The Way of the Water
21–22 June Summer Solstice Program
curated by Lorena Moreno Vera21 June
18:00– Arbeitsmigration nach und in St. Pölten um 1900
19:30 und in den 1970er Jahren: Auf den Spuren des Glanzstoffviertels Walk with historian Niklas Perzi
Duration: 90 Minutes Meeting Point: Glanzstoff Factory Language: German
20:00– Qapariq: A sound performance involving Computer Vision
20:40 & Interactive textiles By Paola Torres Núñez del Prado + Jonas Pajari
Duration: 20 minutes Meeting Point: Water Tower at the Glanzstoff Factory Language: English Followed by a talk between Paola Torres Núñez del Prado and Lorena Moreno Vera Duration: 20 minutes
21:00– Ser de Agua (Water Being)
21:30 Performance by Amanda Piña
Duration: 30 Minutes Meeting Point: Under the Westbahnbrücke by the Franz Josef-Promenade
21:30– Stargazing Walk
23:30 With Othmar Ortner Meeting Point: 21:30 at St. Pölten Bahnhof or directly at the Westbahnbrücke when joining Amanda Piña’s performance Language: German
To mark the solstice and the equinox, there is a special program late at night: the star gazing walk through the art parcours „The Way of the Water“. Together with „Dark Sky“ ambassador Othmar Ortner, an expert on light pollution, ecology and astronomy, participants hike along the Traisen river. They will learn interesting facts about the dark night sky and its significance for flora and fauna. Of course, the starry sky and what can be seen there is also explained in an impressive and exciting way. At the end, a midnight snack is served for refreshment.
22 June
11:00– Mühlbacherinnen Walk with Kollektiv Neonpink
11:50 Duration: 50 Minutes Meeting point: Back entrance of the St. Pölten Train Station (by the Anker bakery) Language: German
Walk along some of the washing stations along the Mühlbach together with Kollektiv Neonpink. During the walk, we will delve into the female memory of the Mühlbach in St. Pölten.
12:00– Concert: White Cycles by Roberta Lazo Valenzuela
12:40
Duration: 40 Minutes Meeting Point: Mühlbach at the pedestrian bridge by Südtiroler Straße between Sensengasse and Strohmayrstraße. Language: English & German
Activation of the installation White Cycles by Roberta Lazo Valenzuela in two stations at the Mühlbach with guest percussionists, Sofia Garzotto and Igor Gross playing a composition written by Roberta Lazo Valenzuela.
13:00– Riverbed Sensorial Walk with Filip Van Dingenen
14:00 Duration: 60 Minutes Meeting Point: Under the Ash Tree at Sonnenpark, Spratzerner Kirchenweg 81-83 Language: English
This act of walking and sensing a riverbed is framed as a pedagogical setting. Trying to understand what we, humans, can learn from the riverbed, its plants, its flow and energy starting from the source and the memory it holds to the stream between our toes. Festivalzentrum Linzer Straße 16, A-3100 St. Pölten
15:00– In Focus: Huchenhochzeit. Diving into the Traisen’s history
16:00 and how it shaped its inhabitants. Guest speakers: Christina Gruber, Gertrud Haidvogl and Gregor Gravogl.
Duration: 60 Minutes Language: German
Talk between artist and ecologist Christina Gruber, Gertrud Haidvogl, environmental historian, research associate at the Institute of Hydrobiology and Water Management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, and Gregor Gravogl, Managing Director of Lower Austrian Fishing Association (NÖ Landesfischereiverband).
16:10– The Diver’s Mythology. A Lecture Performance by Klara Hobza
17:10
Duration: 60 Minutes Language: English
Klara Hobza provides the background of her transnational diving project “Diving Through Europe” and the connection to her piece “Petroglyph in the Traisen” part of “The Way of the Water.”
In 2009, the artist Klara Hobza embarked on an ambitious project to dive across Europe‘s river systems from the North Sea to the Black Sea, a journey expected to take 30 years. Starting in 2012 after three years of rigorous training, she entered the Rhine in Holland and has since been progressing upstream. Her route takes her through the Rhine-Main crossing, the Main-Danube Canal, and down the Danube through several countries to reach the Black Sea near Constanta.
17:20– Towards an Earth Assembly
18:50 Guest speakers: Teresa Vicente, Lorenzo Sandoval, Elizabeth Gallón Droste, Michaela Krömer.
Duration: 90 Minutes Language: English
Screening of “That Summer of ´22” by Lorenzo Sandoval and conversation between Teresa Vicente, Professor of Philosophy of Law and Director of the Chair of Human Rights and Rights of Nature at the Universidad de Murcia, artist Lorenzo Sandoval, artist and anthropologist Elizabeth Gallón Droste (online) and Michaela Krömer, attorney-at-law working for the law firm Krömer (St. Pölten/Vienna) specialized in climate crisis and migration.
“Towards an Earth Assembly” is a series of encounters where panels of experts, activists, artists and custodians of nature meet to study the implementation of the Rights of Nature as part of the legal infrastructure of different countries.
The encounter at The Way of the Water follows the first encounters in Murcia (September 2023), Madrid (March 2024), and other locations.
We invite you to join the rest of the Tangente St. Pölten programme for this day:
19:30 Jeremy Nedd. Impilo Mapantsula blue nile to the galaxy around olodumare Festspielhaus
A far-sighted dance evening that has been developed out of a tension between jazz as the expression of the African American civil rights movement and the South African subculture pantsula, which grew out of resistance to the policy of apartheid.
From StadtLandFluss 2024
15:00 Art, music, community festival St. Pölten Cultural District
*The Water Way is a weather-sensitive exhibition, so these events will take place in almost all-weather conditions (except by heavy rain or severe thunderstorms). To make the most of our walks, we invite you to bring comfortable shoes and water-proof garments.