In unterschiedlichen Kulturen und Epochen wurden Künstler*innen als Seismograph*innen betrachtet, die fähig sind, zukünftige Strömungen oder Erschütterungen zu erspüren und zu artikulieren. Auch kennen wir Kultstätten und Riten rund um Vulkane, tektonische Risse oder Höhlen, die an eine geologische Zeitdimension erinnern und damit an unsere Verantwortung für zukünftiges Leben.
Seismische Ereignisse wurden lange als naturgegeben verstanden, doch heute gibt es zunehmend von Menschen verursachte Faktoren: Globale Erwärmung, das Schmelzen der Gletscher, Rohstoffabbau, neue Energietechnologien oder Abfallentsorgung. Ob und wie diese multiplen Einflüsse Vulkanausbrüche oder Erdbeben auslösen, wird kontrovers verhandelt.
Impuls-Vorträge, Performance und Publikumsgespräch widmen sich dem Thema mit Beiträgen von: Arno Böhler (Philosoph), Daniel Brandlechner (Literaturwissenschaftler), Nikolaus Gansterer (Künstler), Mariella Greil (Choreografin und Tänzerin), Victor Jaschke (Filmemacher), Peter Kozek (Künstler) und Lucie Strecker (Künstlerin)
PROGRAMM
16 Uhr Begrüßung / Welcome
16:15 Uhr Einführung / Introduction
Lucie Strecker
16:30 Uhr Vortrag / Lecture
Daniel Brandlechner
“The Trouble with Seismographic Practice”
17 Uhr Kommentar / Comment
Nikolaus Gansterer
17:15 Uhr Vortrag / Lecture
Arno Böhler
“The pulsating Heart of the Earth is golden …”
17:45 Uhr Kommentar / Comment
Mariella Greil, Victor Jaschke, Peter Kozek, Werner Moebius
18 Uhr Q&A
Moderation: Mariella Greil
18:30 Uhr Aperitif
Aperitif im Salon und Filmvorführung in der Ausstellung / Aperitif at the salon and film screening in the exhibition hall
Vorträge in Englischer Sprache, Einführung und Diskussion in Deutsch und Englisch / Lectures in English, introduction and discussion in German and English
ABSTRACTS
Daniel Brandlechner
The Trouble with Seismographic Practice
The seismograph is more than just a scientific instrument; it has become a common practice to liken the arts to a seismograph, registering the subtle vibrations of their time. From modernist writers like Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who used it to capture shifts in perception, to intellectuals like Ernst Jünger, Aby Warburg, Adorno, and Walter Benjamin, who saw it as a tool for diagnosing social change, the idea of the artist as a “human seismograph” has shaped how we understand creativity and crisis to this day. However, this attribution is problematic: the seismographic practice uncritically conflates recording and interpretation and loses epistemic precision. Drawing on Karen Barad’s theory of the apparatus, where the apparatus is part of the phenomenon it records, I propose a fresh perspective on the artist as a seismograph, linking my ideas to the artworks exhibited by Shaken Grounds, which critically engage with the instrumentalization of art through the seismographic practice.
Daniel Brandlechner (Dr. phil.) is a scholar of comparative literature and German studies who studied at the universities of Vienna, Palermo and Bologna. In his dissertation, which he completed in March 2024 at the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, he examined how earthquake events are transferred into disaster discourses, using the example of six earthquakes from the 21st century. He has published in journals such as Sprachkunst (on the seismography metaphor in Hugo von Hofmannsthal) and Between (on Dante references in Ai Weiwei’s artwork). His first monograph, Seismographies of the Early 21st Century, is forthcoming with De Gruyter.
Arno Böhler
The pulsating Heart of the Earth is golden …
In this lecture, the artist-philosopher Arno Böhler will reflect on the fragility of the Earth’s crust and the tensions between her surface and her deeper inner-bodily layers. If one were to dig deeper and deeper into the Earth, one would finally encounter her core depth: A fiery stream of lava, consisting of extremely hot metals that bind enormous amounts of energy at an astonishing density. It seems that the heart of the Earth, unlike her surface, is not green, brown or blue; rather, her interior glows golden, saffron golden. From this perspective, it seems highly questionable that the Earth–for thousands of years–has been regarded as a stable ground that reliably supports our existence. Seen from the nucleus of her heart, she rather appears as a fiery ball, full of inner turbulences, tensions, tremors and eruptions; a dynamite, which geologically and genealogically provides the earthly conditions of possibility for those who populate its crust. Shaken Grounds–Shifting Skies.
Arno Böhler teaches philosophy at the University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy (faculty member) as well as aesthetics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He is supervisor of the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy and, together with Susanne Valerie Granzer, they have invented formats as “Philosophy On Stage”, “Arts-based-Philosophy”, “field-performances”, which meanwhile become role models for artistic research and performance philosophy. Currently he also leads an artistic research project on the *Heart*, sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF; https://doi.org/10.55776/AR822). www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2484805/2765732
Im Rahmen von:
IMAGINE CLIMATE DIGNITY –
Don’t forget about our weekly APL Wednesday Practices ✨
Wednesday, 07.05., 17-18:30, we’ll host artist Sonia Borkowicz (Collective B)
Book Launch next Monday 7.4. at APL
Contingent Agencies – Inquiring Into the Emergence of Atmospheres
07th of April 2025, 18:30, APL Studio, Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
with Nikolaus Gansterer & Alex Arteaga in conversation with invited authors
Alexander Damianisch, Arno Boehler, Gerhard Dirmoser, Sabina Holzer and Andreas Spiegl.
Contingent Agencies – Inquiring Into the Emergence of Atmospheres
How do atmospheres – those subtle, impermanent, non-objectified and surrounding yet intimately
affective presences – come to be? What forces enable and constrain their appearance, and how do
they relate to one another? How to research these complex processes in a non-reductive way? Contingent Agencies, an artistic research project initiated by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer, explores the dynamic relationship between human and non-human agencies as enabling conditions for the emergence of atmospheres. This cross-disciplinary investigation is conducted through multimodal practices of notation, reflection, showing, and sharing realized in diverse media within different theoretical frameworks such as phenomenology, enactivism, and new materialism.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Berlin
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5903-8 (print)
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5964-9 (Pdf)
This book is also available as open access publication licensed under Creative Commons License
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Order it here via
https://www.hatjecantz.com/products/78954-contingent-agencies?variant=49278504403290/
or
Download the open access eBook via the University Library https://phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/o:74284
Don’t forget about our weekly APL Wednesday Practices ✨
Wednesday, 02.04., 17-18:30, we’ll host artist Evamaria Schaller at APL Studio
Dienstag, 1. April 2025, 19.00 Poetics of Listening
ENGLISH Book presentation
at Depot Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Wien
Please join us in celebrating the launch of Poetics of Listening: Inner Life, Social Transformation, Planetary Practices with Brandon LaBelle.
From self-determination to social participation, somatic healing to collective repair, political recognition to ecological engagement, listening is supportive for negotiating our most fundamental challenges. Poetics of Listening considers listening to be not only important to social struggles, but also a form of poetic imagination and communion. It moves listening toward a broader application and view, which includes the ability to listen across human and more-than-human worlds, to listen into or with one’s body, or to listen out for futures to come as well as addressing unfinished histories, and it challenges us to think more broadly about what it means to hear and be heard within today’s complex environments.
Together with Ricarda Denzer, kunst und kommunikative praxis (kkp/apl), universität für angewandte kunst wien, Mariella Greil, PhD, angewandte performance lab (apl), universität für angewandte kunst wien & Brandon LaBelle, artistic director, The Listening Biennial
In cooperation with Angewandte Performance Lab (APL).
More info you can find here: https://depot.or.at/events/poetics-of-listening/
APL Researcher Exchange Thursday, 6.3.2025 at 19:00 in APL Studio
disciplines and mediums. The starting point will be the idea that governs the Auspicio Paisaje project
(Auspice Landscape), which has been developed as a member of the National System of Art
Creators, 2021-2024.
natural landscapes, urban environments, and, more recently, the human body. By converging with
contemporary technologies, the project creates mechano-visual devices that reveal images
embedded within the landscape—images that remain imperceptible to the naked eye.
From the dissection of elements captured in motion within the landscape, a series of translation
processes between physical forces and data materialized in fixed and/or moving visual devices are
created.
Laguna Salinas.
Mexico, 2019 Landscape-object: Laguna Salinas. Arequipa region. Peru. 5784
processed images. 12 am – 4 pm
Music by Werner Moebius and Miguel Mesa and visuals from the videos generated for the project
“Auspice Landscape” and during the creation residency Sweet & Tender Collaborations, “Attempts of
Togetherness.”
Miguel Mesa
is an interdisciplinary artist and Member of the Mexican National System of Art Creators. His concerns revolve around social, cultural, and natural phenomena, and sometimes the artistic mediums or forms themselves. Sound is a defining material in his work. To develop his projects, he employs various mediums ranging from sound art, audiovisual installation, net.art, photography, performing arts, drawing, documentary video, and more. As a result, his pieces are translated/exhibited in stage projects, concerts, museum exhibitions, galleries, festivals, and public interventions. He has presented his work in Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Slovenia, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Switzerland, Uruguay, and the USA. miguemesa@gmail.com
www.miguelmesa.info @miguelmesap
Werner Moebius
works between visual art and music in the expanded field of sonic art and aesthetic practice. He deals with the plasticity of sounds in acoustic, intermedial and performative contexts and facilitates dialogues in the field between new music, electroacoustic improvisation, conceptual art, weird beats and artistic research. For his work he has been awarded, among others, the City of Vienna Prize and BMUKK scholarships for Chicago and Mexico City.
www.wernermoebius.net
APL in Winter Semester 2024/25
PEEK Projekt Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies im Künstlerhaus – IMAGINE CLIMATE DIGNITY
Ein gemeinsames Projekt der Sektion für Internationale Kulturangelegenheiten im Außenministerium, der Österreichischen Kulturforen und der Künstlerhaus Vereinigung. Kuratiert von Barbara Höller und Simon Mraz
Ausstellungsdauer: 1.3.–9.6.2025, Eröffnung: 28.2.2025, 19 Uhr, Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien
Impulsvorträge, Performance und Publikumsgespräch zur Aufzeichnung von geologischen, sozialen und psychischen Erschütterungen, 11.04.2025, 16:00-19:00 Uhr
„Die Geophilosophin bewegt sich auf dem Kamm der Turbulenzen, auf den Schultern der Wellen, die den Geist, die Energie und die Materie einhüllen und sie in die Atmosphäre verbreiten.“ (Gilles Deleuze, 1993)
Das PEEK Projekt Shaken Grounds wird in der Ausstellung IMAGINE CLIMAtE DIGNITY vertreten durch eine intermediale Installation von Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek und Lucie Strecker, in Zusammenarbeit mit Victor Jaschke und Werner Moebius. Mit weiteren künstlerischen und wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen von Valerio Acocella, Arno Böhler, Oscar Fernandez Bellon, Helga Franza, Sabine Folie, Nicolas Freytag, Nicola Fornoni, Sylvia Scheidl und VestAndPage (Andrea Pagnes / Verena Stenke).
Über Jahrtausende hinweg wurden Kultstätten an Orten errichtet, an denen Menschen mit dem Inneren der Erde in Verbindung treten können. Vulkane, tektonische Risse oder Höhlen zeugen von einer geologischen Zeit, die über die individuelle menschliche Lebenszeit hinausweist. Riten, die an diesen Stätten durchgeführt wurden, unterstützten eine veränderte Zeitwahrnehmung, die zu mehr Verantwortung für die Zukunft führte.
Heute entstehen an seismisch aktiven Zonen jedoch andere Formen kulturellen Ausdrucks. Denn während solche Orte uns einst mit einer polytemporalen Weltsicht verbanden, verweisen sie nun auf vom Menschen verursachte Faktoren, die die Spannungen in der Erdkruste erhöhen: globale Erwärmung, Gletscherschmelze, Rohstoffabbau, neue Energietechnologien und Abfallentsorgung. Ob und wie dies zu Erdbeben oder Vulkanausbrüchen führt, wird von Geolog*innen kontrovers diskutiert. Aktuelle Forschungen zu diesem Thema zeigen die Komplexität der ökologischen Krise.
Das Künstlerkollektiv Shaken Grounds besuchte die kontinentalen Ränder Süditaliens und einen schmelzenden Gletscher in den österreichischen Hochalpen, um die Überschneidungen zwischen natürlicher seismischer Aktivität und anthropogener Umweltzerstörung durch ein Netzwerk künstlerischer Experimente zu erforschen.
Shaken Grounds wird vom Österreichischen Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) gefördert (Grant-DOI 10.55776/AR780) und in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Österreichischen Kulturforum Rom, dem Italienischen Kulturinstitut Wien, der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien und deren Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL) realisiert. Der FWF-Antrag im PEEK-Programm wurde 2022 von Nikolaus Gansterer, Dominika Glogowski, Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek und Lucie Strecker verfasst.
Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies at Künstlerhausvereinigung – IMAGINE CLIMATE DIGNITY
Opening: 28.02.2025, 18:30 Künstlerhaus Vereinigung, Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Vienna
Impulsvorträge, Performance und Publikumsgespräch zur Aufzeichnung von geologischen, sozialen und psychischen Erschütterungen, 11.04.2025, 16:00-19:00 Uhr
A joint project of the Section for International Cultural Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Austrian Cultural Forums, and the Künstlerhaus Association.
Exhibition duration: March 1 – June 9, 2025
Opening: February 28, 2025, 7 PM
The PEEK project Shaken Grounds is represented at the exhibition IMAGINE CLIMATE DIGNITY by an intermedial installation by Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek, and Lucie Strecker, in collaboration with Victor Jaschke and Werner Moebius. With additional artistic and scientific contributions by Valerio Acocella, Arno Böhler, Oscar Fernandez Bellon, Helga Franza, Sabine Folie, Nicolas Freytag, Nicola Fornoni, Sylvia Scheidl, and VestAndPage (Andrea Pagnes / Verena Stenke).
“The geo-philosopher moves along the crest of turbulence, on the shoulders of waves that envelop mind, energy, and matter, and that diffuse them into the atmosphere.” (Gilles Deleuze, 1993)
Even before the Anthropocene, disruptive geological forces were compelling artists to reflect on the fragility of existence and the origins of their age. Such events raised fundamental questions about where to ground reason when the conditions of life could shift so radically. Natural disasters—like the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in southern Italy—have long served as focal points for both scientific inquiry and artistic reflection.
According to the myth of Rome’s founding, Aeneas entered the underworld through the trembling Phlegraean Fields—surrounded now by Europe’s largest illegal toxic dump—to seek guidance on where to settle after his long journey. On the other hand, the major eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE was associated with the sudden threats posed by the Iron Age, a period marked by austerity and wars that prompted a range of artistic responses.
Today, areas prone to seismic activity are influencing artistic research and expression in a different way. While such places once connected people to a polytemporal worldview, they now bear the weight of new, man-made pressures. Global warming, groundwater extraction, resource mining, clean energy technologies, and waste disposal are all increasing the strain on the Earth’s crust, resulting in human-accelerated earthquakes.
This almost incomprehensible, yet undeniable phenomenon highlights the complexity of the ecological crisis, revealing disturbing new entanglements between humanity and the environment.
The artist collective Shaken Grounds revisits the continental margins of southern Italy, exploring the intersections of natural seismic activity and anthropogenic environmental damage through an interwoven mesh of artistic experiments. They recognize that the trembling of the earth, once regarded as one of Gaia’s natural forces, is now being driven by human interference as well. Art, as research and practice, excels in detecting and expressing the changing relationship between humanity and our evolving, technologically influenced, and highly damaged geological environment.
APL PRMIO VIENNA ARTIST 2025 GAIA GINEVRA GIORGI presents “Haunted”
DAS WEISSE HAUS
08.02.2025, 15:00 – 23:00
Tickets here > Kupfticket.at
“Haunted”
In 1994, in the north-west of Italy, a flood submerged a radio archive, corrupting the magnetic traces of a voice. The voice vanished from the damaged and deteriorated tapes, revealing the fragile nature of memory and the precariousness of its archives, which do not appear as solid and enduring architectures but as precarious and temporary landscapes. Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, an Italian poet, performer, and sound artist, rediscovered the reels, many of which had undergone irreversible degradation, and chose haunting as the approach to that archive—not to restore, repair, or reintegrate it into a positive regime of visibility and permanence, but to create the conditions for its reappearance, both desiring and spectral. Haunted is a dramaturgy of memory, channeling a polyphony of field recordings, letter recordings, dream impressions, voices, sound fragments, and live sounds into the delicate circuits of analog, hovering between archaeology and imagination. The performance—necromantic, hauntological, and analog—exists at the boundary between sound narration and active listening practices.
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi is an Italian artist, researcher and current APL PREMIO VIENNA ARTIST 2025 working within the field of performing arts and sound-art. Her practice integrates writing, sound, voice, and performative devices. Drawing from a feminist, ecological, and situated approach, she develops investigative methodologies aimed at an affective and political rewriting of archives and landscapes, understood as territories of manipulation and power, but also as potential tools for counter-narration. Her interventions—whether performances, installations, or workshop-based projects—ephemeral habitats, spaces for embodied and radical imagination.
Her current research explores hauntological practices through sonic, vocal, and performative lenses, focusing on their political potential to shape and generate alternative futures. She examines the relationships between archival documents, immaterial traces, ghosts, and heritage.
Credits
a project by and with Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, dramaturgical dialogue Giada Cipollone, sound care Glauco Salvo, lighting design and technical direction Andrea Sanson, costumes Giuditta Tanzi / Garbage Core, editorial project by Vittoria Assembri. A production INDEX in collaboration with Extragarbo, co-production Snaporazverein with the support of Ravenna Teatro, Segni-Residenze Franche, C.U.R.A. Centro Umbro di Residenze Artistiche, C32 Live Arts Cultures, Malagola, Superbudda
CELEBRATING THE 2024/25 NOMINEES OF APL PREMIO VIENNA ARTISTS – THE ITALIAN PERFORMANCE ART AWARD
WELCOMING GAIA GINEVRA GIORGI AND FRANCESCO CORSI
23.01.2025
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna, Mezzanine floor, APL Studio, 18:30 – 21:30
The Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL) and the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna extend an invitation to an event celebrating the winners of the PREMIO VIENNA – PERFORMANCE ART AWARD. The evening will feature Gaia Ginevra Giorgi and Francesco Corsi. PREMIO VIENNA is a collaborative project between the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna, Bears in the Park – an Artist Friendly Platform and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The objective of the project is to foster emerging Italian performance artists and exchange between Italy and Austria within the European performance art scene. During the course of the event, Gaia and Francesco will introduce themselves and their artistic practice to a broader audience.
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi is inviting us to a listening session to encounter her artistic practice of writing, sound composition and performance, which oscillates between autobiography, archaeology and imagination. During her residency in Vienna, Gaia will engage with vocal archives, investigating psychoacoustic and mediumistic phenomena. Through techniques of embodiment and self-induced trance states, she will explore glossolalia and otherworldly voices vocally and corporeally.
Francesco Corsi, who works between choreography, performance and visual art, will introduce his new research, inspired by Adriana Cavarero’s Critique of Rectitude. During his residency in Vienna, he will compose a cartography of postures, focusing on its ethical inscriptions on the flesh, departing from the deconstruction of a vertical body and its claim to an autonomous subjectivity – incarnated in the figure of the soldier.
Barbis Ruder greift in ihrer Performance die Klänge der Mundstücke auf und verknüpft sie mit verschiedenen Körpertechniken. Es entsteht ein gestisches Ballett der Kraft, das von einer Art Nicht-Ton, einem Seufzen des Materials und stillem Schmerz geprägt ist.
Vor der Performance wird Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) im Gespräch mit Barbis Ruder eine inhaltliche Einführung geben.
Hinweis keine Anmeldung erforderlich Dauer ca. 30-45 Minuten (inkl. Gespräch) Kosten Gratis Treffp
Inauguration and Artist Talk of APL PREMIO VIENNA Artists 2024
Date: 23.01. 2025
Where: Georg-Coch-Platz 2, APL Studio, 18:30 – 21:30
We extend a warm welcome to Gaia Ginevra Giorgi and Francesco Corsi, who have been selected as Premio Vienna artists at the APL!
The residency programme for young Italian artists working in the field of performance art will be conducted as a collaboration between the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC) – Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna (IIC), the University of Applied Arts Vienna / Applied Performance Laboratory (APL) and Bears in the Park from November 2024 to May 2025.
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi and Francesco Corsi were selected by a commission and awarded a six-month residency in Vienna, during which they will engage in professional research in the field of performance art. They will participate in activities organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna and the APL. The APL’s programme will comprise training sessions, in-depth discussions about the APL’s artistic research projects, coaching sessions, and events with artists from Vienna and around the world. Moreover, the fellows will be afforded the chance to present their theoretical research findings and practice to the public, either during or at the conclusion of their tenure in Vienna.
Meet Premio Vienna fellow: Gaia Ginevra Giorgi
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi is an artist and researcher working within the field of performing arts. Her practice integrates writing, sound, voice, and performative devices. Drawing from a feminist, ecological, and situated approach, she develops investigative methodologies aimed at an affective and political rewriting of archives and landscapes, understood as territories of manipulation and power, but also as potential tools for counter-narration. Her interventions—whether performances, installations, or workshop-based projects—create ephemeral habitats, spaces for embodied and radical imagination.
Her current research explores hauntological practices through sonic, vocal, and performative lenses, focusing on their political potential to shape and generate alternative futures. She examines the relationships between archival documents, immaterial traces, ghosts, and heritage. During her residency in Vienna, she engages with a vocal archive, investigating psychoacoustic phenomena. Through techniques of embodiment and the exploration of self-induced trance states, she is dedicated to the vocal and corporeal exploration of glossolalia and otherworldly voices.
Meet Premio Vienna fellow: Francesco Corsi
Francesco Corsi works between choreography, performance, and visual arts. His research is an exploration of the body as a social/material/semiotic compost in its meeting with the world. His work has been shown in different formats in Venere in Teatro Festival (Venice), Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice), Base (Milan), WpZimmer (Antwerp), and Zürcher Theatre Spektakel (Zürich). He has collaborated in various configurations with Michele Rizzo, Daniele Ninarello, Traslochi Emotivi, and Pankaj Tiwari.
With this new research, inspired by Adriana Cavarero’s Critique of Rectitude, I will research and compose a cartography of postures, focusing on its ethical inscriptions on the flesh: from the deconstruction of a vertical body and its claim to an autonomous subjectivity—incarnated in the figure of the soldier—to the affirmation of the hor(n)izontal body, through the inclined body and who knows what else. Working on movement readymades, military drills, choreographic collages, and weird physicalities, I am looking for figures, spectres, states, and incarnations that will compose a choreographic map/archive of postural geometries.
Symposium
Sa, 07.12.2024, 11:30 – 12 Uhr
Vorstellung & Impuls: Angewandte Performance Lab (Mariella Greil-Möbius, Peter Kozek & Charlotta Ruth)
Performance besides Itself. Infra- and Parastructures of a Contemporary Liveness @ Kunstraum Niederösterreich
Das Symposium Performance Besides Itself. Infra- and Parastructures of a Contemporary Liveness widmet sich den Dynamiken zwischen Performance und institutionell-infrastrukturellen Kontexten. Wie verhalten sich Performance und Institution zueinander? Wie bedingt das Institutionelle die Möglichkeiten von Performance und inwiefern könnten performative Praktiken die Arbeitsweise und die Infrastrukturen von Kunstinstitutionen langfristig verändern?
Symposium: Fr, 06.12. – Sa, 07.12.2024
For more information click here: https://www.kunstraum.net/de/termine/performance-besides-itself-infra-and-parastructures-of-a-contemporary-liveness/3470
Graziata.
On Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th of November 2024 (20:00-21:00) FEM (Francesca Centonze, Markela Koniordou and Els Van Houtert) hosted a one-hour long ritual-performance which sprouted from a 3-week residency at Seestadt Studios with the support of Donaustadt.Kultur – the district of Donaustadt of Vienna (district cultural funding, MA7). Over the course of the residency FEM critically explored Italy’s Puglia traditions of Tarantism, delving into the emotional states and behaviors that women are ‘not supposed to’ show in public: anger, fear, sensuality, joy. The Tarantata is the woman whose family, church, and community declare poisoned by a bite of a tarantula spider, appearing to suffer from “hysterical-convulsive symptoms”. To get rid of the poison and to regain her “sanity,” she must dance, dance, and dance again until she has sweated all the poison out from her body. But what if the poison were on our side?
Creative team: Francesca Centonze, Markela Koniordou and Els Van Houtert (concept creation, performance), Charlotte Bastam and Luigi Guerrieri (external eye), Lisa Maresch (costume, set design), Bian Lawlor, James Freeman and Markela Koniordou (music), Sabrina Rosina (production)
Supported by Donaustadt Kultur.
FuelNoises is an audiovisual concert, a digital drama played by two partners: a human and an AI.
In the flood of fake news, the protagonist struggles with the complexity of the information age and falls into the collective inertia in the face of the climate crisis. In the age of artificial intelligence, the internet has turned into a turbulent sea of misinformation. This misinformation is not only created and fueled by human desire for simple answers, but also amplified and tailored by AI algorithms. The anti-hero sinks into the noise of this sea, simultaneously empowered and deceived by his smart devices. From doom- scrolling and frustration, the flood of fake news leads the protagonist on a perilous journey of radicalization.
The combination of body, interactive sounds and images creates an electrifying spectacle that stimulates the senses. The visuals and soundscape of “FuelNoises” is sourced from the real-world battlefield of climate change misinformation.
Media artist Stefano D’Alessio delved into the depths of social media, collecting misleading posts, videos, images and texts. During the performance, sound and images dynamically respond to the performer’s movements. The audience is encouraged to recognize the human element in this chaotic landscape, where we are both architects and victims of our own misinformation.
By and with: Stefano D’Alessio
Costume Design: Agnes Varnai
Visual Design: Enrico Zago, Stefano D’Alessio
Stage Design: Max Windisch-Spoerk
Lights: Max Windisch-Spoerk, Stefano D’Alessio
Outside Eyes: Ariadne Randall, Jolyane Langlois, Luigi Guerrieri, Klaus Obermaier
Producer: Sophie Menzinger
PR: Alina Groer (Sky Unlimited)
Video and Photo documentation: Francesca Centonze,
Photo Documentation: Verena Tscherner
The performance is based on research on the web installation FuelNoise, published in 2023.
FuelNoises is realized in cooperation with Theater am Werk. With the kind support of the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport Austria, Bears in the Park, Symposium Lindabrunn and Angewandte Performance Lab.
APL in Summer Semester 2024
Researcher Exchange Tuesday 28/5 17.00
Join the APL Morning Practices - still in the evening every Wednesday 17.00-18.30
Carolina Cappelli is an Italian performer, filmmaker and artistic gymnastic teacher. Her research is trans-disciplinary and involves the hybridization between writing and performative and cinematic practices. Strongly related to re-enactment as a primary tool of investigation, she often works with pre-existing material as a starting point for generating alternative narratives and researching the image of the catastrophe and the catastrophe of the image.
Heads up☝️ Following Costas practice on the 22.05 17.00-18.30 the evening will extend into #APLpresence. No matter if straight after practice or fresh out of something else, join us for some tea and cosy vibes 19.00-20.00
Costas Kekis began dancing in Athens as a kid in his family’s living room before engaging with dance professionally. He has performed for Sara Lanner, Doris Uhlich, Oleg Soulimenko & Fanni Futterknecht and shown his work or collaborations in Croatia, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, France, Germany & Austria. He also worked as a dramaturg with Magdalena Chowaniec, Fanni Futterknecht, Lau Lukkarila, Beatrix Simkó, Asher O‘ Gorman, Katerina Andreou among others. In 2021 and 2022 he coordinated artistically the Life Long Burning Programme ‚Performance Situation Room‘ in the frame of Impulstanz.
WEB: www.costaskekis.com
https://brut-wien.at/en/Programme/Calendar/Programm-2023/11/Costas-Kekis
Performance by Premio Vienna Artist Carolina Cappelli on 13.05.2024
Filmscreening - Lichthöhe (2022) & Strata (2024)
APL Studio, 15th March, 2024
FILM SCREENING & Q&A
19:15 – 19:45 LICHTHÖHE
20:00 – 21:15 STRATA
LICHTHÖHE, FILM, 30 min, 2022
Peter Kozek & Thomas Hörl
together with Victor Jaschke
Photo credit: LICHTHÖHE, Peter Kozek & Thomas Hörl together with Victor Jaschke, filmstill, 2022
LICHTHÖHE explores the layers of an architectural-tectonic structure in which the history of the earth and the history of mankind, awe and consumption, tradition and a state of emergency overlap. In the summer of 2020, while the High Alpine Road is in operation, images will be created that reference the symbolic repertoire of the entire Alpine region. At the same time, a film crew captures the event in digital image sequences and shifts the perspective on what is seen: are the crisp, clear clouds in the sky the result of elaborate night filming technology or merely telltale signs of an old film trick, American Night?
(Excerpt from a text by Florian Ronc)
http://kozek-hoerlonski.com/projects/lichthohe/
STRATA, Film, 75 minutes, English with SDH subtitles in English, 2024
VestAndPage
Photo credit: STRATA, Vestand Page, filmstill: daz disley, 2024
A film of philosophical, poetic action, “STRATA” blends film and performance art to explore the fascinating history of caves as sites of knowledge-making and art creation. Through interdisciplinary processes, artists and researchers investigate the connection between the human body and the geological depth of subsurface environments. The project focuses on the prehistoric caves of the Swabian Jura, where Ice Age humans created the oldest known examples of human figurative sculptures. Coming together to look into the river of human civilisation and to share what they had found, the collective of artists irradiate concepts of time, ecological intelligence and politics through performances for the camera. The film pinholes a perspective on a world where art, science and multiple perspectives nourish each other in co-creative processes. Nestled inside the dark subsurfaces of the land, the human body and stratified societies are tied in continuity to the geological, beheld through a lens of queer ecology. The caves are the symbiotic realms to dance between embodiment and scrutiny, the unseen and the unforeseen, the oppressed and unspoken, the forgotten and the repressed. www.stratafilm.de
Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes work together as VestAndPage internationally in performance art, performance-based film, writing, publishing and temporary artistic community projects for generative inquiry and collective imaginings. For over a decade, VestAndPage have explored performance art and filmmaking as phenomena through their collaborative multimedia art practice, artistic research and curatorial projects. They have produced performance-based art and films, among others, under Antarctic glaciers, at the Himalayan foothills, in the vastness of Tierra del Fuego, in military enclaves, or inside prehistoric cave systems. In a psychogeography of symbiotic realms, they move between embodiment and research, the unseen and the unforeseen, the oppressed and unspoken, the forgotten and the repressed. Their art practice is contextual and focuses on art’s liminal, spectral and ritual nature. Their works have been presented at various sites, museums, galleries, theatres, and cinemas worldwide, and they share their methodology on collaborative performance and filmmaking in master classes and as lecturers at various art academies. They are the founders and directors of the Venice International Performance Art Week, and their research and poetic writings have been extensively published and translated for international readers. www.vest-and-page.de
A VestAndPage production, Germany, 2021/24
Conceived, written, directed and produced by VestAndPage (Verena Stenke, Andrea Pagnes)
With Aldo Aliprandi, Marianna Andrigo, Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Giorgia De Santi, Francesca Fini, Nicola Fornoni, La Saula, Stephan Knies, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Boris Nieslony, Andrea Pagnes, Ralf Peters, Enok Ripley, Sara Simeoni, Marcel Sparmann, Verena Stenke, Susanne Weins. Music by PYUR and Woob.
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the German Federal Government Commissioner of Culture and the Media.
Realized in collaboration with the Museum of Prehistory in Blaubeuren, Museum Ulm, Cojote Outdoor, EntrAxis e.V., A.P.S. Studio Contemporaneo, Live Arts Cultures.
With the support of UNESCO World Heritage: Caves and Ice Age Art of the Swabian Alb, State Office for Cultural Heritage of Baden-Wuerttemberg, ForstBW, Blauwald GmbH & Co KG, Stadt Blaubeuren, City of Schelklingen, City of Grabenstetten, City of Asselfingen, Museum association Schelklingen, Urgeschichte Hautnah, Tress Gastronomie/Wimsener cave. Thanks to to the University of Exeter Research Network “Rock/Body: Performative Interfaces between the geologic and the body”, especially Nigel Clarke, João Florêncio and Timothy Morton.
Bare Bodies – ganz ohr/all ears – Questionology
24 January 17.00
APL studio, Georg-Coch-Platz 2
Reading from three books in a Circle (test, test)
With Mariella Greil, Ricarda Denzer, Cordula Daus & Charlotta Ruth
APL cordially invite you to a collateral reading from recent APL related publications:
An anthology, an artist book and an exercise book, three exquisite printed matters which will be presented by the writers/editors themselves with collegial admiration. Attention: By means of a score (scroll down), we will not only activate our own publication – we’re proposing a first model for a Reading/Listening Circle.
Hope to see you there!
1. Make some space and time for the book in question.
2. Read attentively. Read inattentively.
3. Find a passage that connects to you/your book.
4. Note down where it takes you (page, place, other).
5. Let’s call this a wormhole.*
6. Make space for a yet unknown reader on your right side.
7. Read through the holes.
* Who are we to explain you what a wormhole is! As no matter of fact, a wormhole is a hypothetical structure connecting disparate points in spacetime. While wormholes are consistent with the general theory of relativity, it remains to be proven how they operate between books and readers.
APL Morning Practice - in the Evening;-)
Back in the Summer Semester!
ARTIST TALK(ING) Carolina Capelli & Marco-Augusto Basso 12.01.2024 Georg-Coch-Platz 2, APL Studio, 18:00 - 21:00
Join us for poetic imagery, alternative narratives, wine and some taralli!
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Good News, night strollers – no more suffering – only joy! Join the APL Morning Practices – now in the evening every Wednesday from MARCH 2024 17.00-18.30;-)
ABOUT: Claire is a femme choreographer, insomniac writer, and reality TV enthusiast currently based in Vienna, Austria. She likes to think of herself as a hostess, welcoming collaborators and audience members into kitsch landscapes where politics and poetics are gently interwoven.
WEB: www.clairelefevre.com @clairelefevre.heartemoji
APL & opens the door at Rennweg Studios every evening 11-16 December. Hope to see you at Rennweg 79-81, 1030 Vienna. Come as you are – leave with ideas, warmth, and new concerns! HOW WE OUGHT TO BE TOGETHER Info & Programme
The Angewandte Performance Lab is thrilled to introduce its inaugural BANDO PREMIO VIENNA Stipends.
We are proud to collaborate with The Ministry of Culture (MiC) – Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) – Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy, and the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna (IIC) on the inaugural edition of the “Premio Vienna.” This residency program is designed for young Italian artists in the field of performance art and is conducted in partnership with the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL).
Also, feel invited to scroll down checking current recommended calls!
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