Abrazar, tetralogía (Aprender, Conocer, Comprender, Saber), XIII Soho in Ottakring Festival, Viena 2014.
Emilio Santisteban
Interdisciplinary performance artist
With the participation of: Carolina Estrada , Kenyi Quispe , Ros Postigo , Luisfernan Vargas , Fiorella Garrido-Lecca , Manuela Talledo , Julio Martín Pinto , Stefania Polo , Ysavo Morales , Karla Peralta , Helga Elsner , Esra Özmen , Greta Gregor , Robert Hobl , Ingrid Gugganig , Sonja Kothe and Martín Ponce.
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I am interested in "Learning" because you will be teaching performance and I need that :) (...) I am also interested in "Understanding" because I was born here, I live here, but I am a foreigner in my country (...). Here nobody wants to get moving and take the first step, everyone is afraid of cold water (...). We young people remain on the ice floe of our parents, we speak two languages and yet we are also in Ice Floe Vienna (...). This is often stressful and often leads to misunderstandings, tension, anxiety, aggression and anger (...). So..: ) I am happy to be in contact with Lima :)".
Esra Özmen, rap singer.
Sandleitenhof, Vienna, February 22, 2014.
The 13th edition of the SOHO in Ottakring Festival took place in the Sandleiten neighborhood of the 16th district of Vienna, Austria, in May 2014. For this event, Emilio Santisteban initiated "Abrazo" (Embrace), a tetralogy of relational art that connects creative participants from the multi-ethnic Sandleitenhof with creative participants from various districts of the multicultural city of Lima.
The project concludes in Vienna, with public space interventions, a collective book production, a correspondence exhibition, craft exchange workshops, urban interventions, and public space performances taking place between May 17 and 31.
The link to this publication provides details about the festival, the context of the intervention, and the four works that comprise the tetralogy; the link to this post contains the complete list of creative participants who have volunteered from Lima. Due to the nature of the project, not all participations from Lima will be activated, as each person in the Sandleitenhof community decides whether to participate and, if so, with which people in Lima they interact. Pre-production: Final phase of project curation and programming, calls for entries, and registration, December 2013 - February 2014. Production: Mail art, public space intervention, installation, performance, February - May 2014. Curators: Hansel Sato, Ula Schneider.
