Because There Are So Many.
Multi-perspective remembrance and commemoration in the university context
Project workshop on the occasion of the handover of Elisabeth Schmirl's artwork to the public
Monday, May 8, 2023, 8:30 until 20:00
Location: Unicorn, Conference Deck, Schubertstraße 6a, Graz

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8:30 – 9:00 Arrival, Meet & Greet in the stairwell
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and opening of the workshop by
Rector Dr. Peter Riedler
9:15 – 9:30 Presentation of the project team and introduction
9:30 – 11:00 Multidirectional remembering. Space and memory
in post-migrant societies. Dirk Rupnow
11:30 – 13:00 Collaborative politics of memory. Presentation of
the research and teaching process by teachers, students
and interview partners.

14:00 – 15:30 Architecture. Space. Materiality. Memory.
Antje Senarclens de Grancy, Paul Mahringer
16:00 – 17:30 Art and memory in postmigrant societies.
Artistic position/s, Marion Hamm, Anton Lederer (instead of
Arye Wachsmuth)

18:00 – 19:30 Because There Are So Many. Handover of the
artwork with Peter Riedler, Elisabeth Schmirl, Jasmin Leb-Idris
and Jakob Leb, Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer,
Helmut Konrad, Dirk Rupnow, Gerald Lamprecht
Moderation Judith Laister und Heidrun Zettelbauer
With poems by Asiyeh Panahi and musical conributions
by Hans Breuer

The workshop will be held in German language.
Detailed programme with all speakers and participants.

The project on the website on the history of the University of Graz

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The event is dedicated to multi-directional and multi-perspective
remembrance and commemoration between architecture, history,
art, university and the public at a site that is both steeped in history
and historically contaminated.

The focus is on the process of reframing the staircase in the
Unicorn building, the Start-up & Innovation Hub of the University
of Graz: from the initial project idea, which took its starting point in
a contemporary approach to two frescoes from the Nazi period,
to the launch of an art competition and its realisation by the artist
Elisabeth Schmirl.

On the one hand, the aim of the workshop is to take stock of the
process so far against the background of a current culture of
memory and remembrance that is aware of postcolonial discourses.
On the other hand, the event is intended as a prelude to a
necessarily further and more in-depth examination of questions for
future commemoration.

The project has been collaborative from the beginning and involves
research, teaching as well as non-university and civil society actors.
It opens up new questions with regard to spaces, mechanisms and
strategies of remembrance and commemoration. It provides a
concentrated view of current issues in the context of a transnational,
multi-perspective and multi-directional culture and politics of memory.

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An event of the University of Graz:
Rectorate, Centre for Jewish Studies, Institute for Cultural Anthropology and
European Ethnology, Institute for History/Cultural and Gender History, Institute of
Educational Sciences/Research area Migration - Diversity - Education,
arge leb idris architecture/architect iris reiter and <rotor> Centre for Contemporary Art

Responsible for the conception:
Judith Laister, Gerald Lamprecht, Anton Lederer, Heidrun Zettelbauer

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