Invisible cities after lockdown

September 23, 2020

Invisible Cities Innsbruck | September – November 2020

A part of MAGIC CARPETS – Creative Europe Platform Project 2017 – 2021
Organized and curated by The Doing Group and openspace.innsbruck

All of us live our own realities of Innsbruck. The process-oriented performance project INVISIBLE CITIES INNSBRUCK explores, documents and discusses a variety of these lived perspectives and invisible versions of the city.
It all began with the reinterpretation of the novel “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino and ended with the investigation to find new possibilities to make art together in a time of social distancing. In the third year of the Magic Carpets project, we focused on participatory art and process-oriented methods that enable international collaboration between artists, curators and producers, but also offer the a pandemic-proof cultural program for public audiences to enjoy.
The international artist Nicola Di Croce from Italy (nominated by our partner organization Latitudo Art Projects from Rome) and the local artist and producer Peter Lorenz (who lives and works between Innsbruck and Berlin), were invited on residency together to develop processes and create works in the fields between performance, society, system-relevant art, sound and technology together with a variety of local artists. The results are be presented as part of the Heart of Noise Festival (beginning of October) and afterwards at the Premierentage Innsbruck (in
November). The presentation of the works will be complemented by a series of participatory workshops and events in the run-up to the festival.

Nicola Di Croce develops a score to explore the urban atmosphere and sonic environments, the results of which will be presented in a multi-channel sound performance as a “prologue” in collaboration with the Grassmayr Bell Foundry and the Heart of Noise Festival. Furthermore, a participatory workshop in a pizza box will be delivered as system-relevant art. It introduces you to the world of Innsbruck’s invisible cities and opens the imagination for the creative transformation of your city through description, sounds and forms.
All chapters will be documented on our website and shown as an epilogue in form of a mobile installation in public space as part of the Premierentage Innsbruck.
Together with: Peter Lorenz, Nicola di Croce, Philipp Schwaderer, Jan Contala, Stefan Rasberger,
Eleni Palles, ludwig technique With contributions by: Milena Meller, Lucas Norer, Andreas Zissler, Lucaks Moritz Wegscheider and others.

Realized by: The Doing Group, openspace.innsbruck, Magic Carpets and stadt_potenziale Innsbruck
Part of: Heart of Noise Festival and Premierentage Innsbruck
The Magic Carpets project is funded by the EU as part of the “Creative Europe” program and
supported by the City of Innsbruck, the Province of Tyrol, the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture and
Public Service.

Realized by: The Doing Group, openspace.innsbruck, Magic Carpets and stadt_potenziale Innsbruck
Part of: Heart of Noise Festival und Premierentage Innsbruck

The Magic Carpets project is funded by the EU as part of the “Creative Europe” program and supported by the City of Innsbruck, the Province of Tyrol, the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture and Public Service.