non-conformist strategies in architecture, design and art
16. 05. - 18. 05. 2025
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16 May — 18 May 2025
Fünfzigzwanzig, Kunstverein Salzburg, Initiative Architektur, Schloss Linderhof
*international research festival with symposium, workshops, performances, music-sets, excursion, and exhibition openings.
17 May — 25 July 2025
*exhibition and city walks.
Fünfzigzwanzig, Salzburg
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 Maria Thereza Alves u. Chám Krai Kytõm Pandã Grét, Clare Barlow, Andrea Bowers, Nicolas Cilins, Elio Choquette, Theo Deutinger, Dose of Pleasure (Alvin Collantes), S.E. Eisterer, Tania Gheerbrant, Jack Halberstam, Mwangi Hutter, Göksu Kunak, Gordon Matta Clark, Tati au Miel, Hiroharu Mori, Plalace of Un/Learning, Prenninger Kreis (Herbert Eichholzer, Axl Leskoschek, Anna Lülja-Praun), Behnji Ra, Wenke Schladitz, Draper Shreeve, Mikołaj Sobczak, Rebecco Ann Tess, Sergio Villanueva Preston, Christoph Wagner, Matthias Weiß, Damon Young.
An initiative by Fünfzigzwanzig, Kunstverein Salzburg, Initiative Architektur,
the Chamber of Civil Engineers | Architects and Engineering Consultants for Upper Austria and Salzburg, HOSI Salzburg, and Magazin 53a.
An initiative of the working group Queer Spaces formed by Eleonora Cardella Goroll (architect, Salzburg), S.E. Eisterer (architectural historian, Pennsylvania), Sophie Goltz (artistic lead of wild thinX, curator, Berlin / Vienna), Roman Höllbacher (art historian, Salzburg), Niklas Koschel (curator, Salzburg), Karolina Radenkovic (curator, Salzburg), and Nico Weiss (architect, Salzburg).
