FESTIVAL DER VORGÄRTEN

Performances in Public Space

2025

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The Festival der Vorgärten transforms private front yards into stages for encounters and creative exchange. Residents and artists collaborate to create temporary artworks and performances that connect art with everyday lived culture.

In the interplay between professional art and folk culture, space emerges for spontaneous dialogue and unexpected perspectives. This unique form of collaboration is made possible by homeowners opening up their gardens and the audience turning neighborhood streets into vibrant grandstands.

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In Arbon a garden version of fragile was shown. This time, not only the artist's body was wrapped in bubblewrap. Carefully chosen plants in a beautiful garden created a surrealistic landscape, in which the bubblewrap creature moved around. Additionally to the packaged human and plant bodies, each audience member recieved a little package. It contained a written note with a personalized instruction. Either to interact with the bubblewrap, oneself or other audience members. 

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EXPOSURE

Arbon, 10. & 11.05.2025

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CREDITS​

Concept and Performance: Lyn Bentschik 

Trailer: Sonja Berta​

Festival Organization and Execution: Anna von Siebenthal & San Keller​​​