Here, a photograph depicting a 1925 demonstration is displayed in an aquarium. Gries, the lowest point in Graz, has traditionally been occupied by lower classes and migrants because of its tendency to flood. This year’s festival, entitled Humans and Demons, questions the ethical boundaries that make up good and evil in a world full of assumptions, addressing questions of survivor justice, political theater and artificial intelligence. Like Kassel, Berlin, and Istanbul, Graz has often considered itself to be situated on the very edge of the West meeting the East, and therefore avant garde. Much of this is owed to its particular position near the tri-national border of Austria, Italy and the former Yugoslavia. It has consistently been one of Europe’s most experimental, historiographic and politically forward art events. The event was established as a celebration of the harvest season, in a region rich with food, wine and history. Xenia Benivolski visits the festival in Graz and selects some of her highlights.įounded in 1968, the steirischer herbst festival has revolutionary inquiry and a critique of modernism built into its DNA. This year’s edition of steirischer herbst, entitled Humans and Demons, questions the ethical boundaries that make up good and evil in a world full of assumptions, addressing questions of survivor justice, political theater and artificial intelligence.
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