House of Open Gates – Narratives of the Arrival City
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Volksgarten Pavilion, Graz. Austria. 23/09 – 16/10 2016
co-production <rotor>/ Steirischer Herbst
WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF OPEN GATES
TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES
TAKE YOUR TIME
Curators/ ThinkTank: Daniela Brasil (Department of Dialogical Spaces for Artistic Hospitality), with Anton Lederer, Margarethe Makovec, Nayarí Castillo, Maryam Mohammadi, Mário Soares et al.
Coordination of Spatial Design with Studio Magic/ Thomas Kalcher
– with the valuable contributions from IZK/TUG students, Samovar Activity Café, Daily Rhythms Collective, Heidenspass, Christian Meixner, Saber Jafari, Danyal Parwani, Hasid Afzali, Christoph Thambauer, Helene Thümmel, Patricia Wess, Botanischer Garten, et al.
The House of Open Gates is designed under the motto of “transcultural hospitality” (or “transkulturelle Gemütlichkeit”). A space to host and foster the most diverse, horizontal, unlikely and warm-hearted encounters – during the 1-year process of building the house, while it is open to the public, and afterward. A dialogical space where people of different social and cultural backgrounds de facto meet, thus relationships can interweave, prejudices can be deconstructed, and the understanding of humanity as diverse and egalitarian can be cultivated – while guests share a cup of coffee or tea.
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click here for the full TEXT “The House of Open Gates: An Enclave Between the City of Graz as it is, and as We Imagine it Could be”
first published in the „Journal of Urban Culture Research“, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts – Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, vol. 14 January / June 2017.
The project documentation and a shortened version of this text is to be found at: Haus der Offene Tore, edited by Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer, Graz: < rotor > 2019.
impressions from the opening weekend – 24/25 september 2016
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