In his talk, Evan Calder Williams revisits his book “Combined and Uneven Apocalypse“ from 2010, and argues that the source of our collective obsession with apocalyptic imagery is the fact that the end of the world is not an event, but something permanently underway as it already exists in zones of poverty and capitalist fuelled destruction of the environment.

In ihrem Vortrag spricht Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (Institut für Philosophie, Universität Graz) über kritisches Denken und analysiert die Arbeit „American Reflexxx" von Signe Pierce.

Tymek Borowski, 2013

Ein Jahr nach der letzten trigon-Ausstellung fand 1993 im Rahmen des steirischen herbstes die Ausstellung Europäer des Grazer Kunstvereins statt. Dafür wurden Künstler aus Albanien, Bosnien, Georgien, der Slowakei, Tschechien, Sloweniein und Kroatien eingeladen. Nur wenige Jahre nach dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhang zeichnete die Ausstellung das Bild eines neuen europäischen Raums. Ein Blick zurück – und nach vorne – von Eva Maria Stadler, der damaligen Kuratorin der Ausstellung

In "Environment as a Place of Disquiet," Italien art critic and historian Antonio Grulli constructs an associative history and definition of disquiet spaces, leading to a reflection on art's contemporary situation. Grulli calls for a new understanding of the presentation of art beyond our "transparent" institutions and the white cube. 

In the following text, author Daniel Zwangsleitner introduces us to a brief history of the post-war housing cooperatives and governmental building policies in Graz and Styria, a hot bed for the architectural avant-garde in Austria. In addition, he illustrates how the experimental 1967 exhibition trigon 67 influenced the ideas and coercion of participatory art and architecture in the area, leading to many new housing projects in which participation by its future inhabitants were key factors.

Proposition for a fragmented reading (network of artists, exhibitions, and institutions in the space of trigon in 1960s and 1970s) by Branka Benčić, Direktor of Apoteka - Space for Contemporary Art and co-producer of the symposium accompanying trigon 67/17.

Flaka Haliti on how ghosts and haunting influence her work, the importance of the color blue, and how she navigates different types of spaces, starting with the politics of the personal space.

Author: Jürgen Dehm