NOSW - Nie Ohne Seife Waschen 2025

This year, Alexandra Riewe-Foitl's four knowledgeable excursions in all directions focus on the end of the Second World War, which will be 80 years old in 2025. The title "Strapazierte Heimat" reminds us that the German term “Heimat” has been used as a catchphrase for many things, misused by demagogues for propaganda purposes and appropriated for commercial trash. 

Heimat Fremde Heimat

The whole range of painful and happy experiences associated with voluntary or forced migration are expressed in the dialectic of this title. The television program of the same name ended in 2024. A “new format” is to replace the ORF's first intercultural television magazine (1989).

On our southern tour, we visit stations of the cross-border contemporary festival “HochSommer” from Studenzen via Gnas to Radkersburg. There in the border region, we remember past projects by the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria, Borderline (2012) or Transborders - Fluxus am Fluss (2019) - and the slogan from 2015: “Refugees Welcome” were not just empty words at the ZOLLAMT cultural center in Radkersburg.

Finally, we are at the former site of the subcamp in Aflenz. The guard house (adapted by Helmut and Johanna Kandl in 2009) resembles a guardian flame that ensures that the memory does not erase.

Route: Studenzen / Gnas / Pichla Radkersburg / Grenzfluss Gerlinci / Pavel Haus Laafeld, Radkersburg / Wächterhaus Aflenz / Tempelmuseum Frauenberg

With works by the following artists: Franz von Strolchen, Ingrid Wiener, David Kranzelbinder, Shō Alexander Murayama & Samuel Collins, René Stessl, Helmut & Johanna Kandl, Marina Stiegler