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10. Juni 2018 – Theatertag ‚Was für ein Theater‘

Ort: Hof und Bibliothek, Bierapotheke Murau, Anna Neumann Straße 34, 8850 Murau, Steiermark

11 Uhr

Uraufführung des Librettos

Doppler – über das Schicksal der Doppelsterne

Eine Oper in drei Akten von Friedrich Danielis

Es spielen: Helga Illich und Helmut Wiesner

Musik des Komponisten der Oper Wolfgang Florey komponiert für die Lesung des Librettos.

Interpretiert von der Cellistin Susan Salm.

15 Uhr

Lustspiel von Arthur Schnitzler

Literatur

Es spielen: Helga Illich und Helmut Wiesner

19 Uhr

Dramatische Performance nach Thea Dorn mit

Marleni

Irmi Horn (Marlene Dietrich), Wera Köhler (Leni Riefenstahl) & Henrik Sande (Barpianist) Inszenierung/Ausstattung: Irmi Horn

Assistentin: Bianca Molinatto

Eine kunstGarten-Produktion

 

„Zurück? …. Nach Murau.“

Marcus Neustetter (www.marcusneustetter.com) und Bronwyn Lace (www.bronwynlace.com)

November 2017 – Jänner 2018 in der Alten Apotheke und in der Stadt Murau

Programm auf www.salvatorhaus.com

 

Art Residency – Bischwa Goswami und Brischti Sultana aus Bangladesch (www.bishwajitgoswami.com)

  1. Juli, 18 Uhr, RATHAUS Murau:  FINISSAGE von Werken von Bishwa Goswami und Brishti Tania Sultana, die während ihres Aufenthaltes in Murau im Mai und Juni 2017 produziert wurden. Das Artist in Residence Programm von Bishwa und Brishti wurden von Salvatorhaus gesponsert.
  2. Mai 2017, ab 10 Uhr ‚Tag der offenen Ateliers‘ in der Alten Apotheke

Gespräch und Ausstellung mit den beiden Kunstschaffenden: „Was können wir von Murau lernen? Was wollt ihr von uns kennenlernen?“

Werk (‘Ma’) von Bishwa Goswami:

Bishwa Goswami hat an mehr als 50 Ausstellungen teilgenommen und zahlreiche Auszeichnungen erhalten. Zum Beispiel 2010 – Best Media Award in Painting, 17th Young Artist Art Exhibition organized by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy at National Art Gallery, Bangladesh und 2011 – 19 th National Award- Bangle Foundation Award, 19th National Art Exhibition organized by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy at National Art Gallery, Bangladesh.

  1. Mai 2017, 14 Uhr – 18 Uhr, in der Alten Apotheke: Workshop ‘Farben Bangladesch’s – Ölmalerei mit Aquarelleffekt’, Bishwa erklärt seine Technik und unterstützt Teilnehmende bei den ersten Schritten diese umzusetzten. 40 Euro Kostenbeitrag (inkl. Material und kleine Erfrischungen)

Anmeldung bitte unter: Karin Reinprecht 0043-(0)664-104 8478 oder David Hancock 0043-(0)664-3718095 oder salvatorhaus@gmail.com

Gabrielle Buresch-Teichmann (www.color-buresch.at)

  1. Mai 2017, in der Alten Apotheke

11 Uhr, Gespräch: „Am Anfang war das Rot“ – Was bewirken Farben? Buchpräsentation, Gespräch und ‚Lichterfahrung‘ (etwa 1 std.); freier Eintritt

14 Uhr – 18 Uhr, Workshop: ‘Vertiefung in Farben für den Alltag und zur Therapie’ (Farbtest, Farbreise, Farbtheorie- und fühlen, Farbaufstellung, Lichtbestrahlung); 40 Euro Teilnahmegebühr (inkl. Erfrischungen)

Anmeldung bitte unter: Karin Reinprecht 0043-(0)664-104 8478 oder David Hancock 0043-(0)664-3718095 oder salvatorhaus@gmail.com

Alice Siebenhofer (www.alicesiebenhofer.at)

  1. Mai 2017, in der Alten Apotheke

14 Uhr – 18 Uhr, Gespräch: ‘Resonanzen’ – Reflexionen in Text und Bild: die Künstlerin führt durch ihre Ausstellung von Fotos und Ölkreidebildern und präsentiert ihr Buch ‘Sehreisen’; anschliessend ein Workshop in dem die Künstlerin Teilnehmende dabei unterstützt, ihre eigenen ‘Resonanzen’ auf Farben zu entwickeln – durch Malen, Schreiben, vielleicht auch Musik und Tanz …; freiwillige Spende erbeten (Material und Erfrischungen werden kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellt)

Eulen in Murau – 2016

by Regina Seidl

 

CAN/FUSION – Bangladesh 2014 – 2016

  • October 2016: Can/Fusion in Bangladesh

The plan was: Lukas Ligeti creating new music in cooperation with Bangla musical masters (a cooperation with Bengal Foundation, Goethe Institut in Dhaka, and the Austian Cultural Forum in Delhi): Lukas proposed to create a ‘field of sound’ (“ein Klangland”) in collaboration with 2-3 local musical masters in Dhaka.

And then: Many people were massacred in Holi Bakery, because they were foreigners and Bangladeshi liking foreign bread and food. (Claudia d’Antona our thoughts will always be with you and your suffering!) Life shifted in Dhaka: we can no longer do things as before. Lukas Ligeti could not carry out his musical cooperation. Music and musical cooperation went underground – is now done in private homes. Thank you to the pianist Cornelia Herrmann and the singer Christoph Genz, who do just that.

October 2016

Inspired by Can/Fusion, the composer and musician Lukas LIGETI plans a collaboration with composers and musicians from Bangladesh. The result will be a “Klangland” (‘sound field’), an innovative work at the intersection of sound installation and concert music. Participating musicians, open to and interested in new and different approaches and musical results, will  be an inspiration for themselves and their audience. The cooperation across different musical structures and theory will promote mutual learning.

Time: 15th – 25th October 2016

Location: Bengal Foundation concert hall and Goetheinstitut in Dhanmondi, Dhaka

Supported by: Bengal Foundation, Goetheinstitut, Austrian Cultural Forum in Delhi

Initiated by: Can/Fusion virtual projects

August 2016

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Nach dem Vortrag durch Hans Stoisser trug Suzanne Barfuß ein Gedicht, sehr passend zum Thema, vor: FLÜGELHERZ 2.2.2015 Suzanne Barfuss, www.suzanne-barfuss.com

October 2015

Julian May, poet and BBC Radio 4 writer/presenter,   describes mundane things (mushroom collecting in alpine Murau – “Eierschwammerlsuchen am Lärchberg”) in the most poetic terms.

 BBC – From our correspondent: A Feast of Fungi

March 2015

Before we can fuse / integrate external influences or the new into our lives, it confuses us. The new confuses us because it maybe contradicts our truths and worldviews, or because it adds unexpected aspects to our worldviews.

How to communicate with (contemporary) art?

To promote the understanding and appreciation of contemporary art, the Bengal Art Lounge in cooperation with the virtual art space Can/Fusion invited artists, art lecturers and students to participate in an Interactive Training’s Workshop on Art Mediation with the experienced Austrian art mediator and artist Walter Stach, providing the basic skills of art mediation and discussion, which goes beyond art lecture.

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Time: 13th – 14th March 2015

Location: Bengal Art Gallery in Dhanmondi, Dhaka

Results:

  • One train the trainers workshop in Dhanmondi branch of the Bengal Art Foundation on March 13 and 14, 2015;
  • Bengal Art Foundation is planning to implement regular sessions of art mediation with classes and the public at the gallery in Gulshan 1 and in Dhanmondi;
  • Walter Stach established contacts with Bangladeshi artists for an international art project he currently organises in the context of the next Olympics. Artists from five continents will be invited for contributions – more artists still needed to be involved from the Asian continent.
  • Private meetings and discussions on Bengladeshi contemporary art with art collectors were held;

Funded by the Austrian Cultural Forum New Delhi

 

Confusion comes naturally before the fusion.

Today, we are exposed to more external influences and quicker changes in our everyday lives than humans had ever been before. This is the contemporary state of humankind. The reaction to these imposed influences and changes is often reactionary or even violent to keep the status quo or to realise an ideal traditional society. But, this will not work, never works as everything flows (“panta rhei”).

Art helps us to overcome the state of confusion and reach fusion or integration. Fusing the new or external influences into our lives might simply be, to say, “I know it’s there, but it is not for me, not my opinion, not part of my life …”, or to embrace it and enhance our being with it.

The interventions of the Can/Fusion art project aim to explore from the point of view of art (film, music, literature, visual art) how we can integrate living locally with global ideas coming towards us constantly, challenging our habits and the traditional ways of doing things. These challenges and the resulting confusion might be the main feature of our ‘contemporary being’.

The background beat of fusion and confusion is pivotal to the interventions of Can/Fusion in Dhaka. (by: Dr. Karin Reinprecht, 00880-09918799, Gulshan 1, Rd. 129, Hs. 24).

 

 

 

Outputs of Consulting Work 1993 – 2017

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Consulting Outputs 1993 – 2017:

  • 6 policy briefs such as the viable systems approach developed and applied in the Gender Survey and Re-organisation concept for a Gender-responsive Aid Coordination System (UN, bilateral donors, NGOs, Palestinian Authority) in the occupied Palestinian territory in 2012
  • 23 strategies such as Elaboration of the Regional Programme for Central America of the Austrian Development Cooperation (in Spanish) or Developing the 2011 – 2013 Country Strategy for UN WOMEN in the occupied Palestinian territory
  • 12 project and programme proposals
  • 21 evaluations of projects, programmes, strategies and themes, about half of which were cross-country evaluations in twelve different sectors
  • 15 studies such as Study on extent and type of financing for women-owned SME in Sub-Saharan Africa for the African Development Bank in 2012
  • 6 case studies in rural economic development (using viable systems approach), women entrepreneurship development and tourism
  • 16 due diligences of banks and other financial institutions
  • 32 trainings (training plan and manual development for trainings of usually 3 to 5 days) on tools and approaches related to gender, business management, finance and entrepreneurship) such as Carrying out a results-based Management Training (5 days) for Senior Managers in South Africa in 2011 or Preparing and holding a training of managers of the Bank of Zambia (central bank) on product and organisation development for financial inclusion in 2015
  • 8 organisation manuals such as Installing a microfinance and small credit programme in Namibia – LISKAMENA, which the consultant built from scratch including funding the board, training managers and finding and setting up an office and monitoring/loan-tracking system (similarly for a leasing programme in Rumania and a business incubator in Bulgaria)
  • 8 tools for inclusive entrepreneurship promotion developed for ILO see FAMOS Check, Enterprise Culture below), for systemic research on gender and agriculture for Dryland Systems CRP, and for the analysis of capacity development needs on individual, organisational and impact level for CARE Austria;
  • 31 gender audits all based on the self-developed FAMOS Check approach, which assesses the viability of the whole organisation necessary to achieve any goals, as gender equality and inclusion goals;
  • 2 tools developed for systemic impact evaluation (combination qualitative and quantitative tools);

January 2016: How to measure impact of short-term interventions with participatory systems research approaches?

Focus Group, Amboseli July 2015

Participatory focus group discussion can be used to jointly analyse systems drivers, trade-off calculation of different human agents in the system and depict feedback loops in the system. The author created these participatory approaches to understand the effect and impact of an ILO training intervention for rural women in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya on their livelihood.

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Anna Philomena Stocker, Barbara Regger, Christine Pokorny, David Hancock, Gunilla Plank, Heide Zeiringer, Karin Reinprecht, Klaus Maier, Thomas Perner, Vivian Simbürger

Copyright©Herausgeberin Karin Reinprecht für die Autor:innen

Der Steirische Dekameron 2024

Im jahrhundertealten Dekameron von Giovanni Boccaccio flüchten während der Pestzeit zehn junge Adelige aus Florenz auf‘s Land und erzählen sich Geschichten.

Davon angeregt, treffen sich während des letzten Coronasommers 2022 in einer steirischen Kleinstadt zehn Menschen, die sich inmitten der herausfordernden Coronazeit an malerischen Orten versammeln. Während die Welt draußen von Unsicherheit und Isolation geprägt ist, entscheiden sie sich, ihre eigenen Geschichten zu weben – Geschichten, die von Liebe, Verlust, Hoffnung und der Vielfalt des Lebens erzählen.

“Der Steirische Dekameron” ist eine Hommage an Boccaccios Meisterwerk, die die zeitlose Kraft von Geschichten feiert und gleichzeitig einen Blick auf die menschliche Resilienz inmitten der größten Herausforderungen wirft.

Hier bestellen!

Schloss Lind 2023

Ich zeige dreidimensionale Heimatromane heuer in Schloss Lind, Neumarkt in der Steiermark. Sie erzählen neue Heimatgeschichten auf Basis von Zitaten aus alten Heimatromanen und Fotos, beides Zufallsfunde aus Dachböden im Bezirk Murau. Das dreidimensionale Erzählen der Geschichten als ‚Groschen graphics‘  ist ein Versuch, einerseits graphic novels ‚begreifbar‘ zu gestalten, und andrerseits Heimatromane als positiven Abdruck des realen Lebens am Land, einst und jetzt, zu verstehen – die dunklen Seiten bleiben unsichtbar, sind aber durch ihr Weglassen in den Heimatromanen zu erahnen.

Die Dreidimensionalität der Groschen graphics soll auch klarmachen wieviele andere Leben sich vor den gleichen oder ähnlichen Kulissen abgespielt haben.

ORF Matinee Bericht August 2023

What Kafka Forebode, Secession Wien 2022

Mara’nd’Ana 2022

Das war eine typische gemeinsame Produktion – Video für die Vaginale des Lungauer Kulturvereins 2022 – mit Su Schweiger: voller Lachen und sich aufschaukelnden Ideen!

Spiel des Lebens 2021

„Traumtuch“


In einem alten Haus im Bezirk Murau habe ich ein Leintuch gefunden, das elfmal
gestückelt war. Die Armut sichtlich zu groß, um sich ein neues großes Tuch zu
leisten. Im gleichen Haus fanden sich mehrere Kisten mit Groschenromanen wie
Heimatromane, Fürstenromane, Arztromane sowie schön zusammengenähte
Sammlungen von Fortsetzungsromanen aus Tageszeitungen. Die ältesten davon
aus dem Jahr 1910.
In der Installation in einem Garten in Murau ist dieses elf-mal gestückelte Leintuch zu sehen – jedes einzelne Stück bemalt mit einer Szene aus einem der vorgefundenen Groschenromanen. Neben dem Bett mit dem Traumtuch finden sich Bilder von Schnappschüssen aus 100 Jahren auf alte Holzstücke gemalt.

Das Spiel: BesucherInnen erfinden die Geschichten, die sich in den Schnappschüssen abgesoielt haben könnten und  auf dem “Traumtuch” geträumt wurden. (Die erzählten Geschichten wurden 2023 im Schloss Lind als drei-dimensionale graphic novels präsentiert)

Spiel des Lebens in Murau,  2021 – mit 7 KünstlerInnen

Das Spiel des Lebens besteht aus sechs Spielfeldern, die an öffentlichen Orten in Murau verteilt sind. Ziel ist es, mit partizipativen Mitteln eine Geschichte zu erarbeiten. Sieben Künstler:innen haben hierfür sieben Themen bearbeitet, die übergreifend von Spielfeld zu Spielfeld fließen.

Das Spiel des Lebens vereint sieben Spielfelder, die von sieben lokalen und internationalen Künstler: innen bespielt werden: Bronwyn Lace, Susanne Schweiger, Vivian Simbürger, Karin Reinprecht, Marcus Neustetter, Reinhard Simbürger und Armin Seidl. Die Spielfelder, für die die Künstler:innen eigenen Themen erarbeitet haben, sind über den öffentlichen Raum der Stadt Murau verteilt.

Die Spiele werden gemeinsam mit dem Publikum aufgeführt, das sich in den meisten Fällen in die Darstellung oder Durchführung einbringen kann. Jedes Spielfeld kann während der Dauer des steirischen Herbstes auch besucht werden, wenn gerade keine Aufführung stattfindet – das heißt, auf dem Spielfeld findet man Informationen zu dem entsprechenden Spiel und man kann in der Regel mit Texten und Bildern selbst dazu beitragen.

Das Spiel des Lebens steht für individuelle Kunst, die in Zeiten von Trennung und Isolation das Prinzip des gemeinschaftlichen Kreierens betont.

Zurück … nach Murau 2021

Mit „Wer darf? Wer muss?“ spricht Karin Reinprecht in ihrem Poster und Video soziale Regeln und Machtverhältnisse an, die manche Murauerinnen und Murauer zum Schweigen bringen und damit wertvolle Ideen und Mitarbeit unterdrücken.

Video: „Wer darf? Wer muss?“

ZURÜCK … nach Murau 2021

Reference Projects and Publications

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Dr. Karin Reinprecht published and consulted on following projects in a leading position:

 

Experience/Projects

(carried out alone or in responsible position)

2021 Acquisition, organisation and contribution to the art project “Spiel des Lebens”, a cooperation between seven artists. Financed and supported by steirischen herbst und StubenRein.
2021 Acquisition, organisation and contribution to the art project “Zurück … nach Murau” financed by Land Steiermark Kultur
2018 First comprehensive evaluation of a large employment programme for young people in Algeria, and developing recommendations for increasing its impact.
2017 Developing Concept, organising and contributing to participative art project in Austria to collect memories and development ideas from the local population (one output: a newly developed story telling game for social research). see: www.salvatorhaus.com
2017 Innovating the ILO FAMOS Check Tool (which I originally developed in 2004): peer review, analysing innovation and restructuring ideas, exploring quantification possibilities, finding new name – packaging new tool
2017 Facilitating a workshop to prepare the operational plan for an integrated mineral resource initiative in Mongolia to enhance environmentally sustainable economic growth in the context of and in connection with mining industry (for GIZ)
2017 Holding of a 10 days Management Course for Junior Managers: “Management to Achieve Results in a Complex Environment”, in Austria
2017 Organising and managing of a 3-months artist residency of two artists from Bangladesh, of 5 workshops/talks on art and art related subjects. Organising of one art exhibition.
September 2016- March 2017 Developing gender-diagnosis and capacity assessment tools on individual level (online questionnaires), organizational level (quantitative and qualitative research tool) and survey tool for measuring impact; tools applied in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda for CARE; analysing data, producing research reports as input for improving individuals and organisations capacity, and elaborating a quantified baseline for impact level and organisation level effects.
2016 Preparing and training of managers of the Bank of Zambia (central bank) on product and organisation development for financial inclusion (Agro-financing, financing of young entrepreneurs, financing of business women)
2016 UN Women Albania – elaborating Strategy and Work Plans 2017 – 2021 including strategies on women economic empowerment, political empowerment, elimination of violence, gender budgeting of state household;
2016 Peace-building in oPt and Israel – writing a proposal to EU for CARE (including CEDAW and UNSC resolution 1325)
2016 Developing the 2017 – 2021 Country Strategy for UN WOMEN in Albania (including CEDAW, Beijing+20, UN SC resolutions, Istanbul Convention)
2016 Supervising a research project on youth in agriculture in Morocco: how to support female and male youth to build a livelihood in agriculture (income, food security)
2016 Organising a cooperation between Lukas Ligeti, Austrian composer and musician, with composers and musicians from Bangladesh
January 2015 – June 2016 Coordination of the Gender and Youth research programme in agriculture for CGIAR – CRP Dryland Systems (framework contract January 2015 to June 2016): research projects on irrigation and gender in Malawi and Central Asia, food security and gender in Rajasthan, livestock and gender in Ethiopia, climate change and gender in Egypt, agriculture and youth in Tunisia and Morocco;
2015 Workshop: Systemic viability criteria as criteria for measuring research performance, and proposing a systems approach to manage gender-responsive research (2 hours workshop at ICARDA, Amman)
2015 Preparation of a proposal for a randomized control trial impact study on youth in an agricultural value chain in Tunisia, CRP Dryland Systems
2015 Integrating gender in systems analysis of agricultural livelihood systems to ensure food security: Holding a course jointly with systems modelling expert Bao Le Quang on: ‘Integrated, gendered Systems Modelling Research Approach to Dryland Systems: From Concepts to Practices and Implementation’, 10 days for young researchers
2015 Creating a systemic theory of change for gender and for youth in drylands agricultural livelihood systems (for the Youth and Gender Strategy of Dryland Systems)
2015 Evaluation of a women entrepreneurship development project in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda reaching out to 90% rural and 40% young women for ILO
2015 Building the capabilities of municipalities in Syria, to cope with the crisis, support the survival of their communities and to start building their future livelihoods – workshop and coaching the writing of a proposal to the EU (for Syrian NGO)
2015 Preparing and training of managers of the Bank of Zambia (central bank) on product and organisation development for financial inclusion (Agro-financing, financing of young entrepreneurs, financing of business women), 2015
2015 Due diligences of two banks and three non-bank financial institutions to be financed by  a new guarantee fund for agricultural financing in Albania, 2015
2015 Workshop with researchers and follow-up coordination of a joint social research proposal of nine European universities on European youth and precarious livelihoods
2015 Organising art mediation project in Bangladesh: training of art mediators for contemporary art in Bangladesh by Walter Stach, financed by the Austrian Cultural Forum New Delhi and the Bengal Art Foundation, March 2015
2014 Drivers of economic development in Bangladesh: researching three case studies for the World Bank, 2014
2014 Elaboration of a strategy and proposal to the EU to re-build the livelihood (food security through agriculture and income generation) of refugees and host-communities in Northern Syria including their psychosocial wellbeing (proposal won in December 2014)
2014 Elaborate a proposal to the EU for an intervention in the health sector in urban slums in Kenya (proposal won in August 2014)
2014 Gender Analyses of two health projects in Bangladesh for GIZ
2013 Mid-term evaluation of a programme for people with disabilities, which is implemented in seven Asian and African countries, ILO – PROPEL
2013 Carrying out a FAMOS Check (Gender Audit cum strategy) in an employers’ organisation, Malawi
2012 Develop recommendations to improve coordination in the aid coordination system, including UN and bilateral donors, regarding gender mainstreaming in the occupied Palestinian territory
2012 Evaluation of a data management project with the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Programme of the World Bank
2012 Making the business case to banks for financing women entrepreneurs in South Africa and in Lesotho
2012 Carrying out a FAMOS Check of an organisation of the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Mozambique
2012 Carrying out a FAMOS Check in the Department for Economic Development and Tourism in KZN, South Africa
2012 FAMOS Check (gender audit, product and organisation development, financing strategy and financial projections) in a South African development bank
2012 Organisation consulting in an employers’ representation in Malawi with a focus on more inclusiveness of women entrepreneurs
2011/2012 Carrying out a Gender Survey to gender mainstream the aid coordination system in the occupied Palestinian territory
2011/2012 Supporting the One-Stop Shop in Lesotho to prepare an action plan for reaching out with its services to women entrepreneurs
2011 Concept paper for a combined infrastructure project (roads, water, electricity) aiming at local economic development in Afghanistan
2011 Preparation of three case studies on the effects and impacts of ILO/FAMOS Checks (organisational and gender audits) in South African organisations
2011 Study on extent and type of financing for women-owned SME in Sub-Saharan Africa for the African Development Bank
2011 Carrying out a FAMOS Check (organisational diagnosis and gender audit) for the One Stop Business Facilitation Centre in Maseru, Lesotho
2011 Piloting a gender awareness training for the staff of a large South African bank
2011 Facilitating focus groups for an UN organisation in preparation of an international conference on women entrepreneurs
2011 Review of key areas of the United Nations Country Team in the oPt to create ‘one UN’ regarding gender equality and women’s empowerment
2010/2011 Developing the 2011 – 2013 Country Strategy for UN WOMEN in the occupied Palestinian territory (economic development, democratisation support, elimination of violence against women and children)
2010 Gender Mainstreaming of the Agricultural Strategy of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied Palestinian territory
2010 Finding and defining joint indicators in the East African coffee sector – facilitation of a workshop with stakeholders from the private sector incl. companies and NGOs
2010 FAMOS Check – financial service improvement: of Training of Bankers in Zambia
2010 FAMOS Check – Gender Audit: International Training of Practitioners from Eastern Africa and Southern Africa
2010 Organising and curating the Photo Exhibition:  Football World Cup 2010 & GTZ Spotlight of the Year 2010
2010 Closing agriculture and tourism related businesses in Zimbabwe
2010 Carrying out a results-based Management Training (5 days) for Senior Managers in South Africa
2010 Women Enterprise Development: Training in Kenya of intermediaries (training organisations, business consultants, financing institutions) specialising in business development in different Eastern African Countries
2010 FAMOS Check and training (gender audit) of an organisation of the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Mozambique
2009 -2011 Owning and managing an art project space – “Right on the Rim” – in Arts on Main (Johannesburg, South Africa); the projects included visual art, theatre, films, music performances;
2009 Evaluation (e-VAL) of a water programme in Zambia
2009 Carrying out a FAMOS Check (organisational diagnosis) in an apex organisation of business associations elaboration of recommendations
2009 Evaluation interviews (e-VAL) of a rural development programme in South Africa
2009 Carrying out a FAMOS Check (organisational diagnosis, inclusion of marginalised social groups) in an apex tourism organisation for tourism businesses in  Southern Africa
2009 Evaluation (e-VAL) of a fund supporting democratisation in Zimbabwe
2009 Organisation and curating of an international photo exhibition in Johannesburg
2009 Organising an international photographic workshop in Johannesburg
2009 Development of a due diligence tool for selection of project partners (ILO)
2009 Evaluation (e-VAL) of a rural decentralisation project in Lesotho
2009 Market study (overview European Development Banks, demand in Austria) and Elaborating recommendations on strategic and marketing issues of a European development bank
2009- 2010 Organisation of a small exhibition of contemporary South African art in Germany
2008-2009 Researching the financial analysis section of a study on microfinance institutions in Nicaragua
2008 Writing an evaluation report of a rural development programme in Laos
2008 Elaboration of a gtz project proposal to the German Ministry of Environment in the field of renewable energy
2008 Capacity Development for Women Entrepreneurs (for ILO) in East Africa (10 days training course)
2008 Designing and carrying out a viability analysis of a South African rural municipality
2008 Carrying out a FAMOS check (organisational diagnosis and gender audit) in a Kenyan bank and recommendations regarding banking products and products
2007 Building of  a transparent administration system in a municipality in Eastern Cape, South Africa (as institutions building and gender specialist)
2007 Elaborating a Viability Study for a South African Municipality
2007 Researching the enterprise culture of Azeri Youth, Azerbaijan
2007 Elaboration of a gtz project proposals and public-private partnerships for the SADC basic energy project
2007 Evaluation a SADC programme for ensuring access to basic energy for poor households, social organisations and small businesses
2007 Review of the strategy of the Austrian Development Co-operation in Zimbabwe (energy provision, economic and rural development)
2007 Elaboration of an assessment tool and intervention guide for enterprise culture development and capacity building for ILO;
2007 Evaluation of a project for the promotion of trade and investment in the SADC region
2007 Assessment of the progress of six income generation and civil society development projects (“Projektfortschrittskontrolle”) in Zimbabwe
2006-2007 Taking stock of mutual guarantee associations of SME in Sub-Saharan Africa (in French)
2006 Thematic evaluation of 20 women entrepreneurship projects and programmes of ILO
2006 Evaluation of an association building project in Burkina Faso
2006 Preparation of a tender document for the development of a municipality in Limpopo, South Africa
2006 Preparation of financing proposal to EDF 9 for gtz
2006 Contribution to formulation of SME project proposal for Burkina Faso
2005 Design of a strategy to promote enterprise culture in Sri Lanka: six weeks research jointly with Sri Lankan anthropologist and recommendations for intervention to promote entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka
2005 Elaboration of the Programme for Private Sector Development in Burkina Faso (in French)
2005 Programme for Private Sector Development in Burkina Faso
2005 Guideline for Gender Mainstreaming of BDS projects for ILO
2005 Elaboration of the Regional Programme for Central America (in Spanish) for the Austrian Development Cooperation
2005 Developing jointly a UN programme for private sector/SME development in Tanzania (representing ILO as one of three consultants)
2005 Evaluation and reorganisation of guarantee fund in Serbia
2004 Evaluation of solar energy project in Zimbabwe
2004 Monitoring of SME promotion project in Bulgaria
2004 Due diligence of an Albanian bank for KfW
2004 Evaluation and reorganisation of guarantee fund in Serbia
2004 Gender Mainstreaming of BDS projects: Guideline for ILO
2004 Creation of a “service quality self-check” for BDS providers, financing institutions, government administration and association
2004 Due diligence of a Montenegrin bank for KfW
2004 Monitoring of credit line in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Federation and Rep. Sprska)
2003-2004 Gender Mainstreaming of the SME sector policy of the Tanzanian Ministry of Industry and Trade
2003 Suggestions for improvement for four rural microfinance projects in Africa
2003 Microfinance workshops in Burkina Faso (in French)
2003 Due diligence of three Albanian microfinance institutions for KfW
2003 Due diligence of a rural  microfinance institution in Burkina Faso
2003-2004 Elaboration of an Implementation Plan for the SME sector policy for the Tanzanian Ministry of Industry and Trade (SME department) for ILO
2003 Financial sector analysis for Romania for KfW
2003 Due diligence of a Bulgarian bank for KfW
2003 Financial sector analysis for Albania for KfW
2003 Evaluation of a economic and business linkage and networking project in Senegal for UNIDO (in French)
2002-2004 Information letters on new tools for poverty alleviation of enterprise development interventions for the Austrian Development Cooperation
2002 Small study on new methods of agricultural financing for Austrian Development Cooperation
2002 Due diligence of a bank in Serbia for KfW
2002 Training on Logical Framework analysis for EU-PHARE project employees
2002 Study on rural finance in Montenegro for Austrian Development Cooperation
2002 Economic and poverty analysis of South-Eastern Europe and strategy development for CARE International
2002 Strategy elaboration for economic development in South-Eastern Europe (for Cooperation with Eastern Europe in the Austrian Development Cooperation)
2002 Due diligence of one bank and one rural microfinance programme in Montenegro for KfW
2002 Financing environmentally safe production in Romania for World Wildlife Fund
2002 MSME-policy and programme for the Austrian Development Co-operation
2001 Preparing information on international trade and WTO-issues and Fair trade for the Austrian Development Cooperation
2001-2002 Acting as tender agency for a BDS project (milk sector) in Tanzania
2001 Microfinance workshops in Senegal and Burkina Faso
2000 SME Financing Gap – organising a Conference in Austria for the Donor Working Group on Financial Sector Development (financed by the Austrian Development Cooperation) (the consultant acted as the representative of the Austrian Development Cooperation on the Donor Working Group for SME and financial sector development for 9 years;
2000 Work plan for Chinese chambers of commerce of business women
2000 Financial sector study in Croatia for KfW
2000 Creation of a wood cluster – team member for business development (EU-project in Slovakia)

 

Publications/Lectures:

  • How does change happen in social systems? A Theory of Social Change based on systems thinking, published November 2017 – read here
  • Half-day Lecture and Discussion on ‘Mining and Care-Economy: How do African Women benefit from African Economic Growth’ at the 7th Austrian Development Day at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz with the title: “sozial-ökologische Transformationen jetzt! (social-ecological transformation now), November 2017
  • Integrating gender in systems analysis, course jointly developed and held with systems modelling expert Bao Le Quang on: ‘Integrated, gendered Systems Modelling Research Approach to Dryland Systems: From Concepts to Practices and Implementation’, 10 days for young researchers and PhD students, Cairo, September 2015
  • January 2016: How to measure impact of short-term interventions with participatory social research approaches?
  • A viable structure for the Alfred Nzo District Municipality, together with Hans Stoisser: published in 2009 by SWISSCONTACT and ECOTEC
  • A 15 minutes video of an In-house seminar of ICARDA/CGIAR on “Management and Organization Leading to Gender-Responsive Research for Development – a discussion” presented by Dr. Karin Reinprecht, Program Coordinator, CRP Dryland Systems: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6dej_dgKRUEN0daek13eG5vYms&usp=sharing
  • How to bring about Social Inclusion, November 18, 2014
  • Resource Kit for Promoting an Enabling Enterprise Culture, ILO Tool to be published in 2008 (presentation of Resource Kit at BDS conference in Thailand 2008)
  • FAMOS Check[1] – Gender Audit Tool: Guiding Questions and FAMOS Check Methods: or how to carry out a FAMOS Check, as an ILO organisation development tool for inclusion, 2004 (published in 2007) – http://www.ilo.org/empent/Publications/WCMS_116094/lang–en/index.htm
  • An enabling culture for economic and business development: Are policy interventions possible?, paper for the Donor Conference on Enabling Business Environment in Cairo, Dec. 2005
  • Taking into account culture in BDS interventions, Small Enterprise Journal, second quarter 2005
  • Developing rural service markets, taking into account cultural and social contexts and systems, paper and presentation for the international BDS seminar in Chiang Mai, Thailand, September 2004
  • Economic Development and Cultural Anthropology, Lecture (plus script) at the University of Vienna, 2004
  • Success Factors for Business Women, WIDE Austria, 2000
  • Non-verbal Communication in Zanzibar (Thesis), University of Vienna, 1987
  • Forecast Austria, Economic Intelligence Unit, London 1999
  • Instruments for the Development of Micro-, Small- and Medium Enterprises (Tools-Checklists for SME finance, microfinance, BDS, enabling environment development), Austrian Development Cooperation 2002
  • Perspectives and Experiences in the field of Marketing of Processed Agricultural Products from Nicaragua and Tanzania, ILO BDS Training, Turin 2002
  • Better access to finance for SME by linking the goals to interventions via benchmarking (published on www.alternativ-finance.org.uk), 2004
  • Manual for the Installation of Microfinance Programs, Austrian Development Cooperation, 1995
  • November 2017, WIDE: Half-day Lecture and Discussion on ‘Mining and Care-Economy: How do African Women benefit from African Economic Growth’ at the 7th Austrian Development Day at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz with the title: “sozial-ökologische Transformationen jetzt! (social-ecological transformation now)”; presentation: ‘Do women in Africa equally benefit from mining?‘

Countries, I worked in:

I worked in following countries, when they were in crisis: Croatia, Serbia, Republica Srpska, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Zimbabwe, the occupied Palestinian territory, Afghanistan, Bangladesh
ASIA: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, India, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Turkey, Vietnam
AFRICA: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, Morocco, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe
EASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia
LATIN AMERICA: Bolivia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua
MIDDLE EAST: Jordan, occupied Palestinian territory, Syria, Turkey

 

 

List of Projects before 2000

 

1993 to 1999

Finance

 Participating in the credit decision committee of a Rumanian finance programme
  Training of a credit officer/manager from Albania
  Closing of a small credit programme in Cape Verde
  Assessment and feasibility study for  the installation of a Credit programme for Bosnian SMEs
  Supervising preparation of manual for rural microcredit
  Re-structuring of a leasing programme in Rumania
  Installation and monitoring of a leasing programme in Bulgaria
  Monitoring of the installation of a leasing programme and business incubator in Bulgaria
  Monitoring (and partly mediation) of the micro-finance projects in Namibia
  Marketing of the Manual for the implementation of microfinance programmes
  Production of a Manual for the implementation of microfinance programmes (incl. building of computer models)
  Training on SME feasibility study and credit (UNIDO)
  Restructuring of a credit programme for small miners in Zimbabwe
  Organising and holding three Microcredit Workshops
  Preparing a feasibility study for a rural microcredit programme in Zimbabwe
  Training of credit officers in Romania
  Monitoring of the implementation of microfinance programs in Namibia and Zimbabwe
  Installing a microfinance and small credit programme in Namibia – LISKAMENA
  Training of Zimbabwean bankers in SME credit analysis
  Installing a reconstruction Fund in Pakrac, Croatia – Kraina
1994 to 1999

Small Business Development

 Private Sector Development Programme for Namibia for the Austrian Development Cooperation
Study about the development of networks of business women (in general)
Private Sector Development Programme for Nicaragua and organisation consulting for the representative office (in Spanish)
Elaboration of a private sector programme in Zimbabwe
Elaboration of the tourism policy in the Austrian Development Co-operation
Strategy development for an Austrian NGO
Strategy for SME-development in 5 Eastern European countries for the Austrian Federal Chancellery
Private Sector Development Programme for Burkina Faso for the Austrian Development Cooperation (in French)
Sector policy for the development of micro, small and medium businesses for the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Study on the marketing of SME-products and agro-business products in developing countries
Marketing of an Austrian tourism business
Private Sector Development Programme for Namibia the Austrian Development Cooperation
Private Sector Development Programme in Zimbabwe for the Austrian Development Cooperation
Project finding mission in Rumania and tender agency for this project for the Austrian Federal Chancellery
Analysis of Bosnian credit programs and banks, financial sector analysis and strategy development
Workshop for Private Sector Development for partners of the Austrian Development Cooperation
Supporting project development in Cape Verde (development coordination bureau of Austria)
Strategy consulting for the programming for the SME sector in Cape Verde, Mozambique, Nicaragua
Forecast of macroeconomics, business policy and politics in Austria for the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU, London)
  Evaluation of a leasing programme in Rumania
  Evaluation of credit guarantee programme in Cape Verde
1995 to 1999

Organisation Building

 Capacity building in the Romanian Agency for SME (parastatal) – training on Logical Framework and Financial Analysis
  Organising and holding of several BDS Workshops for the  Austrian Development Cooperation
  Evaluation of institutional development plan of an NGO in Austria
  Organising a market research on BDS in Senegal
  Acting as tender agency for 3 tenders (Rumania, Cape Verde)
  Acting as tender agency for 3 tenders in Bulgaria
  Project development for the training of MSME in the NE- region in Bulgaria (Logical Framework)

 

 

 

Offer

  By

Strategy development, especially for

  • Business and enterprises
  • Private sector development
  • Financial sector development
  • Gender & Youth & Diversity
  • Development projects and programmes

Systemic organisation building, to

  • Ensure viability and success
  • Flexibly deal with complex environments
  • Adapt to changes in framework conditions – participatory narrative systems analysis to identify trade-offs, synergies and feedback loops

Socio-cultural analysis and planning of interventions, to promote

  • Inclusive systems (organisations, society)
  • Sustainable, lasting interventions for (economic) development and viability
  • Art and development

Change consulting, during

  • Systemic organisation building
  • Management training
  • Qualitative systems analysis to identify trade-offs, synergies and potential feedback-loops, and best entry points for development interventions

Gender & Youth, to

  • Promote women and youth in business and agriculture
  • Prepare inclusive interventions and promote equity (gender analysis, gender baseline, gender mainstreaming, gender-responsive systems assessment)
  • Promote equality in organisations and projects (gender audit, self-developed gender audit tool)

Evaluation, to

  • Develop lessons learnt to be used in organisation building, change and learning within organisations
  • Build efficient management information and monitoring systems as a basis for decision making

Workshop moderation for all topics, to

  • Discover and clarify issues
  • Structure them and plan actions

Due diligences of financial institutions and financial sector studies, to

  • Inform investments and lending esp. to SME, agro-business and agriculture
  • Prepare technical support interventions
  • Support capacity development of financial institutions

Education & Professional Experience

  By

Dr. Karin Reinprecht started as free-lance consultant for development co-operation in 1993, and founded her own consulting company in 1997; art consulting and art projects since 2008.

 

Professional Experience of Karin Reinprecht, Degrees/Diplomas:

January 2021 – ongoing

Karin Reinprecht Art & Culture Consulting, Austria
Art project management and art & culture strategy consulting and art production

May 2018 – December 2020

Director of IMRI (Integrated Mineral Resources Initiative) of GIZ  to implement with a team of 20+ EUR 6.1 mio for job creation in Mongolia (a third of project means acquired, project goals overfulfilled)

September 1993 – 2018

Karin Reinprecht Consulting, Austria
Manager-Owner of licensed management & development consulting company

January 2015 – June 2016

Framework Contract with CRP Dryland Systems (CGIAR) to lead a team of eight researchers working on gender and youth in agricultural livelihood systems in drylands

2009 – 2011

Training as Management Trainer for the Malik Management Zentrum St. Gallen, Switzerland
Certified Management Trainer (results and systems based management)

2009 – 2011

“Right on the Rim”, an Art Project Room in Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa
Owner and Manager

September 2007/March 2008

GTZ e-VAL training (systems model for impact evaluation)
Certified e-VAL evaluator

May – October 2006

University of Johannesburg Quantitative Analysis of Social Data (SPSS, NUDIST)
Successful completion of the course (100% on SPSS)

July 2000

London School of Economics Intensive Course (3 weeks) on Development Economics
Certificate on the successful completion of the course

July 1995 – December 1995

Austrian Chamber: Academy of Management Consultants

Certificate on the successful completion of the course

March 1991 – July 1993

Management Consultant at Arthur D. Little

May 1990 – June 1991

Chase Manhattan Bank London Training as Financial Analyst
Certificate on the successful completion of the course
After the 9 months’ course, employed as financial analyst specialising on banks

June 1989 – January 1990

University of Amman Arabic (3rd level of four)
Certificate on the successful completion of the course

October 1987 – June 1989

Vienna Diplomatic Academy

International Studies (Specialisation: Political Economics)
Diploma equivalent to MA in International Studies

October 1981 – May 1987

University of Vienna

African Studies, Anthropology, Arabic

 Dr. phil.
Work as researcher (production of Swahili training material)

 

Language skills

(1-5): (Mark 1 (excellent) to 5 (basic) for competence)
Language // Reading // Speaking // Writing
German (mother tongue)

English       //        1         //         1        //         1
French       //        1         //         1        //         1
Spanish     //        2         //         2        //         2
Swahili      //        3         //         3        //         3
Arabic       //        3         //         3        //         3
Portuguese & Romanian   //        3         //        4        //         5

Contractors:

African Development Bank
Austrian Development Co-operation (OeZA)
Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
Austrian Development Bank (OeEB)
Austrian Federal Chancellery
CARE
The Economist – EIU
EU Phare
GfA
GTZ, GIZ
ILO
International NGOs
KfW
UNCT Palestine
UNDP
UNIDO
UNIFEM, UN Women
World Bank

Countries of professional experience (in red, when in crisis at the time of the consulting):

ASIA: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, India, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam
AFRICA: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Morocco, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe
EASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia (in the rest of Europe: Czechia, Germany, Great Britain)
LATIN AMERICA: Bolivia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua
MIDDLE EAST: Jordan, occupied Palestinian territory, Syria, Turkey

Right on the Rim

  By

April 2009 – February 2011

Projects in Right on the Rim

Art and Theory Magazine on ‘Right on the Rim’

Aufrica

  • the 2nd Viennese School concert with the outstanding South African musicians Jill Richards, Waldo Alexander and Renette Bouwer performing and Dr. Christan Meyer, director of the Schoenberg Centre, Vienna, giving the introduction.
  • Lukas Ligeti performing new compositions and improvising with Mpho Molikeng, Lesotho,and Carlo Mombelli, South Africa;

Legends of Culture

  • Ancient stories from Japan, the Rhine, the Arabian desert and Africa told by Cindy Sampson, the writer and actress, and Prophet JD, the poet and poetry performer, under the trees of Arts on Main
  • Steve Kwena Mokwena: “A SoundLegacy” expressive paintings of jazz legends
  • Ryan Areson:“A Diary” or “Untitled”, silkscreen prints (Jill Ross) 2009 (and artist talks)
  • Red White (Australia)/Cynthia Schwertsik (Austria): “Imitating the Monumental”, a wind-blown installative sculpture in Baltchik, Bulgaria,2009
  • Monday Blues in the Atrium of Arts on Main, musicians, poets and an art poster competition
  • report your legends to the salon writers Cindy Sampson and Prophet JD in Right on the Rim

Love – Compassion

  • art by Mandy Conidaris (water colours), Graeme Williams (photos), Bev Price (jewellery)
  • Jann Turner reading from her books “Heartland” and “Southern Cross” and discussion on writing about love.
  • “White Wash” by Cynthia Schwertsik

Hate – War

  • art by Colleen Albourough, John Muafangejo (Namibia), James de Villiers, Portia Zvavahera (Zimbabwe), Chenjerai Mutasa (Zimbabwe)
  • Talk and Discussion: John Stewart, a Zimbabwean political activist and theorist speaks about what we can learn from history to solve current problems with violent governments
  • Movie: THE LARK FARM, 2007 – a gripping movie about the Armenian genocide in 1915, which is still denied by Turkey (2 hrs) – please register under rightonrim@yahoo.de, courtesy the Italian Cultural Institute
  • Movie: A LONG DARK NIGHT (3 hours in two parts), courtesy the Croatian Embassy, the tale of a young Croatian man through 2nd World War and the beginnings of Communism

Creative Relationships

  • Frieder DANIELIS (water colours), Susan SALM (music), PROPHET JD (poetry), Walter STACH (photo collage), Marcus NEUSTETTER and 15 South African artists (drawings)

Lives

  • Drawings by Sharlene Khan
  • Movie: KLIMT
  • Opening and Italian movie: THE VICEROYS
  • Music on the Move – Polyrhythms & Polysounds (Christos Daskalaskos, Peter Kuthan, Anna Kuthan, Marcus Neustetter, Steven Hobbs
  • Prophet JD, port from Soweto,produces poems inspired by Walter Stach’s photo collage ‘Johannesburg in my moments’

Beautiful

  • Photo work by Michael Rathmayer and Kasali (both Austria)
  • Beautiful Talk: The artist Colleen Alborough and the director of the Market Photo Workshop John Fleetwood introduce a discussion on ‘Beautiful and Art’ in South Africa today.
  • Architecture Talk:
  • Eva Egermann and Christina Linortner speak about the ‘Schuettehausproject’, discussing the life and work of the first Austrian female archtect Schuette-Lihotzky.
  • EKSTASE, movie (1934)with Heddy Lamarr, called the most beautiful woman of her times

Three artistic languages

  • Artistic work by Shneider (South Africa – Germany), Walter Stach (Austria) and Frieder Danielis (Germany, Austria, Italy)
  • Digital Metamorphoses by Walter Stach
  • Football paintings by Walter Stach and Marcus Neustetter (dialogue paintings)
  • Paintings and philosophical texts by Frieder Danielis
  • Books on “tales from the rim” available

Pre-project

  • ‘Living and Dying in Africa’ by Claudia Shneider (installative sculpture)
  • artist talk

 

 

CAN/FUSION – Bangladesh 2014 – 2016

  • October 2016: Can/Fusion in Bangladesh

The plan was: Lukas Ligeti creating new music in cooperation with Bangla musical masters (a cooperation with Bengal Foundation, Goethe Institut in Dhaka, and the Austian Cultural Forum in Delhi): Lukas proposed to create a ‘field of sound’ (“ein Klangland”) in collaboration with 2-3 local musical masters in Dhaka.

And then: Many people were massacred in Holi Bakery, because they were foreigners and Bangladeshi liking foreign bread and food. (Claudia d’Antona our thoughts will always be with you and your suffering!) Life shifted in Dhaka: we can no longer do things as before. Lukas Ligeti could not carry out his musical cooperation. Music and musical cooperation went underground – is now done in private homes. Thank you to the pianist Cornelia Herrmann and the singer Christoph Genz, who do just that.

October 2016

Inspired by Can/Fusion, the composer and musician Lukas LIGETI plans a collaboration with composers and musicians from Bangladesh. The result will be a “Klangland” (‘sound field’), an innovative work at the intersection of sound installation and concert music. Participating musicians, open to and interested in new and different approaches and musical results, will  be an inspiration for themselves and their audience. The cooperation across different musical structures and theory will promote mutual learning.

Time: 15th – 25th October 2016

Location: Bengal Foundation concert hall and Goetheinstitut in Dhanmondi, Dhaka

Supported by: Bengal Foundation, Goetheinstitut, Austrian Cultural Forum in Delhi

Initiated by: Can/Fusion virtual projects

August 2016

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Nach dem Vortrag durch Hans Stoisser trug Suzanne Barfuß ein Gedicht, sehr passend zum Thema, vor: FLÜGELHERZ 2.2.2015 Suzanne Barfuss, www.suzanne-barfuss.com

October 2015

Julian May, poet and BBC Radio 4 writer/presenter,   describes mundane things (mushroom collecting in alpine Murau – “Eierschwammerlsuchen am Lärchberg”) in the most poetic terms.

 BBC – From our correspondent: A Feast of Fungi

March 2015

Before we can fuse / integrate external influences or the new into our lives, it confuses us. The new confuses us because it maybe contradicts our truths and worldviews, or because it adds unexpected aspects to our worldviews.

How to communicate with (contemporary) art?

To promote the understanding and appreciation of contemporary art, the Bengal Art Lounge in cooperation with the virtual art space Can/Fusion invited artists, art lecturers and students to participate in an Interactive Training’s Workshop on Art Mediation with the experienced Austrian art mediator and artist Walter Stach, providing the basic skills of art mediation and discussion, which goes beyond art lecture.

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Time: 13th – 14th March 2015

Location: Bengal Art Gallery in Dhanmondi, Dhaka

Results:

  • One train the trainers workshop in Dhanmondi branch of the Bengal Art Foundation on March 13 and 14, 2015;
  • Bengal Art Foundation is planning to implement regular sessions of art mediation with classes and the public at the gallery in Gulshan 1 and in Dhanmondi;
  • Walter Stach established contacts with Bangladeshi artists for an international art project he currently organises in the context of the next Olympics. Artists from five continents will be invited for contributions – more artists still needed to be involved from the Asian continent.
  • Private meetings and discussions on Bengladeshi contemporary art with art collectors were held;

Funded by the Austrian Cultural Forum New Delhi

Confusion comes naturally before the fusion.

Today, we are exposed to more external influences and quicker changes in our everyday lives than humans had ever been before. This is the contemporary state of humankind. The reaction to these imposed influences and changes is often reactionary or even violent to keep the status quo or to realise an ideal traditional society. But, this will not work, never works as everything flows (“panta rhei”).

Art helps us to overcome the state of confusion and reach fusion or integration. Fusing the new or external influences into our lives might simply be, to say, “I know it’s there, but it is not for me, not my opinion, not part of my life …”, or to embrace it and enhance our being with it.

The interventions of the Can/Fusion art project aim to explore from the point of view of art (film, music, literature, visual art) how we can integrate living locally with global ideas coming towards us constantly, challenging our habits and the traditional ways of doing things. These challenges and the resulting confusion might be the main feature of our ‘contemporary being’.

The background beat of fusion and confusion is pivotal to the interventions of Can/Fusion in Dhaka. (by: Dr. Karin Reinprecht, 00880-09918799, Gulshan 1, Rd. 129, Hs. 24).