Dr Barbara Grabher works as a Lecturer in Event and Tourism Research at the University of Brighton. Trained as an anthropologist specialising in gender studies, she researches event-based development processes. In her research project ‘Between Culture and Salt’, she is working on the concept of the Anthropocene in the event context of Salzkammergut 2024, focussing, among other things, on public transport as a development focus in major events. She is the author of the monograph ‘Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies’ (Routledge, 2022) and editor of the anthology ‘Events and Infrastructures: Critical Interrogations’ (Routledge, 2024)
a (living) audio theater in the Traunsee Tram
The train as a place of everyday anonymity and fleeting encounters becomes the setting for the complex travel and life routes of some of the passengers.
(Original title: Unterwegs – ein (lebendiges) Hörtheater in der Traunseetram)