a village does nothing

The results form seven days of doing nothing. substitute personnel and catering will be provided!"

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Elisabeth Schimana 2017
With the title “Das Ende der Gemütlichkeit” (The End of Congeniality) the Festival of Regions responded in its call for projects in the year 2000 to a sharp political change in Austria. It was the beginning of the so-called Black-Blue coalition between the ÖVP and FPÖ. Compliments to the people in charge back then: festival director Ferry Öllinger, business director Uli Böker, and board of directors Franz Fend, Claudia Hutterer, Reinhard Kannonier, Ferry Öllinger, and Rainer Zendron. They were brave! They went with a concept with an unknown outcome and asked for funding to pay people to do nothing. In 2000 a thought that still “turned people’s stomach” – today ordinary.

We need to learn to do nothing. Our society needs a paradigm shift: Not the right to work, but the right to survive!

search: 01 10 2000 - 05 04 200, Mühlviertel, Upper Austria
doing nothing: 25 06 2001 - 29 06 2001, Eberhardschlag
Hörbild 55min, 2001 | ORF Ö1 14 07 2001
film 23min, 2001 | subtitles on DVD: Russian, English, Spanish, Italian, German