TRENDLETTER 3-March-2021

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Fashion.at tip for a power dessert in the afternoon: Golden milk enriched with oat pulp, banana and pineapple or in variation with peaches
Recipes for golden milk are in its basics relatively the same: Ginger, curcuma, pepper and olive oil. For the following afternoon power dessert, the basic recipe of golden milk was adapted and enriched with fruits and oat; last mentioned is among other benefits good for the nerves, hair and skin...

Daniel Spoerri's artwork standing for socializing, culinary, taste, zest for life will be exhibited at Kunstforum Wien from 24 March until 27 June
The picture shows parts of the invitation to the press conference on occasion of the opening of the retrospective of the oeuvre of Daniel Spoerri who celebrates this year on 27th March his 91st birthday. It's a pity that this press conference will be held digitally - especially in the case of an exhibition of works by an artist who is known for Eat-Art (happenings with artists in his restaurant with enclosed gallery) or for...

Call by Austrian 'Poolbar Festival' for applications to upcycling 'Re: Post-Labor' and media development 'Digital Labor' Poolbar Festival in Feldkirch in the Austrian federal state Vorarlberg sent a reminder of the call for applications to two projects where designers, technicians, and other creative heads can realize ideas in the fields upcycling of materials into new lifestyle products and - at the second call, in the field creation of new media where digital specialists develop technical solutions for virtual festival stages with enabled audience interactivity. According to the press release, the applications can be submitted until 7th March...

Thoughts about art, cyborgs, machines, space travel, society and music at the 5th edition of the podcast 'Städel Mixtape' by Städel Museum X ByteFM
The first edition of the podcast 'Städel Mixtape' by Städel Museum (Frankfurt) and Radio ByteFM (Hamburg) was on air at the end of last year. In the meanwhile, already five podcast editions (in German language) by ByteFM's Till Kober and Städel Museum's Sarah Omar and Anne Sulzbach were published. In the center of each edition is an artwork such as in the latest podcast the painting 'Hosenträger' from 1970 by Bettina von Arnim. It shows a cyborg wearing work trousers and suspenders...

'Begehbare Gedanken' (Walkable Thoughts) series, Ferdinandeum Innsbruck: Works by painter Elde Steeg addressing gender equality, pay gap
In our days, it's common knowledge that gender equality is crucial for solving problems in our world. But it was a long way before this was realized and turned slowly into practice. Austria's Equal Pay Day was for example in 2021 on 21st February. It's a flexible date which is calculated from the pay gap between men and women. In 2009, it was 16th April. Painter Elde Steeg promoted gender equality in art in a letter from 1976 in relation to a series of exhibitions under the title 'Frauen zeigen' ('women show') with a call for becoming aware that the human being is made up of two creative halves and that the whole human being is needed to cope with today's problems...

Preview of holidays, traveling 2021: Can the population's compliance with the three basic rules - masks, distance, hygiene - bring back pre-pandemic 'freedom'?
Currently, hotels in Austria are closed except for business travelers or for people who use hotel rooms as an alternative to the home office. It's not allowed to sell hotel rooms for vacation stays. It's very possible that with the upcoming Easter holidays (Easter Sunday is 2021 on 4th April), the restrictive measures will be eased. As far as we have learned during the last 12 months, the virus is tricky. Since last year, Corona-related free cancellations of bookings are common. So, whatever the near future brings, tourism regions present already vacation offers such as in the western federal state Vorarlberg the Alpenregion Vorarlberg for the winter season (until 30 April) and for summer offers like the 'DreamAlive Lodge'...

Vienna insight: Hotel, restaurants, clubs and gallery owner Martin Ho opened new concept store with focus on high quality watchmaking
Martin Ho provided insights into the new 'One of One Concept Store' located at one of his restaurants, bars, the 'One of One' at Seilerstätte 16 in the 1st district of Vienna. Martin Ho is known for new approaches to cuisine, from experimental sushi to new interpretations of traditional Chinese (like duck) or Austrian dishes (such as the Wiener Schnitzel), fashionable events at his clubs, illustrious art exhibitions... The space at Seilerstätte at 'One of One' is now equipped with glass vitrines for men's haute horlogerie pieces by HYT Watches, Urwerk Geneve, Jacob & Co., Zenith, Parmigiani,...