X-Erinnerungen / Route Süden

For “X-Erinnerungen”, local and international artists go in search of traces in St. Pölten. A total of 21 locations, including private apartments, abandoned factories and hidden clubhouses, will become places where memories are negotiated.

 

Along three routes in the north, south and through the center of St. Pölten, the participating artists will develop ten-minute performances, plays, concerts and installations, which will be explored in groups of two. Researched, imagined and remembered material is combined with local contexts. The boundaries between public and private, between reality and staging, become blurred and invite you to become an archaeologist of your own city.

 

 

Route Süden

Out of the city center and into the south. The route weaves its way through the contrasts of St. Pölten along the outskirts of the city. Past iconic building complexes, such as the historic railroad yards, through villa districts and along countless front gardens, which are repeatedly interrupted by multi-lane access roads. Places that have fallen out of time seem to want to remind themselves of something here. The architecture of work that no longer exists stands alongside bourgeois lifestyles that seem to outlast everything. At the same time, attempts are made in hidden back rooms to forget the present for a moment. During “X-Erinnerungen”, the suburbs are transformed from a gateway into the city into a trans-dimensional portal between memory and imagination, past and desire.

 

 

Route Süden with:
Marga Alfeirão, Kurdwin Ayub, ,Bruch‘-, crazinisT artisT, makemake Produktionen/Sara Ostertag/Paul Plut, Netti Nüganen, The Center for Spatial Technologies, Theater Perpetuum. *

 

Marga Alfeirão uses dance to carve spaces for the exploration of intimacy and sexuality. Heavily influenced by dance genres and sound textures from the African diaspora disseminated through Lisbon’s social tissue, she attempts an active claim of womanhood, making room for lesbian sensualities.

 

Kurdwin Ayub works as a director, screenwriter and artist. Her first fictional feature film SONNE celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale 2022.

 

,Bruch‘- is a collaborative framework for research and production across theatre, art and academia.

 

Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [ aka crazinisT artisT] is a trans woman with the pronoun sHit if not She from Ghana. She works internationally as a multidisciplinary “artivist”, curator, philanthropist and is the artistic director of perfocraZe International Artists Residency (pIAR).

 

makemake produktionen has been developing theater and performance formats as a collective since 2011. The collective trusts in the unknown and explores constructions of reality and forms of encounter with its various audiences.

 

Netti Nüganen uses the performative moment to format the ways of storytelling with the aim of challenging existing structures and habits. As a doomer, she seeks ways to (re)establish connections with the past, enabling an intentional look upon the present and extending the perspective towards the future. 

 

The Center for Spatial Technologies (CST) is a transdisciplinary research group based in Kyiv and Berlin, working at the intersection of architecture, the social sciences, investigative and artistic practices. 

 

Theater Perpetuum. The independent theater group has been bringing creativity and passion to the St. Pölten cultural scene for 40 years. 
 

* Routes may change at short notice. You can always find up-to-date information about the routes and the participating artists here on the website.
 

 

Starting point:
The tour starts at Bahnhofsplatz 1, St. Pölten in a vacant store to the left of the Waggon-Café.

 

General information:
You decide on a starting time in advance. We ask you to arrive at the starting point at least 10 minutes before the start time.

If you arrive late, we will unfortunately have to release your ticket. As there are always two of you on the tour, no more than two tickets can be purchased per route. The end point will be connected to the main station by public transport. 

Between the seven individual stations you will walk for approx. 5-15 minutes. We ask that you bring good shoes, sufficient water and a small snack, sun protection or rainwear if necessary.

Please enter your e-mail address when purchasing your tickets so that we can send you the latest important information before the shows.

 

Duration:
approx. 3 hours

 

Languages:
German, English, Ewe, Niederösterreichisch (Lower Austrian), Spanish and many more.

 

Age recommendation:
From 12 years

 

Notes on accessibility: 
The routes are not barrier-free. If required, please contact
x-erinnerungen@tangente-st-poelten.at and we will develop a route for you that allows you to participate.

 

Content Notes:
If you have any questions about content notes, please contact
x-erinnerungen@tangente-st-poelten.at.