Thu, 15 Sep 2016, 4 p.m.

MAK Columned Main Hall

Barbara Lesák:  Frederick Kiesler and the architectural renewal of the theater: from the Space Stage to the Endless Theatre
The architect and theater utopianist Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965), who initially developed his revolutionary ideas in Europe and later in New York, stands shoulder to shoulder with the great theater reformers of the 20th century. His theater creations—ranging from the electromechanical stage set (1923) and the legendary Space Stage (1924) all the way to the Endless Theatre project (1926)—in 1960 led to the Universal Theatre, in which he once again realized all of his revolutionary ideas in the form of a biomorphic theater construct.
 

Performance

Thu, 22 Sep 2016, 4 p.m.
MAK Columned Main Hall
Performance by Rirkrit Tiravanija
UNTITLED 2016
(ballet correalismus sans méchanique) (feat. Karl Holmqvist)

Collaborative projects with schools 

The participative educational program to the exhibition gives leeway to youthful perspectives. By engaging intensively with Frederick Kiesler’s visionary concept of space, Viennese schoolchildren created multi-faceted works to be shown in the exhibition.
 
Several months before the opening of the exhibition, the project had already started in collaboration with a class at a vocational school and two secondary school classes; it was supported by people working in the creative fields of design, the fine arts, architecture, and dance. This gave rise to strikingly diverse contributions, which give glimpses into the students’ life visions. *

Tue, 21 Jun 2016, 6 p.m.
MAK Exhibition Hall
Frederick Kiesler and me (?)
Interactive tour of their exhibition contributions with students from the Berufsschule für Frisur, Maske und Perücke

Tue, 13 Sep 2016, 6 p.m.
MAK Exhibition Hall
DISPLAYING KNOWLEDGE 07: Applied participation, a progress report

With Isabelle Blanc (toikoi_erzählende räume), Dieter Bogner (curator/bogner.cc), Ulrike Gießner-Bogner (KulturKontakt Austria), Beate Lex (MAK), Manuela Preiszler (Berufsschule für Frisur, Maske und Perücke), and Beatrice Jaschke (schnittpunkt)
 
What basic conditions does a participatory project require? What resources are necessary? When is a project considered successful? The project participants discuss their experiences together with schnittpunkt.

Thu, 22 Sep 2016, 6 p.m.
Main Hall (Festsaal), BG Wien 9, Wasagasse 10, 1090 Vienna
Thought space | School space | Future space
Project presentation with discussion

With Johannes Bauer (BG Wien 9), Sonja Gabriel (KPH Wien/Krems), Gottfried Kinsky-Weinfurter (BG Wien 9), Paul Kral (Connected Kids), Barbara Zuliani (VS Breitenlee), Student (N. N.)
Moderator: N. N. (Student)
 
In a dialogue with Frederick Kiesler, class 7a of the BG Wasagasse gave some thought to the present and the future of the thought space school. What can we learn today from Kiesler and the avant garde of the 20th century?

Thu, 29 Sep 2016, 6 p.m.
Main Hall (Festsaal), BORG für Musik und Kunst, Hegelgasse 12, 1010 Vienna
From the vision to the reality
Project presentation followed by a panel discussion

With Barbara Feller (KulturKontakt Austria), Oona Horx-Strathern (zukunftsInstitut), Felix Knoll (BORG für Musik und Kunst), Kerstin Lasser (BORG für Musik und Kunst), and Gerd Zillner (Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation)
Moderator: Franziska Leeb
 
Friedrich Kiesler’s visionary architecture projects provided the focus for class 6b of the BORG für Musik und Kunst. In a dialogue with the productive potential of the (architectural) utopia, the discussion surveys the field of tension between vision and reality.


   

* As a cooperation between the MAK and KulturKontakt Austria (KKA), the project was initiated with the 1e class at the vocational school for stylists and make-up artists [Berufsschule für Frisur, Maske und Perücke] in the framework of “Programm K3—Cultural Education with Apprentices.” The team toikoi_erzählende räume has taken on responsibility for the conception and implementation of the content. For their project, students in the 7a class at the Bundesgymnasium Wien 9 received KKA funding (through the “culture connected” initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs), while for their project, students in the 6b class at the BORG for music and art were funded through the Ministry’s 2015/16 cultural budget for federally funded public schools.