Festival of Regions 2007
Exits and Dead Ends
The Festival of Regions will take place between 23 June and 8 July 2007 in the district of Kirchdorf/Krems (Upper Austria).
Since 1993 the Festival of Regions has been taking place every two years at decentralized locations in the state of Upper Austria with its capital, Linz, and since then it has developed into a contemporary event with a focus on present-day, location-specific art and culture. At the interface between art and everyday life, the festival’s projects incorporate the populace into a critical engagement with social, political and artistic questions. Outside the centres, the Festival of Regions combines contemporary cultural work and art forms with local histories, problematics and idiosyncrasies.
The Festival of Regions presents exclusively projects produced especially for the festival and orients itself internationally toward a contemporary concept of culture which comprises art, social research and social practices as well as links with everyday culture and interdisciplinary co-operation. The declared aim is to intensify the engagement with contemporary art and culture outside the metropolitan centres through the collaboration of artists and cultural workers with local cultural initiatives and the populace.
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