Tangente St. Pölten - Festival for contemporary culture

Opening: April 30, 2024, 3 p.m.; Festival until May 5, 2024

The festival center was designed by Giulia Mazzorin and Andrea Curtoni, professors at raum&designstrategien, with the support of students, artists and many other helpers.

Tangente St. Pölten - Festival for Contemporary Culture invites you to its opening days from April 30 to May 5, 2024. They are a festival for everyone with many freely accessible events, top-class theater and music productions, exhibitions, disco and discourse. A signpost.

Design with Empathy. A Festival Center in the making for St. Pölten.
How can we practice our Empathy through design? 
By realising the Festival Center we approach how to experience and materialise Empathy towards humans and non humans, ecosystems, spaces, objects, memories, meanings and perspectives..
Inhabiting the site of construction was our way to enter in a deep relation with the context and to enable the incredible transformative power emerging from a space in transition.
To structure the project, we listened to neighboring realities active in cultural production, recognised the porosity of the urban fabric, and decided not to consume new materials, but to reuse leftovers and resignify waste. The action focused on cleaning, reusing, disassembling and reassembling, transforming, adapting and revealing new aesthetics starting from the cracks.
The creation of the Festival Center is also an important opportunity to activate some abandoned or underused spaces dedicated to the future coming after the Festival, when the active independent cultural scene of St. Pölten could be empowered in its practices, using the Center's new spaces as common infrastructure to strengthen its capacity.
The entire process has been conceived as a ongoing productive residency programme. In addition to a group that was continuously operating on site, a series of collectives, designers and artists joined as guests to contribute to shape the Festival Center.

Biennale Urbana:
Giulia Mazzorin 
Andrea Curtoni
Andrea De Lorenzo

with:  Johanna Schmitt, Lorenzo Iannantuoni, Paul Guderian, Bastian Lehner, Tomiris Dmitrievskikh, Anton Filchakov, Alessandro Zanetti, Krystian Mirek, Mateusz Drobny, Józef Mirek, Kamil Mirek, Romek Kurek, Christian Herzog, Paul Stemberger

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Architect, designer and Artist in Residency:
Başak Tuna, Metrocubo, AKT, Mutaforma, Theresa Hattinger, Elisabeth Perez, Sandra Axinte  

COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITIES

raum&designstrategien (Kunstuniversität Linz / Prof.in Giulia Mazzorin and Prof.Andrea Curtoni) 
with: Margarita Ivanova, Shtykalo Tetiana, Shahrzad Khanmohammadihezaveh, Margarita Gimaeva, Giorgia Pedrina, Nikita Narder, Gaia Tovaglia, Maja Peters, Irina Müller, Hannes Wizany, Lorenz Wilmer

Städtebau und Entwerfen (TU Wien / Dorothee Huber, Tina Wintersteiger ) 
with: Elisabeth Gföllner, Anna Bernbacher, Marcel Martin, Merle Leoni Schlack, Florian Rödel, Ina Pfeuffer, Birgit Rieder, Hülya Demirayak, Andrea Falkner , Manfred Scheibelreiter

Design, Handwerk & materielle Kultur at NewDesignUniversity - St.Polten / Prof.Stefan Moritsch and Prof.in Ulrike Haele
with: Borcholt Hans-Christian Henning, Eccli Livia, Ewert Mia, Fietz Lili, Gastinger Leonidas, Geyer Emma, Grünberger Philip, Gundendorfer Anna, Hollenstein Moritz, Holzer Marlene, Jakl Alexander, Lenhardt Ariane, Mikolasek Lena, Prischl Daniel, Raible Marina,  Schatz Vinzenz, Schuller Lena, Seifert Lisa, Unger Zoltan Victor, von Hagmann Felicitas, Weber Chiara, Zellhofer Fabienne

Local collaborators:
Gabarage upcycling design, ST. PRIDE, KulturhauptSTART, St. Pöltner Künstlerbund

Material recycled from:
ASOP / BAfEP, St. Pölten, Universitätsklinikum St. Pölten, Stadtmuseum, St. Pölten, Wirtschaftshof der Stadt St.Pölten, Römerstadt Carnuntum