PUBLIC VOTE 2021 IS OPEN!

MAKE WALLS TALK!

  TRUE CRIME

PUBLIC VOTING FOR
GENIUS LOCI WEIMAR HAS STARTED!

   

This year‘s Public Voting is open! Until 27th of June 2021, all interested people can vote for their favourites from the competition submissions for this year's locations Bastille and Altenburg, whereby the public voting counts as a jury vote. The winning entry will be chosen for each façade, which the artists will premiere at the festival in September 2021. Everyone can take part in the voting at https://www.genius-loci-weimar.org/public-vote_en.html.

The annual theme

The history of Weimar is far broader than its “golden” and “silver” eras. Many a culture war has been fought within the city walls and countless tragic figures have passed through its dwellings and dungeons: In its 10th competition edition, Genius Loci dedicates itself to this dark side of Weimar and will begin the tour at the Bastille Ensemble, a veritable institution of princely power in Weimar. It is also where the young maid and child murderer Johanna Catharina Höhn was most likely incarcerated until her execution by beheading. The tour continues on the south facade of the Baroque Weimar City Castle and onward to the Marstall, the Former ducal stables with its former Gestapo cellars. Then it’s up to the Goethe- and Schiller Archive and finally to the Altenburg, where Franz Liszt hid the young Richard Wagner, who was wanted as a revolutionary, terrorist and subversive after the failed May uprising in Saxony in 1849.

The festival

Genius Loci Weimar is an annual festival for site-specific audiovisual art, especially façade, space and object projections. The festival combines the historical spirit of Weimar and the innovative technique of video mapping, a projection technique that incorporates the object into the image design, giving objects multi-layered dimensions and audiovisual narratives.

Through the international competition, the Genius Loci Weimar Festival offers an inventory of current video mapping productions worldwide and the festival attracts culturally interested audiences from the fields of architecture, media art, design, performing arts and fine arts to Weimar. With 50.000 visitors and more, the festival is one of the highlights of the Weimar Summer.

Genius Loci Weimar takes place in cooperation with the festival organisation MXPerience gUG. The festival is also supported by the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society, the State Chancellery of Thuringia, the City of Weimar, the Sparkasse Central Thuringia, the Weimarer Wohnstätte GmbH, the Best Western Premier Grand Hotel Russischer Hof, Epson, Logando and rebeam.