In the last decade, many traditional obstacles to exploring the world as an individual, like borders and monopolies of institutions and information, vanished. To probe this freedom, many mobile projects like traveling mini-states, on-the-road-cinemas, busses converted to ateliers and galleries and trans-national music projects started to appear. In this context, On The Road Productions (ORP) exercises an artistic activism, that finds and creates spaces, in which artists can work outside of the walls of existing institutions. ORP fosters projects that aim at finding and expressing independent and original views. Centerpiece is a Steyr-Ikarus bus that has been converted into an atelier-, office- and gallery-space.

The Nomadic Village is going to be an enlarged space of that character, an artist residence with a slight festival character, in which various mobile projects are going to create a microcosm together. The participants will bring their own housings, like busses, vans or caravans, that will become the structure of the temporary village.


more Nomadic pictures

Nomadic Village at Schmiede09:
The Schmiede and ON THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS have crossed paths several times over the past years. When Nomadic Village came around declaring itself as the first Schmiede Satellite we had to act. we put together a team of official Ambassadors ( Gerald Schober, Ruediger Wassibauer) and sent them over to shake hands and do all that official rep stuff. Our goal it was to experience how Schmiede structure happens without Schmiede, bring it all back to Hallein and support documentation in general. So during Schmiede09 we will have an exhibit featuring the Normadic Village and some works of her nomades. Schmiede likes it when somebody likes her.

The Opening will be an Official Welcome by Schmiede (Sa. Sept. 19. at 1600)
Then Vernissage: Nomadic Village (Sa. Sept. 19. at 1600 in Kesselraum)
Last but not least DRAMA & STERN LIVE (Sa. Sept. 19. at 1600 in Salt)



Nomadic Village Project Page on Schmiede.ca
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