{"id":2977,"date":"2024-05-08T10:46:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonmayer.at\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2025-02-14T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:42:32","slug":"volxfest-die-kunst-und-kraft-des-feierns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonmayer.at\/en\/volxfest-die-kunst-und-kraft-des-feierns\/","title":{"rendered":"Volxfest - The art and power of celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Im Rahmen des EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE BAD ISCHL SALZKAMMERGUT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fotocredit: Johannes Starm\u00fcller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The VOLXFEST, a project of the Austrian Folk Song Society together with the choreographer and performance artist Simon Mayer, invites you to the first two Volxfest dates as part of the Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024: \u201cEindrahn\u201d on May 25, 2024, 9.30 am - 2 pm in Gmunden, Schubertplatz and \u201cAufdrahn\u201d on June 15 from 4 pm, Veitwirt G\u00f6\u00dfl.<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The VOLXFEST sees itself as a multi-layered participatory project and aims to provide participants and visitors with different approaches to cultural and artistic forms of expression in music, dance, traditional costumes, customs and celebrations. VOLXFEST experiments and plays with the coexistence of traditional forms of expression and contemporary art. Whether traditional or artistic - the planned meets the spontaneous, choreography meets the free dance floor. These are folk festivals for joining in, dancing, playing and singing along, combined with show dances and performances. Hip hop meets folk dance in the form of dancing as a community, dancing even with the biggest lederhosen. The Holzhackermarsch is performed both as a traditional Schuhplattler by the leather-soled girls from Attergau and in a new version with a chainsaw and various sound motifs, a spinning wheel also produces traditional beats and music is played on a \u201ccigarette box violin\u201d. You can join in with traditional yodels and songs at an open singing event. A parade with the longest chain dance and musical train rides in the Traunseetram are also part of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The art and power of celebration lies in the balance between the rules that define the exact sequence of festivities and free, spontaneous, intuitive forms of expression that express joy and affection among the revelers, high spirits, but also sadness and anger. The VOLXFEST project by choreographer and performance artist Simon Mayer takes place between these opposing poles. An international team of eight artists and the \u00d6sterreichisches Volksliedwerk under the direction of Irene Egger are creating the VOLXFEST together with people in the communities of the \u201cSalzkammergut Capital of Culture Region\u201d (AltBadSeer Musi, D'Attergauer Volkstanzgruppe and Lederhosengirls, D'V\u00f6cklataler, Heimat- und Trachtenverein Alt-Gmunden, Grundlseer Geigenmusi, Viechtauermusikanten, Hip Hop Community Skgt, Ober\u00f6sterreichisches und Steirisches Volksliedwerk, Salzkammergut Geigenmusi, Salzkammerqueer, Volkstanzgruppe Altaussee, Volxfestler*innen, Volxfestorchester)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the art and power of celebration, participants and visitors experience a culture of togetherness and cultural affiliations from different perspectives. The aim of the folk festival is to increasingly incorporate diversity, international and intersectional perspectives into folk cultural forms of expression and their collection strategies. This is because in the artistic process, questions about origin and developments in social, contemporary and international discourses are answered differently. Given norms are taken up, questioned and combined with new, diverse forms of expression. The collaboration between the artistic team, traditional associations and institutions in the context of the Capital of Culture therefore offers the opportunity to enrich artistic work with historical source material on folk music, dance, costume and custom and to achieve new results. These hybrid forms of celebration should ultimately contribute to a better understanding of different people and allay fears of change. However, artistic projects such as the Volxfest can only change forms of celebration and the associated community and values on a small scale. They are only a small piece of the mosaic in the ongoing negotiation of social coexistence and celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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K\u00fcnstlerische Leitung:<\/strong> Simon Mayer, Art in Motion
Leitung<\/strong> Produktion und artistic research<\/strong>: Irene Egger, \u00d6sterreichisches Volksliedwerk
K\u00fcnstlerisches Team<\/strong>: Farah Deen, Simon Mayer, Markus Prieth, Patric Redl, Hannah Shakti-B\u00fchler, Mario* Sinnhofer, Irma-Maria Troy, Hannah Wimmer \u00a0\u00a0
in Zusammenarbeit mit: <\/strong>AltBadSeer Musi, Banda Adriatica, D\u2019Attergauer Volkstanzgruppe und Lederhosengirls, D\u00b4V\u00f6cklataler, Heimat- und Trachtenverein Alt-Gmunden, Grundlseer Geigenmusi, Viechtauermusikanten, Heimatverein Viechtau, KateRock Verein & ChrisMooves (Hip Hop), Ober\u00f6sterreichisches und Steirisches Volksliedwerk, Salzkammergut Geigenmusi, Salzkammerqueer, Volkstanzgruppe Altaussee, Volxfestler*innen, Volxfestorchester
Production<\/strong>: Johannes Starm\u00fchler, Lisa Anetsmann, Ilona Eggl, Felix Gf\u00e4llner
Technik und Ton<\/strong>: Jeroen Smith und Lukas Froschauer
Projektbegleitung<\/strong>: Karoline Wibmer
Projektleitung Kulturhauptstadt Europas Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024:<\/strong> Lisa Neuhuber
Ethnografische Begleitung<\/strong>: Institut f\u00fcr Europ\u00e4ische Ethnologie der Universit\u00e4t Wien
Thanks to: <\/strong>Trachten&Lederhosen Firma Sinnhofer und Firma Waizenauer, Airan Berg (Theaterregisseur und Kulturmanager), Teresa Distelberger (K\u00fcnstlerin, Filmemacherin) , Elfriede Schweikardt (Verband der Heimat- und Trachtenvereine Salzkammergut), Ingrid Schuller (Siebenb\u00fcrger Sachsen in O\u00d6 und O\u00d6 Forum Volkskultur), Erna Str\u00f6bitzer und Teresa Hellweger (Archiv des \u00d6sterreichischen Volksliedwerks)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Herzlichen Dank an Waizenauer f\u00fcr die tatkr\u00e4ftige Unterst\u00fctzung!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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