steirischer herbst
Walks in Progress


Four ”Walks in Progress” take participants all over the festival, by day and by night, through art and everyday life, with professionals and amateurs – open-ended walks around Graz and steirischer herbst.


(Voluntary self-)control ((Freiwillige Selbst-)Kontrolle)
From the crime museum to waste management to the fitness studio

Director: Michael Zinganel (A)
With : Joachim Hainzl (A), Christian Bachhiesl (A) et al.

Our society is characterised by an extraordinary need to collect things, for control and exclusion – expressed not only by the police, the courts, educational institutions and health care, but by all of us. This obsession with control starts in our own professional and private life settings. With anticipatory obedience we integrate ourselves into the control apparatus, which accumulates and markets a wide range of information about us. This journey visits places of self-control and outside control, passing by various stores of knowledge, on to insurance and security institutions – from the crime museum, the road safety kindergarten, to Hauptplatz, a controlled event location, and to the waste collections of the city historian Joachim Hainzl.


Borders and in-between spaces (Grenzen und Zwischenräume)
Travelling field research

Director: Judith Laister (A) & Elisabeth Katschnig-Fasch (A)
With: Ina-Maria Greverus (D) et al.

Council tenement blocks and the art space are two poles of social aggregation and delimitation. City walkers, inhabitants, researchers and artists operate in this hierarchised field of tension with the aim of investigating a wide variety of local effects, tracking down the effect of (in)visible borders and discovering in-between spaces. What can be found on this journey in cultural anthropology are surprising cross-links between everyday life and theory, between control, participation and collaboration in daily life.

Co-produced by steirischer herbst & Graz University, Institute of Ethnic Studies and Cultural Anthropology


Tracing Protections
A journey around the Gutshaus Kranz and a trip to Ljubljana

Director: Adam Budak (A/PL) & Christine Peters (D)
With : Claire Doherty (GB), Apolonija Sustersic (SLO/NL), Bojana Kunst (SLO) et al.

Seduction, manipulation and smuggling: a journey between the inside and outside of an imaginary city – with the exhibition room as a public square, a stage for situations, events and performative actions. While the curators explore the curational and performative strategies of “Protections”, the art theorist Claire Doherty investigates the dynamics of an art practice that is both public-specific and site-specific on the paths of the “Protections”exhibition. The subsequent coach trip with the artist Apolonija Sustersic and performance theorist Bojana Kunst – under the fictitious flag of Slovenian Museum of Contemporary Art – takes participants to Maribor and Ljubljana, with a stop off at IKEA.

Co-operation Institute for Acting, University of Music and Performing Art Graz


Pursuing Work (Der Arbeit nachgehen)
Buildings and images of work in the post-Fordian city

Director: Gabu Heindl (A), Markus Bogensberger (A)
With: Oliver Schürer (A) et al.

Factory, depot, working-class estate: powerful images of work from days of yore. But what are the architectures for networked, immaterial or affective work like? ’Atypical employment‘, ’outsourcing‘ and ’franchising‘, teleworking, labour migration – these are the buzzwords for a changed world of work, directly impacting life concepts, daily routines and urban modes of use. At the same time, the city itself is changing, too, with inner cities, for example, becoming tourist service zones and industrial regions becoming Creative Cities. As a result of visiting, playing and questioning collective sites of work, our individual everyday work experiences also come up for discussion.

Co-produced by steirischer herbst & HDA – Haus der Architektur Graz

(Voluntary self-)control ((Freiwillige Selbst-)Kontrolle)
From the crime museum to waste management to the fitness studio
Mon 02/10, 2pm
Meetingpoint: main entrance Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Borders and in-between spaces (Grenzen und Zwischenräume)
Travelling field research
Thu 05/10, 2pm - 8pm
Meetingpoint: Festival centre

Tracing Protections
A journey around the Gutshaus Kranz and a trip to Ljubljana
Fri 06/10, 4pm - 8pm
Meetingpoint: Gutshaus Kranz
Sat 07/10, 10am - 9pm
Bustransfer to Ljubljana, Meetingpoint: Gutshaus Kranz

Pursuing Work (Der Arbeit nachgehen)
Buildings and images of work in the post-Fordian city
Sat 07/10, 2pm
Meetingpoint: Palais Thienfeld

No registration necessary for the walks.

The trip to Ljubljana is fully booked already.

(Voluntary self-)control ((Freiwillige Selbst-)Kontrolle)
From the crime museum to waste management to the fitness studio
Mon 02/10, 2pm
Meetingpoint: main entrance Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Borders and in-between spaces (Grenzen und Zwischenräume)
Travelling field research
Thu 05/10, 2pm - 8pm
Meetingpoint: Festival centre

Tracing Protections
A journey around the Gutshaus Kranz and a trip to Ljubljana
Fri 06/10, 4pm - 8pm
Meetingpoint: Gutshaus Kranz
Sat 07/10, 10am - 9pm
Bustransfer to Ljubljana, Meetingpoint: Gutshaus Kranz

Pursuing Work (Der Arbeit nachgehen)
Buildings and images of work in the post-Fordian city
Sat 07/10, 2pm
Meetingpoint: Palais Thienfeld



No registration necessary for the walks.

The trip to Ljubljana is fully booked already.










Walks in Progress


Four ”Walks in Progress” take participants all over the festival, by day and by night, through art and everyday life, with professionals and amateurs – open-ended walks around Graz and steirischer herbst.


(Voluntary self-)control ((Freiwillige Selbst-)Kontrolle)
From the crime museum to waste management to the fitness studio

Director: Michael Zinganel (A)
With : Joachim Hainzl (A), Christian Bachhiesl (A) et al.

Our society is characterised by an extraordinary need to collect things, for control and exclusion – expressed not only by the police, the courts, educational institutions and health care, but by all of us. This obsession with control starts in our own professional and private life settings. With anticipatory obedience we integrate ourselves into the control apparatus, which accumulates and markets a wide range of information about us. This journey visits places of self-control and outside control, passing by various stores of knowledge, on to insurance and security institutions – from the crime museum, the road safety kindergarten, to Hauptplatz, a controlled event location, and to the waste collections of the city historian Joachim Hainzl.


Borders and in-between spaces (Grenzen und Zwischenräume)
Travelling field research

Director: Judith Laister (A) & Elisabeth Katschnig-Fasch (A)
With: Ina-Maria Greverus (D) et al.

Council tenement blocks and the art space are two poles of social aggregation and delimitation. City walkers, inhabitants, researchers and artists operate in this hierarchised field of tension with the aim of investigating a wide variety of local effects, tracking down the effect of (in)visible borders and discovering in-between spaces. What can be found on this journey in cultural anthropology are surprising cross-links between everyday life and theory, between control, participation and collaboration in daily life.

Co-produced by steirischer herbst & Graz University, Institute of Ethnic Studies and Cultural Anthropology


Tracing Protections
A journey around the Gutshaus Kranz and a trip to Ljubljana

Director: Adam Budak (A/PL) & Christine Peters (D)
With : Claire Doherty (GB), Apolonija Sustersic (SLO/NL), Bojana Kunst (SLO) et al.

Seduction, manipulation and smuggling: a journey between the inside and outside of an imaginary city – with the exhibition room as a public square, a stage for situations, events and performative actions. While the curators explore the curational and performative strategies of “Protections”, the art theorist Claire Doherty investigates the dynamics of an art practice that is both public-specific and site-specific on the paths of the “Protections”exhibition. The subsequent coach trip with the artist Apolonija Sustersic and performance theorist Bojana Kunst – under the fictitious flag of Slovenian Museum of Contemporary Art – takes participants to Maribor and Ljubljana, with a stop off at IKEA.

Co-operation Institute for Acting, University of Music and Performing Art Graz


Pursuing Work (Der Arbeit nachgehen)
Buildings and images of work in the post-Fordian city

Director: Gabu Heindl (A), Markus Bogensberger (A)
With: Oliver Schürer (A) et al.

Factory, depot, working-class estate: powerful images of work from days of yore. But what are the architectures for networked, immaterial or affective work like? ’Atypical employment‘, ’outsourcing‘ and ’franchising‘, teleworking, labour migration – these are the buzzwords for a changed world of work, directly impacting life concepts, daily routines and urban modes of use. At the same time, the city itself is changing, too, with inner cities, for example, becoming tourist service zones and industrial regions becoming Creative Cities. As a result of visiting, playing and questioning collective sites of work, our individual everyday work experiences also come up for discussion.

Co-produced by steirischer herbst & HDA – Haus der Architektur Graz

(Voluntary self-)control ((Freiwillige Selbst-)Kontrolle)
From the crime museum to waste management to the fitness studio
Mon 02/10, 2pm
Meetingpoint: main entrance Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Borders and in-between spaces (Grenzen und Zwischenräume)
Travelling field research
Thu 05/10, 2pm - 8pm
Meetingpoint: Festival centre

Tracing Protections
A journey around the Gutshaus Kranz and a trip to Ljubljana
Fri 06/10, 4pm - 8pm
Meetingpoint: Gutshaus Kranz
Sat 07/10, 10am - 9pm
Bustransfer to Ljubljana, Meetingpoint: Gutshaus Kranz

Pursuing Work (Der Arbeit nachgehen)
Buildings and images of work in the post-Fordian city
Sat 07/10, 2pm
Meetingpoint: Palais Thienfeld

No registration necessary for the walks.

The trip to Ljubljana is fully booked already.

(Voluntary self-)control ((Freiwillige Selbst-)Kontrolle)
From the crime museum to waste management to the fitness studio
Mon 02/10, 2pm
Meetingpoint: main entrance Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Borders and in-between spaces (Grenzen und Zwischenräume)
Travelling field research
Thu 05/10, 2pm - 8pm
Meetingpoint: Festival centre

Tracing Protections
A journey around the Gutshaus Kranz and a trip to Ljubljana
Fri 06/10, 4pm - 8pm
Meetingpoint: Gutshaus Kranz
Sat 07/10, 10am - 9pm
Bustransfer to Ljubljana, Meetingpoint: Gutshaus Kranz

Pursuing Work (Der Arbeit nachgehen)
Buildings and images of work in the post-Fordian city
Sat 07/10, 2pm
Meetingpoint: Palais Thienfeld



No registration necessary for the walks.

The trip to Ljubljana is fully booked already.