‘Signal vom Dachstein’ is a community art project in the Dachstein region running over several years, in which many artistic threads are woven together. In 2021 the project was launched at the summer solstice: we designed a landscape opera together with the La Strada Graz Festival. The overtures of which already began in the valley around the Dachstein. With this prelude, space was created for communal reflection on the future of the climate-sensitive Alpine region.
Five local artists – Marie-Theres Härtel, Christoph Huber, Katharina Pfennich, Christoph Szalay and Stefanie Weberhofer – have worked intensively on the further development of their work in the context of climate change through to the exhibition today in 2024. They are supported by several mentors – Toni Burger, Barbara Frischmuth, Peter Gruber, Bodo Hell and Ernst Huber – who are all experienced artists and have close ties to the region. We collaborate with them in the exhibition and series of events in the region this year.
About the landscape opera ‘Signal am Dachstein’: today nature has become fragile, the glaciers are disappearing. With our landscape opera, we asked for fawareness on site because of the consequences of climate change.
For the La Strada Festival we composed a special Signal landscape Opera, suited for a very special place. The Dachstein Glacier in Austria is one of the highest points in the Northern Alps, but also one of the places that constantly reminds us of the horrifying fact that it will be gone in approximately 30 years from now. Our works always try to connect the landscape, the music and the audience and we sincerely hope to raise more attention for the awful climatic disaster that is currently taking place on Dachstein.
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