For Christoph Gurk, St. Pölten is divided into two very different halves by the western railway dam. He even speaks of a “demarcation line”. The Westautobahn, on the other hand, only touches Lower Austria’s provincial capital – in the south. As a result, there is no stop on the way from Vienna to Salzburg.
That is set to change under the direction of Christoph Gurk: the state and the city are organizing a “Festival for Contemporary Culture” from April 30 to October 6, 2024 – entitled “Tangente”. A tangent touches a curve at a single point; a diagonal, on the other hand (like the film show that opens in Graz today) connects the corners of a polygon.
The unique festival is the substitute project for the cultural capital, which one didn’t become following all. Because the work that was done in the course of the application was – according to the state governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP) – “too good to let it mold in the drawer”. And so on Monday she presented the so-called word logo “Tangente” together with Mayor Matthias Stadler (SPÖ).
