For over 20 years now, ‘gentle viticulture’ has been practised south of Gamlitz – no fertilisation, low maintenance measures, minimal plant protection.

Offener Betrieb (Open Modes) – and before that Probebetrieb (Trial Mode) – took the idea of a collective, dehierarchised, collaborative and open educational situation as their starting point.

From the 1970s on, Lois Weinberger explored the interdependence of nature and society. He worked on a poetic and political network that directs the focus onto marginal zones and calls into question hierar-chies of various kinds.

Anita Fuchs has rented a meadow on the border between Austria and Slovenia. For months now, she has been working there out of her FIELD STATION – a shiny cube that looks like a minimalist sculpture.

‘We are not blocking traffic – we ARE traffic!’ is the motto of the Critical Mass participants who ride through the streets of Graz on the last Friday of every month, colourful and loud, with joy and self-confidence, celebrating the most beautiful form of transport in the world.

The posters and videos on this wall show various forms of social activism and protest in the field of environmental and social policy, civil, human and animal rights.

The Burschenschaft Hysteria is an association and a feminist project that satirically adopts and adapts the rituals and modes of speaking found in traditional male student fraternities.

Elke Auer combines sculptural and performative elements with language, drawing and painting. Her work addresses the constructed nature of gender identities and seeks to break down hierarchising, normative attributions.