interventa Hallstatt is a multi-genre and intergenerational symposium that is taking place within the framework of the Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut. It is a dynamic laboratory, in which theory and practice combine to encourage the generation and application of knowledge. It is an experimental think tank that addresses the socio-political importance of Baukultur.

How people build, use built objects, modernize existing ones, the art that they create and the music that they listen to, and how they dance, dress, consume, and communicate are amongst the issues that the curators Sabine Kienzer and Marie-Therese Harnoncourt are putting up for discussion.

They are inviting regional, national, and international experts from architecture, the humanities, and cultural and social sciences, as well as ecology and the visual, performing, and culinary arts to come together and explore the potential, the interconnections, and the interfaces of a future-oriented Baukultur and of applied practices for the region and beyond.

During four consecutive days, interventa Hallstatt will foster insightful dialog and develop answers, new questions, and innovative approaches that address such issues as identity and habitat, landscape and architecture, overtourism or sustainable tourism, and the balance between traditional concerns and the Baukultur of tomorrow.

The international Baukultur symposium will be introduced on January 5th with a performative intervention. Under the choreography of Esther Balfe, 13 dancers from the MUK dance degree program will perform dynamically in traditional costumes, with a sculpture created by Isabella Kohlhuber and unconventional bell sounds in public spaces. They will perform in Gmunden, Scharnstein, Schörfling and Hallstatt, taking up the inspiring story of the Glöcklerlauf and bringing it into the present.