Recalling the Favourite Day

Salzburg has been surprising me from time to time. I’ve met such interesting people, in contrast to normativity and whiteness of the city. The queer feminist zine archive of Salzburg University at Gender Studies department is one of those idiosyncrasies. Thanks to Nina Prader, the co teacher of Nicolas Wild’s class The Craft of Comics, we’ve spent some quality time in the pages of various authors.

Last Friday was one of my favourite days in the city. Just after the archive, I’ve taken the bus to the beautiful Quarry. Artist-teacher Andreas Lolis has saluted me and gave a short tour of their exhibition. They played with what a material connotes in relation to its weight or quality: marble transformed into wood, plastic; to a watermelon, a car tire, a post box or a tool designed to just touch…

After having a beer with the class in the mountains, I got ready for the exhibition of the class The Big Bang and You taught by Marc Monzó. The atelier with lots of tools around became a sleek white cube with jeweleries contemplating on solar system, space and the phenomenon of Big Bang.

Below is my visual diary: