Ideas

This year’s Ideas program encompasses talks with the artists of Humans and Demons, discussions examining the festival’s themes from a philosophical or theoretical perspective, as well literary and curatorial events dealing with the urgent questions of our time.

Events

22.9., 11:00–16:30
23.9., 12:00–15:30
Artist Talks
With Humans and Demons artists
30.9., 17:00
Spiritual Warfare and Revolutionary Demonology
Lain Iwakura, S. Jonathon O’Donnell, and Michael Stevenson in conversation
3.10., 18:00
steirischer herbst at manuskripte
Reading and sound performance
With Franziska Füchsl, Rike Scheffler, Simon Skrepek, Christoph Szalay, and others
6.10., 18:00
Is It for Real?
Peter Sloterdijk in conversation with Slavoj Žižek
steirischer herbst at INDIGO Festival
8.10., 11:00–17:00
​Curating the Troubled Past
Panel discussions
With Defne Ayas, Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Tom Engels, Elisabeth Fiedler, Ruth Noack, and Ares Shporta
7.10., 17:00
Demons in the Machine
Orit Halpern and David Riff in conversation
15.10., 11:00–14:00
Auf bald in 50 Jahren
(See You in Fifty Years)
Performative panel discussion
With Thomas Geiger, Markus Gönitzer, Christoph Gurk, and others