Wortlabor - Reading-Performance — HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark

Reading-Performance

The Grazer Wortlabor is a multilingual group of authors who overcome barriers between different cultures and languages through literary text work. Mutual influence and empowerment come to foreground.

This evening is dedicated to the polyphony of poetry from the Wortlabor. Language is poetically highlighted, re-contextualized and made to vibrate in order to ignite the flickering of images in the listeners. In doing so, gaps in the description of reality through language come to light continuously. In the dialogue between different cultures, how can these gaps be translated? And what kind of impressions can the structure of different spoken languages evoke?

With poetry by Abelina Holzer, Julia Lacina and Asiyeh Panahi.

Artists

Participating artists

studied Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna and Global Studies at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. In Vienna, she received an education as a theater pedagogue. Holzer works in the field of political education, leads creative writing workshops, is a member of the multilingual writers’ group WORTLABOR as well as part of the interdisciplinary art project ENTANGLEMENTS (Afro-Asian Institute Graz & Daily Rhythms Collective). Since 2015 she has been active with various participatory dance projects as part of the Lendwirbel Festival. Her poems were first published in Lichtungen #169. Most recently, she wrote poems for the installation BEING by Lisa Reiter and published texts as part of the project Und dann kam Corona. Frauen schreiben.

studied religious studies and philosophy in Potsdam, as well as photography, art history and cultural anthropology in Graz. She is a member of the multilingual authors’ group WORTLABOR, of the OAG Kulturverein and founder of GRAZER LESESPAZIERGANG. Lacina’s visual works deal with various aspects of sensual experience and visual culture, among others. Dream spaces, memory, as well as the visuality of language become the aesthetic object of research. Her photographs, poetry, and prose were most recently published in various journals like Lichtungen #165, #169, and rûm #1 – 3. Currently, as an artist with the OAG Kulturverein, she is presenting the project wir arbeiten hier as part of the exhibition Kunstraum-Steiermark at Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum until November 2023. In Graz she is represented by the SAMA collective. https://www.samakollektiv.com/julia-lacina

was born in Iran and spent her childhood in the Torbate Jam refugee camp. In 2014, Panahi fled to Austria and has lived in Graz since 2015. In the summer of 2015, she attended German courses in Graz for the first time and then started taking courses at the Abendgymnasium. In addition to her matriculation examination, she completed a diploma course in social and vocational education at the BFI. Panahi is currently studying law at the University of Graz, is a columnist and author with publications in journals and anthologies, including Lichtungen, Kenne deine Rechte; Jahrbuch österreichischer Lyrik 2019 and Megaphon.