iron ore * ART

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eisenerZ * ART 2012: Montanist performance GANGART by lawine torrèn on Eisenerzer Erzberg

eisenerZ * ART is an art and culture project in the Austrian town of Eisenerz in Styria . It was founded in 2010 as part of the current urban development program to promote art and culture in the “ mining town”, which is affected by structural problems , and has already been awarded several prizes. With "unusual program formats" it gained national recognition.

The art and culture project

Background and story

View of the town of Eisenerz with the Erzberg in the background

Eisenerz lies in the midst of the towering cliffs of the Eisenerzer Alps in the southwest and the Hochschwab in the northeast. The surrounding mighty rock formations dominate the cityscape. Then there are the reddish stages of the Erzberg , the largest iron ore - open pit of Central Europe. Ore mining on the Erzberg has a long tradition, going back at least to the 11th century, and the flourishing mining industry formed the basis of the economic upswing in the Eisenwurzen region and eastern Upper Styria from the 16th to the 20th century. The mining at Erzberg coined the distinguished place of iron ore as a " mining town " and the influx of workers and their families helped him in 1948 to the city charter.

Due to technical innovations in the mining sector itself, but also due to the global crisis in the iron and steel industry in the 1980s, the population shrank to less than a third over the course of half a century: in 2017, around 4,200 people lived in iron ore, compared to the 1950s it still nearly 15,000. For decades the "once proud Styrian mining town has been struggling with emigration , vacancies and aging ". In order to cope with its structural problems, the city has been carrying out the 15-year Template: future / in 5 yearsurban development program "re-design Eisenerz" since 2005 in order to "give the old mountain town of Eisenerz a new, future- oriented image ".

The art consultant and cultural manager Gerhild Illmaier ( alias GIL ), who comes from Eisenerz and runs a consulting agency in Graz , proposed the inclusion of art and culture in the urban development of her place of birth in the mid-2000s. In 2006, the mayor of Eisenerz commissioned her with an artistic concept for the city, which Illmaier developed with the partial collaboration of the sociologist Rainer Rosegger and presented in 2008. The concept showed the fundamentals of the possibilities for developing art and cultural projects in and around Eisenerz. Since then, a cultural initiative founded has been committed to the resulting art and culture project eisenerZ * ART , which was officially started in 2010. The concept for eisenerZ * ART developed by Illmaier is implemented by the association of the same name in cooperation with the municipality of Eisenerz. Gerhild Illmaier is responsible for the artistic direction and production management. The city assigned the project the task of contributing to the “re-design Eisenerz” urban development program, which will run until 2020, by promoting “increasing the quality of life”.

program

Metal sculpture satellite - contribution by Gerhard Raab to the exhibition EISENERZ ... ON DRAHT! 2014

Since the beginning of 2010, the mining town has been artistically performed annually as part of eisenerZ * ART with a changing program focus. The various artistic and cultural offers include art exhibitions , installations , performances and other art events , art competitions, theater and amateur film productions as well as artist and book presentations.

The participating artists come from both the region and abroad, and they include:

Coming artists like the writers were involved also from the region Stephan Eibel ore or the painter of Neo- Pop - Symbolism Harald Munich valley as well as the resident of iron ore metal record label Napalm Records and the school band Best Of Real Good Music of Eisenerzer school.

According to media reports, among other things, the performance GANGART by lawine torrèn on Eisenerzer Erzberg, performed at eisenerZ * ART 2012 , where dancers performed next to “gigantic mining machines”. The “mining performance for the anniversary of 1300 years of ore mining on the Styrian Erzberg” was awarded several prizes.

Rustproof

As a recurring part of eisenerZ * ART, the three-day festival Rostfest ( own spelling ROSTFEST ) was held annually from 2012 to 2016 . The "Festival for regional impulses" played on vacant rooms in Eisenerz and addressed regional development opportunities. An offer with now more than 100 program items such as exhibitions, concerts , readings and performances covered the entire city and dealt with the region and its challenges with the participation of the local population. The festivals attracted up to 5,000 visitors annually; During the festival, around 800 mostly young people moved into vacant workers ' apartments as " urban camping " in the former miners' settlement of Münichtal on the outskirts of Eisenerz. Admission to the previous festivals was free, but visitors were able to purchase “rust parts” and thus support the event financially. Various projects in the region were started as part of the rust festival, for example Günther Friesinger (with monochrom ) designed the construction plan for a local hack lab .

The sponsor and organizer of the festival is the Verein Rostfrei - Association for regional impulses . In 2017, the sponsoring association did not organize a festival and stated that the interruption was necessary in order to be able to “adapt the organizational structure and the programmatic orientation to the growth process of recent years”.

# year WT meeting annotation
1 2012 Fri-Sun 24.-26. August
2 2013 Thu – Sat 22.-24. August Supporting program from August 19, free admission, urban camping
3 2014 Thu – Sun 21.-24. August
4th 2015 Days 20.-22. August with supporting program creative week 17. – 21. August, free entry
5 2016 Wed – Sun 17.-21. August Admission 9 € for 2 screenings of a film on August 20 + 21.
- 2017 - - NO rustproof
6th 2018 Thu – Sat 16.-18. August Admission, Sat sold out, opening day on the Erzberg

The event sometimes runs a few hours past midnight on the last day on a smaller scale, there may also be a morning pint and a shuttle service to the Urban Camping area or the car park.

Awards and nominations

  • 2013: Green Panther in silver, for the performance project GANGART of the artist network lawine torrèn carried out by eisenerZ * ART in 2012
  • 2013: Maecenas as a recognition award in the large company category, awarded to VA Erzberg for its commitment to the arts in the GANGART project
  • 2013: Austrian Event Award - nomination of the GANGART project in the Corporate Public Events category
  • 2013: Award of a "premium for exemplary cultural work" from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (BUKK)

Publications

  • Gerhild Illmaier, Rainer Rosegger: Z * ART . Cultural development concept EisenerZ * ART . eisenerZ * ART, Graz 2008.
  • Barbara Jernej, Günther Holler-Schuster u. a. ( Ed .): EISEN ORE… ON WIRE! A site-specific exhibition in 12 positions. August 21 - November 30, 2014 . Ed .: Gerhild Illmaier. eisenerZ * ART, Graz 2014, ISBN 978-3-200-03898-1 ( exhibition catalog ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Gaube: Fifth round for EisenerZ * ART. In: mein district.at . June 17, 2014, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Norbert Philipp: From ore and rust: Choreography of change. In: diepresse.com . August 18, 2012, accessed September 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Rustproof: Celebrate vacancies in Eisenerz. In: derstandard.at . August 21, 2015, accessed September 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Rainer Rosegger: re-design iron ore! About the change in a Styrian mining town . In: FORUM Umweltbildung (Ed.): Magazin Umwelt & bildung . No. 2/2010 , p. 16–17 ( digitized version [PDF; accessed October 4, 2017]).
  5. ↑ See the agency's website: GIL art.infection. In: art.infection.at. Gerhild Illmaier, accessed on September 8, 2017 (with audio background music).
  6. ↑ a b Discussion with Gerhild Illmaier. Time talks 2013, topic series "Cooperation instead of competition". In: zeitgespraeche.at. Initiative für Zeitkultur, c / o LAG Oststeirisches Kernland, May 17, 2013, accessed on September 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b See the website of the art and culture project: eisenerZ * ART. In: eisenerz-art.at. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Kulturamt der Stadtgemeinde Eisenerz : eisenerZ * ART. In: eisenerz.at. City of Eisenerz, accessed on September 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Katarina Jelicic, Maria Schaunitzer: iron ore * ART: Artistic tracks in iron ore. In: kleinezeitung.at . August 26, 2016. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  10. ↑ a b See information on the eisenerZ * ART website: Artists. In: eisenerz-art.at. Retrieved September 8, 2017 (as of 2017).
  11. ↑ lawine torrèn : lawine torrèn: GANGART. In: torren.at. 2012, accessed on September 30, 2017 (including a photo gallery, video documentation and press reports).
  12. ↑ (lux): iron ore: rust never sleeps. In: derstandard.at . August 18, 2016, accessed October 4, 2017 .
  13. ^ Regional: Das Land, an idea factory. July 30, 2014, accessed March 16, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Hittrach iron ore. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
  15. ↑ See the festival website: Rostfest. In: rostfest.at. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Press conference eisenerZ * ART 2012 June 21, 2012, accessed August 18, 2018.
  17. ↑ Builds again on FM4 August 23, 2012, accessed August 18, 2018. ("August 24 + 25")
  18. ↑ https://www.rostfest.at/web_archive/line-up/
  19. ↑ https://rostfest.at/impressionen-rostfest-2015/