NETWORK
COLLABORATIONS
writing, curating
MICS (music in the countryside) was selected for funding by MUSICAIRE. MICS upholds the value of music in rural peripheries in the Alps-Adriatic region in a 3-way partnership between Klanghaus Untergreith, Mani doo and Zveza Mink Tolmin.
SLOW LIGHT - SEEKING DARKNESS
a trans-disciplinary engagement with the need for darkness in Carinthia and the Alps-Adriatic region. A Klanghaus Untergreith initiative by Karin Schorm & Zahra Mani together with Radio Agora, Stazione di Topolò, Sajeta Festival, Mani doo with the kind support of the Kärtner Kulturstiftung and the BMKOES.
2019-2021 RESCUE with Commune di Santo Stefano di Magra (lead partner) IT, Gli Scarti IT, X-Op SI, ibug DE, Klanghaus AT
Music production (recording, editing and mixing).
Curating cultural network projects for public space, European outreach, inter-disciplinary short and long term projects.
Cultural policy and advocacy - representative of the Austrian Composers' Association at ECSA and on the ECSA ECF committee. Vice-president of ECSA and vice-chair of the ECF committee.
Member of the ARGE kulturelle Vielfalt Österreich.
8th May 2020 participation in a Europe Day panel discussion hosted by the foreign and European office of the State of Styria on questions of "State, Borders, Culture and Freedom" chaired by David Röthler, and together with Heidrun Primas, Volha Hapeyeva and Reinhard Rack.
2016-18 "Echoes from invisible landscapes", a smaller scale cooperation project co-funded by the EACEA Creative Europe Programme, with co-ordinator Enterprise Z (Austria) and partners Zveza Mink Tolmin (Slovenia), the University of Klagenfurt and Wieser Verlag Klagenfurt/Celovec (Austria).
2010-12 Co-curator of the EU network project (Culture 2007 - 2014) Phonart - The Lost Languages of Europe www.phonart.eu
Co-editor of the limited edition art book "Phonart - The Lost Languages of Europe" ed. Zahra Mani & Karin Schorm, published by Wieser Verlag www.wieser-verlag.com
Academic translation & proofreading, literary translations of the work of Dragica Rajcic, Lojze Wieser.
Cyber dinners - intermedial, culinary performance events. Recent cyber dinners have been realized in Belgrade (RingRing at Supermarket) and in Maribor (at Narodni Dom theatre) with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum.
Food & wine, cooking, catering.