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16 May — 18 May 2025
Fünfzigzwanzig, Initiative Architektur, Kunstverein Salzburg, Schloss Linderhof
*International research festival with symposium, workshops, performances, music-sets, excursion, and exhibition openings.

17 May — 25 July 2025
Fünfzigzwanzig, Salzburg
*Exhibition and city walks.

The research festival wild thinX opens a speculative space—against the backdrop of current violence and political excess—to approach both built and natural environments anew. Nonconformity in this context is also understood as a resistant practice, positioning itself against permanent renewal and in favor of fluid spatial strategies: What was non-conformist yesterday is already form-conformist or norm-conformist today. The appeal of engaging with making and thinking differently lies in the potential horizons of political imagination as a symbolic form.

Contributions by Clare Barlow, Katarina Bonnevier, Andrea Bowers, Mark Bradford, Nicolas Cilins, Emily Crompton, S.E. Eisterer, Jack Halberstam, Tania Gheerbrant, Göksu Kunak, Tati au Miel, Gordon Matta Clark, Palace of Un/Learning, Prenninger Kreis (Herbert Eichholzer, Axl Leskoschek, Anna Lülja-Praun), Bhenji Ra, Wenke Schladitz,
Draper Shreeve, Anna Siverskog, Mikołaj Sobczak, Rebecco Ann Tess, Christoph Wagner, Damon Young et al.

An intiative by Fünfzigzwanzig, Initiative Architektur, and the Chamber of Civil Engineers | Architects and Engineering Consultants for Upper Austria and Salzburg, Magazin 53a in collaboration with Kunstverein Salzburg, HOSI Salzburg, and the Bavarian Chamber of Architects Munich.

The entire programme will be online on 5 April 2025.