josef gaffl linz austria

JOSEF GAFFL | linz | austria
social & intercultural commitment since 2001

2001-2005: echt.zeit.festival | real.time.festival | 21st century music and literature | Königswiesen | Austria. Contemporary art in non-urban ambiences. Conception, organisation, realisation.

2003: Co-founder of the art and culture NGO backlab collective. Executive board member since 2004

2003-2005: Coordinator of the core team of the Agenda 21 | Region Mühlviertler Alm | Austria

2003-2008: Intercultural project Kingdom of Illusions | Kraljevstvo Iluzija. Conception, organisation, realisation. Since the project start in the Austrian Culture Forum in Belgrade in Oct. 2003, more than 200 artists and supporters contributed in more than 80 culture events in Serbia, Austria and Belarus.

2003-2009: Intercultural radio show Hotel Balkan. Music and culture news from Southeast- and Eastern Europe. Broadcasted weekly on Radio FRO and Radio FRF. Program and moderation of more than 160 radio shows.

October 2004: Concept, organisation, moderation of intercultural workshops in Novi Sad und Belgrade (Creating Common Values)

May 2005: Free EU travelling visa for the youth living on the territory of former Yugoslavia | performance at Kalemegdan, Festival Refract 2005, Belgrade

2004-2006: Organisation of clothing donations collected in Austria for flood victims in the Tisa-Region (Province of Vojvodina, Serbia) in cooperation with the Social Center Zrenjanin and Serbian civil society activists - PDF | Serbian -

December 2005: Kingdom of Illusions is awarded by the City Linz for intercultural committment. - PDF | german -

2003-2007: Organisation of 40 Kingdom of Illusions multimedia nights in Linz (Austria) presenting artists from Austria, Serbia, Hungary and Poland. The urban art project integrated live electronic music performances, experimental visual arts, deejaying, live broadcasting and audio streaming.

March 2006: Organisation of public solidarity manifestations in Linz, claiming human rights and fundamental freedom in Belarus. Appeals were adressed directly to the Austrian member of the European Commission, Mrs. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, and to Mrs. Ursula Plassnik, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria.

2006-2009: Executive board member of the NGO Radio FRO

September 2006: Charity concert tour Talento y Corazón (Mexico) in support of the Mexican Food Bank. Performances in Mexico City D.F., Valle da Chalco, Santa Fé de Laguna and Guadalajara.

November 2006: Organisation of concerts for Branka Parlic (Serbia) in Linz, Austria

March 2007: Multimedia installation Welcome to Belarus at Backlab Festspiele in Linz. Conception, photo and audio-artwork.

May 2007: Multimedia exhibition Freedom of Media | Free Media at LinzFest 2007 in cooperation with artists from Belarus, Radio FRO, culture server servus.at, Stadtwerkstatt Linz, City Linz. Conception, organisation, artwork.

2007-2008: Gender equality project Gender Clubbing. Conception and realisation.

December 2007: Hans-Nerth-Award for experimental radio art

2007-2009: Cooperation with the NGO Ketani | Associaton of Roma and Sinti | Linz. Photo & audio documentation

September 2008: OSCE STO in Belarus (parliamentary elections)

2007-2009: Extense photo and audio researches in Serbia, Belarus and Poland. Interviews with repressed artists, journalists and civil society activists in Belarus.

Video production | BEL AIR | art in resistance

JOSEF GAFFL | linz | austria
audio/visual works and exhibitions since 2003

political radio art
2007: another performance | lady in red
2008: zaenka is alive | we miss you
2009: silent sell out of European values

HOTEL BALKAN
intercultural radio show | hosted by Josef Gaffl

Broadcasted every friday from 9 - 10 p.m on Radio FRO Linz and Radio FRF Freistadt in Austria. Since 2004, HOTEL BALKAN cooperates with the Radio Network CrossRadio und Radio B92 Belgrade. In 2005, HOTEL BALKAN was elected by audience internet polls being the most popular intercultural radio show at Radio FRO. In year 2008, more than 10.000 hours were downloaded from the Hotel Balkan site.

HOTEL BALKAN GRAMOFON ORKESTAR
Public HOTEL BALKAN music shows were recently performed at Stadtwerkstatt Linz (A), temp~festival 2004 Greifenstein (A), Festival der Regionen 2005 in Aigen/Schlägl (A), Int. Festival "Der neue Heimatfilm" 2005 + 2006 + 2007 in Freistadt (A), Café Strom in Linz 2005 + 2006 (A), Posthof Linz 2006 (A), Lokal Bühne Freistadt (A) 2008, Kulturni Front Zrenjanin (Serbia) 2006, WUK Vienna (A) 2007, Kepler University Linz (A) 2008 | HOTEL BALKAN GRAMOFON ORKESTAR | download section

Evelyna | Minsk

JOSEF GAFFL | linz | austria
a short and subjective biography

Born 1966 in Königswiesen, Austria; living in Linz, Austria, since 2006.

Independent culture worker and (multi)media activist in the fields of contemporary music, audiovisual arts, photography and graphic design; free media promoter & producer, deejay, radio producer; winner of the Hans-Nerth-Award 2007; researcher and exhibition creator in the tradition of Harald Szeemann; creator of rizomatic networks like Kingdom of Illusions, author of equality projects like Gender Clubbing, active in the art and culture NGO backlab collective, the media NGO radio FRO, supporter of Kulturni Front Beograd, Novi Optimizam in Zrenjanin, EUpulse; interested in theater, literature, history and - above all - the people behind all.

My work is (amongst others) inspired by
Harald Szeemann | Robert Jungk | Milo Dor

Most adored journalists
Anna Stepanowja Politkowskaja | Ernest Hauer

Most adored contemporary artists
Marina Abramovic | Valie Export | Gerwald Rockenschaub

Minsk|2008

ever tried. ever failed. no matter.
samuel beckett
try again. fail again. sleep better.
josef gaffl