High Time!
23. June - 02. July 2023
Oberösterreich, along the Summerauerbahn railway
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The 16th edition of the Festival of the Regions took place from June 23 to July 2, 2023, in the region along the Summerauerbahn railway.

Under the motto “Höchste Eisenbahn” (High Time), current future issues were the focus of artistic exploration – from climate catastrophe to societal coexistence. The geographic and thematic starting point of the Festival of the Regions was the Summerauerbahn railway line, which winds its way from Linz through the Mühlviertel region to Horní Dvořiště in the Czech Republic.

The Journey as a Metaphor
The railway line, symbolizing a region, served as a metaphor in the 2023 festival edition for a series of challenges. From public and individual transportation to dealing with resources and the boundaries in people’s minds. A metaphor for traversing, shaping, and molding landscapes and societies. For overcoming distances. For places of encounter and dialogue between regions, cultures, and generations. For breaking away and leaving behind. Staying and moving on. For transitions. For deceleration. For stopping and continuing. For something that belongs to everyone. And concerns everyone. For a shared resource.

The train has not left yet
But it is high time to reset the tracks. And it is high time that something changes. That we talk more with each other. Come together again. Work on the future. Break down barriers. Become more open to differences and contradictions and unconventional approaches. It is high time to allow something different and look at our world from multiple perspectives.

Artists & participants 2023 Aktionsgruppe Fraustadt Freistadt: Elvira Fleischanderl, Hedi Hofstadler, Christine Lasinger, Heidemarie Pöschko, Julia Schober, Barbara Tröls & Conny Wernitznig, anGie seah, Nika Autor, Zhanna Kadyrova, Peter Fritzenwallner & Wolfgang Obermair, Anatoly Belov, Tom Bogaert, Marek Borsányi, S()fia Braga, CRYSTN HUNT AKRON, François Davin & Andi Wahl, Gerhard Dirmoser & Gerald Priewasser-Höller, diverCITYLAB: Elif Duygu, Uwe Felchle, Aslı Kışlal & Anna Schober u.A., DORFTV: Bibi Finster, Anna Friedinger & Georg Ritter u.A., Sarah Katharina Eder & David Kapl, Markus Hiesleitner & Klara Paterok, Sophia Hochedlinger, Leah Hochedlinger & Gerald Harringer, Dagmar Höss, KLANGfolger & Team, Peter Kozek, Vanessa Mazanik & Florian Ronc, Stefan Kreiner, Juliane Kreiner & Johann Moser, Olivia Kudlich & Bastian Lehner, Martin Lasinger, LAP: Dafne Maes, Danaé Bosman, Linde Carrijn, Magali Casters, Lara Deruyter & Elise Goedgezelschap, Kateryna Lysovenko, Pia Mayrwöger, Susanna Melem & Severin Standhartinger, Shahrzad Nazarpour & Dschungel Wien, Landgänge*n:eam, NGGB: Gudrun Rath, Nils Olger & Renée Winter, Node9: Nikola Brabcová & Karin Šrubařová, Michael Klodner, Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya & Aloïs Yang, Sara Piñeros, Alja Piry, Regina Picker & Lucie Kaiserová, Ursula Maria Probst, Sráč Sam presented by Denisa Bytelová, Solarmanufaktur/Expanded Garden Steyregg (Irene Lucas & Christoph Euler), Katerina Holà (Klimagerechtigkeitsbewegung Limity Jsme My/We are the Limits), Artists for Future, Huda Takriti, Cristina Ochoa, Imran Khan, Janani Cooray, Oliver Ressler, Anna Mutschlechner-Dean, Where Dogs Run (Natalia Grekhova, Alexey Korzukhin, Olga Inozemtseva), Transcultural Emancipation, Mika Satomi, Isa Schieche, Lisa Klosterkötter, Oskar Mayböck, Helen Weber & Milou van Duijnhoven, Wolfgang Schmutz, Sladovna Písek: Adam Langer, Klára Mathieu & Tomáš Žižka, Wolfgang Steininger, Clemens Stöttinger, Rayyane Tabet, Tangible Music Lab Ksenia Bakhtina, Aldin Đapo, Thomas Geissl, Gundega Graudina, Fatima el Kosht, Michael Kramer, Daniel Stimmeder, Ozan Tezvaran & Omid Zolfaghari, Antoine Turillon & Seth Weiner und Brishty Alam, Abdul Sharif Oluwafemi Baruwa, Flo Karl Berger, Marc Alexandre Dumoulin, Baptiste El Baz, Julia S. Goodman, Edgar Lessig, Morusiewicz / Maggessi, Stephanie Misa, Johanna Tinzl, Rosabel Rosalind & Anna Weberberger, Felix f!no Vierlinger, Mement Acuma, Fabian Holzinger & Angelika Katzinger