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Europavox Vienne : merci !
L’étape autrichienne 2023 de la série de festivals Europavox s’est déroulée les 17 et 18 novembre au WUK… Et le moins que l’on puisse dire, c’est que c’était un succès : salle comble pour l’ensemble du festival !
Pour la sixième édition déjà, la crème de la crème de la création musicale européenne s’est partagée la scène viennoise. Au programme : du rock autrichien, allemand, français et anglais avec Lucy Kruger & the Lost Boys, MNNQNS, Bipolar Feminin et shame. Les Belges Ada Oda et leurs morceaux en italien étaient aussi de la partie, tout comme les excellents KOIKOI, tout droit venus de Serbie. Histoire d’adoucir toute cette énergie rock, The Haunted Youth (Belgique) et Pom Poko (Norvège) nous ont offert un peu de pop. Un mix électrique !
Un grand merci au public, aux artistes et aux équipes, et à l’année prochaine Vienne !
SHAME (UK) • LUCY KRUGER & THE LOST BOYS (DE) • POM POKO (NO) • MNNQNS (FR) • BIPOLAR FEMININ (AT) • THE HAUNTED YOUTH (BE) • KOIKOI (RS) • ADA ODA (BE)
2022 edition
MATTHÄUS BÄR (AT – Europavox Kids) • THEODORE (GR) • MISCHA BLANOS (ROM) • DOPPELFINGER (AT) • EMILIE ZOE (CH) • SHISHI (LT) • FREEKIND. (AT) • ALESSANDRO BARIS (AT)
The philosophy behind the practice
WUK is an acronym and stands for “Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus”, roughly meaning “House for Workshops and Culture”. The building islaid out on 12,000 square metres and includes a stage, a concert hall, an exhibition hall and photo gallery, workshops and studios, work spaces for socio-political groups, a place for education and counselling, a senior citizens’ centre and school, rehearsal studios for music and dance, an intercultural centre, work stations and a party space.
The WUK is a place for study, for trying and doing things, for participation and sharing. The WUK creates leeway for creativity. It is a laboratory and a place of practice in one.
Measured in terms of square metres and versatility, the WUK is one of the largest socio-cultural centres in Europe. More than 200,000 people visit and make use of the WUK every year.
- The WUK is an open cultural space, a space for lived interaction between art, politics and social issues. An expanded cultural concept becomes manifest, which transcends the everyday meaning of the word culture.
- As a socio-cultural centre it focuseson advancing processes of emancipation, independence and help to self-help, cultural work in the community, self-management, self-organisation and autonomy.
- As a centre of art and culture, the main emphasis is on the promotion of the production and presentation of innovative, experimental, interdisciplinary, critical art and culture on a local, regional and international level.
The WUK gets itself organised: Three pillars
WUK’s organisational structure comprises of three pillars: Cultural Productions, WUK Education and Counselling as well as the WUK Socio-Cultural Centre. The Association for the Creation of Open Culture and Workshop Houses constitutes the legal umbrella organisation for these three pillars. About 650 members elect an executive board of six every two years.
WUK CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS
The audience for art.
THE WUK SOCIO-CULTURAL CENTRE
Autonomous and grassroots democratic.
THE WUK SOCIO-CULTURAL CENTRE
Autonomous and grassroots democratic.
The Association
The WUK legal entity is the “Verein zur Schaffung offener Kultur- und Werkstättenhäuser” (Association for the Creation of Open Culture and Workshop Houses). A six-member board heads the association and decides the strategic direction of WUK. At the annual general assembly of the members fundamental decisions are made, and every two years a new board is elected.
All of the current 650 WUK members have voting rights.
