The first decade is over. Let’s inaugurate the second one with Transart11 and reflect about the festival itself. Contemporary culture: a concept of vagueness that is increasingly apparent in times like these, where everything seems to drift apart. Financial instability, a world order that is constantly endangered to be flipped over and an eruptive nature like it has never existed before. Artists of the present attend to these conditions in various ways. Transart, as a festival of contemporary culture, aims to reveal these various approaches and to make them perceptible. Related to this, “witnessing culture” is inseparably linked to “witnessing the present”. Consequently, this 11th edition will focus to an even larger extend on the relationship between artists and audience; new formats will be added to the programme and new incentives shall be created. Let’s take a closer look at the format: a competition arranged by the Museion, the South Tyrolean Artist Alliance and Transart awards innovative trans-genre art projects of regional origin; a trip to the 4th Performa Festival in New York will be raffled by a Transart-lottery; the format “rent a musician” allows interested people to bring a contemporary music performance right into the own living-room. Now to the contents: sound performer Matthew Herbert will animate the audience with his cowbell-performance; the American experimental pop-artist Laurie Anderson reflects on the past ten years with her solo-programme; a South African puppetry stages Woyzeck by William Kentridge; the Russian composer Boris Filanovsky composes a sound performance for tanks, shooting machines, batch mixers and other noise generators for the barracks area in Scaleres; a pilgrimage under the banner of music takes the audience from Vipiteno via the Brenner Pass to North Tyrol; clubbing nights arouse party mood with performances by substantial DJ’s; yodel-queen Anneliese Breitenberger faces an experimental downbeat-formation by Gerd Hermann Ortler. And last but not least, a few words on the motive: a scattering music player frames the message of this year’s Transart festival – parts of reality that fall down around our ears and eyes in a particular moment of living presence.