In his essay for A Pleasant Apocalypse: Notes from the Grand Hotel Abyss, Aaron Schuster looks at how capitalism both deploys and devalues pleasure in a quasi-religious all-inclusive experience.

Ariel Efraim Ashbel comments in his contribution to A Pleasant Apocalypse: Notes from the Grand Hotel Abyss on the notion of apocalypse vis-à-vis colonialism and its racist conceits.

Stephan Lessenich on Europe’s continued pursuit of a cult of enjoyment in his essay for A Pleasant Apocalypse: Notes from the Grand Hotel Abyss.

Michiel Vandevelde on the embattled notion of progress in his essay for A Pleasant Apocalypse: Notes from the Grand Hotel Abyss

Extensive reader on steirischer herbst ’19 forthcoming in May

Vorherbst Magazine takes a winter break and will be back with plenty of ideas and stimula in spring 2020.

Lecture by Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle

Discussion on Styria’s Weinstraße between the Nazis and Putin

Stephan Lessenich on the society of externalization and its costs

Eva Illouz on “happycracy” and its key role in neoliberal capitalism

Hasso Spode on continuity and change

A selection of performances, talks, and installation views—to be continued

Revisit it—now available as video documentation

A Q&A with choreographer Manuel Pelmuş on Tricks for Tips, performed during the Opening Extravaganza of steirischer herbst ’19

Libretto from the opening performance of Zorka Wollny at Landhaushof on 19.9.19

Jasmina Cibic and Jeremy Deller in conversation with Christoph Platz and David Riff

Utopian socialist Charles Fourier imagines vast armies engage in gastronomic combat.

Riccardo Giacconi shares even more research on the Option Agreement (1939-1943)

Hanna Rohn tells us how her work as sex educator influences her artistic practice and provides a glimpse into her performance The Pleasure is All Ours.

Riccardo Giacconi shares further research on the Option Agreement (1939-1943)

Cibelle Cavalli Bastos shares their thoughts on non-binary feminism and strategies of renaming and ungendering, which underlie their artistic practice

Explore Michiel Vandevelde’s image research in an exhibition currently on view in barber shops all around Graz

On location, the artists introduce their upcoming work for steirischer herbst ’19

Zorka Wollny talks to Mirela Baciak about her new work Voicers—Oratorio for Five Speakers and a Listening Crowd

Siegfried Kracauer on the fluid boundary between work and play

A selection of performances and artist talks—to be continued

A short conversation on the philosophical implications of hedonism at the time of approaching catastrophe

The artists investigate the contradictory notion of hotels as spaces of both disturbance and comfort, providing a glimpse into their upcoming project.

Ariel Efraim Ashbel talks to Dominik Müller about his new work, his poetics and his role as director

What is considered human and what is not...

An Excerpt from Opera's Second Death (2001)

Q & A with Jaśmina Wójcik

The artist explores Graz’ Griesplatz and elaborates on the motivations behind his newest installation After Dürer in conversation with Christoph Platz.

A Photo Story from the Styrian Apple Road

Dancer and performer Jule Flierl explores vocal techniques that propose a separation between body and voice

Jule Flierl on her dissociation method and the legacy of the German dancer Valeska Gert

Riccardo Giacconi shares his research on the Option Agreement (1939-1943)

Director Guram Matskhonashvili shares impressions from his research in Zugdidi, Georgia

A teaser for Keti Chukhrov’s new play

The artist analyses the Austrian culture of Genuss, drawing connections between pleasure and exhaustion

Writer Evan Calder Williams tells us why the apocalypse is already happening, just not everywhere at once

Art and Populism in an Era of Culture Wars

Vorherbst announces the title of its upcoming edition and gets prepared for a new festival season

Season greetings, or: Volksfronten’s critical inquiry of (hyber-)nation
Vorherbst Magazine takes a winter break and will be back with fresh ideas and plenty of stimula for future debates in spring 2019.

Tiago Saraiva and Oxana Timofeeva in conversation with David Riff

Oxana Timofeeva in conversation with David Riff

Tiago Saraiva in conversation with David Riff

Ewa Majewska and Renata Salecl in conversation with Ekaterina Degot

Renata Salecl in conversation with Ekaterina Degot 

Tobias Ginsburg and Lars Cuzner in conversation with Dominik Müller

What assails the eye is the total lack of commerce

Ishay Landa and Nikola Vukobratović in conversation with David Riff 

The promise of affordable seaside vacations, with a beautiful view of the beach for everyone

A city within a city, a world unto itself

Ishay Landa in conversation with David Riff

 Nikola Vukobratović in conversation with David Riff

Here, on the periphery of the city, the first workers’ settlements sprung up

Ewa Majewska in conversation with Ekaterina Degot

Lecture by Michael Shanks in the frame of Milica Tomić's Exhibiting on a Trowel’s Edge. Research and investigative processes of Aflenz Memorial in becoming (2018)

One could imagine a red flag flying from its tower

Everything from magic shows to cabaret, operettas, acrobats, jugglers, and exotic dancers

“Strictly speaking the French were besieging a giant prison, not a fortress”

Avant-garde Art and the Popular Front (1937)

A staircase zigzags up to the ruins of the mountain-top fortress

Translation and creolization of names and much, much more…

Undisciplined, domestic, pulsing with everyday life

Hitler’s pathway to the hearts of the Austrian people

There is something incongruous about the triangular city plaza.

Kurzinterviews zu Nâzım Hikmets Menschenlandschaften

The artists on the horrors of the homeland, uncanny folklore and their ongoing project Demonic Screens.

Michiel Vandevelde über seine Performance Human Landscapes - Book I.

Eternal Leader Cuzner is in Graz today and announces his candidacy for the EU parliament in a breathtaking video.

The historian on how fascism was always an intimate insider to the liberal order, and never just its opponent.

Nicoline van Harskamp shares some research material as a glimpse into her new performance for steirischer herbst ’18.

The theater group dared an experimental taxi ride as research for their contribution to steirischer herbst ’18.

The Moscow-based artist on the crossroads of Soviet and Russian Orthodox aesthetics, where she finds the voiceless Russian people.

Historian Anton Jäger on community, populism, and compassion fatigue

A new store is about to open in Graz. Henrike Naumann on design and what furniture has to do with unification.

Lars Cuzner, the Eternal Leader of the Intelligence Party, offers a brief glimpse at his upcoming adventures in Graz.

Iran Conference participant, famed conductor Pascual Andersen, shatters some myths surrounding the “Iran issue”.

Making Schloßbergplatz his stage, Roman Osminkin gives Graz’s locals and tourists a taste of his poetic actionism.

Michiel Vandevelde reflects on what it means to revisit Turkish author Nâzım Hikmet’s epic poem from 1942 today.

This text appeared over 18 years ago, and seems near-prophetic today, its diagnosis of the politics of citizenship in Europe more relevant than ever.

Yoshinori Niwa will be exploring darker corners of Graz closets in an ongoing series of video interviews.

ZIP group is about to build a political public sculpture in Graz. Which of the existing ones do they like the most?

Irina Korina’s portrait of Graz, with all its strange forms and uncanny artifacts, while she herself stays in the shadows.

In a preview of their new work, Igor and Ivan Buharov navigate between bio-energetics, anarchism and the occult, hypnotizing a couple of plants on their way.

Paradise is possible, says Bread & Puppet Theater in their 2003-manifesto, even in a world under siege by the enemies of nature.