THURSDAY, September 15
Festival Opening / Film Premiere / After Party
19:30 "Women are Heroes" - Gartenbau Cinema
French artist JR presents his movie "Women are Heroes", a documentary giving insight into the lives of women in Brazil, Kenya and Cambodia, who are heroically fighting their daily battle against sexual repression, poverty and injustice. Heroes in a very real sense, who are not only filmed by the artist JR, but also photographed for the purpose of posting these glowing, larger-than-life portraits on buildings and walls in their close vicinity to call attention to their lives.
Previous screenings: Cannes Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, Hamburg Film Festival
22:00 BLK RIVER Party - Gartenbau Cinema.
Kartenreservierung: 01 512 23 54 bzw. kino@gartenbaukino.at
FRIDAY, September 16
Artist Talk / Outdoor projects
Artist Talk with Voina Group, Führichgasse 10, 1010 Wien
Start 18:00
Free. Please RSVP to info@blkriver.at
SATURDAY, September 17
14:00 Bike Tour / Outdoor projects
URBAN ART Bike Tour hosted by Bike Film Festival
Like in 2010 Nic from Inoperable Gallery will host a guided bike tour to the various art spots.
Meeting Point: INOPERAbLE Gallery, 7., Burggasse 24. 1070 Vienna
Free but limited. Please RSVP to info@blkriver.at
SUNDAY, September 18
Workshops/ Outdoor projects
On Sunday, there will be all sorts of street art workshops under the guidance of various well-known artists.
Free. Please RSVP to info@blkriver.at<
MONDAY, September 19
Outdoor projects
Free. Please RSVP to info@blkriver.at
TUESDAY, September 20
Vernissage
19:00-22:00 Opening of the group exhibition at BLK River Art House.
An empty house, 7 floors 48 rooms, filled with Love.
Lineup: Akay, Aram Bartholl, Brad Downey, Christian Falsnaes, Dtagno, Erwin Wurm, Ivan Argote, JR, Leopold Kessler, Marlene Hausegger, Voina Group, Zukclub,...
Führichgasse 10, 1010 Wien
Lineup: Akay, Aram Bartholl, Brad Downey, Christian Falsnaes, Dtagno, Erwin Wurm, Ivan Argote, JR, Leopold Kessler, Marlene Hausegger, Voina Group, Zukclub,...
Führichgasse 10, 1010 Wien
I WILL YOU and their project
partner, real estate company JP, enables the festival's
exhibition to take place right in the center of Vienna.
JP generously volunteered to provide a complete building (before
construction works are to start for the remodeling of these premises) to host
the entire exhibition - in doing so, the renowned real estate company follows
its focus on supporting community based cultural initiatives to connect organizations, businesses
and collectors to contemporary art.
THURSDAY, September 22
Aram Bartholl / Outdoor projects
The artist Aram Bartholl will organize one of his public interventions.
Collaborating with coded cultures festival (city as interspace) Aram Bartholl will be leading a group of participants along the area of the danube canal for his dead drops project. 'Dead Drops' is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop is installed empty except a readme.txt file explaining the project.
Free entry. Please RSVP to info@blkriver.at
TUESDAY, September 27
Finissage
twitter
Facebook
RSS Feed
Email Updates