length: 2 teaching units


Die Kunst ist meine Baustelle

Kultur als Online-Challenge!

(Art Is My Construction Site. Culture as Online Challenge!)

Online pupils’ conference

Using different tools such as Zoom, Miro, Mentimeter, etc., about 500 students* from HBLA Ortwein and HLW Schrödinger work (online and offline) in small groups on a project that enables them to look behind the scenes of a festival. Artworks from the festival serve as starting point and inspiration.

14.10., 15.10.

(Closed event)


Paranoia_Learningscapes

Discuss and produce

In an intensive two-day workshop, apprentices from the Murau and Feldbach regions engage in discussions with artists Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman and Anna Witt. What do art and life look like in the times of a pandemic, in the times of home office and home studio? In which work and discussion processes do artworks emerge? How does one find a topic?

Based on the working methods of Sniderman and Witt, the apprentices will try to understand art as an intellectual and haptic sphere of work—and thus enter a creative process themselves.

Closed workshop via Zoom/Actionbound with dates before and after the festival

Workshop chairs: Markus Plasencia and Elke Murlasits

With the kind support of OEAD/KulturKontakt Austria


Suddenly and forever

Kulturvermittlung im Festivalkontext
(Cultural mediation in the festival context)

Online conference

Mediation seems to have arrived in the field of art and culture. Usually the question is how to address a broader public and reach new visitors and target groups. Mediation is tasked with building a first communicative bridge in order to stimulate exchange and discussion of the contents to be conveyed. Especially in the context of festivals with their temporal and spatial limits, mediation is confronted with special questions and challenges. First and foremost, this concerns the conditions under which serious participation, sustainability and accessibility beyond cheap publicity stunts are possible.

As the central institution of steirischer herbst for cultural mediation, the Office of Open Questions already includes its concept in its name: we are interested in approaching topics based on open questions. Thus the starting point and idea of this conference is to discuss these questions and conditions in a discursive setting with experts from the German-speaking world and in exchange with cultural mediators from other festivals and art and cultural institutions, thus also creating opportunities for networking.

With Mark Terkessidis, Siglinde Lang, Ulli Mayer, and trafo.K

1.10., 9:00–16:00
Zoom video conference

Information and registration:
t +43 (0) 664 24 500 89
education [​at​] steirischerherbst.at