The last few weeks have brought many collective learnings and inspirations to our StoryTelling:Europe! Project. In the framework of two Co-Creation Labs that included spaces to create, experiment and reflect, the team dived into central questions of Europe, its frontiers and potentialities.
In the stories and interactions, we have experienced in the microcosm of the Brunnenmarket, we found many valuable clues, answers and insights that illuminated our questions. We put the focus on the collective needs we have identified when thinking about the past, present and future of Europe and even on the emotional reactions evoked by this word associated with very different life experiences and realities. Europe as a bridge, as a place of re/construction, as a place of trauma and dream, as a space of transgenerational co-creation, connection and transformation, a place with a collective responsibility and very diverse experiences of privilege.
The exercises of imagination and dialogue have allowed us to question stereotypical images and narratives and open ourselves to listening to the hidden stories, those that happen between the lines, those that were never told or heard, in a very situated context, here and now, among our neighbours, workers, entrepreneurs and children of the local communities.
The two artistic research processes of StoryTelling:Europe! – the development of audio-guided StoryWalks and the mixed-media exhibition in public space A Viennese Caravanserai – allowed us to think about strategies of intervention of our contemporary realities through art, opening up a spectrum of possibilities of unlearning, reimagining and building shelter for our common human experiences and dreams.
The team is now very excited, and concentrated in the last days of preparation and rehearsals before the opening of our artistic productions to the public!
–> StoryWalks and audio station
A project by Melika Ramić & protagonists from the Brunnenmarket
StoryWalks for the public: Thu June 23rd & Fri June 24th, 4.30 p.m.
Audio station in the window gallery of Brunnenpassage: from June 23rd till September 2022
–> Exhibition Opening of “A Viennese Caravanserai” with carpet concert by Seba Kayan and Kamyab Sadeghi
June 24th, 2022
A project by Asma Aiad & the business owners of the Brunnenmarket
June 24th to October 1st 2022
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