SHIFT – Prize for Innovative Art, Lugner City Vienna 2017
EUROPE is falling apart…
We can change that now!
With your help, we can work together to develop social models that allow us to rebuild solidarity.
We present three projects vying for your support and favour. Furthermore, they outline how we can prepare ourselves for the challenges of the present.
AUSTRIA HOLDS ITS BREATH
After weeks of political overload caused by the presidential elections, political tension hangs like an electrically charged veil over the sleepy Alpine province. Austria has only ever experienced this level of politics and scrutiny from abroad during the times of Kurt Waldheim, corruption scandals or the opening of ominous cellar compartments.
Where to turn with so much political tension? Austria, the Jörg Haider export hub, is overwhelmed. The mainstream media can no longer keep up with the rapid developments in their analysis. Yet amidst all this confusion and despair, amidst the madness of the Austrian political landscape, the bells of a new upheaval are ringing. Admittedly, these are not so much pompous Baroque-style bells as the trilling neon vuvuzelas announcing a unique event – that of a grassroots charity show.
The cultural initiative Boem* provides civil society with impressions, insights, background music and spectacular entertainment.
The charity show aims to donate a sum of 20,000 euros to one of three initiatives for which people can vote on its website. The choices are three initiatives: Pro21, Rueber and the Migrating Kitchen.
So to speak, almost 100 years after the Russian Revolution, Lenin’s wildest dreams are coming true in the working-class palace of Vienna’s Lugner City. Yes, you heard right: the charity show is taking place in Lugner City. The place where the Austrian right-wing meets the working class, the very epitome of class struggle. For the charity show fulfils a dual purpose. Not only will the award ceremony be celebrated with great fanfare and psychoactive glitter dust, but Lugner City will also be contested by the right-wing. All this in a spectacular mega-event where refugees, people with disabilities, the far right, bobos and the mysterious Austrian working class come together. For a few hours, Lugner City becomes a place of cross-class interaction; the business-as-usual of Austria’s obscure racism is put on display and disempowered. Come along, bring your friends, and let’s show the truly red card to racist, homophobic, sexist business as usual. Count on us! Venceremos!
Rueber is a transnational movement akin to the company Uber, with the twist that this is a self-organised collective that gives people the freedom to move about – regardless of borders. So, much like last year’s Refugee Convoy.
Human rights that no longer count? If human rights are only granted to a select few, is that the future we want? rueber.xyz says no, and argues that if fundamental human rights are curtailed in Austria and the EU, then refugee movements in the opposite direction will soon begin.
Thousands of Viennese people volunteered to help refugees in 2015 and 2016. Where would our society be without this voluntary work in solidarity? Why not work in solidarity without a profit motive? You can find out what the recipe for a solidarity-based and collective democratic way of working might look like at migrating-kitchen.com
The final candidate for the €20,000 is the Migrating Kitchen. This is a catering service where people who have been granted asylum can work. Among others, the Migrating Kitchen catered for Varoufakis during his visit to Vienna. The main theme of all these initiatives and the charity show itself is the political inclusion of people, particularly those from working-class backgrounds.
Determination, self-determination? What does this look like in the context of disability? What if people with disabilities want to have children themselves? People with trisomy 21 are being born less and less frequently in our part of the world. What does that mean for our democratic society? Must we not also look out for the most vulnerable? The initiative pro21.postism.org provides this perspective
Pro21 should be understood as an advocacy group for people with disabilities; they do not campaign for welfare, but for self-determination. The action group fights against the exclusion of people with disabilities, both against sexual exclusion and against everyday exclusion from the self-determination of their lives.
We – the Charity Show – are awarding one of these three projects €20,000 to carry out their work. You, the visitors to our website, decide who wins! Vote for your favourites, and look forward to a glittering gala on 4 June!
The Charity Show is organised with the support of SHIFT – a programme for the promotion of innovative art
SHIFT – Prize for Innovative Art, Lugner City Vienna 2017
EUROPE is falling apart…
We can change that now!
With your help, we can work together to develop social models that allow us to rebuild solidarity.
We present three projects vying for your support and favour. Furthermore, they outline how we can prepare ourselves for the challenges of the present.
AUSTRIA HOLDS ITS BREATH
After weeks of political overload caused by the presidential elections, political tension hangs like an electrically charged veil over the sleepy Alpine province. Austria has only ever experienced this level of politics and scrutiny from abroad during the times of Kurt Waldheim, corruption scandals or the opening of ominous cellar compartments.
Where to turn with so much political tension? Austria, the Jörg Haider export hub, is overwhelmed. The mainstream media can no longer keep up with the rapid developments in their analysis. Yet amidst all this confusion and despair, amidst the madness of the Austrian political landscape, the bells of a new upheaval are ringing. Admittedly, these are not so much pompous Baroque-style bells as the trilling neon vuvuzelas announcing a unique event – that of a grassroots charity show.
The cultural initiative Boem* provides civil society with impressions, insights, background music and spectacular entertainment.
The charity show aims to donate a sum of 20,000 euros to one of three initiatives for which people can vote on its website. The choices are three initiatives: Pro21, Rueber and the Migrating Kitchen.
So to speak, almost 100 years after the Russian Revolution, Lenin’s wildest dreams are coming true in the working-class palace of Vienna’s Lugner City. Yes, you heard right: the charity show is taking place in Lugner City. The place where the Austrian right-wing meets the working class, the very epitome of class struggle. For the charity show fulfils a dual purpose. Not only will the award ceremony be celebrated with great fanfare and psychoactive glitter dust, but Lugner City will also be contested by the right-wing. All this in a spectacular mega-event where refugees, people with disabilities, the far right, bobos and the mysterious Austrian working class come together. For a few hours, Lugner City becomes a place of cross-class interaction; the business-as-usual of Austria’s obscure racism is put on display and disempowered. Come along, bring your friends, and let’s show the truly red card to racist, homophobic, sexist business as usual. Count on us! Venceremos!
Rueber is a transnational movement akin to the company Uber, with the twist that this is a self-organised collective that gives people the freedom to move about – regardless of borders. So, much like last year’s Refugee Convoy.
Human rights that no longer count? If human rights are only granted to a select few, is that the future we want? rueber.xyz says no, and argues that if fundamental human rights are curtailed in Austria and the EU, then refugee movements in the opposite direction will soon begin.
Thousands of Viennese people volunteered to help refugees in 2015 and 2016. Where would our society be without this voluntary work in solidarity? Why not work in solidarity without a profit motive? You can find out what the recipe for a solidarity-based and collective democratic way of working might look like at migrating-kitchen.com
The final candidate for the €20,000 is the Migrating Kitchen. This is a catering service where people who have been granted asylum can work. Among others, the Migrating Kitchen catered for Varoufakis during his visit to Vienna. The main theme of all these initiatives and the charity show itself is the political inclusion of people, particularly those from working-class backgrounds.
Determination, self-determination? What does this look like in the context of disability? What if people with disabilities want to have children themselves? People with trisomy 21 are being born less and less frequently in our part of the world. What does that mean for our democratic society? Must we not also look out for the most vulnerable? The initiative pro21.postism.org provides this perspective
Pro21 should be understood as an advocacy group for people with disabilities; they do not campaign for welfare, but for self-determination. The action group fights against the exclusion of people with disabilities, both against sexual exclusion and against everyday exclusion from the self-determination of their lives.
We – the Charity Show – are awarding one of these three projects €20,000 to carry out their work. You, the visitors to our website, decide who wins! Vote for your favourites, and look forward to a glittering gala on 4 June!
The Charity Show is organised with the support of SHIFT – a programme for the promotion of innovative art
