Excessive
Hernán Díaz Alonso
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In the MAK lecture series “changing architecture” Hernán Diáz Alonso will speak about his projects in the MAK Lecture Hall. The biomorphic designs of the Los-Angeles based architect appear bizarre and highly visionary: he playfully integrates vegetable and organic shapes in his architecture, animations and sculptures. His figurative-architectural vocabulary breaks visual and spatial boundaries of surface, decoration, and structure. A spatial intervention developed especially for the MAK Gallery, where his current exhibition “PITCH BLACK” will be on view until 2 March 2008, provides a special insight into his working method and documents his current architectural projects.
The Lecture will be held in English.
The Lecture will be held in English.
AIPOTU
Maureen Kägi, Habib Asal, Roman Britschi, Maire-Alice Schultz, Daniel Klemmer
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The event “AIPOTU” centers on a stimulating combination of text, dance, and music. Five students from the painting class of Johanna Kandl at the Vienna University of Applied Arts act out their wishful ideas of “a better world” in a performance entitled “AIPOTU”: a transparent plastic-foil cube symbolizes the space of this utopian model society; it contains a lab table for different test arrangements. The performance focuses on experimentation with materials and on the expressive possibilities of dance and language.
The experimental work of the performers is accompanied by music of double bass player Roman Britschgi and percussionist Daniel Klemmer. The two musicians will improvise to the rhythm of the recited text.
Barbara Husar: DATA EXCHANGE
Off-Road on the Umbilical Track
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“Data Exchange”, a film and a book of the same title, provide an impressive insight into the life of Bedouin women from the el-Tarrabeen tribe on the Sinai peninsula. For more than ten years, the writer and film-maker has explored the life of a group of about twenty women who make a livelihood out of breeding small flocks of sheep in Wadis – valleys or dry riverbeds – in the desert. Barbara Husar’s series of drawings and gouaches that deal with the subject of the exchange of messages and data were created in that area of tension between archaic and austere life in the desert and the highly-complex information society. The basic materials of her work are the umbilical cords of new-born desert sheep. Barbara Husar sees in them a strain of data, drawing parallels between the physiological function of an umbilical cord and the exchange of data in an information society. “Data Exchange” unfolds a view of a very specific aspect of a nomadic society.
Film Data Exchange, color, 36 min., German, Sinai, 2007
Book Data Exchange, 88 pages, Atelier Lichtwellenbad, 2007
Film Data Exchange, color, 36 min., German, Sinai, 2007
Book Data Exchange, 88 pages, Atelier Lichtwellenbad, 2007
100 Best Posters 06
Germany Austria Switzerland
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With the exhibition “100 Best Posters 06”, it is the second time that the MAK presents the 100 winners of an annual competition, first held 1966, for exceptional poster designs from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. There hardly is another medium that is under so much public discussion, while at the same time it constantly struggles for artistic recognition. In the battle for visual predominance in everyday culture, it is right in the front line. “100 Best Posters 06” presents the most convincing entries in the graphic-design competition at the MAK, giving a survey of gripping present-day design concepts and forms of expression that define the benchmark in communication design.
MAK Study Collection Glass
New Presentation
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In 2007 the Study Collection Glass is to be reorganized, following on from the restructuring of the Study Collection Ceramics. One focus of the new arrangement will be the glass production of the former Imperial and Royal Monarchy. Examples of publishers and manufacturers such as J. & L. Lobmeyr, E. Bakalowits & Söhne, Johann Lötz Witwe, Meyr’s Neffe as well as such specialized schools as Haida or der Steinschönau will provide an overall picture of glass production at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, a particularly high point in quality and variety of its time.
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Beyond the Blue
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In the center of the show will be a spatial installation developed especially for the MAK Exhibition hall which palpably demonstrates the development of urban-planning projects.
Grouped around this spectacular setting, a diverse selection of projects affords a profound insight into the entire work of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Condensed materials – models, sketches, drawings, projections, and animations – illustrate the unequalled worldwide career of the architects. The show features not only completed buildings, but also projects under construction.
Grouped around this spectacular setting, a diverse selection of projects affords a profound insight into the entire work of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Condensed materials – models, sketches, drawings, projections, and animations – illustrate the unequalled worldwide career of the architects. The show features not only completed buildings, but also projects under construction.
6to6 String DEZIBEL
by Martin Philadelphy
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On the MAK NITE entitled “6to6 String DEZIBEL”, six guitar players and one percussionist invite, under the musical direction of the Innsbruck-based musician Martin Philadelphy, to an exceptional musical improvisation. They present a sound experiment that Martin Philadelphy refers to as a “physical-musical sound concept, in which overtones and differential tones produce an orchestral impression, you think you hear winds, strings, and cries – but it is only e guitars.” The first guitar player puts on six identical E strings, all tuned to E, the next puts on six A strings, and so on. What this results in is a kind of oversized guitar amplified to the sixfold sound volume. The six players Emanuel Preuschl – E string, Daniel Pabst – A string, Martin Philadelphy – D string, Chris Janka – G string, Claudius Jelinek – H-string, Didier Hampl – E1 string, and percussionist Thomas Käfer play compositions by Martin Philadelphy and interpretations.
Ladies & Gentlemen under Water
A Picture Story by Christoph Ransmayr after 7 Color Plates by Manfred Wakolbinger
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In the center of this MAK NITE are the underwater photos of Manfred Wakolbinger, which inspired the Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr to write his picture story “Damen & Herren unter Wasser” (“Ladies & Gentlemen Under Water”) which was published in September 2007 by S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt. At the MAK, Christoph Ransmayr presents the bizarre narrative about sea animals and their previous lives as human beings. In parallel, large projections of underwater photographs by Manfred Wakolbinger will be on view. The Vienna-based sculptor has explored the subject of weightlessness for years, which he also addresses in his underwater photos. In the floating space of the seas Wakolbinger discovers bodies and colors of fascinating beauty. The series of photographic works first shown 2003 at the MAK Gallery under the title of “Bottomtime” draws on from the physical and visual experience of deep-sea diving. At the MAK NITE event “Ladies & Gentlemen Under Water” these underwater photographs are on view once more, this time in combination with the story by Christoph Ransmayr.
SELFAWEAR DRESSCODENITE
Amateur fashion by Redaktionsbüro Wien and RAKETA Graz
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On the initiative of Jasmin Ladenhaufen, Redaktionsbüro Wien and RAKETA invite to an extraordinary fashion show on this MAK NITE: the two groups present an ironic show of fashion under the general heading of “amateurish”. “Royal & Sexy II” will be the motto of a convention of princesses organized by Redaktionsbüro Wien (Manuela Hötzl and Antje Mayer): cleverly and fashionably the Redaktionsbüro calls into question the role of modern princesses. The Graz-based duo RAKETA (Doris Psenicnik and Margarethe Markovec) entitled their show “Bird of Paradise Islands”, focusing on new creations made of evening dresses of past times. Accessories come from the Graz label “heidenspass”. The fashion show on Mardi Gras will be accompanied by live music. Visitors are asked to observe the dress code QUITE ABNORMAL. For inspirations please see www.gegenalltag.at/gallery/selfawear.
The Philosophical Travel Agency presents the Yearly Soup
Mieze Medusa, Walter Meissl
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Featuring Mieze Medusa, Walter Meissl, Die halbe Wahrheit usw.
A presentation of the “Philosophical Travel Agency” and its “Yearly Soup” project. The “Philosophical Travel Agency” was established by Walter Meissl and comprises a series of cultural-philosophical events held in different places and settings over the whole year, with the kick-off event taking place on a MAK NITE. The theme of the evening is soup and soup-making as a synonym for a generative and development principle in philosophy. The idea of soup is based on the principle of dilution and continuity. The idea and purpose of the event is to develop the theme of soup in its aesthetic, historical, sociological, gastrosophic and everyday dimension. The process of daily soup-making brings together a large number of people, who work on and with the subject, representing and interpreting it in various different ways. The context is represented by the soup itself, as every soup contains the entire information of all previous soups, if perhaps only in the form of a few molecules.
A presentation of the “Philosophical Travel Agency” and its “Yearly Soup” project. The “Philosophical Travel Agency” was established by Walter Meissl and comprises a series of cultural-philosophical events held in different places and settings over the whole year, with the kick-off event taking place on a MAK NITE. The theme of the evening is soup and soup-making as a synonym for a generative and development principle in philosophy. The idea of soup is based on the principle of dilution and continuity. The idea and purpose of the event is to develop the theme of soup in its aesthetic, historical, sociological, gastrosophic and everyday dimension. The process of daily soup-making brings together a large number of people, who work on and with the subject, representing and interpreting it in various different ways. The context is represented by the soup itself, as every soup contains the entire information of all previous soups, if perhaps only in the form of a few molecules.
John Megill & The Anna Band
live
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Vienna's Most Analog Band in Concert
John Megill & The Anna Band invite to a MAK NITE live concert. The band was formed in spring 2007 and engaged shortly afterwards for a monthly performance at the Vienna music-scene place B72. The band consists of John Megill (vocals, guitar), Rafi D (bass) and Alex Deutsch (drums). John Megill is also known as a presenter on FM4 radio where he hosts “Sunny Side Up” on Sundays and holidays. Alex Deutsch, whose stage name is aleXdrum, was a founding member of the “Café Drechsler” jazz band. The three musicians of the young “The Anna Band” can look back on a very successful first year. The band was discovered in fall 2007 in the Berlin KenFM program on Fritz radio, and their first single “anna come take my hand” has been played on FM4 ever since. On the MAK NITE, the artists will present their new songs.
John Megill & The Anna Band invite to a MAK NITE live concert. The band was formed in spring 2007 and engaged shortly afterwards for a monthly performance at the Vienna music-scene place B72. The band consists of John Megill (vocals, guitar), Rafi D (bass) and Alex Deutsch (drums). John Megill is also known as a presenter on FM4 radio where he hosts “Sunny Side Up” on Sundays and holidays. Alex Deutsch, whose stage name is aleXdrum, was a founding member of the “Café Drechsler” jazz band. The three musicians of the young “The Anna Band” can look back on a very successful first year. The band was discovered in fall 2007 in the Berlin KenFM program on Fritz radio, and their first single “anna come take my hand” has been played on FM4 ever since. On the MAK NITE, the artists will present their new songs.
Götz Bury
Living the Good Life With Nothin’
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In his cooking performance “Living the Good Life With Nothin’”, the Hamburg-born artist Götz Bury offers a crash course for everybody who wants to learn to live without money. In a very instructive style, techniques will be taught that may be helpful for survival in globalized conditions. Götz Bury demonstrates how to make a cook’s outfit in the style of the legendary Paul Bocuse out of one’s last shirt and a cleaning rag, how to carve a cooking spoon out of a slat, and how to grind a piece of a stainless-steel sink into a blade. The program also includes different fire-making techniques and the making of delicious specialties such as saw-dust bread, slug toast, or grass soup. From holey socks, Bury makes wicks which are made with ski wax into romantic candles as a table decoration. At the end, visitors will be treated to a tasting.
Somewhere in Europe
Michael Vonbank
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The video series “Somewhere in Europe” which is presented in this MAK NITE explores enclaves of migrants in European big cities. In his videos, visual artist Michael Vonbank, born in Vorarlberg, shows everyday scenes from immigrant neighborhoods which provide the scenic backdrop of the film. In the foreground is “the voice of the people”: five interviews with real and fictitious people – hidden behind masks – reflect the whole range of opinions held by the majority populations, the so-called “native residents”, on migrants and migration. The central location of the video is Vienna’s Brunnenmarkt quarter.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Peter Gorsen (art historian and professor at the Vienna University of Applied Arts), Lucas Gehrmann (free-lance curator and art educator in Vienna), Roland Schütz (MASC FOUNDATION), and Michael Vonbank. Host: Claus Philipp (culture editor, Der Standard).
As of March, a monograph about the artist, “Michael Vonbank. Gegenwelten – eine Zusammenkunft. Arbeiten 2002–2008”, BUCHER Verlag, is available.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Peter Gorsen (art historian and professor at the Vienna University of Applied Arts), Lucas Gehrmann (free-lance curator and art educator in Vienna), Roland Schütz (MASC FOUNDATION), and Michael Vonbank. Host: Claus Philipp (culture editor, Der Standard).
As of March, a monograph about the artist, “Michael Vonbank. Gegenwelten – eine Zusammenkunft. Arbeiten 2002–2008”, BUCHER Verlag, is available.
female:pressure
Margaret Noble, Chra, Christina Nemec, Christina Goestl, jade, Michaela Schwentner, luma, Astrid Steiner
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For the ten-year anniversary of the "female:pressure" database the first DVD of the project is presented at the MAK NITE. "female:pressure" is an international database of female DJs, producers and visual artists in the sphere of electronic music. The community project was launched to give greater visibility to female artists in electronic music. The database offers a comprehensive list of female artists from the field of VJs (video jockeys, music video-clip announcers) and visual artists. Initiated by the "Verein Stadtimpuls", Vienna, an additional production platform - "open:sounds" - was established to strengthen the media presence of video jockeys. In collaboration with the video artists listed on "female:pressure", the DVD was compiled from music pieces pooled by "open:sounds". In the center of the evening will be live performances by the Los Angeles based artist Margaret Noble and the Viennese artist Christina Nemec alias Chra. The live concerts by the two female musicians will be complemented with live visuals by Christina Goestl alias c++, Michaela Schwentner alias jade, and Astrid Steiner alias luma. The complete DVD pressing run will be given away for free as a booster to improve the public presence of the "female:pressure" artists.
INTERIOR DESIGN
Miki Malör, Michael Strohmann, Yosi Wanunu
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An impressive insight into the life of the Austrian performance artist Miki Malör is given in the film “INTERIOR DESIGN”, which is presented on this MAK NITE. The performance artist has explored the subject of female desire for several years now. Miki Malör primarily works with her own body, which she often enacts in the nude and overdraws. In “INTERIOR DESIGN” she returns to works from previous years and reconstructs earlier performances for the film. In a tense sequence of images, the film documents her work. “INTERIOR DESIGN” was made in 2007 in cooperation with Israel-born director and stage designer Yosi Wanunu (toxic dreams) and the Austrian composer and interface designer Michael Strohmann.
LOW FREQUENCY ORCHESTRA expanded
Songs from Mortagapenija
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In the MAK NITE “Songs from Mortagapenija”, the “Low Frequenzy Orchestra”, conducted by the Vienna-based Slovenian musician Maja Osojnik, gives the premiere performance of a musical piece entitled “Mortagapenija”, which tells the story of a dreamland, accentuated by live-generated visual by the Viennese artist Michaela Grill.
The “Low Frequenzy Orchestra” was founded 2003 in Vienna as an ensemble for improvised and scored contemporary music, exploring the tonal possibilities of a combination of wood flutes, strings, percussion, and electronics. The individual musicians have their roots in widely diverse music styles, such as jazz, free jazz and contemporary music, which they fuse and combine in the improvisation. Through the collaboration with Michaela Grill, the performance at the MAK Exhibition Hall is made a fascinating synthesis of music and live visuals.
The “Low Frequenzy Orchestra” was founded 2003 in Vienna as an ensemble for improvised and scored contemporary music, exploring the tonal possibilities of a combination of wood flutes, strings, percussion, and electronics. The individual musicians have their roots in widely diverse music styles, such as jazz, free jazz and contemporary music, which they fuse and combine in the improvisation. Through the collaboration with Michaela Grill, the performance at the MAK Exhibition Hall is made a fascinating synthesis of music and live visuals.
EVERLASTING COLLECTION II
Susanne Bisovsky - Fashion show
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In her “Everlasting Collection 2” fashion show, the Austrian designer Susanne Bisovsky presents the ongoing development of her twelve “everlasting” pieces of clothing, giving an insight into her unusual approach to the subject of traditional costume. Susanne Bisovsky has found her home in fashion in working with Middle-European traditional costume. Fascinated by its richness of detail, materiality, and functionality, Bisovsky has worked on one and the same collection for more than twenty years and expanded it with a historical context. Concentrating on grown pieces of clothing that retain their value over years the artist’s position is directly antithetic to the modern throwaway society. The work of the designer was first presented by the MAK in 2005 already in the show “AUSTRIAN LOOK. Susanne Bisovsky: The Everlasting Collection”.
Bisovsky’s work outside the mainstream has already drawn the attention of international fashion houses: J. C. Castelbajac, Helmut Lang, Gössl, Kathleen Madden, Austrian Embroideries, or Sportalm have bought her designs.
Bisovsky’s work outside the mainstream has already drawn the attention of international fashion houses: J. C. Castelbajac, Helmut Lang, Gössl, Kathleen Madden, Austrian Embroideries, or Sportalm have bought her designs.
KARGOLOGY
by Bella Angora, Christian Falsnaes & So:ren
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In their performance entitlted “KARGOLOGY”, Bella Angora (Austria), Christian Falsnaes (Denmark) and So:ren Berner (Netherlands) explore interventions in the public realm. Since 2003, the three artists have pursued performance, installation, and graffiti projects together under the joint pseudonym of “Kargo”. They address social patterns and structures which they call into question in their projects. For “KARGOLOGY”, the group is planning a series of public interventions in Vienna, such as street performances and graffiti, in the context of which they will try to undercut, or modify, predefined structures in the public sphere. Their interventions will be documented on video; the recordings will be incorporated in video projections shown in an installation in the MAK Columned Main Hall. The performance will by accompanied with live music by the artists.
“Kargo” will also show this performance at the 2007 Istanbul Biennal.
“Kargo” will also show this performance at the 2007 Istanbul Biennal.
MAK Design Shop NOW
DJ Namouk, Rodney Hunter
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The MAK Design Shop is being reconfigured, sharpening its profile as the best place in town for extravagant design articles. As of September 7, the shop will be presenting itself with a new assortment of articles and a new architecture. Under the artistic direction of Peter Noever, Director MAK, architect Michael Wallraff developed a new architectural concept to heighten the successful shop profile in collaboration with Ewa Esterhazy, manager of the MAK Design Shop, and with the support of Lista Austria.
At the MAK NITE Special “MAK Design Shop NOW”, the reopening will be celebrated with a big party given on September 11 in cooperation with “soul seduction” for the music and design-interested public.
The opening-party music will be provided by DJ Namouk and Rodney Hunter of “soul seduction”. Rodney Hunter offers an exciting style mix from funk to electro, downtempo to house, and dub to hip-hop, while DJ Namouk stands for quieter and more relaxed sounds. The product assortment of the MAK Design Shop will be visualized in a live performance by „eYeM“.
At the MAK NITE Special “MAK Design Shop NOW”, the reopening will be celebrated with a big party given on September 11 in cooperation with “soul seduction” for the music and design-interested public.
The opening-party music will be provided by DJ Namouk and Rodney Hunter of “soul seduction”. Rodney Hunter offers an exciting style mix from funk to electro, downtempo to house, and dub to hip-hop, while DJ Namouk stands for quieter and more relaxed sounds. The product assortment of the MAK Design Shop will be visualized in a live performance by „eYeM“.
OPEN MOUTH - ODERFLAISMUS
Instructions for the sexual use of oral hygiene products by ALFREDO
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Anhand seines jüngsten Werks „Open Mouth“ beschreibt der bildende Künstler und MAK-Schindler-Stipendiat (2006) Alfredo Barsuglia im Rahmen der MAK NITE „ODERFLAISMUS“ die unbedachten, sexuell konnotierten Aspekte der Mundhygiene. Seit 2003 befasst sich der gebürtige Grazer in verschiedenen Medien wie Installation, Objekt, Malerei, Grafik und Video mit Mundhygiene. Zähne betrachtet der Künstler als Statussymbol, als Zeichen von Schönheit, Gesundheit und Wohlstand.
„Open Mouth“ ist ein Pornobuch, das den Zusammenhang zwischen Oral-Hygiene und Oral-Sexualität – von Barsuglia „Oderflaismus“ bezeichnet – subtil und vielschichtig beschreibt. Mit Zeichnungen von sexuell stimulierenden Hilfsmitteln illustriert er seine Erörterungen zum „Oderflaismus“. Nach einer Lesung aus „Open Mouth“ ist die Verfilmung des Werks zu sehen.
„Open Mouth“ ist ein Pornobuch, das den Zusammenhang zwischen Oral-Hygiene und Oral-Sexualität – von Barsuglia „Oderflaismus“ bezeichnet – subtil und vielschichtig beschreibt. Mit Zeichnungen von sexuell stimulierenden Hilfsmitteln illustriert er seine Erörterungen zum „Oderflaismus“. Nach einer Lesung aus „Open Mouth“ ist die Verfilmung des Werks zu sehen.
microscopic view part 2
Doris Stelzer, Bettina Frenzel
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In der Performance „MICROSCOPIC VIEW PART 2“ begeben sich die Choreografin und Tänzerin Doris Stelzer und die Fotografin Bettina Frenzel auf eine anatomische Spurensuche nach ungewöhnlichen Blickwinkeln auf den menschlichen Körper sowie nach neuen Präsentationsformen für die menschliche Physis. Die Aufführung wurde erstmals 2005 im „die theater Künstlerhaus“ gezeigt und wird im Rahmen der MAK NITE neu interpretiert. Unsichtbares lässt die Tänzerin Lieve De Pourcq in der von Stelzer choreografierten Performance in der MAK-Ausstellungshalle sichtbar erscheinen. Parallel zur Tanzaufführung sind Videoprojektionen zu sehen, die Aufnahmen von Bettina Frenzel zeigen. Aus unterschiedlichsten Perspektiven dokumentieren ihre Fotografien Tanzbewegungen und einzelne, schwer zuordenbare Körperteile. Tanz und projizierte Fotografie treten in „MICROSCOPIC VIEW PART 2“ in einen intensiven Dialog.
Spider House / Bride of Frankenstein
Mariela Gemisheva & Jasper Gardiva
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Die bulgarische Designerin Mariela Gemisheva und der englische Modemacher Japser Garvida stellen in der MAK NITE fashion aktuellste Kollektionen vor. Die von Mariela Gemisheva geleitete Design-Klasse der Nationalen Kunst Akademie Sofia hat unter dem Label der Künstlerin eine Sommerkollektion mit dem Titel „Spider’s House“ entworfen. Symbolhaft zu Mustern von Spinnennetzen verwobene Linien, Figuren, Bedeutungen und Legenden bestechen in den Kreationen, deren Schnitt sich an der Form von Schirmen orientiert. Jasper Garvida ließ sich in seiner ersten Prêt-à-porter-Kollektion „Bride of Frankenstein“ (Herbst/Winter 2007/08) von Gustav Klimts sinnlichen Musen und Hans Bellmers erotisierenden Darstellungen weiblicher Körper inspirieren. In Anlehnung an Bellmers Illustrationen sind seine Kreationen, die auf bestickten und mit Spitzenbesatz versehenen Stoffen basieren, vor allem in schwarz und weiß gehalten.
Mariela Gemisheva (Bulgarien, Sofia), "Spider House" Jasper Gervida (UK, London), "Bride of Frankenstein" Modepräsentation (Gastkuratorin: Jasmin Ladenhaufen)
Mariela Gemisheva (Bulgarien, Sofia), "Spider House" Jasper Gervida (UK, London), "Bride of Frankenstein" Modepräsentation (Gastkuratorin: Jasmin Ladenhaufen)
SOAP&SKIN
Anja Plaschg, Fritz Ostermayer
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Die berührenden Pop-Elegien der 17-jährigen Musikerin Anja Plaschg stehen im Zentrum der MAK NITE „SOAP&SKIN“. Mit ihrem Repertoire, von Musik über Fotos bis zu Videos, ist Anja Plaschg alias „SOAP&SKIN“ eine seltene Kombination aus musikalischer Virtuosität und visueller Ausdruckskraft. Die aus dem südsteirischen Gnas stammende Newcomerin schreibt höchst intime Songs. Ihre tragenden Elemente Klavier, Geige und Stimme kombiniert sie mit elektronischer Musik und Soundkollagen aus Alltagsgeräuschen. Gesampeltes Babygeschrei oder die Geräusche aus dem elterlichen Schweinemastbetrieb gehören zum elektronischen Gerüst. Ihre leisen, melancholischen Melodien thematisieren Nacht, Finsternis, Einsamkeit und Tod. Nach der ersten Veröffentlichung im Berliner Electronic Label „Shitkatapult“ von T.Raumschmiere arbeitet Anja Plaschg derzeit an ihrem Debutalbum.
Im Anschluss an das „SOAP&SKIN“-Konzert legt FM4-DJ Fritz Ostermayer live in der MAK-Säulenhalle auf.
Im Anschluss an das „SOAP&SKIN“-Konzert legt FM4-DJ Fritz Ostermayer live in der MAK-Säulenhalle auf.
REVERSE KARAOKE
by Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether
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Eine Kooperation mit den Wiener Festwochen 2007.
Mit „Reverse Karaoke“ laden die beiden in New York lebenden Künstlerinnen Kim Gordon und Jutta Koether das MAK NITE-Publikum zur Teilnahme an einer außergewöhnlichen CD-Produktion. Als Aufnahmestation dient ein Jurtezelt in der MAK-Säulenhalle, in dem Musikinstrumente und Aufnahmegeräte installiert werden. Ergänzend zur musikalischen Ausstattung wird der Innenraum des Zeltes mit Leinwänden, Glitter, Holz, Samt und falschem Pelz geschmückt. In diesem romantisch, exotischen Ambiente wird das Publikum frei nach dem Do-It-Yourself-Prinzip zum Musizieren aufgefordert. Anweisungen und Informationen erhalten die Besucher über ein Video mit Kim Gordon und Jutta Koether. Die Musikbeiträge des Publikums werden mitgeschnitten und auf zwei CDs gebrannt, anschließend wird gemeinsam das CD-Cover gestaltet. Die Besucher können eine CD mitnehmen, die zweite CD geht in die „Reverse Karaoke“-Sammlung über.
„Reverse-Karaoke“ verbleibt im Anschluss an die MAK NITE bis zum 22. Mai 2007, als temporäre Installation in der MAK-Säulenhalle.
Mit „Reverse Karaoke“ laden die beiden in New York lebenden Künstlerinnen Kim Gordon und Jutta Koether das MAK NITE-Publikum zur Teilnahme an einer außergewöhnlichen CD-Produktion. Als Aufnahmestation dient ein Jurtezelt in der MAK-Säulenhalle, in dem Musikinstrumente und Aufnahmegeräte installiert werden. Ergänzend zur musikalischen Ausstattung wird der Innenraum des Zeltes mit Leinwänden, Glitter, Holz, Samt und falschem Pelz geschmückt. In diesem romantisch, exotischen Ambiente wird das Publikum frei nach dem Do-It-Yourself-Prinzip zum Musizieren aufgefordert. Anweisungen und Informationen erhalten die Besucher über ein Video mit Kim Gordon und Jutta Koether. Die Musikbeiträge des Publikums werden mitgeschnitten und auf zwei CDs gebrannt, anschließend wird gemeinsam das CD-Cover gestaltet. Die Besucher können eine CD mitnehmen, die zweite CD geht in die „Reverse Karaoke“-Sammlung über.
„Reverse-Karaoke“ verbleibt im Anschluss an die MAK NITE bis zum 22. Mai 2007, als temporäre Installation in der MAK-Säulenhalle.
Florian Ladstätter
Les Fleurs du Mal
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Extravaganten Schmuck an der Grenze zur Morbidität zeigt der Schmuckdesigner Florian Ladstätter in der MAK-Ausstellung „Les Fleurs du Mal“. Nicht zufällig lehnt Ladstätter den Ausstellungstitel an den Gedichtzyklus von Charles Baudelaire an, der ihm im 19. Jahrhundert eine Klage wegen Sittenwidrigkeit einbrachte. Die Objekte evozieren Assoziationen zu Erotik und Fetisch, Beklemmung und Horror, die Designs reichen von einfachen Ketten und Broschen über Körper umfassende Strukturen bis hin zu Skulpturen, die, so Ladstätter, "ein Benutzer in physische Beziehung zum eigenen Körper bringen will“. Silberne, pinke und schwarze Materialien dominieren die Schau, mit der Ladstätter keinerlei Retrospektive, sondern eine Vorschau auf neue Kollektionsteile bieten will. Elegante, mit Perlen und Swarovski-Kristallen gefertigte Designs stehen Kreationen aus schwarzen Seilen gegenüber, die an Fesseln erinnern. Schmuckstücke aus Chrom und rosa Kunststoff wecken Cyborg-Phantasien, während organisch geformte Broschen lüsterne Phantasien wecken.
Im Anschluss an die Ausstellungseröffnung gibt es in der MAK-Säulenhalle ab 21.00 Uhr die MAK NITE „Gothic Party“ mit einer unkonventionellen Schmuckpräsentation, begleitet von einer elektronischen Musikinszenierung.
Im Anschluss an die Ausstellungseröffnung gibt es in der MAK-Säulenhalle ab 21.00 Uhr die MAK NITE „Gothic Party“ mit einer unkonventionellen Schmuckpräsentation, begleitet von einer elektronischen Musikinszenierung.
Happy Kitchen or Amplitudes of the Obligatory Space
by Jurij Novoselic and Hans Joachim Roedelius
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Ein musikalischer Mix aus Geräuschen von elektrischen Küchengeräten und der Musik von Jurij Novoselic (Saxofon), Hans Joachim Roedelius (Kavier, Keyboards) und Stephan Steiner (Nyckelharfe, Drehleier, Geige, Accordeon) steht im Zentrum der MAK NITE „Happy Kitchen“. Die Musikperformance wurde von Joachim Roedelius und Juri Novoselic für die Biennale Zagreb (2003) entwickelt. Im Rahmen der MAK NITE wird die Aktion neu aufgeführt. Die Musiker und Performer installieren dafür in der MAK-Säulenhalle ein Appartement, das aus Küche, Wohn- und Schlafraum besteht. Als Einrichtungsgegenstände dienen die Musikinstrumente. Im Vordergrund der Aktion steht das Wirken in der Küche. Für das musikalische Werk vermischen sie die Klänge der elektrischen Küchengeräte mit dem Lärm von der Straße. Gezielt lassen sie instrumentale Musik in das Gemisch aus unterschiedlichen Tönen und Klängen des täglichen Lebens einfließen. Die Besucher sind bei der Aufführung von „Happy Kitchen“ zum Essen und Zuhören eingeladen.
Wenn die Göttin ruft ...
by "Göttin des Glücks" (Goddess of luck)
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Vier Designerinnen aus Sofia, Zagreb, Baden und Wien, die 2005 das Label „Göttin des Glücks“ gegründet haben, präsentieren mit frischen Ansagen gemeinsam mit EZA Fairer Handel die erste ökofaire Modekollektion Österreichs. Soziale Verantwortung und Umweltbewußtsein, genial verpackt, in der neuen „GDG“ Sommerkollektion zum Thema „Danke mir gehts gut“. Aus vorgefertigten Schnittmustern, die am Boden aufliegen, können die Besucher ein Kleidungsstück ausschneiden und anschließend nähen und bedrucken lassen. Die Aktion wird von einem improvisierten Sprechtheater begleitet, das die Besucher spontan miteinbezieht. In diesem Geschehen werden Models die neue Kollektion präsentieren.
4 Wohlfühlstationen / Glückslose / improvisiertes Sprechtheater
Dessi Stoytcheva, Igor Sapic, Monika Bledl, Lisa Muhr
4 Wohlfühlstationen / Glückslose / improvisiertes Sprechtheater
Dessi Stoytcheva, Igor Sapic, Monika Bledl, Lisa Muhr
KMET - Electric Songs
guitar, vocals, 100% live-loops
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Mit seiner Stimme, einer Gitarre und einer reduzierten elektronischen Geräteausstattung lädt Florian Kmet in seiner Soloshow „Electric Songs“ die MAK-Säulenhalle akustisch auf. Basierend auf minutiös geplantem Zeitmanagement und perfektem musikalischen Handwerk lässt der Tiroler Musiker und Songwriter akustische Gitarrenklänge, Live-Loops und groovende „vocal mouth percussion“ (dabei imitiert er mit seiner Stimme den Klang eines Schlagzeuges) aufeinander treffen und die Illusion einer virtuellen Band entstehen. Mit trockenem Humor singt er dazu über halsbrecherische Mofafahrten und erotische Eskapaden auf französischen Parkplätzen. Schicht um Schicht verdichten sich die Klänge und Sounds über einen Live-Sampler zu einem virtuosen Musikerlebnis.
Florian KMET übersiedelte mit 18 Jahren für drei Jahre nach New York, um dort mit Rockbands in den East Village Clubs zu spielen. Heute ist er in der Wiener Szene zwischen Elektropop, Neuer Musik und Improvisation angesiedelt und spielt bei den Wiener Bands lokai (mit Stefan Németh – radian) und superlooper.
Im Anschluss an die Musikpräsentation legt Florian Horvath auf. Mit seinem Album „We Are All Gold“ zählt der Songwriter zu einer der großen Überraschung des Pop-Jahres 2005. Seine Musik lehnt sich an Klassiker wie Cat Stevens, Neil Young und Roky Erickson an.
Florian KMET übersiedelte mit 18 Jahren für drei Jahre nach New York, um dort mit Rockbands in den East Village Clubs zu spielen. Heute ist er in der Wiener Szene zwischen Elektropop, Neuer Musik und Improvisation angesiedelt und spielt bei den Wiener Bands lokai (mit Stefan Németh – radian) und superlooper.
Im Anschluss an die Musikpräsentation legt Florian Horvath auf. Mit seinem Album „We Are All Gold“ zählt der Songwriter zu einer der großen Überraschung des Pop-Jahres 2005. Seine Musik lehnt sich an Klassiker wie Cat Stevens, Neil Young und Roky Erickson an.
100 % pARTy
by Matsune & Subal
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In Kooperation mit imagetanz 2007
Die Grenzen des Formats Performance loten Matsune & Subal mit einer Fake-Strand-Party in der MAK-Säulenhalle aus. Seit 2004 setzen sich der in Japan geborene, in Wien lebende Künstler Michikazu Matsune und der Wiener Künstler David Subal als Duo mit künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen, Konventionen und Rezeptionsmustern auseinander. Spielerisch hinterfragen sie gesellschaftlich determinierte Strukturen und Handlungsweisen, die Rolle der Künstler und der Kunst. Mit ihrer „100 % pARTy“ im MAK lassen sie Performance, Installation, Musik und Gewinnspiel aufeinander treffen und mit dem Publikum in Interaktion treten. Das Publikum ist nicht passiv, sondern vervollständigt durch seine direkte Teilnahme das performative Partygeschehen. Die inszenierte Zeremonie der Feier als gesellschaftlicher Event im MAK konterkariert zudem die Konventionen des Ortes Museum.
Höhepunkt der „100 % pARTy“ ist die Verlosung einer Wochenendreise nach Ibiza (23.–25. März 2007) gemeinsam mit Matsune & Subal. Der Aufenthalt wird dokumentiert und anschließend auf der Homepage des Künstlerduos und in einer eigenen Broschüre veröffentlicht.
Die Grenzen des Formats Performance loten Matsune & Subal mit einer Fake-Strand-Party in der MAK-Säulenhalle aus. Seit 2004 setzen sich der in Japan geborene, in Wien lebende Künstler Michikazu Matsune und der Wiener Künstler David Subal als Duo mit künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen, Konventionen und Rezeptionsmustern auseinander. Spielerisch hinterfragen sie gesellschaftlich determinierte Strukturen und Handlungsweisen, die Rolle der Künstler und der Kunst. Mit ihrer „100 % pARTy“ im MAK lassen sie Performance, Installation, Musik und Gewinnspiel aufeinander treffen und mit dem Publikum in Interaktion treten. Das Publikum ist nicht passiv, sondern vervollständigt durch seine direkte Teilnahme das performative Partygeschehen. Die inszenierte Zeremonie der Feier als gesellschaftlicher Event im MAK konterkariert zudem die Konventionen des Ortes Museum.
Höhepunkt der „100 % pARTy“ ist die Verlosung einer Wochenendreise nach Ibiza (23.–25. März 2007) gemeinsam mit Matsune & Subal. Der Aufenthalt wird dokumentiert und anschließend auf der Homepage des Künstlerduos und in einer eigenen Broschüre veröffentlicht.
S-s-s-s-s-snaking, the Height of Knowledge vs. Reptile Habits
by Karl Holmqvist
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Im Rahmen der Ausstellung Elke Krystufek. LIQUID LOGIC Eine Lecture-Performance von Karl Holmqvist bildet (nach „DONAT & JAYE. Let me say your name/you can’t call me bitch! Jaye-KlitClique“, 23.01.2007 und Sands Murray-Wassinks „Arsch versus Schwanz: ‚Male Models’“, 13.02.2007) das Finale der dreiteiligen Serie zur Ausstellung „Elke Krystufek. Liquid Logic“. Künstler, die in einem inhaltlichen und künstlerischen Nahverhältnis zu Elke Krystufek stehen, wurden eingeladen, im Kontext der Ausstellung eine MAK NITE zu gestalten.
In „S-s-s-s-s-snaking, the Height of Knowledge vs. Reptile Habits“ blickt der schwedische Schriftsteller und Künstler Karl Holmqvist in die Denkmuster des Reptilienhirns. Seine Lecture-Performance basiert auf einem der Gehirntexte, den er für die in der Ausstellung „LIQUID LOGIC“ gezeigte Skulptur „Proper Use“ verfasste. Fragen zu patriarchalischen Denkmustern, religiösen und gesellschaftlichen Normen sowie intuitiven versus logischen Gedankengängen thematisiert Krystufek mit diesem Objekt, das aus zwei menschengroßen Gehirnhälften besteht. Als Gehirn ermöglicht „Proper Use“ auch Gegendenken. Mit „S-s-s-s-s-snaking“ reflektiert Karl Holmqvist diese Themen basierend auf den Gedanken, Betrachtungen und Gewohnheiten der Schlange. Im Rahmen der MAK NITE zitiert er aus „S-s-s-s-s-snaking“ und anderen Texten in diesem Kontext. Außerdem ist der Film „s-s-s-snaking“ (1992) von Pierre Joseph and Philippe Parreno zu sehen.
In „S-s-s-s-s-snaking, the Height of Knowledge vs. Reptile Habits“ blickt der schwedische Schriftsteller und Künstler Karl Holmqvist in die Denkmuster des Reptilienhirns. Seine Lecture-Performance basiert auf einem der Gehirntexte, den er für die in der Ausstellung „LIQUID LOGIC“ gezeigte Skulptur „Proper Use“ verfasste. Fragen zu patriarchalischen Denkmustern, religiösen und gesellschaftlichen Normen sowie intuitiven versus logischen Gedankengängen thematisiert Krystufek mit diesem Objekt, das aus zwei menschengroßen Gehirnhälften besteht. Als Gehirn ermöglicht „Proper Use“ auch Gegendenken. Mit „S-s-s-s-s-snaking“ reflektiert Karl Holmqvist diese Themen basierend auf den Gedanken, Betrachtungen und Gewohnheiten der Schlange. Im Rahmen der MAK NITE zitiert er aus „S-s-s-s-s-snaking“ und anderen Texten in diesem Kontext. Außerdem ist der Film „s-s-s-snaking“ (1992) von Pierre Joseph and Philippe Parreno zu sehen.
TOMAK + ZUREK
3 Groschen für ein Halleluja
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Eine in die Goschen Oper ohne Beule
Anlässlich des 75-jährigen Jubiläums der Verfilmung der „Dreigroschenoper“ lädt das Künstlerduo Tomak + Zurek im Rahmen der MAK NITE zur Theaterperformance und Ausstellung „3 Groschen für ein Halleluja. Eine in die Goschen Oper ohne Beule“. Tomak + Zurek, die seit 1999 unter Einbezug unterschiedlicher Kunstrichtungen gemeinsame Projekte realisieren, inszenieren die „Dreigroschenoper” nach dem 1931 entstandenen Drehbuch des österreichischen Filmregisseurs G. W. Pabst. Bewusst beziehen sich die Künstler nicht auf die Originalversion von Bertolt Brecht, der mit der späteren Verfilmung nicht einverstanden war. Brecht sah für die Kinoadaption seines Stücks eine Verstärkung der politischen Akzenturierung und den neuen Titel „Die Beule” vor. Die Filmgesellschaft war mit dieser Änderung nicht einverstanden, G. W. Pabst wurde mit der Regie beauftragt. Texte aus der Verfilmung der „Dreigroschenoper“ kombinieren Tomak + Zurek in „3 Groschen für ein Halleluja“ auf humorvolle und karikierende Weise mit Sprüchen aus Bud Spencer & Terence Hill-Filmen. Mit eigenen Zuhälterszenen zeichnen sie das Milieu – wie in der „Dreigroschenoper” beschrieben – im heutigen Wien nach. Ergänzend zur Aufführung präsentieren Tomak + Zurek ihre Gemäldeserie, die zu Bud Spencer & Terence Hill entstanden ist.
Anlässlich des 75-jährigen Jubiläums der Verfilmung der „Dreigroschenoper“ lädt das Künstlerduo Tomak + Zurek im Rahmen der MAK NITE zur Theaterperformance und Ausstellung „3 Groschen für ein Halleluja. Eine in die Goschen Oper ohne Beule“. Tomak + Zurek, die seit 1999 unter Einbezug unterschiedlicher Kunstrichtungen gemeinsame Projekte realisieren, inszenieren die „Dreigroschenoper” nach dem 1931 entstandenen Drehbuch des österreichischen Filmregisseurs G. W. Pabst. Bewusst beziehen sich die Künstler nicht auf die Originalversion von Bertolt Brecht, der mit der späteren Verfilmung nicht einverstanden war. Brecht sah für die Kinoadaption seines Stücks eine Verstärkung der politischen Akzenturierung und den neuen Titel „Die Beule” vor. Die Filmgesellschaft war mit dieser Änderung nicht einverstanden, G. W. Pabst wurde mit der Regie beauftragt. Texte aus der Verfilmung der „Dreigroschenoper“ kombinieren Tomak + Zurek in „3 Groschen für ein Halleluja“ auf humorvolle und karikierende Weise mit Sprüchen aus Bud Spencer & Terence Hill-Filmen. Mit eigenen Zuhälterszenen zeichnen sie das Milieu – wie in der „Dreigroschenoper” beschrieben – im heutigen Wien nach. Ergänzend zur Aufführung präsentieren Tomak + Zurek ihre Gemäldeserie, die zu Bud Spencer & Terence Hill entstanden ist.
ARSCH VERSUS SCHWANZ: MALE MODELS
Sands Murray-Wassink
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Eine Performance von Sands Murray-Wassink setzt (nach „DONAT & JAYE. Let me say your name/you can’t call me bitch! Jaye-KlitClique“, 23.1.2007) die dreiteilige Serie zur Ausstellung „Elke Krystufek. Liquid Logic“ fort. Künstler, die in einem inhaltlichen und künstlerischen Nahverhältnis zu Elke Krystufek stehen, gestalten im Kontext der Ausstellung eine MAK NITE.
„Arsch versus Schwanz: ‚Male Models’“ titelt der gebürtige Amerikaner und in Amsterdam lebende Künstler Sands Murray-Wassink seine Aktion in der MAK-Säulenhalle. Sands Murray-Wassink setzt sich mit Tabus und Vorurteilen auseinander und thematisiert immer wieder die gesellschaftliche Situation der Gay-Communitiy in den USA. Mit seiner künstlerischen Arbeit zu den Themen Sexualität und Identität bezieht er sich auf Pioniere der feministisch deteminierten Kunst und Theoriebildung wie Carolee Schneemann und Valie Export.
Im Zentrum von „ARSCH VERSUS SCHWANZ: ‚MALE MODELS“ steht das Thema Homosexualität. Mit ausgewählten, sich zur Homosexualität bekennenden Fashionmodels stellt er eine Laufsteg-Situation her. Im Unterschied zu einer klassischen Modeschau werden die Models live auf der Bühne zum Thema Homosexualität befragt. Videoszenen aus Gay-Porno-Filmen sowie Interview-Dokumente zum Thema ergänzen die Performance. Gezielt setzt Sands auch Gerüche ein und spielt mit der Ambivalenz zwischen Peinlichkeit und Vertrautem.
„Arsch versus Schwanz: ‚Male Models’“ titelt der gebürtige Amerikaner und in Amsterdam lebende Künstler Sands Murray-Wassink seine Aktion in der MAK-Säulenhalle. Sands Murray-Wassink setzt sich mit Tabus und Vorurteilen auseinander und thematisiert immer wieder die gesellschaftliche Situation der Gay-Communitiy in den USA. Mit seiner künstlerischen Arbeit zu den Themen Sexualität und Identität bezieht er sich auf Pioniere der feministisch deteminierten Kunst und Theoriebildung wie Carolee Schneemann und Valie Export.
Im Zentrum von „ARSCH VERSUS SCHWANZ: ‚MALE MODELS“ steht das Thema Homosexualität. Mit ausgewählten, sich zur Homosexualität bekennenden Fashionmodels stellt er eine Laufsteg-Situation her. Im Unterschied zu einer klassischen Modeschau werden die Models live auf der Bühne zum Thema Homosexualität befragt. Videoszenen aus Gay-Porno-Filmen sowie Interview-Dokumente zum Thema ergänzen die Performance. Gezielt setzt Sands auch Gerüche ein und spielt mit der Ambivalenz zwischen Peinlichkeit und Vertrautem.
ICH 08: IMMER AUF STANDBY
EMT/John Birke, vier Stimmen
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Oliver Augst, Stimme, electronics / John Birke, Text, Stimme / Michaela Ehinger, Stimme / Marcel Daemgen, electronics, sampling
Eine außergewöhnliche Musikperformance zeigen das EMT electronic music theater (Oliver Augst, Marcel Daemgen, Michaela Ehinger) aus Frankfurt und der Autor John Birke mit der Aufführung „Ich 08: Immer auf Standby“. Das Werk, das das „Ich“ ins Zentrum rückt, entstand in Koproduktion mit dem steirischen herbst in Graz und dem Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt. An beiden Orten wurde es im Jahr 2006 mit unterschiedlichen Akzenten inszeniert. „Die Arbeit an ‚Ich’ fängt nirgendwo an und hört niemals auf“, erklärt Oliver Augst. In der MAK-Säulenhalle treten die vier Akteure dem Publikum frontal entgegen. Als puristisches Szenario dient eine Tischreihe mit Mikrofonen, kleinen Mischpulten, einem Laptop und einer Folien-Tastatur. Texte von John Birke sowie von ihm ausgewählte Fragmente aus Werken des deutschen Schriftstellers Karl May bilden die Grundlage der Performance. Der Autor selbst und Michaela Ehinger rezitieren die Texte, die elektronisch verändert und gesampelt werden. Die Stimme als einziges Instrument mutiert zum Stimmkonzert. Die gesamte Vorstellung bedient sich subtiler Manipulation: Manipulation der Sprecher durch den Text, des Textes durch die Stimme, der Stimme durch die Elektronik.
In Koproduktion mit steirischer herbst und Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
Eine außergewöhnliche Musikperformance zeigen das EMT electronic music theater (Oliver Augst, Marcel Daemgen, Michaela Ehinger) aus Frankfurt und der Autor John Birke mit der Aufführung „Ich 08: Immer auf Standby“. Das Werk, das das „Ich“ ins Zentrum rückt, entstand in Koproduktion mit dem steirischen herbst in Graz und dem Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt. An beiden Orten wurde es im Jahr 2006 mit unterschiedlichen Akzenten inszeniert. „Die Arbeit an ‚Ich’ fängt nirgendwo an und hört niemals auf“, erklärt Oliver Augst. In der MAK-Säulenhalle treten die vier Akteure dem Publikum frontal entgegen. Als puristisches Szenario dient eine Tischreihe mit Mikrofonen, kleinen Mischpulten, einem Laptop und einer Folien-Tastatur. Texte von John Birke sowie von ihm ausgewählte Fragmente aus Werken des deutschen Schriftstellers Karl May bilden die Grundlage der Performance. Der Autor selbst und Michaela Ehinger rezitieren die Texte, die elektronisch verändert und gesampelt werden. Die Stimme als einziges Instrument mutiert zum Stimmkonzert. Die gesamte Vorstellung bedient sich subtiler Manipulation: Manipulation der Sprecher durch den Text, des Textes durch die Stimme, der Stimme durch die Elektronik.
In Koproduktion mit steirischer herbst und Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.
Rediscovering Argentine Silent Cinema: 1900-1924
Alan Courtis & Manfred Hofer
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Der argentinische Gitarrist und Klangkünstler Alan Courtis und der österreichische Komponist und Solokünstler Manfred Hofer improvisieren live zu argentinischen Stummfilmen. Alan Courtis, bekannt geworden als Mitglied der Band „Reynols“, befindet sich auf Europa-Tournee und gastiert für einen Abend im MAK. Sein Repertoire umfasst Improvisation, Noise und Neue Musik, wobei er sich auch von lokalen Traditionen seiner Heimat, wie unter anderem der Spiritualität der Inkas, inspirieren lässt. Sein Partner an diesem Abend, Manfred Hofer, ist als „Groovemaschine“ und Bandmitglied von Wolfgang „I-Wolf“ Schlögl bekannt. Die 35mm Filme, die zwischen 1900 und 1924 entstanden sind, bestehen aus einzelnen kurzen Szenen. Die meisten stammen von unbekannten Filmemachern und wurden schon lange nicht mehr öffentlich präsentiert. Im Rahmen der MAK NITE werden die Filme auf vier Leinwände projiziert. Die Live-Improvisation dazu basiert auf experimentellen Bässen und abstrakten Geräuschen.
Auszüge aus folgenden Filmen sind zu sehen: La Creación del Himno (1910) & La Revolución de Mayo (1910) von Mario Gallo, El Ascenso del Globo Huracán, Festejos del Centenario de la Revolución (1910) – unbekannter Regisseur –, La Pampa (1922) und Exposición de la Industria (1924) von Federico Valle, Vistas y Actualidades (1910–1916) produziert von Max Glücksmann.
Eine Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit aRtonal / interferenz.
Auszüge aus folgenden Filmen sind zu sehen: La Creación del Himno (1910) & La Revolución de Mayo (1910) von Mario Gallo, El Ascenso del Globo Huracán, Festejos del Centenario de la Revolución (1910) – unbekannter Regisseur –, La Pampa (1922) und Exposición de la Industria (1924) von Federico Valle, Vistas y Actualidades (1910–1916) produziert von Max Glücksmann.
Eine Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit aRtonal / interferenz.
Let me say your name/you can't call me bitch!
DONAT & JAYE
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Live-Konzert von Donat und Schlampendekonstruktionsperformance von Jaye. Im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Elke Krystufek. Liquid Logic“.
Vier Künstler, die in einem inhaltlichen und künstlerischen Nahverhältnis zu Elke Krystufek stehen und von ihr selbst ausgewählt wurden, gestalten im Kontext der Ausstellung „Elke Krystufek. Liquid Logic“ drei Abende im Rahmen der MAK NITE.
Den Auftakt zu dieser Serie bilden ein Live-Konzert des Musikers und Filmemachers Donat Orovac sowie eine Performance der Graffiti-Künstlerin Jaye. Donat präsentiert live die CD „let me say your name“, die anlässlich der Ausstellung „Liquid Logic“ aufgenommen wurde und Lieder und Texte für den Film „Dr. Love on Easter Island“ enthält. Als Kameramann sowie Komponist der Filmmusik leistete Donat in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Elke Krystufek einen wesentlichen Beitrag zu diesem Film. Während Donats Live-Konzert wird die Künstlerin Jaye, eine Studentin von Elke Krystufek, ein großes Graffiti-Gemälde in der MAK-Säulenhalle anfertigen. Jaye setzt sich in ihren Arbeiten vorwiegend mit feministischen Themen auseinander und stellt immer wieder die männliche Dominanz in der Graffiti- und Hip-Hop-Szene in Frage.
Die dreiteilige MAK NITE zur Ausstellung „Elke Krystufek. Liquid Logic“ wird am 13. Februar 2006 mit Sands Murray-Wassinks „Arsch versus Schwanz: Male Models“ und am 13. März 2007 mit „S-s-s-s-s-snaking, the Height of Knowledge vs. Reptile Habits“ fortgesetzt.
Vier Künstler, die in einem inhaltlichen und künstlerischen Nahverhältnis zu Elke Krystufek stehen und von ihr selbst ausgewählt wurden, gestalten im Kontext der Ausstellung „Elke Krystufek. Liquid Logic“ drei Abende im Rahmen der MAK NITE.
Den Auftakt zu dieser Serie bilden ein Live-Konzert des Musikers und Filmemachers Donat Orovac sowie eine Performance der Graffiti-Künstlerin Jaye. Donat präsentiert live die CD „let me say your name“, die anlässlich der Ausstellung „Liquid Logic“ aufgenommen wurde und Lieder und Texte für den Film „Dr. Love on Easter Island“ enthält. Als Kameramann sowie Komponist der Filmmusik leistete Donat in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Elke Krystufek einen wesentlichen Beitrag zu diesem Film. Während Donats Live-Konzert wird die Künstlerin Jaye, eine Studentin von Elke Krystufek, ein großes Graffiti-Gemälde in der MAK-Säulenhalle anfertigen. Jaye setzt sich in ihren Arbeiten vorwiegend mit feministischen Themen auseinander und stellt immer wieder die männliche Dominanz in der Graffiti- und Hip-Hop-Szene in Frage.
Die dreiteilige MAK NITE zur Ausstellung „Elke Krystufek. Liquid Logic“ wird am 13. Februar 2006 mit Sands Murray-Wassinks „Arsch versus Schwanz: Male Models“ und am 13. März 2007 mit „S-s-s-s-s-snaking, the Height of Knowledge vs. Reptile Habits“ fortgesetzt.
UN/FOLDING THE FOLD
by art point + toxic dreams
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Eine unkonventionelle Modeschau der Designerin Lena Kvadrat und der Theatergruppe „toxic dreams“ steht im Zentrum der MAK NITE „Un/folding the Fold“. Lena Kvadrat präsentiert an diesem Abend ihre neueste Kollektion „THE_FOLD“, die im 1993 von Kvadrat in Moskau gegründeten Label „art point“ erschienen ist. Kleidung versteht die Künstlerin als Kommunikationsmittel, das dem Gegenüber direkte und verschlüsselte Signale übermittelt. Jede „art point“-Kollektion ist einem bestimmten Thema gewidmet und wirft mit der Sprache der Mode Fragestellungen auf. Unverwechselbar ist die Ornamentik, die vorwiegend aus dem urbanen Leben genommen und in einen neuen Kontext gestellt wird. „THE_FOLD“ beleuchtet, wie der Titel der Kollektion verrät, verschiedene Aspekte der Falte.
Konzept und Realisierung Lena Kvadrat und Yosi Wanunu
Performerinnen Irene Coticchio und Anna Mendelssohn
Musik Martin Siewert
Video Wolfgang Bittner, Yosi Wanunu
Haare & Make Up Pen's Bungalow
Produktion Kornelia Kilga
Konzept und Realisierung Lena Kvadrat und Yosi Wanunu
Performerinnen Irene Coticchio und Anna Mendelssohn
Musik Martin Siewert
Video Wolfgang Bittner, Yosi Wanunu
Haare & Make Up Pen's Bungalow
Produktion Kornelia Kilga
untitled colors
by NotTheSameColor and untitled 1&2
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In the sound and video performance “untitled colors”, two live video-sound duos experiment with audio and video signals. In their work, the two groups, “NotTheSameColor” and “untitled 1&2”, combine sound, video, and body movement. Audio and video signals take on new meanings, individual sounds are transformed into images and video signals into sounds. In the MAK NITE live performance, Benedict Drew and Emma Hart run a 15-meter strip of film through the strings of an electric guitar which is thus made to produce sounds. In parallel, a film is screened. The combination of different audio and video instruments creates an exceptional interplay of sound and image in the performance.
An event in cooperation with imagetanz 08.
An event in cooperation with imagetanz 08.
BECUADRO
Bernhard Gál
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In the center of the MAK NITE is the world premiere of Bernhard Gál’s composition entitled “becuadro”. The Vienna based composer and media artist counts among the most active and versatile sound artists of the younger generation. In about 50 inter-media installations and media-art projects so far, he incorporated sound, light, object, space concepts, and video projections into perception-oriented and space-related total art works. Moreover, he wrote music for acoustic instruments and electro-acoustic music. “becuadro” was composed by Bernhard Gál specifically for the MAK Columned Main Hall. The piece will be performed by four musicians, who are audible and visible as shadow projections in a space-specific sound and lighting choreography.
BUDAPEST STYLE
Aktuelle Trends aus der Modemetropole Ungarns
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Fashionshows der Label aquanauta, barbrodesign, camou, CSF by Ferenc Csabay, HEPP, Kostenko Daria, Miklós Pazicski, mouche
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Aktuelle Trends aus Ungarn stehen im Zentrum der MAK NITE „BUDAPEST STYLE“. Acht ungarische Modelabels stellen an diesem Abend ihre jüngsten Kollektionen vor. Die jungen DesignerInnen präsentieren ein breites Spektrum von Couture-Modelle, Street Fashion bis hin zu Prêt-à-porter-Bekleidung. Das Label „barbrodesign“ zeigt handgefertigte Kleidungstücke, aus hochwertigen Naturstoffen wie Wolle, Seide und Leinen. Die Modelle bestechen durch raffinierte und klare Schnitte. Exklusive, auffällige und mit einem Hauch von Humor kreierte Kleider stellt unter anderem das Label „aquanauta“ vor. Die Modeschau wird von Jasmin Ladenhaufen, boutique gegenalltag, kuratiert. Besonderes Augenmerk wurde bei der Auswahl der Kollektionen auf die Vielfalt der Stile der stetig wachsenden Modeszene Budapests gelegt. In einer traditionellen Laufstegpräsentation führen Modells in der Choreografie von Andrea Schmidt und Szenografie von Michael Salvi die neuesten ungarischen Modetrends vor.
Der Abend findet im Rahmen von „MODEPALAST – Side Events“ statt.
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Aktuelle Trends aus Ungarn stehen im Zentrum der MAK NITE „BUDAPEST STYLE“. Acht ungarische Modelabels stellen an diesem Abend ihre jüngsten Kollektionen vor. Die jungen DesignerInnen präsentieren ein breites Spektrum von Couture-Modelle, Street Fashion bis hin zu Prêt-à-porter-Bekleidung. Das Label „barbrodesign“ zeigt handgefertigte Kleidungstücke, aus hochwertigen Naturstoffen wie Wolle, Seide und Leinen. Die Modelle bestechen durch raffinierte und klare Schnitte. Exklusive, auffällige und mit einem Hauch von Humor kreierte Kleider stellt unter anderem das Label „aquanauta“ vor. Die Modeschau wird von Jasmin Ladenhaufen, boutique gegenalltag, kuratiert. Besonderes Augenmerk wurde bei der Auswahl der Kollektionen auf die Vielfalt der Stile der stetig wachsenden Modeszene Budapests gelegt. In einer traditionellen Laufstegpräsentation führen Modells in der Choreografie von Andrea Schmidt und Szenografie von Michael Salvi die neuesten ungarischen Modetrends vor.
Der Abend findet im Rahmen von „MODEPALAST – Side Events“ statt.
ART CRITICS ORCHESTRA
presents Artists' Songs
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Dave Allen, Peter Hein, Markus Schinwald, Andreas Reiter-Raabe
Mit einem außergewöhnlichen Konzert präsentiert das Art Critics Orchestra (ACO) eine Auswahl aus seiner Sammlung „Artists’ Songs“. Das Berliner Art Critics Orchestra wurde 2004 gegründet und besteht aus fünf MusikerInnen, die hauptberuflich in Kunstbetrieben und vor allem als Kunstkritiker tätig sind. Agnes Wegner (Gesang), Raimer Stange (Bass), Andreas Schlaegel (Schlagzeug), Laura Oldenbourg (Keyboards) und Micz Flor (Gitarre) präsentieren mit „Artists’ Songs“ einen musikalischen Transfer von elektronischer Musik hin zu Rockmusik. Das ACO-Live-Repertoire besteht aus eigenen Kompositionen und einer Sammlung von Artists-Songs, die speziell für ACO geschaffen wurden: Einige davon als Lieder, manche als Ideen und viele nur als Konzept von Künstlern wie Gerwald Rockenschaub, John Miller/Takuji Kogo, Elke Krystufek, Andreas Schlaegel und Annika Stroem.
Im Rahmen der MAK NITE werden vier Special Guests aus der bildenden Kunst Dave Allen, Peter Hein, Markus Schinwald, Andreas Reiter-Raabe das Konzert mit Beiträgen verstärken.
Mit einem außergewöhnlichen Konzert präsentiert das Art Critics Orchestra (ACO) eine Auswahl aus seiner Sammlung „Artists’ Songs“. Das Berliner Art Critics Orchestra wurde 2004 gegründet und besteht aus fünf MusikerInnen, die hauptberuflich in Kunstbetrieben und vor allem als Kunstkritiker tätig sind. Agnes Wegner (Gesang), Raimer Stange (Bass), Andreas Schlaegel (Schlagzeug), Laura Oldenbourg (Keyboards) und Micz Flor (Gitarre) präsentieren mit „Artists’ Songs“ einen musikalischen Transfer von elektronischer Musik hin zu Rockmusik. Das ACO-Live-Repertoire besteht aus eigenen Kompositionen und einer Sammlung von Artists-Songs, die speziell für ACO geschaffen wurden: Einige davon als Lieder, manche als Ideen und viele nur als Konzept von Künstlern wie Gerwald Rockenschaub, John Miller/Takuji Kogo, Elke Krystufek, Andreas Schlaegel und Annika Stroem.
Im Rahmen der MAK NITE werden vier Special Guests aus der bildenden Kunst Dave Allen, Peter Hein, Markus Schinwald, Andreas Reiter-Raabe das Konzert mit Beiträgen verstärken.
8008-ORDWAY
Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Župančič, Miha Turšič, Takatsuna Mukai
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Musical Informance by Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Župančič, Miha Turšič, Takatsuna Mukai
Also in 2008, the Arenbergpark Flak Tower will be opened in the CAT Open series for events that address the new programmatic strategy pursued in the CAT - Contemporary Art Tower project. The 2008 CAT Open kick-off is "8008-ORDWAY", an 'informance' shown in the context of the exhibition "Postgravity Art - ORBITA NOORDUNG". In the performance, the Slovenian artists enact a complex presentation strategy including videos, drawings, plans, documents, and design sketches for a space station by Hermann Potočnik/Noordung within a space installation set up at the Flak Tower. The informational performance in which text and images will be projected in space was developed by the artists Dunja Zupančič, Miha Turšič, Dragan Živadinov, Luka Piškorič, and Takatsuna Mukai and takes place inside the space station, linking space-technology utopias to overcome space and time with the potential of the installation as an art medium. The evening is accompanied by live music by Takatsuna Mukai.
Also in 2008, the Arenbergpark Flak Tower will be opened in the CAT Open series for events that address the new programmatic strategy pursued in the CAT - Contemporary Art Tower project. The 2008 CAT Open kick-off is "8008-ORDWAY", an 'informance' shown in the context of the exhibition "Postgravity Art - ORBITA NOORDUNG". In the performance, the Slovenian artists enact a complex presentation strategy including videos, drawings, plans, documents, and design sketches for a space station by Hermann Potočnik/Noordung within a space installation set up at the Flak Tower. The informational performance in which text and images will be projected in space was developed by the artists Dunja Zupančič, Miha Turšič, Dragan Živadinov, Luka Piškorič, and Takatsuna Mukai and takes place inside the space station, linking space-technology utopias to overcome space and time with the potential of the installation as an art medium. The evening is accompanied by live music by Takatsuna Mukai.
EOOS. The Cooked Kitchen
DesignShowcases 2008
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“The Cooked Kitchen” is an exceptional kitchen concept presented by the Austrian design office EOOS in the new design focus entitled “START_UP – Designers New Projects” under the MAK’s DesignShowcases series.
Four years ago, EOOS accepted in invitation from the well-known international kitchen manufacturer Bulthaup to create a design for a mobile kitchen system. The idea of interpreting kitchen cupboards as tool cabinets lead to the Bulthaup b2 kitchen system which was industrially produced by Bulthaup and consisted of a kitchen workbench, a working cabinet and a tool cabinet. The MAK DESIGN SPACE now presents a kitchen tool cabinet customized for and by four-toque chef Helmut Österreicher for which the prominent cuisinier made his personal choice of cooking utensils.
The exhibition will be opened on the occasion of a MAK NITE at the MAK Columned Main Hall. Peter Noever, Gerd Bulthaup and EOOS will speak about the exhibition, followed by a short film produced by EOOS and a MAK-produced documentary. Finally, the publication “EOOS. The Cooked Kitchen. A Poetical Analysis” by Angela Fössl (Springer Publishers, Vienna, New York) will be presented.
Four years ago, EOOS accepted in invitation from the well-known international kitchen manufacturer Bulthaup to create a design for a mobile kitchen system. The idea of interpreting kitchen cupboards as tool cabinets lead to the Bulthaup b2 kitchen system which was industrially produced by Bulthaup and consisted of a kitchen workbench, a working cabinet and a tool cabinet. The MAK DESIGN SPACE now presents a kitchen tool cabinet customized for and by four-toque chef Helmut Österreicher for which the prominent cuisinier made his personal choice of cooking utensils.
The exhibition will be opened on the occasion of a MAK NITE at the MAK Columned Main Hall. Peter Noever, Gerd Bulthaup and EOOS will speak about the exhibition, followed by a short film produced by EOOS and a MAK-produced documentary. Finally, the publication “EOOS. The Cooked Kitchen. A Poetical Analysis” by Angela Fössl (Springer Publishers, Vienna, New York) will be presented.
Fresh Fat Easy Chair
Tom Dixon
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Ausstellungseröffnung FORMLOSE MÖBEL
Seit den 1960er Jahren haben zeitgenössische Künstler durch die experimentelle Verwendung verschiedenster Werkstoffe die tradierte Relation von Form und Material aufgebrochen und neu definiert. Die Ausstellung „Formlose Möbel“ zeigt erstmals, dass die Maxime „form follows material“ auch bei der Gestaltung von Alltagsobjekten zur Anwendung kam – und kommt: Bis heute opponieren Designer spielerisch gegen die sogenannte gute Form und die Vermarktung konformer Lebenswelten.
Im Anschluss an die Ausstellungseröffnung findet die Live-Aktion „Fresh Fat Easy Chair“ des britischen Designers Tom Dixon in der MAK-Säulenhalle statt, bei der Dixon den Formierungsprozess des gleichnamigen Sitzobjekts zur Visualisierung der These eines „formlosen“ Möbels demonstriert.
Seit den 1960er Jahren haben zeitgenössische Künstler durch die experimentelle Verwendung verschiedenster Werkstoffe die tradierte Relation von Form und Material aufgebrochen und neu definiert. Die Ausstellung „Formlose Möbel“ zeigt erstmals, dass die Maxime „form follows material“ auch bei der Gestaltung von Alltagsobjekten zur Anwendung kam – und kommt: Bis heute opponieren Designer spielerisch gegen die sogenannte gute Form und die Vermarktung konformer Lebenswelten.
Im Anschluss an die Ausstellungseröffnung findet die Live-Aktion „Fresh Fat Easy Chair“ des britischen Designers Tom Dixon in der MAK-Säulenhalle statt, bei der Dixon den Formierungsprozess des gleichnamigen Sitzobjekts zur Visualisierung der These eines „formlosen“ Möbels demonstriert.
Zykan
A Peripatetic Concert
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For the second anniversary of the death of contemporary Austrian composer Otto M. Zykan (1935–2006), the MAK dedicates a musical evening to the composer. As a special program, different pieces by Zykan are performed at different indoor and outdoor sites of the MAK.
Otto M. Zykan has a long history with the MAK. 1989 already, he wrote a Space Play, a gestural composition performed in the fields of the MAK Columned Main Hall, followed 1993 by a “Scenic Musical Opening Ritual” which was performed on the MAK’s terraced garden platform.
Otto M. Zykan was distinguished by exceptional musical and artistic versatility. In the Austrian musical scene, he was considered as an uncompromising avant-gardist who kept calling into question the conventions of the concert business and of music itself. Aside from operas, concerts, songs, theater and film music, the composer also created unconventional pieces, such as the sounds for a “Humanic” commercial.
In the center of the MAK NITE “Zykan – A Peripatetic Concert” are old and recent pieces, early and later works, performed by the Ingrun Fussenegger Vocal Ensemble and the “die reihe” ensemble. The evening gives a comprehensive insight into the composer’s varied œuvre. Hosted by Irene Suchy, the path leads from the MAK Columned Main Hall, where a biography of the artist is projected, to the MAK Permanent Collection Showrooms and on into the garden. Works performed: “Trio für Violine und Solo” (violinist: Alexandru Gavrilovici), “Frühlingsstück” (“Breakfast Piece”), “Pat/Reto” for violin and clarinet, “Ave Schwermuth” (“Ave Melancholy”), “Als sie das Auto erfanden” (“When They Invented the Car”), “Beethovens Pferd” (“Beethoven’s Horse”), and a section of “Krüppelsprache”(“Cripplespeak ”).
For “Zykan – A Peripatetic Concert”, the MAK NITE, which usually takes place on Tuesdays, featuring one-evening presentations, events, or performances, departs from the usual interval.
Otto M. Zykan has a long history with the MAK. 1989 already, he wrote a Space Play, a gestural composition performed in the fields of the MAK Columned Main Hall, followed 1993 by a “Scenic Musical Opening Ritual” which was performed on the MAK’s terraced garden platform.
Otto M. Zykan was distinguished by exceptional musical and artistic versatility. In the Austrian musical scene, he was considered as an uncompromising avant-gardist who kept calling into question the conventions of the concert business and of music itself. Aside from operas, concerts, songs, theater and film music, the composer also created unconventional pieces, such as the sounds for a “Humanic” commercial.
In the center of the MAK NITE “Zykan – A Peripatetic Concert” are old and recent pieces, early and later works, performed by the Ingrun Fussenegger Vocal Ensemble and the “die reihe” ensemble. The evening gives a comprehensive insight into the composer’s varied œuvre. Hosted by Irene Suchy, the path leads from the MAK Columned Main Hall, where a biography of the artist is projected, to the MAK Permanent Collection Showrooms and on into the garden. Works performed: “Trio für Violine und Solo” (violinist: Alexandru Gavrilovici), “Frühlingsstück” (“Breakfast Piece”), “Pat/Reto” for violin and clarinet, “Ave Schwermuth” (“Ave Melancholy”), “Als sie das Auto erfanden” (“When They Invented the Car”), “Beethovens Pferd” (“Beethoven’s Horse”), and a section of “Krüppelsprache”(“Cripplespeak ”).
For “Zykan – A Peripatetic Concert”, the MAK NITE, which usually takes place on Tuesdays, featuring one-evening presentations, events, or performances, departs from the usual interval.
Poster Reckoning with funny card games
Julius Deutschbauer / Gerhard Spring
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Playing cards created by the Austrian artist duo Julius Deutschbauer and Gerhard Spring are in the center of this MAK NITE.
A deck consists of 52 cards, of 52 posters that currently are on view, till August 17, in the exhibition “JULIUS DEUTSCHBAUER / GERHARD SPRING. Only 100 Posters” at the MAK Works on Paper Room.
Deutschbauer / Spring have concerned themselves as artists with issues of Austrian politics, particularly cultural policies, language, and the media for many years now. Their repertoire includes performances, exhibitions, poster actions, stage appearances, video works, and book publications. Mainly, though, they see themselves as poster artists, their motto being: “Posters are most fun. Posters are a material for everyone.” On the MAK NITE “Poster Reckoning with funny card games”, Deutschbauer / Spring make an entertaining game the center of their art, showing the audience what and how to play with their cards and encouraging viewers to join in. Anybody can come up with some new rules or even an entirely new game. With card tables set up all over the place, the MAK Columned Main Hall is turned into a gambling arcade for one evening; musical support is given by DJ Herr Dohr.
A deck consists of 52 cards, of 52 posters that currently are on view, till August 17, in the exhibition “JULIUS DEUTSCHBAUER / GERHARD SPRING. Only 100 Posters” at the MAK Works on Paper Room.
Deutschbauer / Spring have concerned themselves as artists with issues of Austrian politics, particularly cultural policies, language, and the media for many years now. Their repertoire includes performances, exhibitions, poster actions, stage appearances, video works, and book publications. Mainly, though, they see themselves as poster artists, their motto being: “Posters are most fun. Posters are a material for everyone.” On the MAK NITE “Poster Reckoning with funny card games”, Deutschbauer / Spring make an entertaining game the center of their art, showing the audience what and how to play with their cards and encouraging viewers to join in. Anybody can come up with some new rules or even an entirely new game. With card tables set up all over the place, the MAK Columned Main Hall is turned into a gambling arcade for one evening; musical support is given by DJ Herr Dohr.
Elisabeth Penker
Rhythm / Language Transformations
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The CAT Open events held on MAK NITEs are continued with Elisabeth Penker’s sound installation “Rhythm / Language Transformations”. Elisabeth Penker studied sculpture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and later worked for sound studios in Chicago and in movie post-production in London. Today, the artists lives in Vienna and engages both sculpture and music in her work. In her sound installation “Rhythm/Language Transformations”, she investigates overlaps of language and music and of image and spatial structures. On this evening, an acoustic examination is conducted inside the flak tower in its hermetic isolation and visitors are lead through space along strands of inter¬woven of sounds and noises. The composition of “Rhythm/Language Transformations” is structurally based upon the grammatical categorization of language which is deconstructed into minimal units and played over a non-linear five-channel matrix. Penker expands the sound installation with a performance in which she plays an instrument called “sonic structure”. The sound installation is supported by the electronic punk band Illegal Emotions (Ilegalne emocije), founded 2004 and for the first time in Vienna, whose music directly integrates elements of electronic, pop and punk culture.
KUNST DI BEWEGN [ART THOU MOVIN’]
Oliver Hangl, Barbara Putz-Plecko
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Interventions and installations by students of the Vienna University of Applied Arts
The MAK NITE “KUNST DI BEWEGN” features a mix of performances and installations. Students of the Vienna University of Applied Arts present interim results of a seminar held by Oliver Hangl (Class of Art and Communicative Practice, Barbara Putz-Plecko). The theme of the evening is motion. The moving perception of artist and viewer and the different speeds of mind and body are examined and questioned in a context of art production and reception. The students try to connect different places – the University and the MAK; the central site of their installations and interventions is the MAK Columned Main Hall with additional actions and activities in the outdoor spaces (mobile bar, mobile DJ).
The end-of-season party marks the end of the MAK NITE events before the summer break.
The MAK NITE “KUNST DI BEWEGN” features a mix of performances and installations. Students of the Vienna University of Applied Arts present interim results of a seminar held by Oliver Hangl (Class of Art and Communicative Practice, Barbara Putz-Plecko). The theme of the evening is motion. The moving perception of artist and viewer and the different speeds of mind and body are examined and questioned in a context of art production and reception. The students try to connect different places – the University and the MAK; the central site of their installations and interventions is the MAK Columned Main Hall with additional actions and activities in the outdoor spaces (mobile bar, mobile DJ).
The end-of-season party marks the end of the MAK NITE events before the summer break.
Countdown
Scanner (Robin Rimbaud)
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Der britische Künstler Scanner alias Robin Rimbaud kreiert absorbierende und vielschichtige Klanglandschaften, die Technologie auf unkonventionelle Weise transformieren und reflektieren. Als Musiker, Autor, Multimedia-Künstler und Plattenproduzent konzipiert er vielfältig und experimentiert grenzüberschreitend mit Klang, Raum, Bild und Form.
Unter dem Titel „Countdown“ entwickelt Scanner eigens für das achte Obergeschoss des Gefechtsturms eine Installation und Performance, deren Soundelement im Kontext des Flakturms das mechanische Rückwärtszählen zur Detonation einer Bombe assoziiert. Der Klangraum – eine Vielzahl von Uhren zählen geräuschvoll Sekunden, Minuten und Stunden – imaginiert jedoch auch das Warten auf „Utopia“,„das irdische Paradies, die ideale Gesellschaft“, die der Künstler für möglich hält.
Eine Veranstaltung des MAK im Rahmen von paraflows 08 - UTOPIA.
paraflows 08, das Festival für digitale Kunst und Kulturen, in dessen Rahmen CAT Open 2008 veranstaltet wird, findet heuer zum dritten Mal statt. Als Kooperationspartner stellt das MAK das MAK-Gegenwartskunstdepot Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark für die zentrale Ausstellung des Festivals von 11. September bis 19. Oktober zur Verfügung. Rund 30 nationale und internationale Positionen der digitalen Kunst und Kultur sowie angrenzender künstlerischer Strategien setzen sich mit dem Ausstellungsthema UTOPIA auseinander.
www.paraflows.at
Unter dem Titel „Countdown“ entwickelt Scanner eigens für das achte Obergeschoss des Gefechtsturms eine Installation und Performance, deren Soundelement im Kontext des Flakturms das mechanische Rückwärtszählen zur Detonation einer Bombe assoziiert. Der Klangraum – eine Vielzahl von Uhren zählen geräuschvoll Sekunden, Minuten und Stunden – imaginiert jedoch auch das Warten auf „Utopia“,„das irdische Paradies, die ideale Gesellschaft“, die der Künstler für möglich hält.
Eine Veranstaltung des MAK im Rahmen von paraflows 08 - UTOPIA.
paraflows 08, das Festival für digitale Kunst und Kulturen, in dessen Rahmen CAT Open 2008 veranstaltet wird, findet heuer zum dritten Mal statt. Als Kooperationspartner stellt das MAK das MAK-Gegenwartskunstdepot Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark für die zentrale Ausstellung des Festivals von 11. September bis 19. Oktober zur Verfügung. Rund 30 nationale und internationale Positionen der digitalen Kunst und Kultur sowie angrenzender künstlerischer Strategien setzen sich mit dem Ausstellungsthema UTOPIA auseinander.
www.paraflows.at
Hornyphon
featuring MADA sab & caimes
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Unter dem Titel „MADA sab“ versteckt sich der Launch des ersten organischen, aus reiner Hanfzellulose (Hempstone®) bestehenden, halbakustischen Elektrobasses, der von Adam W. Swiczinsky designed und von Neubauer Guitars produziert wurde und als Nachfolgeprojekt zur bereits existierenden Gitarre „MADA caimes“ zu verstehen ist.
Mit der Band „Hornyphon“ werden beide Instrumente erstmals in Kombination präsentiert und gespielt.
Roman Stift - vocals & bass (mada sab)
Adam W. Swiczinsky - guitar (mada caimes)
Gerhard Höffler - drums
Mit der Band „Hornyphon“ werden beide Instrumente erstmals in Kombination präsentiert und gespielt.
Roman Stift - vocals & bass (mada sab)
Adam W. Swiczinsky - guitar (mada caimes)
Gerhard Höffler - drums
VIENNABIENNALE @ MAK NITE
Adham Faramawy, Giorgi Piralishvili, Dejan Kaludjerovic, DJ Elsa Okazaki
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Mit Adham Faramawy, Videos/Installation (Dubai, UK) / Giorgi Piralishvili, Objekte (Georgien/A) / Dejan Kaludjerovic, Projektion/ Videoloop (Serbien)
Drei junge internationale Künstler stellen im Rahmen der zweiten Viennabiennale, die vom 25.9. bis 25.10.2008 an zehn Veranstaltungsorten in Wien stattfindet, im MAK ihre künstlerischen Positionen vor. Die Viennabiennale hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Leistungen von jungen Kunstschaffenden weltweit sichtbar zu machen. Sie findet alle zwei Jahre statt, heuer zum zweiten Mal. Der Themenschwerpunkt der diesjährigen Viennabiennale liegt auf Minimal und Media Art.
Im MAK präsentiert der 1981 in Dubai geborene und in London lebende bildende Künstler Adham Faramawy eine Videoinstallation. In seiner Arbeit spannt er einen breiten Bogen von ornamentreicher Architektur aus dem arabischen Raum und der Sufi-Technik bis zu Bewusstsein verändernden Ritualen und dem Videoportal YouTube.
Der 1972 in Belgrad geborene und in Wien lebende Künstler Dejan Kaludjerović präsentiert die Video-Projektion „Je Suis Malade“ (2008). Ein blondes, zehnjähriges Mädchen interpretiert das bekannte Chanson „Je Suis Malade“ der französischen Sängerin Dalida. Der Künstler lässt ein junges, harmloses Mädchen von Liebeskummer und dessen Folgen singen und illustriert mit diesem Gegensatz, wie die jugendliche Harmlosigkeit für die Zwecke der visuellen Konsumation missbraucht wird.
Parallel zu den Videobeiträgen von Adham Faramawy und Dejan Kaludjerović stellt der 1977 in Tiflis, Georgien, geborene und in Wien lebende Künstler Giorgi Piralishvili in der MAK-Säulenhalle Skulpturen aus. Seine Materialassemblagen –aus Gips und Abfallmaterialien – muten wie Objekte aus einer anderen, fernen Welt an und weisen Sciene-Fiction-artigen Charakter auf.
Im Anschluss DJ Line mit DJ Elsa Okazaki, Japan/A Kegawa Club Special, DJ Guy the Guy
Drei junge internationale Künstler stellen im Rahmen der zweiten Viennabiennale, die vom 25.9. bis 25.10.2008 an zehn Veranstaltungsorten in Wien stattfindet, im MAK ihre künstlerischen Positionen vor. Die Viennabiennale hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Leistungen von jungen Kunstschaffenden weltweit sichtbar zu machen. Sie findet alle zwei Jahre statt, heuer zum zweiten Mal. Der Themenschwerpunkt der diesjährigen Viennabiennale liegt auf Minimal und Media Art.
Im MAK präsentiert der 1981 in Dubai geborene und in London lebende bildende Künstler Adham Faramawy eine Videoinstallation. In seiner Arbeit spannt er einen breiten Bogen von ornamentreicher Architektur aus dem arabischen Raum und der Sufi-Technik bis zu Bewusstsein verändernden Ritualen und dem Videoportal YouTube.
Der 1972 in Belgrad geborene und in Wien lebende Künstler Dejan Kaludjerović präsentiert die Video-Projektion „Je Suis Malade“ (2008). Ein blondes, zehnjähriges Mädchen interpretiert das bekannte Chanson „Je Suis Malade“ der französischen Sängerin Dalida. Der Künstler lässt ein junges, harmloses Mädchen von Liebeskummer und dessen Folgen singen und illustriert mit diesem Gegensatz, wie die jugendliche Harmlosigkeit für die Zwecke der visuellen Konsumation missbraucht wird.
Parallel zu den Videobeiträgen von Adham Faramawy und Dejan Kaludjerović stellt der 1977 in Tiflis, Georgien, geborene und in Wien lebende Künstler Giorgi Piralishvili in der MAK-Säulenhalle Skulpturen aus. Seine Materialassemblagen –aus Gips und Abfallmaterialien – muten wie Objekte aus einer anderen, fernen Welt an und weisen Sciene-Fiction-artigen Charakter auf.
Im Anschluss DJ Line mit DJ Elsa Okazaki, Japan/A Kegawa Club Special, DJ Guy the Guy
Re-Inventing Radio
Aspects of Radio as Art
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Buchpräsentation / Gespräch mit live Performance von Andrew Garton
Die MAK NITE lädt an diesem Abend zur Buchpräsentation von „Re-Inventing Radio“. Vorgestellt wird das Buch von den Autoren und Künstlern Reinhard Braun, Andrew Garton, Heidi Grundmann und Elisabeth Zimmermann. „Re-Inventing Radio“ zeigt den nach wie vor wichtigen Stellenwert des Radios als Massenmedium und Kommunikationsraum auf. Die Herausgeber des Buches sind davon überzeugt, dass es beim Radio nicht um die Übertragung von Sound sondern von Signalen geht, dies zeigen auch die aktuellen Entwicklungen der Übertragungstechnik. Nach mehr als einem Jahrhundert der Erneuerung, Aneignung und Veränderung wird das Radio heute in großem Stil von neuem erfunden, um zu werden, was es immer schon war: ein Kommunikationsraum im weitest möglichen Sinn. Von diesem Ansatz her wendet sich das Buch „Re-Inventing“ in einem großen Bogen den Anfängen des Radios zu, das eine Kommunikationstechnik war, bevor es in ein Massenmedium verwandelt wurde. Internationale MedientheoretikerInnen, KunsthistorikerInnen, KuratorInnen und vor allem KünstlerInnen verdeutlichen in „Re-Inventing Radio“, die einheitliche Geschichte in ihren unterschiedlichen Perspektiven, Zugriffen und Konzepten als Fiktion.
Im Anschluss an die Präsentation führt der australische Radiokünstler und Komponist Andrew Garton die audio-visuelle Performance „GRIT #02 – Illusions of Homogenety“ vor.
Re-Inventing Radio, Aspects of Radio as Art, hg. von Heidi Grundmann, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Reinhard Braun, Dieter Daniels, Andreas Hirsch und Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 2008.
Die MAK NITE lädt an diesem Abend zur Buchpräsentation von „Re-Inventing Radio“. Vorgestellt wird das Buch von den Autoren und Künstlern Reinhard Braun, Andrew Garton, Heidi Grundmann und Elisabeth Zimmermann. „Re-Inventing Radio“ zeigt den nach wie vor wichtigen Stellenwert des Radios als Massenmedium und Kommunikationsraum auf. Die Herausgeber des Buches sind davon überzeugt, dass es beim Radio nicht um die Übertragung von Sound sondern von Signalen geht, dies zeigen auch die aktuellen Entwicklungen der Übertragungstechnik. Nach mehr als einem Jahrhundert der Erneuerung, Aneignung und Veränderung wird das Radio heute in großem Stil von neuem erfunden, um zu werden, was es immer schon war: ein Kommunikationsraum im weitest möglichen Sinn. Von diesem Ansatz her wendet sich das Buch „Re-Inventing“ in einem großen Bogen den Anfängen des Radios zu, das eine Kommunikationstechnik war, bevor es in ein Massenmedium verwandelt wurde. Internationale MedientheoretikerInnen, KunsthistorikerInnen, KuratorInnen und vor allem KünstlerInnen verdeutlichen in „Re-Inventing Radio“, die einheitliche Geschichte in ihren unterschiedlichen Perspektiven, Zugriffen und Konzepten als Fiktion.
Im Anschluss an die Präsentation führt der australische Radiokünstler und Komponist Andrew Garton die audio-visuelle Performance „GRIT #02 – Illusions of Homogenety“ vor.
Re-Inventing Radio, Aspects of Radio as Art, hg. von Heidi Grundmann, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Reinhard Braun, Dieter Daniels, Andreas Hirsch und Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 2008.
SUPER PARTYCLES
Benjamin Sabatie & IBK's company
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Mit der Performance „SUPER PARTYCLES“ des französischen Künstlers Benjamin Sabatier werden die CAT-Open-Veranstaltungen, die im Rahmen der MAK NITE stattfinden, fortgesetzt.
Der 1977 in Le Mans geborene und in Paris lebende Künstler gründete 2001 die Firma IBK (International Benjamin’s Kit), die sich mit der Erforschung von Kunst und deren gesellschaftlichen Funktionen beschäftigt. IBK ist ein kritisches Unternehmen mit zwei Aufgaben: einer unternehmerischen und einer künstlerischen. Im Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark präsentiert Benjamin Sabatier die Performance „SUPER PARTYCLES“ und das Video „Hard Rain“. Beide Arbeiten hinterfragen in ihrer Prozesshaftigkeit und ihrer formalen Anlage den Wert des symbolischen Gebrauchs von Raum, in dem sie sich ständig aktualisieren und verändern. Sowohl die Performance als auch das Video wandeln einen spielerischen Moment in einen aggressiven Akt. „SUPER PARTYCLES“ steht im Gegensatz von Gewalt (der Destruktion) und der Herstellung eines Events. Mehrere Performer, unter Beteiligung des Publikums, zerreißen Papier zu Konfetti. Die Konfettis sind Resultat des aggressiven Aktes des Zerreißens bedingt auch durch den Charakter der Performance, die an Fließband-Arbeit erinnert. Das Video „Hard Rain“ suggeriert auf den ersten Blick ein farbenfrohes blumenartiges Bild, dass sich im Laufe der Zeit als ein Regen von Wurfpfeilen erweist, die auf die Leinwand prasseln. Verstärkt durch den Sound des Videos liegen Assoziationen zu Bombardements die gegen den Turm prallen nahe. Mit diesen Arbeiten setzt der Künstler die CAT Open-Reihe fort, bei der sich die künstlerischen Ansätze mit Geschichte, Funktion und Bedeutung des Flakturms beschäftigen.
Der 1977 in Le Mans geborene und in Paris lebende Künstler gründete 2001 die Firma IBK (International Benjamin’s Kit), die sich mit der Erforschung von Kunst und deren gesellschaftlichen Funktionen beschäftigt. IBK ist ein kritisches Unternehmen mit zwei Aufgaben: einer unternehmerischen und einer künstlerischen. Im Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark präsentiert Benjamin Sabatier die Performance „SUPER PARTYCLES“ und das Video „Hard Rain“. Beide Arbeiten hinterfragen in ihrer Prozesshaftigkeit und ihrer formalen Anlage den Wert des symbolischen Gebrauchs von Raum, in dem sie sich ständig aktualisieren und verändern. Sowohl die Performance als auch das Video wandeln einen spielerischen Moment in einen aggressiven Akt. „SUPER PARTYCLES“ steht im Gegensatz von Gewalt (der Destruktion) und der Herstellung eines Events. Mehrere Performer, unter Beteiligung des Publikums, zerreißen Papier zu Konfetti. Die Konfettis sind Resultat des aggressiven Aktes des Zerreißens bedingt auch durch den Charakter der Performance, die an Fließband-Arbeit erinnert. Das Video „Hard Rain“ suggeriert auf den ersten Blick ein farbenfrohes blumenartiges Bild, dass sich im Laufe der Zeit als ein Regen von Wurfpfeilen erweist, die auf die Leinwand prasseln. Verstärkt durch den Sound des Videos liegen Assoziationen zu Bombardements die gegen den Turm prallen nahe. Mit diesen Arbeiten setzt der Künstler die CAT Open-Reihe fort, bei der sich die künstlerischen Ansätze mit Geschichte, Funktion und Bedeutung des Flakturms beschäftigen.
Construct Me
Superlooper & toxic dreams
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CD-Präsentation, Film- und Musikperformance von Superlooper und toxic dreams
16.00 – 22.30 Uhr
The Making of “Construct me”
22.30 Uhr
Filmpremiere of “Construct me” (2008)
Die Wiener Musiker und Sound-Forscher Superlooper (Ludwig Bekic, Alexander J. Eberhard und Florian Kmet) präsentieren an diesem Abend ihr erstes Album „Construct me“. Das Doppelalbum enthält zwei identische CDs, die die Zuhörer selbst immer wieder neu arrangieren können, indem sie die beiden CDs zeitversetzt abspielen. Dazu entsteht im Rahmen der MAK NITE ab 16.00 Uhr in einer mehrstündigen Life-Performance der Gruppe „toxic dreams“ in Kooperation mit Wien Modern ein Musikvideo zu einem der Tracks auf der CD. In diesem Film – „The Making Of The Making Of“ – werden unter der Regie von Yoshi Wanunu drei Schauspielerinnen auf einer Bühne abfotografiert und diese Fotos auf drei Puppen projiziert. Stundenlang werden minimale Stellungs-Änderungen nacheinander abfotografiert und in einen Rechner eingespeist, wodurch ein Trickfilm entsteht. Die Performance wird zu einem Film von wenigen Minuten, der um 22.30 Uhr präsentiert und auch an das Publikum verteilt wird.
Idee & Konzept Ludwig Bekic
Regie Yosi Wanunu
Performance Toxic Dreams
Musik Superlooper (Ludwig Bekic, Alexander J. Eberhard, Florian Kmet)
In Kooperation mit Wien Modern.
16.00 – 22.30 Uhr
The Making of “Construct me”
22.30 Uhr
Filmpremiere of “Construct me” (2008)
Die Wiener Musiker und Sound-Forscher Superlooper (Ludwig Bekic, Alexander J. Eberhard und Florian Kmet) präsentieren an diesem Abend ihr erstes Album „Construct me“. Das Doppelalbum enthält zwei identische CDs, die die Zuhörer selbst immer wieder neu arrangieren können, indem sie die beiden CDs zeitversetzt abspielen. Dazu entsteht im Rahmen der MAK NITE ab 16.00 Uhr in einer mehrstündigen Life-Performance der Gruppe „toxic dreams“ in Kooperation mit Wien Modern ein Musikvideo zu einem der Tracks auf der CD. In diesem Film – „The Making Of The Making Of“ – werden unter der Regie von Yoshi Wanunu drei Schauspielerinnen auf einer Bühne abfotografiert und diese Fotos auf drei Puppen projiziert. Stundenlang werden minimale Stellungs-Änderungen nacheinander abfotografiert und in einen Rechner eingespeist, wodurch ein Trickfilm entsteht. Die Performance wird zu einem Film von wenigen Minuten, der um 22.30 Uhr präsentiert und auch an das Publikum verteilt wird.
Idee & Konzept Ludwig Bekic
Regie Yosi Wanunu
Performance Toxic Dreams
Musik Superlooper (Ludwig Bekic, Alexander J. Eberhard, Florian Kmet)
In Kooperation mit Wien Modern.
CAMERA SOLARIS
Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond
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Die Installation und Performance „Camera Solaris“ von Ruth Anderwald und Leonhard Grond ist die letzte CAT OPEN-Veranstaltung im Rahmen der MAK NITE, die in diesem Jahr stattfindet.
Jahrhunderte lang wurde die Camera obscura zur Beobachtung von Sonnen- und Mondfinsternissen benutzt. Die Installation „Camera Solaris“ thematisiert das Nahverhältnis von filmischer Erfassung und dem bild konstituierendem Medium Licht, indem Filmaufnahmen einer totalen Sonnenfinsternis auf eine halbdurchlässige Leinwand projiziert werden, in der sich an bestimmten Stellen kleinste Löcher befinden. Das Licht, das durch diese Löcher fällt, erzeugt wieder denselben Effekt wie in der Camera obscura auf der gegenüberliegenden Wand. Die Dunkelheit, die den Besucher umgibt, schärft seine Wahrnehmung. Das Schließen der Augen lässt durch kurzweilige Dunkelheit neue Bilder entstehen, neue Wahrnehmungen gelten. Die Performance findet im abgeschlossenen Raum der Installation statt, diese wiederum im hermetischen Gebäude des Flakturms. Mit ihrer doppelten Klausur setzen die Künstler die CAT OPEN-Reihe fort, bei der sich die künstlerischen Ansätze mit Geschichte, Funktion und Bedeutung des Flakturms beschäftigen: Die Spur, die die Sonne im Inneren der Installation zeichnet, findet hier symbolischen Einlass in den Turm.
Jahrhunderte lang wurde die Camera obscura zur Beobachtung von Sonnen- und Mondfinsternissen benutzt. Die Installation „Camera Solaris“ thematisiert das Nahverhältnis von filmischer Erfassung und dem bild konstituierendem Medium Licht, indem Filmaufnahmen einer totalen Sonnenfinsternis auf eine halbdurchlässige Leinwand projiziert werden, in der sich an bestimmten Stellen kleinste Löcher befinden. Das Licht, das durch diese Löcher fällt, erzeugt wieder denselben Effekt wie in der Camera obscura auf der gegenüberliegenden Wand. Die Dunkelheit, die den Besucher umgibt, schärft seine Wahrnehmung. Das Schließen der Augen lässt durch kurzweilige Dunkelheit neue Bilder entstehen, neue Wahrnehmungen gelten. Die Performance findet im abgeschlossenen Raum der Installation statt, diese wiederum im hermetischen Gebäude des Flakturms. Mit ihrer doppelten Klausur setzen die Künstler die CAT OPEN-Reihe fort, bei der sich die künstlerischen Ansätze mit Geschichte, Funktion und Bedeutung des Flakturms beschäftigen: Die Spur, die die Sonne im Inneren der Installation zeichnet, findet hier symbolischen Einlass in den Turm.
Film Program
put together by Rebecca Baron and Dorit Margreiter
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zur Ausstellung „REBECCA BARON, DORIT MARGREITER. Poverty Housing. Americus, Georgia“ bis 8.3.2009, MAK-Galerie.
Erweiternd zur Installation wurde ein Filmprogramm zusammengestellt, das verschiedene Themenfelder, die im Arbeitsprozess diskutiert wurden, aufgreift. So werden anhand ausgewählter Beispiele dokumentarische Prozesse („Les Hurdes“, „Housing Problems“), künstliche Themenwelten („Shrivel“, „Q“) oder Fragen nach der Präsentation von filmischen Experimenten („WVLNT“) analysiert.
Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread) Luis Buñuel, 1932; 28min
Housing Problems Arthur Elton and Edgar Anstey, 1935; 14min
Shrivel Oliver Husain, 2005, 9min
Q Oliver Husain, 2002, 15min
WVLNT (Wavelenght For ThoseWho Don’t Have The Time) Michael Snow, 2003, 15min
Erweiternd zur Installation wurde ein Filmprogramm zusammengestellt, das verschiedene Themenfelder, die im Arbeitsprozess diskutiert wurden, aufgreift. So werden anhand ausgewählter Beispiele dokumentarische Prozesse („Les Hurdes“, „Housing Problems“), künstliche Themenwelten („Shrivel“, „Q“) oder Fragen nach der Präsentation von filmischen Experimenten („WVLNT“) analysiert.
Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread) Luis Buñuel, 1932; 28min
Housing Problems Arthur Elton and Edgar Anstey, 1935; 14min
Shrivel Oliver Husain, 2005, 9min
Q Oliver Husain, 2002, 15min
WVLNT (Wavelenght For ThoseWho Don’t Have The Time) Michael Snow, 2003, 15min
TEMPELMUSIK
trash transformation
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Klänge und Geräusche der Vorweihnachtszeit, eingefangen in Shopping-Malls und Einkaufsstraßen, dienen der Tonkünstlerin Elisabeth Schimana als Ausgangsmaterial für ihre Soundperformance. „Tempelmusik“ ist die Erforschung der akustischen Umwelt von Konsumtempeln und ihre musikalische Transformation. Die Säulenhalle des MAK erhält durch die Sounds eine sakrale Dimension, wie sie schon in seiner architektonischen Konzeption angelegt ist. Durch die zusätzliche Bespielung des Straßenbereichs vor dem Eingang wird das Verhältnis von Privat und Öffentlich thematisiert und die Frage nach der Definition und Bedeutung des öffentlichen Raumes auditiv gestellt.
Lust, die Witwe
Thomas Desi, Eva Blut
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Thomas Desi, Regisseur/Autor/Musiker, widmet sich in LUST, DIE WITWE der gefeierten Wiener Operette Franz Lehàrs. Die Lovestory vom Aufstieg einer armen Frau wird in einer einzigen großen Applausordnung erzählt, beschleunigt auf die Auf- und Abtritte der Operettenfiguren. Thomas Desi folgt in dieser Massenchoreografie dem Raster im Marmorboden der Säulenhalle. Die Ausstattung mit Fashion-Unikaten stammt von der Wiener Mode Designerin Eva Blut.
Eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen von „Operettenwinter“, brut wien
Teil 2 von „Katalog der Gefühle“ von ZOON/Wien
Gefördert durch die Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien
Eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen von „Operettenwinter“, brut wien
Teil 2 von „Katalog der Gefühle“ von ZOON/Wien
Gefördert durch die Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien
HANS PLATZGUMER: SOUNDTRACK
Eine Tonspur
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Hans Platzgumer, seit Jahrzehnten einer der renommiertesten und weitgereisten Musiker Österreichs, macht Ernst: Er respektiert den Tod der CD, den er schon 1987 auf seinem ersten Album proklamierte, und veröffentlicht mit Soundtrack seine letzte Produktion im CD-Format. Bei diesem extravaganten Produkt hat er, um einen möglichst weiten Assoziationsraum zu schaffen, internationale KünstlerInnen eingeladen 23 Frontcoverentwürfe zu gestalten, die der CD beigelegt sind. Neben Installationen und Projektionen steht ein Auftritt mit Videos von Georg Gaigl auf dem Programm.
Beteiligte Künstler Deborah Sengl, Cédric Teisseire, Ernst Trawöger, Peter Sandbichler, Schöne Neue Kinder, 2av, Catriona Shaw, Roland Maurmair, Georg Gaigl, Georg Wagenhuber, Siegrun Appelt, Amane Murakami, Karl Heinz Ströhle, Gerhard Klocker, Hans Groisz, Jeanette Müller & Paul Divjak, Buffet Für Gestaltung, CaMi Tokujiro, Steve Clarke, Ingo Pertramer, Heri&Salli, Laurent Goei, Joachim Schnaitter
Am 15.02.2009 wird SOUNDTRACK vom Ö1 Kunstradio in Dolby 5.1 Surround gesendet.
www.platzgumer.net/soundtrack
www.konkord.org
Beteiligte Künstler Deborah Sengl, Cédric Teisseire, Ernst Trawöger, Peter Sandbichler, Schöne Neue Kinder, 2av, Catriona Shaw, Roland Maurmair, Georg Gaigl, Georg Wagenhuber, Siegrun Appelt, Amane Murakami, Karl Heinz Ströhle, Gerhard Klocker, Hans Groisz, Jeanette Müller & Paul Divjak, Buffet Für Gestaltung, CaMi Tokujiro, Steve Clarke, Ingo Pertramer, Heri&Salli, Laurent Goei, Joachim Schnaitter
Am 15.02.2009 wird SOUNDTRACK vom Ö1 Kunstradio in Dolby 5.1 Surround gesendet.
www.platzgumer.net/soundtrack
www.konkord.org
VIDEO EDITION AUSTRIA release 02
GANGART, Simonetta Ferfoglia, Heinrich Pichler, Eva Brunner-Szabo, Gerda Lampalzer-Oppermann
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In einer vierteiligen DVD-Edition der Medienwerkstatt Wien wird das Film- und Medienkunstschaffen von 79 österreichischen KünsterInnen aus den Jahren 2002 bis 2008 mit einer Gesamtlänge von 693:25 Minuten dokumentiert. release 02 versteht sich als Fortsetzung einer Videoreihe, die bereits 1994 begonnen wurde. Seit diesem Zeitraum ist nicht nur eine Fülle neuer Arbeiten arrivierter Videokünstler und -dokumentaristen entstanden, es hat sich auch eine neue Generation von Medienkünstlerinnen und -künstlern etabliert, die im internationalen Ausstellungs- und Festivalgeschehen Fuß gefasst haben. In der MAK NITE© werden alle 79 Videos gezeigt. Der Besucher wandert durch die Medienstationen, die im Raum arrangiert sind, und kann sich so sein eigenes Bild machen. Das Programm ist entsprechend der internationalen Praxis nicht mehr nach den Kategorien Kunst- bzw. Dokumentarfilm geordnet, sondern setzt sich aus acht thematischen Schwerpunkten zusammen, die das Kuratorenteam: Eva Brunner-Szabo, Gerda Lampalzer-Oppermann und GANGART (Simonetta Ferfoglia / Heinrich Pichler) entwickelt haben. GANGART hat seine eigene Verbindung zum MAK: Sie gestalteten für die MAK Schausammlung Orient die Sammlung orientalischer Teppiche, die zu den wertvollsten und berühmtesten der Welt gehören.
Nach der Präsentation von release 02 der VIDEO EDITION AUSTRIA sind live Sound-Videoaktionen von club.ware infrasemantic sensory modulation / Michaela Schwentner / Alexandra Reill zu sehen und zu hören.
Nach der Präsentation von release 02 der VIDEO EDITION AUSTRIA sind live Sound-Videoaktionen von club.ware infrasemantic sensory modulation / Michaela Schwentner / Alexandra Reill zu sehen und zu hören.
C'est un Tamanoir
by frufru (A/MEX/SI)
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frufru - die in Österreich lebenden Musikerinnen Angélica Castelló aus Mexiko (Paetzoldbassblockflöten & Stimme & Electronics & Toys) und Maja Osojnik aus Slowenien (Elektronik, Stimme, Objekte) beweisen durch Originalität, Musikantentum, Perfektion und Witz, dass die Symbiose von Experiment und Pop in anspruchsvoll unterhaltendes Neuland führen kann. Klangregie: Alfred Reiter, Kompositionen von Angélica Castelló, Maja Osojnik und frufru.
In ihrer Soundperformance in der MAK-Säulenhalle nehmen die beiden Künstlerinnen nicht nur formal Bezug auf den Raum, indem sie mehrere Bühneninseln schaffen, die sich an der Rasterung des Bodens orientieren, sondern integrieren auch akustisch den von Ron Arad konzipierten „Rotator“, einer hydraulischen Inneneinrichtung, die das Konzept Badewanne / Dusche neu definiert. frufru fügen das Wasserspiel und die Installation in ihre Performance ein.
In ihrer Soundperformance in der MAK-Säulenhalle nehmen die beiden Künstlerinnen nicht nur formal Bezug auf den Raum, indem sie mehrere Bühneninseln schaffen, die sich an der Rasterung des Bodens orientieren, sondern integrieren auch akustisch den von Ron Arad konzipierten „Rotator“, einer hydraulischen Inneneinrichtung, die das Konzept Badewanne / Dusche neu definiert. frufru fügen das Wasserspiel und die Installation in ihre Performance ein.
Don't Panic! Entropia* Is Coming!
emiter franczak, Microloops
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* Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Wroczlaw, Polen
Das MAK NITE-Programm 2009 setzt die im letzten Jahr erfolgreich begonnene Reihe zum Thema der „Europäisierung“ des Kontinents mit den Kultur-Partnern aus Polen, Ungarn und Deutschland fort. Diese im Rahmen der EU Kultur 2007 geförderten Veranstaltungen der Partnerinstitutionen werden im Laufe des Jahres im Rahmen der MAK NITE gezeigt.
Don’t Panic! Entropia* Is Coming! markiert den Auftakt. Die Galerie Entropia hat zwei audio-video Ensembles eingeladen, den Abend im MAK zu bestreiten. Die beiden Audio-Videogruppen emiter_franczak aus Polen und Microloops aus Tschechien treffen in der Säulenhalle des MAK das erste Mal aufeinander und bestreiten den Abend gemeinsam. Entropia, in Wroczlaw (Breslau) angesiedelt, versteht sich als Schnittstelle und Präsentationsplattform für zeitgenössische Kunstformen, die im Grenzbereich bildender Kunst, Soundart und Filmkunst arbeiten.
Das MAK NITE-Programm 2009 setzt die im letzten Jahr erfolgreich begonnene Reihe zum Thema der „Europäisierung“ des Kontinents mit den Kultur-Partnern aus Polen, Ungarn und Deutschland fort. Diese im Rahmen der EU Kultur 2007 geförderten Veranstaltungen der Partnerinstitutionen werden im Laufe des Jahres im Rahmen der MAK NITE gezeigt.
Don’t Panic! Entropia* Is Coming! markiert den Auftakt. Die Galerie Entropia hat zwei audio-video Ensembles eingeladen, den Abend im MAK zu bestreiten. Die beiden Audio-Videogruppen emiter_franczak aus Polen und Microloops aus Tschechien treffen in der Säulenhalle des MAK das erste Mal aufeinander und bestreiten den Abend gemeinsam. Entropia, in Wroczlaw (Breslau) angesiedelt, versteht sich als Schnittstelle und Präsentationsplattform für zeitgenössische Kunstformen, die im Grenzbereich bildender Kunst, Soundart und Filmkunst arbeiten.
THE BALL
Sisters Brüll, Helge Hinteregger, Billy Roisz, Kovacic Brothers
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Eine Veranstaltung von MAK NITE und imagetanz 09
Lackschuhe anlegen! imagetanz, seit Bestehen der MAK NITE© Kooperationspartner, feiert seinen 20. Geburtstag und verwandelt aus diesem Anlass die MAK NITE in eine rauschige Ballnacht. Gefragt sind gekonnte Posen auf dem roten Teppich und stilsichere Tanzschritte unter der gigantischen Discokugel. Gute Manieren sind erwünscht, können aber spätestens beim Betreten des vor Ort installierten Boxringes abgelegt werden. Abendgarderobe ist Pflicht, mit biederer Tanzschuletikette ist hier aber kein Aufriss zu machen. Kommen Sie hin und lassen Sie sich gehen!
An diesem Abend wird die Unterhaltungsform „Ball” unter die Lupe genommen, dabei wird sie entweder überhöht oder auch dekonstruiert – mit diversesten Künstlerbeiträgen als eine Möglichkeit der Ballspende.
Lackschuhe anlegen! imagetanz, seit Bestehen der MAK NITE© Kooperationspartner, feiert seinen 20. Geburtstag und verwandelt aus diesem Anlass die MAK NITE in eine rauschige Ballnacht. Gefragt sind gekonnte Posen auf dem roten Teppich und stilsichere Tanzschritte unter der gigantischen Discokugel. Gute Manieren sind erwünscht, können aber spätestens beim Betreten des vor Ort installierten Boxringes abgelegt werden. Abendgarderobe ist Pflicht, mit biederer Tanzschuletikette ist hier aber kein Aufriss zu machen. Kommen Sie hin und lassen Sie sich gehen!
An diesem Abend wird die Unterhaltungsform „Ball” unter die Lupe genommen, dabei wird sie entweder überhöht oder auch dekonstruiert – mit diversesten Künstlerbeiträgen als eine Möglichkeit der Ballspende.
Verena Brückner: without intent
8 street ballads with music & pictures
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The German word “Moritat” – deriving from the drawling sung pronunciation of “Mordtat”, i.e. “deed of murder” – means a street ballad with a simple melody that recounts some horrid occurrence or gruesome crime and frequently ends with a moralizing admonition. Traditionally, it was accompanied by an accordion player who also showed pictures to illustrate the sequence of events or particulars of the crime.
In “Without Intent”, Verena Brückner takes up this almost forgotten art form, presenting it as a performative installation that combines different arts. For her project, she invited artists, male and female, who address the subject of cruelty in their work. Eight writers produced texts, and eight painters visually interpreted these writings. Verena Brückner recites them with a show of pictures and with accordion accompaniment.
With texts by Yosi Wanunu, Anna Mendelssohn, Sarah Kirsch, Florian Kmet, Verena Brückner, Gerald Zahn, Kae Uchihashi, Hans Platzgumer. With pictures by: Wendelin Pressl, Nikolaus Gansterer, Letizia Werth, Isabella Schmidlehner, elffriede, Gerhard Veissmann, Thomas Silvester Hörl, Heimo Wallner.
The master organ grinder Oliver Maar will round out the evening with things unexpected and unheard-of played on his hand organ and portable barrel piano.
In “Without Intent”, Verena Brückner takes up this almost forgotten art form, presenting it as a performative installation that combines different arts. For her project, she invited artists, male and female, who address the subject of cruelty in their work. Eight writers produced texts, and eight painters visually interpreted these writings. Verena Brückner recites them with a show of pictures and with accordion accompaniment.
With texts by Yosi Wanunu, Anna Mendelssohn, Sarah Kirsch, Florian Kmet, Verena Brückner, Gerald Zahn, Kae Uchihashi, Hans Platzgumer. With pictures by: Wendelin Pressl, Nikolaus Gansterer, Letizia Werth, Isabella Schmidlehner, elffriede, Gerhard Veissmann, Thomas Silvester Hörl, Heimo Wallner.
The master organ grinder Oliver Maar will round out the evening with things unexpected and unheard-of played on his hand organ and portable barrel piano.
CHANGE FACES
by Céline Bacqué, Sakgayao, Matthias Erian and Günther Berger
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France meets South Korea meets Austria … since 2003, French dancer and choreographer Celine Bacqué, Korean video artist Sakgayo and the electroacoustic musicians Günther Berger and Matthias Erian have collaborated on the team project “Change Faces”. Their performances, which often also engage the audience, are live improvisations with dance, video art, and music. This results in a performative total work of art as well as a language-image that refers to the premises of the venue. The choreography by Celine Bacqué is inspired by compositions of Berger and Erian. Moreover, the style of dancing that she has developed is influenced by different cultures: from Western Modern Dance to shamanic dances as the Salpuri or the Sungumu. The music accompaniment tells stories of different cultures. Both are reflected in the movements of Bacqué and in the reactions of the audience. Sakgayo makes the performance complete by incorporating in it live video shootings of the performance and the audience. The video projections a mix of images, recordings, and documentation balance the energy between music and dance.
“Change Faces” takes viewers on a trip through the world of multi-media art. Video manipulation, sampling, and sound deformation are the tools used to put traditional contents in new perspectives. Roots revisited!
“Change Faces” takes viewers on a trip through the world of multi-media art. Video manipulation, sampling, and sound deformation are the tools used to put traditional contents in new perspectives. Roots revisited!
ACCORDING TO HUNTING RULES
Yearning Creatures #2 / Michaela Falkner
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120-hour non-stop performance/installation by Falkner on the MAK Terrace Plateau
The artist will use her own body as well as a fabric of text, words, and red wool which will be stretched over the plateau like a net so as to entirely envelop it. “According to Hunting Rules. Yearning Creatures #2” is a sculpture rendered through language, and Falkner’s installation is an instance of “word become flesh”.
Falkner will not sleep or eat for 120 hours, only have some water at night and keep marking her trail. Moreover, she will be “wired”, wearing a contact microphone which transmits her sounds, her Yearning Creatures, to viewers/visitors/passers-by and thus makes her confrontation with, her assault on the structure a shared experience.
The artist’s body, unscathed at first, will be somewhat battered after these five days—but the concrete wall of the MAK Terrace Plateau will also bear marks of the event.
The artist will use her own body as well as a fabric of text, words, and red wool which will be stretched over the plateau like a net so as to entirely envelop it. “According to Hunting Rules. Yearning Creatures #2” is a sculpture rendered through language, and Falkner’s installation is an instance of “word become flesh”.
Falkner will not sleep or eat for 120 hours, only have some water at night and keep marking her trail. Moreover, she will be “wired”, wearing a contact microphone which transmits her sounds, her Yearning Creatures, to viewers/visitors/passers-by and thus makes her confrontation with, her assault on the structure a shared experience.
The artist’s body, unscathed at first, will be somewhat battered after these five days—but the concrete wall of the MAK Terrace Plateau will also bear marks of the event.
THINGS AND SONGS
Walking-Chair, Fidel Peugeot, Karl Emilio Pircher
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anschließend an die Eröffnung der Ausstellung "WALKING-CHAIR Happy Landing"
„We make things and songs“, ist das Motto der Walking-Chair Designstudio GmbH und Produkte Plattform, die im Bereich Licht, Möbel, Produktdesign, Typografie und Ausstellungsgestaltung tätig ist. Charakteristisch sind die Songs, die ihre Produkte begleiten. Text und Musik für das YOU MAY-Möbel werden derzeit geschrieben und mit klassischen Instrumenten wie Gitarre, Schlagzeug zur Eröffnung von den Designern vorgetragen. 2004 hat Walking- Chair die Sound-Platte „Voice of Walking-Chair” mit Produktsongs herausgebracht.
„We make things and songs“, ist das Motto der Walking-Chair Designstudio GmbH und Produkte Plattform, die im Bereich Licht, Möbel, Produktdesign, Typografie und Ausstellungsgestaltung tätig ist. Charakteristisch sind die Songs, die ihre Produkte begleiten. Text und Musik für das YOU MAY-Möbel werden derzeit geschrieben und mit klassischen Instrumenten wie Gitarre, Schlagzeug zur Eröffnung von den Designern vorgetragen. 2004 hat Walking- Chair die Sound-Platte „Voice of Walking-Chair” mit Produktsongs herausgebracht.
ANIMATION EPIDEMIC
presented by Entropia Gallery*
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Small Instruments (PL) + iftaf (A) / live music & sound & Children's Film Factory /animated films
Unter dem Titel MAK NITE EU wird eine Reihe ausgezeichneter Kulturprojekte aus Polen, Tschechien, Ungarn und Deutschland gezeigt. "Animation Epidemic" ist ein experimentelles Sound und Musikprojekt, dass Künstler und junge Filmemacher aus Polen zusammen bringt. Small Instruments aus Wroczlaw (Polen) ist eine Band die mit Kinderspielzeug ungewöhnliche Sounds kreiert und für den Abend eine Auswahl von Kinderanimationsfilmen aus dem Programm der Galerie Entropia (Children's Film Factory) live vertont. Im Anschluss findet eine Musikimprovisation gemeinsam mit dem aus Wien kommenden Musikkollektiv iftaf (institut für transakustische forschung) statt.
* Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Wroczlaw, Polen. Entropia versteht sich als Schnittstelle und Präsentationsplattform für zeitgenössische Kunstformen, die im Grenzbereich bildender Kunst, Soundart und Filmkunst liegen.
www.maleinstrumenty.pl
www.entropia.art.pl/DWF/DWFstoryEnglish.htm
www.iftaf.org
www.elffriede.net
Unter dem Titel MAK NITE EU wird eine Reihe ausgezeichneter Kulturprojekte aus Polen, Tschechien, Ungarn und Deutschland gezeigt. "Animation Epidemic" ist ein experimentelles Sound und Musikprojekt, dass Künstler und junge Filmemacher aus Polen zusammen bringt. Small Instruments aus Wroczlaw (Polen) ist eine Band die mit Kinderspielzeug ungewöhnliche Sounds kreiert und für den Abend eine Auswahl von Kinderanimationsfilmen aus dem Programm der Galerie Entropia (Children's Film Factory) live vertont. Im Anschluss findet eine Musikimprovisation gemeinsam mit dem aus Wien kommenden Musikkollektiv iftaf (institut für transakustische forschung) statt.
* Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Wroczlaw, Polen. Entropia versteht sich als Schnittstelle und Präsentationsplattform für zeitgenössische Kunstformen, die im Grenzbereich bildender Kunst, Soundart und Filmkunst liegen.
www.maleinstrumenty.pl
www.entropia.art.pl/DWF/DWFstoryEnglish.htm
www.iftaf.org
www.elffriede.net
Suspended#190509
performancelab
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In “Suspended#190509”, Akemi Takeya explores specific aspects of human behavior, particularly action, dance, and motion, and translates them into a kind of “performance-installation-exhibition”.
A steel-cable triangle constructed by the artist establishes relationships between the performers as well as between them and sound and video objects in space. The nearly invisible sound installation by Gordon Monahan, consisting of a piano string, in its ambiguity points to the side-by-side and the ensemble situation of the performance.
Performances are made in solos, duos, or small groups, with performers acting in variations and different energetic states—using objects, sequences of events, and actions—which have been devised as communication design by Akemi Takeya. Some of these proceedings are explicitly shown, others are hinted at, and again others remain concealed.
Akemi Takeya cooperates with artists from the fields of dance, theater, film/video, photography, and music, she developed numerous productions together with Paul V. Weihs, Sam Auinger & Rupert Huber, Richard Dorfmeister, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Sergio Messina, Ong Ken Seng, Benoît Lachambre, Zbigniew Karkowski, Electric Indigo, a.o.
Gordon Monahan’s works for piano, loudspeaker, video as well as for kinetic sculptures and computer-controlled sound spaces encompass a range of genres, from Avant-garde concert music to multimedia and sound art. As a composer and sound artist, he combines quantitative and qualitative aspects of natural acoustic phenomena with elements from media technology, environment, architecture, pop culture, and live performance.
A steel-cable triangle constructed by the artist establishes relationships between the performers as well as between them and sound and video objects in space. The nearly invisible sound installation by Gordon Monahan, consisting of a piano string, in its ambiguity points to the side-by-side and the ensemble situation of the performance.
Performances are made in solos, duos, or small groups, with performers acting in variations and different energetic states—using objects, sequences of events, and actions—which have been devised as communication design by Akemi Takeya. Some of these proceedings are explicitly shown, others are hinted at, and again others remain concealed.
Akemi Takeya cooperates with artists from the fields of dance, theater, film/video, photography, and music, she developed numerous productions together with Paul V. Weihs, Sam Auinger & Rupert Huber, Richard Dorfmeister, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Sergio Messina, Ong Ken Seng, Benoît Lachambre, Zbigniew Karkowski, Electric Indigo, a.o.
Gordon Monahan’s works for piano, loudspeaker, video as well as for kinetic sculptures and computer-controlled sound spaces encompass a range of genres, from Avant-garde concert music to multimedia and sound art. As a composer and sound artist, he combines quantitative and qualitative aspects of natural acoustic phenomena with elements from media technology, environment, architecture, pop culture, and live performance.
20/21
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Führung 19.00 Uhr
Neuerwerbungen der MAK-Sammlung Gegenwartskunst im Flakturm
Präsentation 20/21, 20.00 Uhr
"20/21 Publikation zur MAK-Sammlung Gegenwartskunst" herausgegeben von Peter Noever, mit Beiträgen von Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Andreas Krištof, Peter Noever, Gabriel Ramin Schor, Paul Virilio, erschienen 2009 im Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg.
Podiumsgespräch
WAS WILL DIE KUNST VON DER GEGENWART?
mit Carola Dertnig, Thomas Feuerstein, Franz Graf, Joep van Lieshout und Peter Noever, Moderation: Roland Schöny
live in concert GROSSE FREIHEIT NR. 7
anlässlich der Präsentation der Installation DIE GROSSE FREIHEIT (2003/06) mit Adi Kaindlsdorfer (Stimme, Gitarre), Reinhard Blum (Bass), Iwan Iwantscheff (Cajon), Uwe „the dolphin“ Bressnik (Taschencornet), Joachim Keller (Cello), Herwig Müller (Akkordeon)
Interaktive Aktion zu 11 TRAVELING CHAIRS von Marina Faust
Mit CATOPEN wird der Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark auch 2009 wieder für Veranstaltungen geöffnet, die sich mit der neuen programmatischen Strategie des Projekts CAT – Contemporary Art Tower auseinandersetzen.
Gloomy Sunday
Imaginary Portraits of Women who Chose Death
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Curated by DROME Magazine
On the occasion of the “9 festival for fashion & photography” this MAK NITE features the world premiere of the “Gloomy Sunday” project. The performance combines art and music, a fashion photography show and video screenings, installations, melancholy and glamour, history and stories: Sylvia Plath, Sarah Kane, Jean Seberg, Frida Kahlo, Violeta Parra, Alfonsina Storni, Capucine, Ophelia … all these unforgettable women have one dark element in common: they committed suicide. Their spirits will hover over the exhibition which in fact previews a project by the well-known Italian fashion photographer Angelo Cricchi who shows exceptional women in sophisticated, perturbing, poetic, imaginary psychological portraits. In the presentation, the “Gloomy Sunday” atmosphere will be evoked by a special soundtrack, including the cult song that gives the title to the whole event—“the gloomiest song ever written”.
This setting is the work of the Rome-based artist group kERAMIk PAPIER and video-maker Silvia Morani. A DJ set by artist Jan Machacek will wind up the evening.
On the occasion of the “9 festival for fashion & photography” this MAK NITE features the world premiere of the “Gloomy Sunday” project. The performance combines art and music, a fashion photography show and video screenings, installations, melancholy and glamour, history and stories: Sylvia Plath, Sarah Kane, Jean Seberg, Frida Kahlo, Violeta Parra, Alfonsina Storni, Capucine, Ophelia … all these unforgettable women have one dark element in common: they committed suicide. Their spirits will hover over the exhibition which in fact previews a project by the well-known Italian fashion photographer Angelo Cricchi who shows exceptional women in sophisticated, perturbing, poetic, imaginary psychological portraits. In the presentation, the “Gloomy Sunday” atmosphere will be evoked by a special soundtrack, including the cult song that gives the title to the whole event—“the gloomiest song ever written”.
This setting is the work of the Rome-based artist group kERAMIk PAPIER and video-maker Silvia Morani. A DJ set by artist Jan Machacek will wind up the evening.
Hobbyhorse
Lecture and participative performance by David Moises
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David Moises, born 1973, has a connection to the MAK through the “Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program” (MAK Schindler Scholarship, 2006) in Los Angeles, where he spent six months. He combines accomplishments of of the development of art history (sculpture, cybernetic and performance art) with the personality profile of the engineer, the tinker, and the artist. According to Claude Levi-Strauss, the engineer and the tinker (‘bricoleur’) are characterized by a polarity of behavior: for the engineer, there are only raw materials to be used at will and interference factors to be eliminated. The tinker also makes use of scraps and fragments—witnesses, as it were, of the history of the individual and society.
With his “Hobbyhorses” developed during his MAK Schindler Residency, the artist tries to ironically undermine the flak tower’s function as a concrete blockhouse. The audience is not only invited for a metaphorical ride on the two horses, but literally to go for a ride in the hermetic indoor space of the flak tower.
Working in the boundary zone of art and science, the artist complements this riding piece with a lecture that takes a more theoretical approach to the subject, documenting the domestication or civilizatory familiarization of the horse up to the introduction of the abstract horsepower measure. Moreover, the artist also addresses the issue of the use of art which also is pivotal for the MAK Contemporary Art Collection.
With his “Hobbyhorses” developed during his MAK Schindler Residency, the artist tries to ironically undermine the flak tower’s function as a concrete blockhouse. The audience is not only invited for a metaphorical ride on the two horses, but literally to go for a ride in the hermetic indoor space of the flak tower.
Working in the boundary zone of art and science, the artist complements this riding piece with a lecture that takes a more theoretical approach to the subject, documenting the domestication or civilizatory familiarization of the horse up to the introduction of the abstract horsepower measure. Moreover, the artist also addresses the issue of the use of art which also is pivotal for the MAK Contemporary Art Collection.
WARSAW CALLING
party, electronic music, live music, waterfalls, performance, trapezoid & go go girls
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with The Curators & Thomas Wagner - Berlin/Poznań / Dick4Dick - Gdansk / Zuzanna Janin - Warszawa / Arti Grabowski - Kraków / Jan Mioduszewski - Warszawa / Joanna Ziemczyk - Warszawa / The Mob - Wien / Guda Art Project - Warszawa / Go Go Girls - Wien
DJ Artur Korycinski Warszawa is DJ ARTUR 8 (Warszawa), DJ Straker Pola-Riot (Wien), VJ Toni (Wien)
Concept and program Maciej Wysocki (Jadłodajnia Filozoficzna, Moc Sztuki Foundation), Magdalena Chowaniec (The Mob) in cooperation with Marta Czyž (Moc Sztuki Foundation) and Agnieszka Rayzacher (Galerie "Lokal 30")
Visuals Philipp Knopf, Guda Art Project, The Curators, Dick4Dick, Wyzsza Szkoła Artystyczna w Warszawie
An Event by Jadłodajnia Filozoficzna, Warszawa, Moc Sztuki Foundation Warszawa and MAK Wien.
With the support of the Polish Institute Vienna.
DJ Artur Korycinski Warszawa is DJ ARTUR 8 (Warszawa), DJ Straker Pola-Riot (Wien), VJ Toni (Wien)
Concept and program Maciej Wysocki (Jadłodajnia Filozoficzna, Moc Sztuki Foundation), Magdalena Chowaniec (The Mob) in cooperation with Marta Czyž (Moc Sztuki Foundation) and Agnieszka Rayzacher (Galerie "Lokal 30")
Visuals Philipp Knopf, Guda Art Project, The Curators, Dick4Dick, Wyzsza Szkoła Artystyczna w Warszawie
An Event by Jadłodajnia Filozoficzna, Warszawa, Moc Sztuki Foundation Warszawa and MAK Wien.
With the support of the Polish Institute Vienna.
MAK NITE EU DRESDEN
Loving an Alien.
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The two-day event MAK NITE EU DRESDEN. Loving the Alien is the concluding event of this project series and at the same time a "best of" program of the more than 70 events that took place at the MAK Vienna and in the different partner cities. What brackets the projects together is the common issue of dealing with, and appropriating, the "foreign" as a strategy of artistic survival and of undermining existing patterns of thought.
The program was curated by MAK Vienna in collaboration with the partner institutions and is complemented with contemporary positions of the local Dresden art scene.
* An event of MAK, Vienna, in cooperation with Jadłodajnia Filozoficzna, Warsaw, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław, Academy of Fine Arts, Łodz, Impex, Budapest, and riesa efau, Dresden.
PROGRAM
Friday, September 11
7.00 p.m. / Motorenhalle
Zsolt Sörés, Budapest
Ahad's Masters Garden: Electro-acoustic concert of the Ahad/Füle (Hungary/Japan) duo to Andy Warhol's film "Empire"
Performance. Together with Csaba Füle, Zsolt Sörés aka Ahad creates unique sound environments around Warhol's silent movie "Empire". From shortwave receivers, radio signals, frequencies, sound samples and modulations an "audional film" is assembled, in this case a soundtrack, based on Andy Warhol's enigmatic and associative film which attempts, using the motif of the Empire State Building, to fathom the complexity of visual perception.
www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/soresbio.html
8.00 p.m. / Motorenhalle
Grit Ruhland, Dresden
Transducer
Performance. The artwork of Grit Ruhland, DAYFLY ACROBATICS, is to be understood as a modular system in which sounds, noises, interviews, stories, texts, drawings, installations, light, objects and materials are invented, explored, used, combined or even generated. From this the ONE-EVENING ACROBATIC ACT "Transducer" will originate. DAYFLY ACROBATICS fundamentally deals with the perception of the "world" and the questioning of conventions, spiced with a pinch of humor and absurdity. It is mostly tied to a temporal sequence and intended to be understood as a system of processes in themselves.
8.30 p.m. / Motorenhalle
Jens Besser, Dresden
KAIN KONZEPT (Kreide)
Surprise performance
9.00 p.m. / Motorenhalle
The Mob, Vienna
FIXING FREEDOM TOUR (The Director's Cut)
The only full, unexpurgated story of one of rock music's legendary acts
Punk performance. Rounding up "The Mob", the trained classic dancer and performer Magdalena Chowaniec created the epitome of a punk band which she uses to ironically question the genre. The Mob is the deliberately dilettante attempt of being a band, of creating a fiction that provides an exclusive insight into the glorious moments of a band headed for a dramatic end on their legendary last tour. Lyrics by Diana Jumanan). Leading actors: Madamlena (vocals), Luigi (e-guitar, vocals), Joe (bass), Do (drums) Concept: Magdalena Chowaniec/mariamagdalena
www.myspace.com/rockthemob
www.mariamagdalena.cc
Saturday, September 12
2.30 p.m. / Public Space Dresden
(Meeting point: Motorenhalle, courtyard)
Oliver Hangl, Vienna feat. Danny Bruder, Berlin
Guerilla Walk Through Dresden
Performative audio project. Oliver Hangl and the German rapper Danny Bruder enact two-to-three-hour audio tours in different cities which navigate participants, sometimes without prior announcement, through adjacent public and private spaces. Through radio headphones the tour guides convey information about their unannounced routes through the city jungle, commenting on and fictionalizing sites and events, and encouraging, or enticing, participants to see chance as a possibility and to actively respond to the unexpected. A guided tour of the city in the mind which is a soundless concert, so to speak, a dinner with headphones on, a party without noise-the Guerilla Walk separates different levels of perception while at the same time isolating the participants; individual intimate perception in a collective in the middle of a sequence of uncontrolled real-life settings.
www.olliwood.com
5.30 p.m. / Motorenhalle
David Moises, Vienna
Hobbyhorse
Lecture and participative performance. In his work David Moises combines accomplishments from the development of art history (sculpture, cybernetic and performance art) with the personality profile of the engineer, the tinker, and the artist. According to Claude Lévi-Strauss, the engineer and the tinker ('bricoleur') are characterized by a polarity of behavior: for the engineer, there are only raw materials to be used at will and interference factors to be eliminated. The tinker also makes use of scraps and fragments-witnesses, as it were, of the history of the individual and society. With his "Hobbyhorses" developed during his MAK-Schindler scholarship in Los Angeles (2005/2006), the artist encourages the audience not only to ride the four-stroke-enginedriven hobbyhorses in a proverbial sense, but also to experience the abstract notion of "horsepower" in the true sense of the word. In a lecture, the artist approaches the subject at a theoretical level, documenting the history of the "cultivation", or "civilizatory" appropriation, of the horse up until the motorized hobbyhorse.
www.davidmoises.com
7.00 p.m. / Motorenhalle
Chris Hales & Tejio Pellinen
CAUSE & EFFECT
Performance with interactive cinema. "Cause & Effect" is an experimental performance featuring short films made and modified in direct interaction with the audience. In contrast to the existing tradition of interactive film formats, Chris Hales und Tejio Pellinen develop their film works in direct collaboration with viewers. Arranged and spontaneous questions and dialogues, exclamations, light, mobile phones, or noise of the viewers present determine the action and sequential structure of the films. A typical performance consists of eight short films from different genres such as art, drama, live-action movie or music video. Some of them are specially adapted for the site or the local language of the place where they are screened. "Cause & Effect" is inspired by the Prague "Laterna Magika" movement as well as by the pioneering interactive "Kinoautomat" (1967) film system under the direction of Radúz Činčera.
www.kinoautomat.org
9.00 p.m. / Motorenhalle
Dick4Dick, Gdansk
Live Concert. The Gdansk-based formation DICK4DICK in their cosmic overalls bring together different skills and styles in a unique hybrid blend between sound and enactment, playing a mix of punk rock, disco, electro and several others undefined music styles. Nygga Dick, Dick Dexter, Boddy Dick and Wet Dick Junior have undermined the Polish music scene since 2004. After more than 200 concerts, three albums, bizarre self-produced videos, some awards and countless scandals, they still unrelentingly follow their motto "Change constantly!"
www.dick4dick.net
www.myspace.com/dick4dick
In the Loop / Motorenhalle
"MY/WE", Łodz
Video presentation, Academy of Fine Arts Łodz. "How can we say 'we' nowadays?"-the question posed by French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy is more present today than ever and provides a fundamental starting point for the discourse about political and intercultural phenomena of our society and finally, about European self-definition.
www.projektmy.com.pl
In the Loop / Motorenhalle
Children's Film Factory - Dziecięca Wytwórnia Filmowa (DWF)
Video presentation, Galeria Entropia, Wrocław. The Children's Film Factory, established 1985, is an animation film workshop for elementary school age children (up to 14 years). Using simple means such as drawings, scraps of paper, Plasticine, computer graphics or their own body, children develop their own short films with the help of artists and creative professionals from other fields. The children act as directors, actors, editors, and set designers at the same time, and the results are as professional as they are refreshing and "contemporary". Galeria Entropia is a contemporary art gallery based in Wrocław, Poland. Entropia sees itself as an interface and presentation platform for contemporary art forms in the border zone between visual art, sound art, and film.
http://entropia.art.pl/DWF/DWFstoryEnglish.htm
The program was curated by MAK Vienna in collaboration with the partner institutions and is complemented with contemporary positions of the local Dresden art scene.
* An event of MAK, Vienna, in cooperation with Jadłodajnia Filozoficzna, Warsaw, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław, Academy of Fine Arts, Łodz, Impex, Budapest, and riesa efau, Dresden.
PROGRAM
Friday, September 11
7.00 p.m. / Motorenhalle
Zsolt Sörés, Budapest
Ahad's Masters Garden: Electro-acoustic concert of the Ahad/Füle (Hungary/Japan) duo to Andy Warhol's film "Empire"
Performance. Together with Csaba Füle, Zsolt Sörés aka Ahad creates unique sound environments around Warhol's silent movie "Empire". From shortwave receivers, radio signals, frequencies, sound samples and modulations an "audional film" is assembled, in this case a soundtrack, based on Andy Warhol's enigmatic and associative film which attempts, using the motif of the Empire State Building, to fathom the complexity of visual perception.
www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/soresbio.html
8.00 p.m. / Motorenhalle
Grit Ruhland, Dresden
Transducer
Performance. The artwork of Grit Ruhland, DAYFLY ACROBATICS, is to be understood as a modular system in which sounds, noises, interviews, stories, texts, drawings, installations, light, objects and materials are invented, explored, used, combined or even generated. From this the ONE-EVENING ACROBATIC ACT "Transducer" will originate. DAYFLY ACROBATICS fundamentally deals with the perception of the "world" and the questioning of conventions, spiced with a pinch of humor and absurdity. It is mostly tied to a temporal sequence and intended to be understood as a system of processes in themselves.
8.30 p.m. / Motorenhalle
Jens Besser, Dresden
KAIN KONZEPT (Kreide)
Surprise performance
9.00 p.m. / Motorenhalle
The Mob, Vienna
FIXING FREEDOM TOUR (The Director's Cut)
The only full, unexpurgated story of one of rock music's legendary acts
Punk performance. Rounding up "The Mob", the trained classic dancer and performer Magdalena Chowaniec created the epitome of a punk band which she uses to ironically question the genre. The Mob is the deliberately dilettante attempt of being a band, of creating a fiction that provides an exclusive insight into the glorious moments of a band headed for a dramatic end on their legendary last tour. Lyrics by Diana Jumanan). Leading actors: Madamlena (vocals), Luigi (e-guitar, vocals), Joe (bass), Do (drums) Concept: Magdalena Chowaniec/mariamagdalena
www.myspace.com/rockthemob
www.mariamagdalena.cc
Saturday, September 12
2.30 p.m. / Public Space Dresden
(Meeting point: Motorenhalle, courtyard)
Oliver Hangl, Vienna feat. Danny Bruder, Berlin
Guerilla Walk Through Dresden
Performative audio project. Oliver Hangl and the German rapper Danny Bruder enact two-to-three-hour audio tours in different cities which navigate participants, sometimes without prior announcement, through adjacent public and private spaces. Through radio headphones the tour guides convey information about their unannounced routes through the city jungle, commenting on and fictionalizing sites and events, and encouraging, or enticing, participants to see chance as a possibility and to actively respond to the unexpected. A guided tour of the city in the mind which is a soundless concert, so to speak, a dinner with headphones on, a party without noise-the Guerilla Walk separates different levels of perception while at the same time isolating the participants; individual intimate perception in a collective in the middle of a sequence of uncontrolled real-life settings.
www.olliwood.com
5.30 p.m. / Motorenhalle
David Moises, Vienna
Hobbyhorse
Lecture and participative performance. In his work David Moises combines accomplishments from the development of art history (sculpture, cybernetic and performance art) with the personality profile of the engineer, the tinker, and the artist. According to Claude Lévi-Strauss, the engineer and the tinker ('bricoleur') are characterized by a polarity of behavior: for the engineer, there are only raw materials to be used at will and interference factors to be eliminated. The tinker also makes use of scraps and fragments-witnesses, as it were, of the history of the individual and society. With his "Hobbyhorses" developed during his MAK-Schindler scholarship in Los Angeles (2005/2006), the artist encourages the audience not only to ride the four-stroke-enginedriven hobbyhorses in a proverbial sense, but also to experience the abstract notion of "horsepower" in the true sense of the word. In a lecture, the artist approaches the subject at a theoretical level, documenting the history of the "cultivation", or "civilizatory" appropriation, of the horse up until the motorized hobbyhorse.
www.davidmoises.com
7.00 p.m. / Motorenhalle
Chris Hales & Tejio Pellinen
CAUSE & EFFECT
Performance with interactive cinema. "Cause & Effect" is an experimental performance featuring short films made and modified in direct interaction with the audience. In contrast to the existing tradition of interactive film formats, Chris Hales und Tejio Pellinen develop their film works in direct collaboration with viewers. Arranged and spontaneous questions and dialogues, exclamations, light, mobile phones, or noise of the viewers present determine the action and sequential structure of the films. A typical performance consists of eight short films from different genres such as art, drama, live-action movie or music video. Some of them are specially adapted for the site or the local language of the place where they are screened. "Cause & Effect" is inspired by the Prague "Laterna Magika" movement as well as by the pioneering interactive "Kinoautomat" (1967) film system under the direction of Radúz Činčera.
www.kinoautomat.org
9.00 p.m. / Motorenhalle
Dick4Dick, Gdansk
Live Concert. The Gdansk-based formation DICK4DICK in their cosmic overalls bring together different skills and styles in a unique hybrid blend between sound and enactment, playing a mix of punk rock, disco, electro and several others undefined music styles. Nygga Dick, Dick Dexter, Boddy Dick and Wet Dick Junior have undermined the Polish music scene since 2004. After more than 200 concerts, three albums, bizarre self-produced videos, some awards and countless scandals, they still unrelentingly follow their motto "Change constantly!"
www.dick4dick.net
www.myspace.com/dick4dick
In the Loop / Motorenhalle
"MY/WE", Łodz
Video presentation, Academy of Fine Arts Łodz. "How can we say 'we' nowadays?"-the question posed by French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy is more present today than ever and provides a fundamental starting point for the discourse about political and intercultural phenomena of our society and finally, about European self-definition.
www.projektmy.com.pl
In the Loop / Motorenhalle
Children's Film Factory - Dziecięca Wytwórnia Filmowa (DWF)
Video presentation, Galeria Entropia, Wrocław. The Children's Film Factory, established 1985, is an animation film workshop for elementary school age children (up to 14 years). Using simple means such as drawings, scraps of paper, Plasticine, computer graphics or their own body, children develop their own short films with the help of artists and creative professionals from other fields. The children act as directors, actors, editors, and set designers at the same time, and the results are as professional as they are refreshing and "contemporary". Galeria Entropia is a contemporary art gallery based in Wrocław, Poland. Entropia sees itself as an interface and presentation platform for contemporary art forms in the border zone between visual art, sound art, and film.
http://entropia.art.pl/DWF/DWFstoryEnglish.htm
Pia Palme
Varieties
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Solanaceae, a family of plants more commonly known as nightshades – and more specifically, the fruits of these plants – play the main botanical and culinary role in this multilayered scenario. Over 50 different varieties of nightshade fruits and tubers (from plant species cultivated worldwide for four millennia) are to occupy the MAK Exhibition Hall in a very visible way.
The acoustic backdrop will be provided by a choir which has been put together specifically for this project. The piece which the choir will be performing takes up the ideas of variety, replication and diversification, ideas in which this project’s title is also rooted: a concept of diffusion which starts with two solo voices, a woman’s and a man’s, gives rise to a composition of polyphonic clusters built around texts by Oswald Egger and Sophie Reyer.
The diversity of the various interacting levels of this evening will culminate in the culinary preparation and subsequent enjoyment of the fruits employed, acoustically backed by a live remix of the just-premiered piece done by Electric Indigo and the composer.
Concept/Composition Pia Palme
Installation Irene Pichlhöfer
Culinary art Johann Reisinger
Text Oswald Egger, Sophie Reyer
Solo voices Annette Schönmüller, Johann Leutgeb
Choir Varieties, casted specifically for this project
Live remix Electric Indigo, Pia Palme
Fruits HBLFA Schönbrunn
Sound engineering Christina Bauer
Choir organization Caroline Hofer
In cooperation with the HBLFA Schönbrunn, Vegetable Cultivation Department, as part of their annual international theme for 2009: Solanaceae/the nightshade family (led by DI Wolfgang Palme).
The acoustic backdrop will be provided by a choir which has been put together specifically for this project. The piece which the choir will be performing takes up the ideas of variety, replication and diversification, ideas in which this project’s title is also rooted: a concept of diffusion which starts with two solo voices, a woman’s and a man’s, gives rise to a composition of polyphonic clusters built around texts by Oswald Egger and Sophie Reyer.
The diversity of the various interacting levels of this evening will culminate in the culinary preparation and subsequent enjoyment of the fruits employed, acoustically backed by a live remix of the just-premiered piece done by Electric Indigo and the composer.
Concept/Composition Pia Palme
Installation Irene Pichlhöfer
Culinary art Johann Reisinger
Text Oswald Egger, Sophie Reyer
Solo voices Annette Schönmüller, Johann Leutgeb
Choir Varieties, casted specifically for this project
Live remix Electric Indigo, Pia Palme
Fruits HBLFA Schönbrunn
Sound engineering Christina Bauer
Choir organization Caroline Hofer
In cooperation with the HBLFA Schönbrunn, Vegetable Cultivation Department, as part of their annual international theme for 2009: Solanaceae/the nightshade family (led by DI Wolfgang Palme).
RECESSION DESIGN
in the context of the Vienna Design Week
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Im Rahmen von Relevantes Design - VIENNA DESIGN WEEK
In Form einer interaktiven Präsentation zeigt das aus Mailand stammende Designerkollektiv Recession Design Möbel und Gegenstände, die von gesellschaftlicher Relevanz geprägt sind. Das Kollektiv nimmt dabei Bezug auf das sogenannte D.I.Y. Design (Do It Yourself). Gerade im Kontrast zu den glatt und perfekt erscheinenden Oberflächen unserer durchdesignten Warenwelt wird deutlich, dass Design Impulse für ein gesellschaftliches Umdenken geben kann, wenn es kritisch und intelligent operiert. Recession Design schafft Objekte, in denen die essenziellen Parameter von Form und Funktion wieder bewusst in den Vordergrund gestellt werden, und demonstriert zugleich auf humorvolle und subversive Art und Weise, dass hochwertiges Design auch mit einfachsten Mitteln und Materialien möglich ist. Eigens für die Präsentation im MAK hat Recession Design zudem ein neues Objekt konzipiert und angefertigt.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von POP SOLID und Fratelli Bianchi.
Die MAK DESIGN NITE bildet auch den Startschuss für einen erstmals stattfindenden Ideenwettbewerb, initiiert vom MAK in Kooperation mit departure, der Kreativagentur der Stadt Wien. „Project Vienna – A Design Strategy. How to react to a City?“ wird im Rahmen des gemeinsamen MAK-departure-Programms design>neue strategien durchgeführt.
In Form einer interaktiven Präsentation zeigt das aus Mailand stammende Designerkollektiv Recession Design Möbel und Gegenstände, die von gesellschaftlicher Relevanz geprägt sind. Das Kollektiv nimmt dabei Bezug auf das sogenannte D.I.Y. Design (Do It Yourself). Gerade im Kontrast zu den glatt und perfekt erscheinenden Oberflächen unserer durchdesignten Warenwelt wird deutlich, dass Design Impulse für ein gesellschaftliches Umdenken geben kann, wenn es kritisch und intelligent operiert. Recession Design schafft Objekte, in denen die essenziellen Parameter von Form und Funktion wieder bewusst in den Vordergrund gestellt werden, und demonstriert zugleich auf humorvolle und subversive Art und Weise, dass hochwertiges Design auch mit einfachsten Mitteln und Materialien möglich ist. Eigens für die Präsentation im MAK hat Recession Design zudem ein neues Objekt konzipiert und angefertigt.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von POP SOLID und Fratelli Bianchi.
Die MAK DESIGN NITE bildet auch den Startschuss für einen erstmals stattfindenden Ideenwettbewerb, initiiert vom MAK in Kooperation mit departure, der Kreativagentur der Stadt Wien. „Project Vienna – A Design Strategy. How to react to a City?“ wird im Rahmen des gemeinsamen MAK-departure-Programms design>neue strategien durchgeführt.
LOMOGRAPHY 1984
Lomo LC-A Anniversary
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The future is analogue! The popular analogue candid camera „Lomo LC-A“ is 25 and the MAK is celebrating the birthday of the cultobject in cooperation with „Lomographische Gesellschaft Wien”. The LomoWall „Shoot like a 25 year old“ showcasing thousands of lomographies by the global Lomography online-community will be on view at the MAK Columned Hall. Artists and architects invited by the MAK will present works with “Lomo LC-A” which they especially developed for the MAK NITE.
With contributions by Bernhard Eder / Theresa Krenn, Rainer Ganahl, Nilbar Güres, Michael Höpfner, Zenita Komad, Marko Lulic, David Moises, Johann Neumeister, Kristina Schinegger / Stefan Rutzinger, Bernhard Sommer and Christina Tsilidis
Live from Russia! LOVE-FINE
Timur Ptahin - vocals
Alexei Belousov - guitar
Alina Izolenta - groovebox
Kamil EA - keys
www.myspace.com/lovefinedisco
DJ set DJ Ni (Senf)
An event in cooperation with „Lomographische Gesellschaft Wien“ and MAK Design Shop.
With contributions by Bernhard Eder / Theresa Krenn, Rainer Ganahl, Nilbar Güres, Michael Höpfner, Zenita Komad, Marko Lulic, David Moises, Johann Neumeister, Kristina Schinegger / Stefan Rutzinger, Bernhard Sommer and Christina Tsilidis
Live from Russia! LOVE-FINE
Timur Ptahin - vocals
Alexei Belousov - guitar
Alina Izolenta - groovebox
Kamil EA - keys
www.myspace.com/lovefinedisco
DJ set DJ Ni (Senf)
An event in cooperation with „Lomographische Gesellschaft Wien“ and MAK Design Shop.
Doris Stelzer
bodies resituated
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bodies resituated spielt mit dem Spannungsfeld zwischen Architektur und bewegtem Körper. Der rohe, massive Raum im 8. Stock des Gefechtsturms steht im Kontrast zu den detailreichen und fragilen Performances von Doris Stelzer. Gemeinsam mit den PerfomerInnen Lieve De Pourcq und Gabriel Schenker sowie dem Musiker Werner Möbius werden performative Segmente, ähnlich bewegten skulpturalen Bildern, im Kontext des Gefechtsturms installiert und schaffen so Freiräume für neue Ansichten und Interpretationen.
Konzept, Choreografie Doris Stelzer (A) Performance, Choreografie Lieve De Pourcq (A/BE) Gabriel Schenker (BR/BE) Liveelectronics Werner Möbius (A/UK) Soundkonzept Mariella Greil (A/UK), Werner Möbius (A/UK) Licht Andrea Korosec (A) Produktion dis.danse Produktionsmitarbeit Stefanie Fischer PR SKYunlimited
Mit CAT OPEN wird der Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark auch 2009 wieder für Veranstaltungen geöffnet, die sich mit der neuen programmatischen Strategie des Projekts CAT – Contemporary Art Tower auseinandersetzen.
Konzept, Choreografie Doris Stelzer (A) Performance, Choreografie Lieve De Pourcq (A/BE) Gabriel Schenker (BR/BE) Liveelectronics Werner Möbius (A/UK) Soundkonzept Mariella Greil (A/UK), Werner Möbius (A/UK) Licht Andrea Korosec (A) Produktion dis.danse Produktionsmitarbeit Stefanie Fischer PR SKYunlimited
Mit CAT OPEN wird der Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark auch 2009 wieder für Veranstaltungen geöffnet, die sich mit der neuen programmatischen Strategie des Projekts CAT – Contemporary Art Tower auseinandersetzen.
Aufstehn / Stuhl kaputt machen / you / yellow / you
Kippenberger hören
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Ein Live-Hörspiel von Oliver Augst und Rüdiger Carl unter Mitwirkung von Sven-Åke Johansson. Mit Texten, O-Tönen und der Stimme von Martin Kippenberger.
„Er gehörte zu den schillerndsten Persönlichkeiten der Kunst der 1980er und 1990er Jahre und bis heute haben die jungen Avantgarden an seinem künstlerischen Erbe zu knabbern: Martin Kippenberger. Für die einen provokant, anmaßend und egozentrisch. Für die anderen intellektuell, kritisch und zuweilen moralisch.“ Phillip Dieterich
„Kippenberger hören“, eine Hommage, verbindet Texte, Gedichte und die Stimme des Künstlers mit Originalmusik von Augst, Carl und Johansson zu einer dichten Sound-Collage um das Phänomen Martin Kippenberger.
Sven-Åke Johansson - Sprache und Gesang / Perkussion / Autohupen
Rüdiger Carl - Sprache, Gesang und Witze / Akkordeon
Oliver Augst - Sprache und Gesang / Electronics
Mit CAT OPEN wird der Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark auch 2009 wieder für Veranstaltungen geöffnet, die sich mit der neuen programmatischen Strategie des Projekts CAT – Contemporary Art Tower auseinandersetzen.
„Er gehörte zu den schillerndsten Persönlichkeiten der Kunst der 1980er und 1990er Jahre und bis heute haben die jungen Avantgarden an seinem künstlerischen Erbe zu knabbern: Martin Kippenberger. Für die einen provokant, anmaßend und egozentrisch. Für die anderen intellektuell, kritisch und zuweilen moralisch.“ Phillip Dieterich
„Kippenberger hören“, eine Hommage, verbindet Texte, Gedichte und die Stimme des Künstlers mit Originalmusik von Augst, Carl und Johansson zu einer dichten Sound-Collage um das Phänomen Martin Kippenberger.
Sven-Åke Johansson - Sprache und Gesang / Perkussion / Autohupen
Rüdiger Carl - Sprache, Gesang und Witze / Akkordeon
Oliver Augst - Sprache und Gesang / Electronics
Mit CAT OPEN wird der Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark auch 2009 wieder für Veranstaltungen geöffnet, die sich mit der neuen programmatischen Strategie des Projekts CAT – Contemporary Art Tower auseinandersetzen.
Mondlandung 10.0
Dominik Nostitz
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A Winterdisciplinary Cocktail of the Spheres
by and with Dominik Nostitz / verein08
“It’s about the Moon landing – and then again, it’s not!”
Fred Schreiber, 2009, RadioKulturhaus
The moon landing of July 1969 was watched worldwide by over 500 million people. Never before had there been a comparable event, viewable by so many people at the same time. The collective experience of media content – and the question as to its authenticity and truthfulness – inspired Dominik Nostitz to create his project Mondlandung 10.0 [Moon Landing 10.0], which forms the thematic center and the point of departure for a diverse array of live contributions from the fields of music, performance art and video, and which will be presented by a wide array of protagonists at the MAK NITE event.
Film World première of the “Sendung ohne Namen Spezial” [The Show-Without-a-Name, Special Edition] by Fred Schreiber and Sebastian Brauneis
In the Loop video contributions and interviews on the Moon Landing in the MAK Media Room
Audio-visual Talk Katrien Kolenberg (Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna) will use sounds and videos to bring back to life the “Space Race” between the USA and the former Soviet Union, while also taking a humorous and critical approach which sheds some light on myths and truths concerning the Earth’s much-discussed celestial sidekick
Performance British dancer and choreographer Liz King will present a choreography which she developed especially for Mondlandung 10.0
Sounds & Music of the spheres Franz Hautzinger
Moon Fashion 5 Moonfashion designs will be presented by actress Patricia Aulitzky and others
Music Live-Concerts by Cheating on New York (Renee Benson, vocals and Meaghan Burke, cello; New York), experimental musicians Hummer Chips (Jakob Schneidewind and Bernhard Hammer), the one and only Lassos Mariachis and the moon band Mondiki (with Dominik Nostitz, Franz Hautzinger, Alee Thelfa, Renee Benson, Jakob Schneidewind, Bernie Hammer and Philipp Tröstl); FM4 radio legend John Megill as a Moon DJ featuring a mix of old and new hi-fi material including vinyl, cassettes and other sound media.
www.verein08.at www.mondlandung.at
by and with Dominik Nostitz / verein08
“It’s about the Moon landing – and then again, it’s not!”
Fred Schreiber, 2009, RadioKulturhaus
The moon landing of July 1969 was watched worldwide by over 500 million people. Never before had there been a comparable event, viewable by so many people at the same time. The collective experience of media content – and the question as to its authenticity and truthfulness – inspired Dominik Nostitz to create his project Mondlandung 10.0 [Moon Landing 10.0], which forms the thematic center and the point of departure for a diverse array of live contributions from the fields of music, performance art and video, and which will be presented by a wide array of protagonists at the MAK NITE event.
Film World première of the “Sendung ohne Namen Spezial” [The Show-Without-a-Name, Special Edition] by Fred Schreiber and Sebastian Brauneis
In the Loop video contributions and interviews on the Moon Landing in the MAK Media Room
Audio-visual Talk Katrien Kolenberg (Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna) will use sounds and videos to bring back to life the “Space Race” between the USA and the former Soviet Union, while also taking a humorous and critical approach which sheds some light on myths and truths concerning the Earth’s much-discussed celestial sidekick
Performance British dancer and choreographer Liz King will present a choreography which she developed especially for Mondlandung 10.0
Sounds & Music of the spheres Franz Hautzinger
Moon Fashion 5 Moonfashion designs will be presented by actress Patricia Aulitzky and others
Music Live-Concerts by Cheating on New York (Renee Benson, vocals and Meaghan Burke, cello; New York), experimental musicians Hummer Chips (Jakob Schneidewind and Bernhard Hammer), the one and only Lassos Mariachis and the moon band Mondiki (with Dominik Nostitz, Franz Hautzinger, Alee Thelfa, Renee Benson, Jakob Schneidewind, Bernie Hammer and Philipp Tröstl); FM4 radio legend John Megill as a Moon DJ featuring a mix of old and new hi-fi material including vinyl, cassettes and other sound media.
www.verein08.at www.mondlandung.at
Manfred Stangl
Ästhetik der Ganzheit
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Filmauszug Dokumentation „Im Abseits der Kunst“ von Ixy Noever
Szenische Lesung „Ästhetik der Ganzheit“ von Manfred Stangl
Lesende Manfred Stangl, Christian Schreibmüller, Doris Mitterbacher
An den Trommeln Karl Heinz Bernhart
Anschließend Podiumsgespräch Univ. Prof. Elisabeth Samsonow, Manfred Stangl, Ixy Noever (Moderation).
Die MAK NITE „Manfred Stangl. Ästhetik der Ganzheit“ steht in besonderer Weise in Zusammenhang mit dem MAK.
Stangl war über zehn Jahre als Aufseher bzw. Oberaufseher im MAK tätig und kehrt nun in neuem Gefüge zurück. In einer szenischen Lesung stellt Stangl sein noch unveröffentlichtes Werk „Ästhetik der Ganzheit“ vor. Er versucht darin die „Ganzheitlichkeit in der Kunst“ in sprachlich poetischer Form aufzuarbeiten und neue Sichtweisen aufzuzeigen. Die Lesenden (Manfred Stangl, Christian Schreibmüller und Doris Mitterbacher) werden von Trommelmusik begleitet (Karlheinz Bernhart). Zum Einstieg in das Thema des Abends zeigt die Kulturanthropologin Ixy Noever Auszüge aus ihrer 2002 entstandenen Dokumentation „Im Abseits der Kunst“, die in kurzen Sequenzen Einblicke in den Arbeitsalltag von vier Aufsehern im MAK Wien gibt. Zu Wort kommt Manfred Stangl, der über seine Erfahrungen als Museumsaufsicht sowie sein eigenes Umdenken in Richtung einer kontemplativen, ganzheitlichen Lebensweise erzählt. Das Prinzip der Ästhetik als Grundlage von Kunst und Kultur wird anschließend in einem Podiumsgespräch zwischen Manfred Stangl und der deutschen Philosophin und Bildhauerin Elisabeth Samsonow, Professorin für philosophische und historische Anthropologie der Kunst, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, hinterfragt und kritisch beleuchtet (Moderatorin: Ixy Noever).
www.sonneundmond.at
Szenische Lesung „Ästhetik der Ganzheit“ von Manfred Stangl
Lesende Manfred Stangl, Christian Schreibmüller, Doris Mitterbacher
An den Trommeln Karl Heinz Bernhart
Anschließend Podiumsgespräch Univ. Prof. Elisabeth Samsonow, Manfred Stangl, Ixy Noever (Moderation).
Die MAK NITE „Manfred Stangl. Ästhetik der Ganzheit“ steht in besonderer Weise in Zusammenhang mit dem MAK.
Stangl war über zehn Jahre als Aufseher bzw. Oberaufseher im MAK tätig und kehrt nun in neuem Gefüge zurück. In einer szenischen Lesung stellt Stangl sein noch unveröffentlichtes Werk „Ästhetik der Ganzheit“ vor. Er versucht darin die „Ganzheitlichkeit in der Kunst“ in sprachlich poetischer Form aufzuarbeiten und neue Sichtweisen aufzuzeigen. Die Lesenden (Manfred Stangl, Christian Schreibmüller und Doris Mitterbacher) werden von Trommelmusik begleitet (Karlheinz Bernhart). Zum Einstieg in das Thema des Abends zeigt die Kulturanthropologin Ixy Noever Auszüge aus ihrer 2002 entstandenen Dokumentation „Im Abseits der Kunst“, die in kurzen Sequenzen Einblicke in den Arbeitsalltag von vier Aufsehern im MAK Wien gibt. Zu Wort kommt Manfred Stangl, der über seine Erfahrungen als Museumsaufsicht sowie sein eigenes Umdenken in Richtung einer kontemplativen, ganzheitlichen Lebensweise erzählt. Das Prinzip der Ästhetik als Grundlage von Kunst und Kultur wird anschließend in einem Podiumsgespräch zwischen Manfred Stangl und der deutschen Philosophin und Bildhauerin Elisabeth Samsonow, Professorin für philosophische und historische Anthropologie der Kunst, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, hinterfragt und kritisch beleuchtet (Moderatorin: Ixy Noever).
www.sonneundmond.at
MALICE IN SONDERLAND
Korhan Erel, Alexandra Reill
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A live audiovisual performance by Korhan Erel (Istanbul) and Alexandra Reill (Vienna).
Malice in Sonderland deals with Lewis Carroll’s famous novel Alice in Wonderland (1865). In their audiovisual performance, sound composer Korhan Erel from Istanbul and Viennese media artist Alexandra Reill start with original material from the 1933 Alice in Wonderland film directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Using experimental digital methods, they examine the theme and the story of this profound fairytale and interpret it live with a phantasmagoric improvisation composed from digital images and abstract sound collages.
Korhan Erel is one of the most important contemporary sound composers in Istanbul, and a founding member of the internationally known free improvisation group Islak Köpek. He combines computers with sound modules, oscillators and digital algorithms, the result being a new instrument in its own right. His compositions are based on industrial and found sounds, which he uses to create sound textures and acoustic collages.
Alexandra Reill, born in Vienna, is a media artist; she currently lives and works in Hamburg. On her “kanonmedia” label, she has for years been creating productions employing various new media. She invests her work with sociocultural themes, examining the societal and sociological repercussions of digitalization and the information age for human identities. Her digital visual MAK NITE January 2010 worlds and live compositions are characterized by comprehensive thematic research, rhythmic dramaturgies and the conscious employment of abstract formal language.
Malice in Sonderland deals with Lewis Carroll’s famous novel Alice in Wonderland (1865). In their audiovisual performance, sound composer Korhan Erel from Istanbul and Viennese media artist Alexandra Reill start with original material from the 1933 Alice in Wonderland film directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Using experimental digital methods, they examine the theme and the story of this profound fairytale and interpret it live with a phantasmagoric improvisation composed from digital images and abstract sound collages.
Korhan Erel is one of the most important contemporary sound composers in Istanbul, and a founding member of the internationally known free improvisation group Islak Köpek. He combines computers with sound modules, oscillators and digital algorithms, the result being a new instrument in its own right. His compositions are based on industrial and found sounds, which he uses to create sound textures and acoustic collages.
Alexandra Reill, born in Vienna, is a media artist; she currently lives and works in Hamburg. On her “kanonmedia” label, she has for years been creating productions employing various new media. She invests her work with sociocultural themes, examining the societal and sociological repercussions of digitalization and the information age for human identities. Her digital visual MAK NITE January 2010 worlds and live compositions are characterized by comprehensive thematic research, rhythmic dramaturgies and the conscious employment of abstract formal language.
Loving the Alien
Vienna – Budapest – Łódź – Warsaw – Wrocław – Dresden
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Edited by Peter Noever, with contributions by Jola Bielańska, Frank Eckhardt, Mariusz Jodko, Rita Kálmán, Andreas Krištof, Claus Christian Malzahn, Peter Noever, Maciej Wysocki, Tomasz Załuski.
Catalogue editor Marlies Wirth
English, 176 pages, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg / MAK Vienna, 2009, € 15. Available from December 15, 2009 at the MAK Design Shop.
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
Catalogue editor Marlies Wirth
English, 176 pages, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg / MAK Vienna, 2009, € 15. Available from December 15, 2009 at the MAK Design Shop.
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
M+M
Pie Bible Nite
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A collection of experiences, tips and impressions concerning love and sexuality with contributions by the artists Alfredo Barsuglia, Martin Fengel, Anne Gaskell, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Jonathan Meese, Richard Phillips, Cesare Pietroiusti, Shelly Silver, Gerd and Uwe Tobias, Tobias Zielony / Laetitia Gendre, Ralf Ziervogel, Chicks on Speed and others.
For the Pie Bible, the Munich-based artist duo M+M (Marc Weis and Martin De Mattia) invited 57 artists to reveal their experiences and fantasies—or even just their fictions. Handwritten notes, diary entries, collages, drawings and photographs lead into the secret areas of sensual desire and erotic abysses, and they all link together to become a varied, facsimile-like compendium.
At MAK NITE, M+M will be joined by actress Vivien Löschner and actor Sebastian Pass in presenting selected works and texts from the Pie Bible as a live projection, affording their audience close-up looks at intimate insights.
For the Pie Bible, the Munich-based artist duo M+M (Marc Weis and Martin De Mattia) invited 57 artists to reveal their experiences and fantasies—or even just their fictions. Handwritten notes, diary entries, collages, drawings and photographs lead into the secret areas of sensual desire and erotic abysses, and they all link together to become a varied, facsimile-like compendium.
At MAK NITE, M+M will be joined by actress Vivien Löschner and actor Sebastian Pass in presenting selected works and texts from the Pie Bible as a live projection, affording their audience close-up looks at intimate insights.
REAR IMPACT
Tom Hanslmaier
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The solo performance REAR IMPACT by Tom Hanslmaier focuses on the limits to which the human body can be pushed, as well as the body’s vulnerability and deconstruction in cases where control is lost—such as in accidents which occur within fractions of a second. As a dancer and stuntman, he is interested in biochemical processes: in the unbelievable strength and intensity which the body exhibits when moving, and which affect it when it falls. In this performance, it is precisely these events that take place as miniatures—the loss of control, deconstruction, injury, getting back up, developing further and recovering.
Und keine Hand. Zeit, Mörderin, alterslose
by Andreas Hutter
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A performative installation by Andreas Hutter based on two texts by Heiner Müller
Two unique texts by Heiner Müller formed the basis for this work by stage director Andreas Hutter and actress Evelyn Fuchs: the never-before-staged, visionary manifesto Brief an Mitko Gotscheff [Letter to Mitko Gotscheff] and an intimate piece of writing entitled Traumtext [Dream Text] will now be receiving their first Viennese performances at MAK NITE. It will also be the première appearance of Andreas
Hutter’s series of pictures The Face in the Sand, which will accompany the staging specifically for this occasion.
Brief an Mitko Gotscheff (1983) and Traumtext (1995) are exemplary
representations of Müller’s life, writings and dreams. They tell of yearning and of failure, of the vision of societal solidarity and of bitter personal experiences. These texts’ present versions are based on the original typescripts by Heiner Müller as they were published by him in the program booklet Drucksache 17 during his tenure as artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble. Integrated into this printing are handwritten corrections and notes made by the author as he edited the material he had written.
Concept, staging, scenography, costume Andreas Hutter
Performer Evelyn Fuchs
Two unique texts by Heiner Müller formed the basis for this work by stage director Andreas Hutter and actress Evelyn Fuchs: the never-before-staged, visionary manifesto Brief an Mitko Gotscheff [Letter to Mitko Gotscheff] and an intimate piece of writing entitled Traumtext [Dream Text] will now be receiving their first Viennese performances at MAK NITE. It will also be the première appearance of Andreas
Hutter’s series of pictures The Face in the Sand, which will accompany the staging specifically for this occasion.
Brief an Mitko Gotscheff (1983) and Traumtext (1995) are exemplary
representations of Müller’s life, writings and dreams. They tell of yearning and of failure, of the vision of societal solidarity and of bitter personal experiences. These texts’ present versions are based on the original typescripts by Heiner Müller as they were published by him in the program booklet Drucksache 17 during his tenure as artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble. Integrated into this printing are handwritten corrections and notes made by the author as he edited the material he had written.
Concept, staging, scenography, costume Andreas Hutter
Performer Evelyn Fuchs
Wiggler 2010
Elena Cooke, Anna Haidegger, Krzysztof Kaczmarek, Bernd Oppl, Catharina Wronn
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Das Ausloten kulturell und ästhetisch signifikanter Bilder, die Dokumentation fiktionaler Ereignisse rund um einen Vulkanausbruch am Mount St. Helens, die neu choreografierte Interpretation einer frühen Filminstallation von VALIE EXPORT, abstrakte audiovisuelle Störsignale einer Überwachungskamera, die vom Strom genommen wird, oder auch system- und gesellschaftskritische Sequenzen zur britischen Einwanderungspolitik – ausgewählte Künstlerinnen und Künstler der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Klasse Video und Videoinstallation (Prof. Dorit Margreiter) zeigen ihre Arbeiten im Kontext zeitgenössischer Fragestellungen in einem speziell für die MAK NITE zusammengestellten Screening.
Mit Beiträgen von Elena Cooke (UK), Anna Haidegger (AT), Krzysztof Kaczmarek (PL), Bernd Oppl (AT), Catharina Wronn (DE)
Mit Beiträgen von Elena Cooke (UK), Anna Haidegger (AT), Krzysztof Kaczmarek (PL), Bernd Oppl (AT), Catharina Wronn (DE)
RAYMOND PETTIBON & HANS WEIGAND
Films, Music and more
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The Los Angeles (Venice)-based artist Raymond Pettibon (born in Tucson, Arizona in 1957) is one of the most fascinating artistic personalities on America’s West Coast.
On Tuesday, 2 March 2010, a MAK NITE SPECIAL is to take place with this exceptional figure. On the occasion of his stay in Vienna to accept the 2010 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Raymond Pettibon will be delivering a brief lecture at the MAK Columned Hall. His talk will be followed by his own video works, including a new video which he created specifically for this occasion, and films by artist-friends (including COTTON 2001, a gangster film by Hans Weigand) in which Pettibon appears in minor roles. Together with Hans Weigand, Stefan Bidner and Albert Meyer, Pettibon will also take the stage in an artists’ band.
Talk by Raymond Pettibon / Videos by Raymond Pettibon / Music Hans Weigand, Guitar / Stefan Bidner, Vocals / Alber Mayer, “The Fan Man” / Videos by Hans Weigand / Music Raymond Pettibon, Vocals / Hans Weigand, Guitar / Reading “Künstler, Killer, krumme Hunde” (Jerry Cotton, Bastei Verlag) / presented by Grissemann / DJ Set by Nina Erber
On Tuesday, 2 March 2010, a MAK NITE SPECIAL is to take place with this exceptional figure. On the occasion of his stay in Vienna to accept the 2010 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Raymond Pettibon will be delivering a brief lecture at the MAK Columned Hall. His talk will be followed by his own video works, including a new video which he created specifically for this occasion, and films by artist-friends (including COTTON 2001, a gangster film by Hans Weigand) in which Pettibon appears in minor roles. Together with Hans Weigand, Stefan Bidner and Albert Meyer, Pettibon will also take the stage in an artists’ band.
Talk by Raymond Pettibon / Videos by Raymond Pettibon / Music Hans Weigand, Guitar / Stefan Bidner, Vocals / Alber Mayer, “The Fan Man” / Videos by Hans Weigand / Music Raymond Pettibon, Vocals / Hans Weigand, Guitar / Reading “Künstler, Killer, krumme Hunde” (Jerry Cotton, Bastei Verlag) / presented by Grissemann / DJ Set by Nina Erber
A Private Investigator's Dream Machine
by Mariella Greil, Synes Elischka and Christian Schröder
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The Austrian première of this ambitious project.
A Private Investigator’s Dream Machine examines the relationship between selfperception, observation and surveillance somatically, visually and via sound architecture. A digitally compressed and condensed space plays host to a microchoreography in which the body of the female performer is created anew over and over in strange-seeming, amorphous forms.
The PID Machine visualizes processed body images. Their doubling and
overlapping in a multiple projection during the live performance gives rise to a “gruesome but at the same time sensuous and poetic monstrosity” based on the hypothesis of videos as space extensions, as parallel universes in which fictional bodily forms can be developed and made perceptible.
A Private Investigator’s Dream Machine (PID Machine) is a collaborative effort by Mariella Greil (performance), Synes Elischka (video) and Christian Schröder (sound).
A Private Investigator’s Dream Machine examines the relationship between selfperception, observation and surveillance somatically, visually and via sound architecture. A digitally compressed and condensed space plays host to a microchoreography in which the body of the female performer is created anew over and over in strange-seeming, amorphous forms.
The PID Machine visualizes processed body images. Their doubling and
overlapping in a multiple projection during the live performance gives rise to a “gruesome but at the same time sensuous and poetic monstrosity” based on the hypothesis of videos as space extensions, as parallel universes in which fictional bodily forms can be developed and made perceptible.
A Private Investigator’s Dream Machine (PID Machine) is a collaborative effort by Mariella Greil (performance), Synes Elischka (video) and Christian Schröder (sound).
BATTLE SCARS
Lydia Lunch, Mia Zabelka, Christina Nemec
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A multimedia performance utilizing video, voice and psycho ambient sound experiments as a survival guide to life in the traumazone.
New York-based musician and performer Lydia Lunch, one of the most influential personalities of the Post-Punk and No-Wave scenes of the 1970s and 1980s, is to give an exclusive performance in Vienna to open the coming season of events at the MAK Depot of Contemorary Art, Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark in Vienna’s third district. Together with electric violinist Mia Zabelka, a pioneer of electro-acoustic composing, and the gender-critical sound artist Christina Nemec, Lydia Lunch will be conducting a “psychoacoustic experiment” at the Arenbergpark Flak Tower.
The live multimedia performance BATTLE SCARS will center on coming to terms with traumatic experiences. The mutual appearance by Lydia Lunch and Mia Zabelka is the meeting of two uncompromising performers who join forces “to utter a battle cry that gives a voice to all those who feel wounded, weary and traumatized by a world at war with itself.”
CAT OPEN 2010 In the form of actions, performance, and installations, artists thematize the visionary idea of a constantly expanding and growing art location in connection with the historical significance and distinctiveness of the site. These onenight-only events taking place within the framework of the MAK NITE© offer an additional experimental field and allow for constant revitalization of the intention of the CAT – Contemporary Art Tower.
New York-based musician and performer Lydia Lunch, one of the most influential personalities of the Post-Punk and No-Wave scenes of the 1970s and 1980s, is to give an exclusive performance in Vienna to open the coming season of events at the MAK Depot of Contemorary Art, Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark in Vienna’s third district. Together with electric violinist Mia Zabelka, a pioneer of electro-acoustic composing, and the gender-critical sound artist Christina Nemec, Lydia Lunch will be conducting a “psychoacoustic experiment” at the Arenbergpark Flak Tower.
The live multimedia performance BATTLE SCARS will center on coming to terms with traumatic experiences. The mutual appearance by Lydia Lunch and Mia Zabelka is the meeting of two uncompromising performers who join forces “to utter a battle cry that gives a voice to all those who feel wounded, weary and traumatized by a world at war with itself.”
CAT OPEN 2010 In the form of actions, performance, and installations, artists thematize the visionary idea of a constantly expanding and growing art location in connection with the historical significance and distinctiveness of the site. These onenight-only events taking place within the framework of the MAK NITE© offer an additional experimental field and allow for constant revitalization of the intention of the CAT – Contemporary Art Tower.
art victim
Wolfgang Becksteiner
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Failed prevention of addiction presented by Wolfgang Becksteiner.
115 artists, collectors, gallerists, museum directors and curators are at the focal point of Wolfgang Becksteiner’s initiative artvictim, which is being presented for the first time to the public as an installative projection at MAK NITE. Becksteiner worked on this project for over two years, and initially invited 246 representatives of the culture industry to participate.
Becksteiner’s individual portraits, compressed into four symbolic sub-groups, employ subtle irony to make clear the ambivalence of individuality and anonymity in the art world, causing one to think back to the classifications devised by German photographer August Sander (1876–1964). Sander, in the portrait project Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts [People of the 20th Century] from the second half of the 1920s, made the attempt to visualize the societal structures of his era in a typological fashion.
In this work, consisting of a cubic installation with four projective surfaces and adapted specifically for MAK NITE, the individual images will be projected in rapid sequence and at a nearly life-sized scale, with a computer voice constantly calling out the names in alphabetical order. At regular intervals, the text “Die Module der Kunst und ihre Gesichter” [The Modules of Art and Their Faces] will also be heard over the PA system; this text was written for the project by Grazbased art researcher Werner Fenz, who draws analogies to the work of August Sander.
115 artists, collectors, gallerists, museum directors and curators are at the focal point of Wolfgang Becksteiner’s initiative artvictim, which is being presented for the first time to the public as an installative projection at MAK NITE. Becksteiner worked on this project for over two years, and initially invited 246 representatives of the culture industry to participate.
Becksteiner’s individual portraits, compressed into four symbolic sub-groups, employ subtle irony to make clear the ambivalence of individuality and anonymity in the art world, causing one to think back to the classifications devised by German photographer August Sander (1876–1964). Sander, in the portrait project Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts [People of the 20th Century] from the second half of the 1920s, made the attempt to visualize the societal structures of his era in a typological fashion.
In this work, consisting of a cubic installation with four projective surfaces and adapted specifically for MAK NITE, the individual images will be projected in rapid sequence and at a nearly life-sized scale, with a computer voice constantly calling out the names in alphabetical order. At regular intervals, the text “Die Module der Kunst und ihre Gesichter” [The Modules of Art and Their Faces] will also be heard over the PA system; this text was written for the project by Grazbased art researcher Werner Fenz, who draws analogies to the work of August Sander.
Natures of Conflict
Initiation
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Conflicts demand solutions, require rethinking and restructuring. This search for new forms, alternative routes and possibilities is an integral component and stylistic tool of the young Viennese fashion label Natures of Conflict (NOC) by Kathrin Lugbauer and Nora Berger.
For MAK NITE, the makers of NOC will present their newest collection TRIBAL LIFE! in a performance developed specifically for this evening, a sort of “initiationrite” for their idea of design.
The two designers describe the creation of their current models as a process of collecting ideas and forms, all of which gradually come together to form a new whole. It was the elegance and simplicity of 1930s French haute couture designer Madame Grès and the “wildness” of traditional African tribal vestments that served as inspirations for the collection TRIBAL LIFE!, into which monumental masks, visors made of raffia and structured dresses of a very strict design are integrated. Elegant silhouettes, strong colors, pleats and unusual raw materials such as straw and paper join to form a refined collage.
Kathrin Lugbauer and Nora Berger established NOC in 2008. “That which interests us and captures our attention is also what inspires us,” say the two designers. “The ways in which we process and treat the material can be quite diverse—but our focus is on connecting things that are opposites. We do without statements and would rather create consciousness and draw attention.”
This gives rise to collections which unite couture with transformed classics, elements from various cultures and details of the “Western uniform”; with an affinity for clear lines and simple design, NOC creates urban “radical chic” which proves that conflicts can also embody routes to innovation.
An event of the 10 festival for fashion & photography.
In cooperation with the MAK Design Shop.
For MAK NITE, the makers of NOC will present their newest collection TRIBAL LIFE! in a performance developed specifically for this evening, a sort of “initiationrite” for their idea of design.
The two designers describe the creation of their current models as a process of collecting ideas and forms, all of which gradually come together to form a new whole. It was the elegance and simplicity of 1930s French haute couture designer Madame Grès and the “wildness” of traditional African tribal vestments that served as inspirations for the collection TRIBAL LIFE!, into which monumental masks, visors made of raffia and structured dresses of a very strict design are integrated. Elegant silhouettes, strong colors, pleats and unusual raw materials such as straw and paper join to form a refined collage.
Kathrin Lugbauer and Nora Berger established NOC in 2008. “That which interests us and captures our attention is also what inspires us,” say the two designers. “The ways in which we process and treat the material can be quite diverse—but our focus is on connecting things that are opposites. We do without statements and would rather create consciousness and draw attention.”
This gives rise to collections which unite couture with transformed classics, elements from various cultures and details of the “Western uniform”; with an affinity for clear lines and simple design, NOC creates urban “radical chic” which proves that conflicts can also embody routes to innovation.
An event of the 10 festival for fashion & photography.
In cooperation with the MAK Design Shop.
ANALOGIES
Andrea Standen-Raz, Elektro Guzzi, Stefan Goldmann
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8.30 p.m. V I E N N A (not everything will be taken into the future) … a documentary film of a city in change. Directed by Andrew Standen-Raz. Work-in-progress screening (ca. 70 min.)
10.00 p.m. Elektro Guzzi. Album Release Concert
from 11.00 p.m. DJ Stefan Goldmann (Macro, Berlin)
As the final MAK NITE before the summer break, the MAK Contemporary Art Depot at the Arenbergpark Flak Tower in Vienna’s third district will witness a CAT OPEN event focusing on the Viennese contemporary arts and music scene. The Flak Tower, a monument to the post-World War II motto “niemals vergessen” [“never forget”], is a location which can serve as a basis and starting point for the present—and, even more, for the future—of contemporary art production.
The event will feature a screening of the documentary film V I E N N A (not everything will be taken into the future) by British filmmaker Andrew Standen-Raz, which revolves around a city’s attempt to reinvent itself within its own microcosm.
As a live act, as the climax of the evening and as a way of representing the multifaceted abilities of Vienna’s innovative and exciting music scene, Elektro Guzzi will give a concert to mark the release of their synonymous first album.
The evening will conclude with a DJ set by Stefan Goldmann: this Berlin-based musician, DJ and producer founded the Macro label in 2007 and has been internationally active in the field of electronic music since 1990.
CAT OPEN 2010 In the form of actions, performance, and installations, artists thematize the visionary idea of a constantly expanding and growing art location in connection with the historical significance and distinctiveness of the site. These onenight-only events taking place within the framework of the MAK NITE offer an additional experimental field and allow for constant revitalization of the intention of the CAT – Contemporary Art Tower.
10.00 p.m. Elektro Guzzi. Album Release Concert
from 11.00 p.m. DJ Stefan Goldmann (Macro, Berlin)
As the final MAK NITE before the summer break, the MAK Contemporary Art Depot at the Arenbergpark Flak Tower in Vienna’s third district will witness a CAT OPEN event focusing on the Viennese contemporary arts and music scene. The Flak Tower, a monument to the post-World War II motto “niemals vergessen” [“never forget”], is a location which can serve as a basis and starting point for the present—and, even more, for the future—of contemporary art production.
The event will feature a screening of the documentary film V I E N N A (not everything will be taken into the future) by British filmmaker Andrew Standen-Raz, which revolves around a city’s attempt to reinvent itself within its own microcosm.
As a live act, as the climax of the evening and as a way of representing the multifaceted abilities of Vienna’s innovative and exciting music scene, Elektro Guzzi will give a concert to mark the release of their synonymous first album.
The evening will conclude with a DJ set by Stefan Goldmann: this Berlin-based musician, DJ and producer founded the Macro label in 2007 and has been internationally active in the field of electronic music since 1990.
CAT OPEN 2010 In the form of actions, performance, and installations, artists thematize the visionary idea of a constantly expanding and growing art location in connection with the historical significance and distinctiveness of the site. These onenight-only events taking place within the framework of the MAK NITE offer an additional experimental field and allow for constant revitalization of the intention of the CAT – Contemporary Art Tower.
I-Sonic
Live: Monolake
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Monolake (D/NL), Alois Huber / Andrea Nagl / Markus Wintersberger (A) curated by Heinrich Deisl (skug – Journal für Musik)
The multimedia event “I-Sonic,” guest-curated by skug editor Heinrich Deisl, arose from the intention to explore current live audiovisual stances using forms of audiovisual creativity from the visual-arts, performance and club contexts.
This evening will feature a specially prepared performance by Monolake (Robert Henke/Tarik Barri) and Alois Huber/Andrea Nagl/Markus Wintersberger, who—as video bands—place particular importance on the precise matching of the audio and visual sequences of their pieces (in contrast to the way things are done in classic VJ sets). In both formations, ambient and sound art concepts are joined in the spotlight by the characteristics of the dance floor environment between electronica and dub. While the space will be acoustically delineated by a quadraphonic sound system, the quasi-slow-motion movement sequences of dancer Andrea Nagl, as well as the visuals, will interact with the music and emphasize the sharp contrast between the concrete walls of the Flak tower and the partly mathematic, partly organic image sequences.
The event series CAT OPEN, which takes place as part of MAK NITE at the MAK Depot of Contemporary Art in the Arenbergpark Flak Tower, invites artists to confront the special space of the historic Flak tower location, while at the same time they are challenged to reflect upon the visionary idea of a constantly expanding and growing art location as has been planned for the CAT – Contemporary Art Tower project (www.cat.MAK.at). In connection with the terse architecture of the Flak
tower, I-Sonic’s audiovisual and performative dispositif will give rise to an overall experience that is a mixture of techno club, dance performance, and real-time image-worlds.
The multimedia event “I-Sonic,” guest-curated by skug editor Heinrich Deisl, arose from the intention to explore current live audiovisual stances using forms of audiovisual creativity from the visual-arts, performance and club contexts.
This evening will feature a specially prepared performance by Monolake (Robert Henke/Tarik Barri) and Alois Huber/Andrea Nagl/Markus Wintersberger, who—as video bands—place particular importance on the precise matching of the audio and visual sequences of their pieces (in contrast to the way things are done in classic VJ sets). In both formations, ambient and sound art concepts are joined in the spotlight by the characteristics of the dance floor environment between electronica and dub. While the space will be acoustically delineated by a quadraphonic sound system, the quasi-slow-motion movement sequences of dancer Andrea Nagl, as well as the visuals, will interact with the music and emphasize the sharp contrast between the concrete walls of the Flak tower and the partly mathematic, partly organic image sequences.
The event series CAT OPEN, which takes place as part of MAK NITE at the MAK Depot of Contemporary Art in the Arenbergpark Flak Tower, invites artists to confront the special space of the historic Flak tower location, while at the same time they are challenged to reflect upon the visionary idea of a constantly expanding and growing art location as has been planned for the CAT – Contemporary Art Tower project (www.cat.MAK.at). In connection with the terse architecture of the Flak
tower, I-Sonic’s audiovisual and performative dispositif will give rise to an overall experience that is a mixture of techno club, dance performance, and real-time image-worlds.
URBAN_ART
viennabiennale 010
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In the past years, Urban Art has come to be considered as a familiar big-city phenomenon that was marketed under the name of Street Art. Expanding to include performative and installative interventions, the movement has turned into a fast-moving and non-site-dependent art form. The Viennabiennale, held from 1 September to 1 November 2010, sees itself as a platform for the presentation and communication of cutting-edge positions in visual art. Since its 2006 debut, the event has taken place every two years, the objective being to advance international collaboration, exchange of ideas, and interdisciplinarity in the Viennese art scene. From November 2009 to March 2010, an “Open Call” was held, with applications coming in from more than 100 artists, aged between 25 and 35; from these, the participants of this year’s series of exhibitions and performances were chosen.
At the MAK NITE on 21 September 2010, five contemporary artists from Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic will present their works between light installation, object, animation, and video.
Featured in the event are JOHANNA BRAUN (A) HERMANN FINK (A) PATRICK RAMPELOTTO (I/A) GISELA STIEGLER (A) LUKAS PETR JOSEF THEOFIL VALKA (CZ)
Music ART_PARTY_VIENNA
At the MAK NITE on 21 September 2010, five contemporary artists from Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic will present their works between light installation, object, animation, and video.
Featured in the event are JOHANNA BRAUN (A) HERMANN FINK (A) PATRICK RAMPELOTTO (I/A) GISELA STIEGLER (A) LUKAS PETR JOSEF THEOFIL VALKA (CZ)
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]SCORE[
Lisa Hinterreithner, Katja Kosi, Vlado G. Repnik & Martina Ruhsam
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Anlässlich von „Urban Vibez“ im Rahmen der neuen Veranstaltungsreihe
MAK UNPLUGGED, in der sich das MAK speziell seinen jugendlichen Besuchern widmet, findet die MAK NITE Special ]SCORE[ statt. Sie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage der Übersetzung von Schrift in Bewegung und von Bewegung in Schrift.
Kunstperformance von und mit Lisa Hinterreithner, Katja Kosi, Vlado G.
Repnik und Martina Ruhsam
Mit Unterstützung der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien.
MAK UNPLUGGED, in der sich das MAK speziell seinen jugendlichen Besuchern widmet, findet die MAK NITE Special ]SCORE[ statt. Sie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage der Übersetzung von Schrift in Bewegung und von Bewegung in Schrift.
Kunstperformance von und mit Lisa Hinterreithner, Katja Kosi, Vlado G.
Repnik und Martina Ruhsam
Mit Unterstützung der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien.
L.A. Plays Itself
Stephan Lugbauer presents: THE MACKEYS
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The starting point for Stephan Lugbauer’s project THE MAKEYS consists of interviews with former grantees of the MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program; they tell of memorable occurrences, experiences and projects during their stay at the Mackey Apartments in Los Angeles. Based on these narratives, his own diary entries and references to art, film and literature, Lugbauer used his L.A. grant period (2009/2010) to develop four fictitious characters who guide viewers through a filmic collage which pays homage to Los Angeles. The artist also took inspiration from Thom Anderson’s legendary Los Angeles Plays Itself, the opening sequence of which is seen in THE MACKEYS as a contemporary remake.
Actors Kristian Van der Heyden, John Gilligan, Paget Kagy, Nichole Stevenson; Voice Jeannie Bolét
Excerpts from Los Angeles Plays Itself/Thom Andersen, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place/ Lucy R. Lippard, The Case of California/Laurence Rickels, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness/Daniel Paul Schreber, The Gonzo Tapes: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson/Hunter S. Thompson
A film by Stephan Lugbauer 2010.
Duration 21 min
Actors Kristian Van der Heyden, John Gilligan, Paget Kagy, Nichole Stevenson; Voice Jeannie Bolét
Excerpts from Los Angeles Plays Itself/Thom Andersen, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place/ Lucy R. Lippard, The Case of California/Laurence Rickels, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness/Daniel Paul Schreber, The Gonzo Tapes: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson/Hunter S. Thompson
A film by Stephan Lugbauer 2010.
Duration 21 min
Station Rose
20 Digital Years plus
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Station Rose, founded in Vienna by artist Elisa Rose and musician Gary Danner in 1988, sums up “20 Digital Years” in book-form—and provides a description of the current state of their artistic work together and their visionary potential, as well as reflections on the twenty years of media and cultural history which they themselves have helped to write.
On 12 October 2010, the book 20 Digital Years plus will be presented at 8 p.m. at the MAK. In the Columned Main Hall, Station Rose will present a media installation which makes the DVD and CD released together with the book visible and audible on various projection surfaces. This MAK NITE will also see the artists speak about and autograph their newly released book.
Part of this publication is devoted to the media sculpture LogInCabin, which was installed for three months on the MAK Terrace Plateau during the 2008/2009 season. The audio CD, containing for the most part unreleased pieces from the period between 1988 and 2010, will demonstrate Station Rose’s broad range of musical styles from electronic to psychedelic. In its “AV Sessions” section, the DVD documents material (some also previously unreleased) which was recorded live or at the studio, and the section “Performances and Installations” includes
clips from various actions which were performed at museums including the MAK.
As media art pioneers, Station Rose succeeded in finding a language for this ephemeral, fast and permanently changing phenomenon even during the Internet’s nascence; they coined terms and phrases (like “Cyberspace is our land,” “Digital Bohemians,” “nature is cool,” etc.), and they made pernicious artistic and societal conditions recognizable and thus comprehensible.
Station Rose is viewed as a pioneer in the field of audiovisual art, electronic music, net art and live audiovisual performance. Since 1991, the artistic couple— MAK NITE / CAT OPEN October 2010
Page 2 consisting of Elisa Rose and Gary Danner—has lived in Frankfurt am Main and on the Internet. From 2002 to 2004, the two artists shared a professorship for Media Production at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, and from 2002 to 2006 they had a regular TV program on Germany’s ARD/hr station called Best of Webcasting, which had developed out of the “online-STReams.”
Publication 20 Digital Years plus 1988–2010 / Book publication with DVD and audio CD / Foreword by Peter Noever, texts and statements by Peter Weibel, Gabriele Horn, Christoph Tannert, Bruce Sterling, Vitus H. Weh, Didi Neidhardt, Howard Rheingold, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Doug Millison and Hans Diebner. Paperback; 16.5 x 22 cm, 192 pages, Published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, October 2010
On 12 October 2010, the book 20 Digital Years plus will be presented at 8 p.m. at the MAK. In the Columned Main Hall, Station Rose will present a media installation which makes the DVD and CD released together with the book visible and audible on various projection surfaces. This MAK NITE will also see the artists speak about and autograph their newly released book.
Part of this publication is devoted to the media sculpture LogInCabin, which was installed for three months on the MAK Terrace Plateau during the 2008/2009 season. The audio CD, containing for the most part unreleased pieces from the period between 1988 and 2010, will demonstrate Station Rose’s broad range of musical styles from electronic to psychedelic. In its “AV Sessions” section, the DVD documents material (some also previously unreleased) which was recorded live or at the studio, and the section “Performances and Installations” includes
clips from various actions which were performed at museums including the MAK.
As media art pioneers, Station Rose succeeded in finding a language for this ephemeral, fast and permanently changing phenomenon even during the Internet’s nascence; they coined terms and phrases (like “Cyberspace is our land,” “Digital Bohemians,” “nature is cool,” etc.), and they made pernicious artistic and societal conditions recognizable and thus comprehensible.
Station Rose is viewed as a pioneer in the field of audiovisual art, electronic music, net art and live audiovisual performance. Since 1991, the artistic couple— MAK NITE / CAT OPEN October 2010
Page 2 consisting of Elisa Rose and Gary Danner—has lived in Frankfurt am Main and on the Internet. From 2002 to 2004, the two artists shared a professorship for Media Production at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, and from 2002 to 2006 they had a regular TV program on Germany’s ARD/hr station called Best of Webcasting, which had developed out of the “online-STReams.”
Publication 20 Digital Years plus 1988–2010 / Book publication with DVD and audio CD / Foreword by Peter Noever, texts and statements by Peter Weibel, Gabriele Horn, Christoph Tannert, Bruce Sterling, Vitus H. Weh, Didi Neidhardt, Howard Rheingold, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Doug Millison and Hans Diebner. Paperback; 16.5 x 22 cm, 192 pages, Published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, October 2010
meerraum
by Rosa and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, featuring DARKO*
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Experimental music legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius and his daughter, object artist Rosa Roedelius, will be joining the young Belgian DJ and musician DARKO* on 2 November to stage a unique collaborative project for the final CAT OPEN of 2010.
The installation meerraum [sea-space] makes a theme of various spatial
contexts’ interaction both at their interfaces and in their peripheral zones.
A border is always also an imaginary attribute: “it exists, and it doesn’t exist, just like the sea as a metaphor for infinite distance and depth,” says the artist, whose objects—which are often set up outdoors, such as on the island of Lanzarote— allude to the individual’s being subjected natural forces. Inside the Flak tower, Roedelius will lend focus to the space, to its curvature and coloration, while also focusing the visitor’s perception thereof. Her objets blancs (monochrome white sculptures) evoke both intentional and random associations and attributions, as well as figurative interpretations and narrative references.
The spherical musical intervention by Hans-Joachim Roedelius uses
interferences between overlapping sound sequences to throw up a “blanket of sound,” swelling and receding like waves, which will set the seemingly static object-situation in motion. Following his performance, Roedelius will join DARKO* in guiding the interaction of fifty years of electronic music. Both composers work at the interfaces between present-day developments, using reduction as the very means by which they advance into new territory. In his minimalist excursions into electronic sounds, DARKO* concentrates on so-called psychoactive frequencies which he extemporizes upon using “looped peaks,” ultimately achieving a unique degree of interactivity between listeners and the music.
In the event series CAT OPEN, which takes place as part of MAK NITE at the MAK Contemporary Art Depot in the Arenbergpark Flak Tower, artists are invited to confront the special space of the historic Flak tower location while at the same time being challenged to reflect upon the visionary idea of a constantly expanding and growing art location as has been planned for the CAT – Contemporary Art Tower project.
The installation meerraum [sea-space] makes a theme of various spatial
contexts’ interaction both at their interfaces and in their peripheral zones.
A border is always also an imaginary attribute: “it exists, and it doesn’t exist, just like the sea as a metaphor for infinite distance and depth,” says the artist, whose objects—which are often set up outdoors, such as on the island of Lanzarote— allude to the individual’s being subjected natural forces. Inside the Flak tower, Roedelius will lend focus to the space, to its curvature and coloration, while also focusing the visitor’s perception thereof. Her objets blancs (monochrome white sculptures) evoke both intentional and random associations and attributions, as well as figurative interpretations and narrative references.
The spherical musical intervention by Hans-Joachim Roedelius uses
interferences between overlapping sound sequences to throw up a “blanket of sound,” swelling and receding like waves, which will set the seemingly static object-situation in motion. Following his performance, Roedelius will join DARKO* in guiding the interaction of fifty years of electronic music. Both composers work at the interfaces between present-day developments, using reduction as the very means by which they advance into new territory. In his minimalist excursions into electronic sounds, DARKO* concentrates on so-called psychoactive frequencies which he extemporizes upon using “looped peaks,” ultimately achieving a unique degree of interactivity between listeners and the music.
In the event series CAT OPEN, which takes place as part of MAK NITE at the MAK Contemporary Art Depot in the Arenbergpark Flak Tower, artists are invited to confront the special space of the historic Flak tower location while at the same time being challenged to reflect upon the visionary idea of a constantly expanding and growing art location as has been planned for the CAT – Contemporary Art Tower project.
Palaces & Courts
Photographic Representation of Imagery and its Observers with an eye on Web 2.0
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A collaborative project of Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller (visual
artists, Vienna) and Karin Mihatsch (researcher, Paris).
Palaces & Courts by Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller is an interactive, web-based, color-coded guidance system which links two-dimensional images with lines of text and functions much like a text-based role playing game; the reader guides him or herself, while also being guided.
“The basic idea of our work is the imagination of photography on the Internet. Since the Internet is a virtual space, photography cannot be discussed on the basis of its actual materiality. Our strategy is to evoke imaginary images that begin their existence in the mind of the observer,” say the artists of their conceptual project, which is based on the catalog of the 1915 World’s Fair. This interactive work can be “entered” online beginning on 9 November 2010 at www.palacesandcourts.com
Panel Discussion > HYPERIMAGE. Die Expansion des fotografischen Bildes in virtuellen Räumen Elisabeth Bracun, Andreas Hirsch, Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller, Sandor Ivády, Karin Mihatsch, Catrin Millmann, Moderation: Jürgen Weishäupl
artists, Vienna) and Karin Mihatsch (researcher, Paris).
Palaces & Courts by Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller is an interactive, web-based, color-coded guidance system which links two-dimensional images with lines of text and functions much like a text-based role playing game; the reader guides him or herself, while also being guided.
“The basic idea of our work is the imagination of photography on the Internet. Since the Internet is a virtual space, photography cannot be discussed on the basis of its actual materiality. Our strategy is to evoke imaginary images that begin their existence in the mind of the observer,” say the artists of their conceptual project, which is based on the catalog of the 1915 World’s Fair. This interactive work can be “entered” online beginning on 9 November 2010 at www.palacesandcourts.com
Panel Discussion > HYPERIMAGE. Die Expansion des fotografischen Bildes in virtuellen Räumen Elisabeth Bracun, Andreas Hirsch, Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller, Sandor Ivády, Karin Mihatsch, Catrin Millmann, Moderation: Jürgen Weishäupl
Sabine Aichhorn: HOLLYWOOD PARTY
glamourized by The Gap
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The final MAK NITE of 2010 will see artist Sabine Aichhorn temporarily transform the MAK Columned Main Hall into a surreal skyline of Downtown Los Angeles. The vertical orientation of the area at the core of the “horizontal city” is the point of reference for her large-scale sculptures, which she developed from 35mm film strips containing images from Los Angeles. For its presentation at the
MAK, the scenery-like installation is to be set up amidst a large-scale projection.
The skyline of Downtown Los Angeles is one of the world’s most-filmed
silhouettes. This part of town, which consists of a relatively small number of skyscrapers, is used by the artist as a symbol of the “dream factory” that is film, television and music production. She reconstructs the skyline out of Plexiglas, which she then covers with 16mm and 35mm film strips containing scenes and people photographed by her during her stay in Los Angeles.
The requisite Hollywood glamour will be taken care of by the release party for issue #112 of The Gap – Magazin für Glamour und Diskurs, complete with an exclusive photo shoot on the red carpet: the tongue-in-cheek “glamour and discourse” dress code invites guests to take their inspiration from the manylayered city of L.A. and its various neighborhoods, and to pose on the red carpet in front of a specially designed logo wall. The pictures taken by The Gap’s photographers will be available for download later on at the MAK’s Facebook page. Further offerings include drinks on Sunset Boulevard, a film program
screened in the seedy neighborhood of Compton (MAK Media Room) and a walk up Mulholland Drive.
The evening’s music will be provided by DJs Kid Soylent (Def Disco / The Gap) and a++ (Sweet Heat / Boy of Melody). The DJs will set up shop between Sunset Blvd. and Compton—between R&B and gangsta rap. Kid Soylent and a++ have been at the turntables ever since the death of Biggie Smalls (1997), and the discos of our world are their usual habitat.
For the presentation of Sabine Aichhorn’s installation, DJ Roton Electro will mix the typical big-city sounds of Los Angeles (taken from the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive) with his own sounds. He is fascinated by electronic music’s meditative elements, and works by combining elements of minimal techno, electro and progressive into a danceable whole. Roton was a participant in numerous early live electronic performances (including subsistence level, lowfile and others), and he also produces his own tracks.
MAK, the scenery-like installation is to be set up amidst a large-scale projection.
The skyline of Downtown Los Angeles is one of the world’s most-filmed
silhouettes. This part of town, which consists of a relatively small number of skyscrapers, is used by the artist as a symbol of the “dream factory” that is film, television and music production. She reconstructs the skyline out of Plexiglas, which she then covers with 16mm and 35mm film strips containing scenes and people photographed by her during her stay in Los Angeles.
The requisite Hollywood glamour will be taken care of by the release party for issue #112 of The Gap – Magazin für Glamour und Diskurs, complete with an exclusive photo shoot on the red carpet: the tongue-in-cheek “glamour and discourse” dress code invites guests to take their inspiration from the manylayered city of L.A. and its various neighborhoods, and to pose on the red carpet in front of a specially designed logo wall. The pictures taken by The Gap’s photographers will be available for download later on at the MAK’s Facebook page. Further offerings include drinks on Sunset Boulevard, a film program
screened in the seedy neighborhood of Compton (MAK Media Room) and a walk up Mulholland Drive.
The evening’s music will be provided by DJs Kid Soylent (Def Disco / The Gap) and a++ (Sweet Heat / Boy of Melody). The DJs will set up shop between Sunset Blvd. and Compton—between R&B and gangsta rap. Kid Soylent and a++ have been at the turntables ever since the death of Biggie Smalls (1997), and the discos of our world are their usual habitat.
For the presentation of Sabine Aichhorn’s installation, DJ Roton Electro will mix the typical big-city sounds of Los Angeles (taken from the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive) with his own sounds. He is fascinated by electronic music’s meditative elements, and works by combining elements of minimal techno, electro and progressive into a danceable whole. Roton was a participant in numerous early live electronic performances (including subsistence level, lowfile and others), and he also produces his own tracks.
LOW FREQUENCY ORCHESTRA
Das Spiel vom Kommen und Gehen
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Das Spiel vom Kommen und Gehen is an interdisciplinary collaborative project of the Low Frequency Orchestra with media artist Martin Pichlmair and visual artist Robert Lettner in which the boundaries between composition, artistic creation, interpretation and improvisation blur.
The performance instructions for the players are like none that can be found in any traditional score; they are much rather arranged as colorful strips which arose as a byproduct of a 1982 work by Lettner.
Lineup Angélica Castelló – recorders and devices / Maja Osojnik – recorders and voice / Thomas Grill – concept, electronics / Herwig Neugebauer – contrabass / Matija Schellander – contrabass / Bernhard Breuer – percussion / Alfred Reiter – sound / Martin Pichlmair – video / Billy Roisz – video, staging / Robert Lettner – color score
The performance instructions for the players are like none that can be found in any traditional score; they are much rather arranged as colorful strips which arose as a byproduct of a 1982 work by Lettner.
Lineup Angélica Castelló – recorders and devices / Maja Osojnik – recorders and voice / Thomas Grill – concept, electronics / Herwig Neugebauer – contrabass / Matija Schellander – contrabass / Bernhard Breuer – percussion / Alfred Reiter – sound / Martin Pichlmair – video / Billy Roisz – video, staging / Robert Lettner – color score
Add To Favourites - work in progress
Malika Fankha
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Recent occurrences provided the inspiration for the two MAK NITEs of 15 and 22 February 2011, both of which will focus on how artists deal with the flow of information and with intellectual property law on the World Wide Web.
The solo performance “Add to Favourites,” conceived for Malika Fankha, poses the question as to authenticity and its status. “Like. Dislike.” We comment on everything. We click on links, we add bookmarks, and we compile lists of favorites. We don’t dream up stories—we search the Internet. We don’t wait for information—we ask our smart phones. What to do with this constant flood of knowledge and ideas? Can we simply use and exploit it? Is anyone still asking who originally produced it? In a playful manner, Malika Fankha shows how “social sharing” can be employed as the basis for a performance work. What happens when the performer exits the creative process and restricts herself merely to ideas’ execution?
DJs Bono Goldbaum, Florian Kåltstrøm
The solo performance “Add to Favourites,” conceived for Malika Fankha, poses the question as to authenticity and its status. “Like. Dislike.” We comment on everything. We click on links, we add bookmarks, and we compile lists of favorites. We don’t dream up stories—we search the Internet. We don’t wait for information—we ask our smart phones. What to do with this constant flood of knowledge and ideas? Can we simply use and exploit it? Is anyone still asking who originally produced it? In a playful manner, Malika Fankha shows how “social sharing” can be employed as the basis for a performance work. What happens when the performer exits the creative process and restricts herself merely to ideas’ execution?
DJs Bono Goldbaum, Florian Kåltstrøm
Visual Responses to a Colonized Medium
Constant Dullaart
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This will be the second MAK NITE to focus on how artists relate to and deal with intellectual property rights on the Internet. This time, Dutch artist Constant Dullaart will address the discourse regarding the Internet as a medium, its significance as an informational tool, the (fictitious) freedom that it promises, and the increasing restrictions to which it is subject. Against this backdrop, he will speak about his personal artistic practice and present selected works.
Dullaart’s research and widely discussed online works serve to focus the contemporary pictorial language used on the Web, as well as the use of found footage. He buys up domain names, conceives fictitious corporate websites and creates both ironic and self-referential video works such as the “YouTube Sculpture” (a You-Tube video that seems to load non-stop) and “The Revolving Internet” (a Google search field that rotates on its own axis).
www.constantdullaart.com
Dullaart’s research and widely discussed online works serve to focus the contemporary pictorial language used on the Web, as well as the use of found footage. He buys up domain names, conceives fictitious corporate websites and creates both ironic and self-referential video works such as the “YouTube Sculpture” (a You-Tube video that seems to load non-stop) and “The Revolving Internet” (a Google search field that rotates on its own axis).
www.constantdullaart.com
LEMON SYNTHESIZER
Akemi Takeya
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Artist Akemi Takeya will be presenting her current project “L.S. project” for the first time in a museum-setting as part of the MAK NITE series. Originally conceived as a work-in-progress, the “L.S. project” developed out of the artist’s rather basic realization that an electrified lemon can function as an audio interface. The “Lemon Synthesizer” works based on the natural voltage of lemons, which is used as a signal with which to manipulate audio processes.
The “L.S. project” examines the interaction of language, image, identity and the body. At the MAK, Takeya’s performance/installation will place the human body front and center as a component of the “I”. Takeya has developed a compositional system consisting of 71 “items” which will be implemented by the participating performers. In doing so, the performers become players in the socalled “I-exhibition,” in which the various embodiments of Takeya’s “I” will be recorded by a camera, altered, and arranged anew. The image thus created is “I = lemon,” which the artist has defined as a symbol and metaphor for her life in Europe.
Performance Akemi Takeya and Performers Concept Akemi Takeya Scenery concept Hannes Wurm Sound installation & composition Noid Live video processing Thomas Wagensommerer Audio technical development Akemi Takeya, Noid, Gordon Monahan Visual concept Naoto Iina Video object Jan Machacek Movement coaching Claudia Mader Production assistant Kanako Sako Production IMEKA
Supported by Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien (MA7), bm:ukk
The “L.S. project” examines the interaction of language, image, identity and the body. At the MAK, Takeya’s performance/installation will place the human body front and center as a component of the “I”. Takeya has developed a compositional system consisting of 71 “items” which will be implemented by the participating performers. In doing so, the performers become players in the socalled “I-exhibition,” in which the various embodiments of Takeya’s “I” will be recorded by a camera, altered, and arranged anew. The image thus created is “I = lemon,” which the artist has defined as a symbol and metaphor for her life in Europe.
Performance Akemi Takeya and Performers Concept Akemi Takeya Scenery concept Hannes Wurm Sound installation & composition Noid Live video processing Thomas Wagensommerer Audio technical development Akemi Takeya, Noid, Gordon Monahan Visual concept Naoto Iina Video object Jan Machacek Movement coaching Claudia Mader Production assistant Kanako Sako Production IMEKA
Supported by Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien (MA7), bm:ukk
Wirf Gold und Silber über mich
Dörte Kaufmann
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A Fashion Performance in Four Scenes
To kick off a series of fashion-focused MAK NITE events, designer Dörte Kaufmann will be joining photographer Wolfgang Silveri to present her works framed by a world of fairy-tale images in the MAK Columned Main Hall. This “Fashion Performance in Four Scenes” will give the featured fairy-tale characters the opportunity to tell their stories a bit differently than we know them: the little orphan girl from “The Star Money,” Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Pechmarie, the lazy daughter from “Mother Hulda,” will take their fates into their own hands and present themselves as modern, fashion-conscious women.
Fashion Dörte Kaufmann Photography Wolfgang Silveri Concept & props Dörte Kaufmann & Wolfgang Silveri Performers Anja Marlene Korpiun & Elisabeth Umlauft Hair & makeup Katharina Aichholzer Sound Oliver Brunbauer Narrator Bernd Jeschek
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To kick off a series of fashion-focused MAK NITE events, designer Dörte Kaufmann will be joining photographer Wolfgang Silveri to present her works framed by a world of fairy-tale images in the MAK Columned Main Hall. This “Fashion Performance in Four Scenes” will give the featured fairy-tale characters the opportunity to tell their stories a bit differently than we know them: the little orphan girl from “The Star Money,” Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Pechmarie, the lazy daughter from “Mother Hulda,” will take their fates into their own hands and present themselves as modern, fashion-conscious women.
Fashion Dörte Kaufmann Photography Wolfgang Silveri Concept & props Dörte Kaufmann & Wolfgang Silveri Performers Anja Marlene Korpiun & Elisabeth Umlauft Hair & makeup Katharina Aichholzer Sound Oliver Brunbauer Narrator Bernd Jeschek
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kutin | roisz
messed up in scena
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It was as a “messa in scena” (Italian for “mise en scène”) that Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925–2003) described the process of staging his operas. “messed up in scena” by Billy Roisz and Peter Kutin is stage direction realized not on a stage, but throughout an entire space.
This project will structure the upper exhibition hall of the MAK using various optical and acoustic systems, systems which will in part be controlled live by kutin | roisz.
Visitors will be encouraged to move about freely and experience various characteristics of the space. This work utilizes elementary and rudimentary parameters to examine how we perceive and react to near and far, light and dark, loud and soft, large and small, etc.
The highlight and conclusion of the evening will be a performance by kutin | roisz.
This project will structure the upper exhibition hall of the MAK using various optical and acoustic systems, systems which will in part be controlled live by kutin | roisz.
Visitors will be encouraged to move about freely and experience various characteristics of the space. This work utilizes elementary and rudimentary parameters to examine how we perceive and react to near and far, light and dark, loud and soft, large and small, etc.
The highlight and conclusion of the evening will be a performance by kutin | roisz.
MARTIN & THE EVIL EYES OF NUR
The Do-Be-Do-Be-Do-Affair
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The performance art trio “Martin & The evil eyes of Nur,” consisting of the fictitious characters Pussy Hass, Kaiser Kurzweil and Herr Leitung, examines the representation, interpretation and significance of the male body in the media and popular culture. In doing so, the performers focus on the themes of emancipation, gender-as-performance and queer sexuality in a postdualistic system.
For MAK NITE, “Martin & The evil eyes of Nur” are developing a glamorous performance entitled “The Do-Be-Do-Be-Do-Affair” which—in addition to new songs—will also include surprising and exciting costumes. “You’ll have a hard time deciding whether you want to ‘do’ them or ‘be’ them,” the artists remark cryptically.
“Martin & The evil eyes of Nur,” founded in Istanbul by Daniel Massrow, Nora Riedl and Wolfgang Tragseiler in 2009, employs the concept of the “superstar” in a pop-context in order to communicate its content. Only the two men perform on stage, playing the fictitious characters Herr Leitung and Pussy Hass, while their female counterpart Kaiser Kurzweil is responsible for theory and conception. With their songs and grand gestures, Herr Leitung and Pussy Hass become a surface onto which the contents they address can be projected: elevating themselves to the same level as the “stars,” the two characters inscribe themselves into the pop-cultural code—which this trio considers to be an “opensource
code” wielding almost unlimited influence on societal phenomena and trends.
Their concept is defined by the idea of the “infinite aesthetic loop”; they act as a fun house mirror of sorts for pop music, fashion and ever-returning retro fads. Musically, the artists serve up an idiosyncratic mixture of 1980s new wave, 1990s dance floor and “dark chanson.” They play their shows using classic synthesizers, powerful beats and an old-fashioned reed organ.
The three protagonists became acquainted with each other 2009 while spending a year studying abroad at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, where they subsequently founded “Martin & The evil eyes of Nur.” Since then, they have worked on realizing their visions in Turkey, Germany and Austria.
For MAK NITE, “Martin & The evil eyes of Nur” are developing a glamorous performance entitled “The Do-Be-Do-Be-Do-Affair” which—in addition to new songs—will also include surprising and exciting costumes. “You’ll have a hard time deciding whether you want to ‘do’ them or ‘be’ them,” the artists remark cryptically.
“Martin & The evil eyes of Nur,” founded in Istanbul by Daniel Massrow, Nora Riedl and Wolfgang Tragseiler in 2009, employs the concept of the “superstar” in a pop-context in order to communicate its content. Only the two men perform on stage, playing the fictitious characters Herr Leitung and Pussy Hass, while their female counterpart Kaiser Kurzweil is responsible for theory and conception. With their songs and grand gestures, Herr Leitung and Pussy Hass become a surface onto which the contents they address can be projected: elevating themselves to the same level as the “stars,” the two characters inscribe themselves into the pop-cultural code—which this trio considers to be an “opensource
code” wielding almost unlimited influence on societal phenomena and trends.
Their concept is defined by the idea of the “infinite aesthetic loop”; they act as a fun house mirror of sorts for pop music, fashion and ever-returning retro fads. Musically, the artists serve up an idiosyncratic mixture of 1980s new wave, 1990s dance floor and “dark chanson.” They play their shows using classic synthesizers, powerful beats and an old-fashioned reed organ.
The three protagonists became acquainted with each other 2009 while spending a year studying abroad at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, where they subsequently founded “Martin & The evil eyes of Nur.” Since then, they have worked on realizing their visions in Turkey, Germany and Austria.
APPLY! Taste Art
Martin Habelsreiter, Sonja Stummerer, The Vegetable Orchestra, Jay de Bean
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Opening of the exhibition APPLY!
The exhibition “APPLY!” features works by school students that were created as part of a cooperative project between schools and the museum. This project, with the motto of “Design it! Cook, Eat, Party!,” started off with tours through the MAK Collections, talks with designers Monika Singer and Marie Rahm of POLKA, a screening of the film “Food Design” by Martin Hablesreiter and Sonja Stummerer, a look behind the scenes at the bakery of the Imperial and Royal Court Confectioners Demel, and workshops with folding expert Joan Sallas, activist Raja Schwahn-Reichmann, Dagmar Habeler and Isabel Toccafondi of TORTENHIMMEL, and photographer Michael Haeusle and food stylist Brigitte Duregger.
Stop-Motion Movie with Bernd Oppl www.berndoppl.net
honey & bunny – the sound of frankfurter The Design-Duo with Martin Hablesreiter and Sonja Stummerer bakes „Knack, das Fabeltier“ made of pizza dough (4m long!), filled with Frankfurt sausages www.members.aon.at/honeyandbunny
The Vegetable Orchestra Live concert with vegetrable sound: 11 musicians play on instruments of pumpkin, zucchini, paprika, carrots ...... www.vegetableorchestra.org
DJ Jay de Bean
* The project “APPLY! SCHOOL AT THE MAK. Learning and Implementation at the Museum!” is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education, the Arts and Culture as part of the educational initiative “Cultural Education with Schools at Federal Museums, 2010” and accompanied by consulting services from KulturKontakt Austria.
The exhibition “APPLY!” features works by school students that were created as part of a cooperative project between schools and the museum. This project, with the motto of “Design it! Cook, Eat, Party!,” started off with tours through the MAK Collections, talks with designers Monika Singer and Marie Rahm of POLKA, a screening of the film “Food Design” by Martin Hablesreiter and Sonja Stummerer, a look behind the scenes at the bakery of the Imperial and Royal Court Confectioners Demel, and workshops with folding expert Joan Sallas, activist Raja Schwahn-Reichmann, Dagmar Habeler and Isabel Toccafondi of TORTENHIMMEL, and photographer Michael Haeusle and food stylist Brigitte Duregger.
Stop-Motion Movie with Bernd Oppl www.berndoppl.net
honey & bunny – the sound of frankfurter The Design-Duo with Martin Hablesreiter and Sonja Stummerer bakes „Knack, das Fabeltier“ made of pizza dough (4m long!), filled with Frankfurt sausages www.members.aon.at/honeyandbunny
The Vegetable Orchestra Live concert with vegetrable sound: 11 musicians play on instruments of pumpkin, zucchini, paprika, carrots ...... www.vegetableorchestra.org
DJ Jay de Bean
* The project “APPLY! SCHOOL AT THE MAK. Learning and Implementation at the Museum!” is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education, the Arts and Culture as part of the educational initiative “Cultural Education with Schools at Federal Museums, 2010” and accompanied by consulting services from KulturKontakt Austria.
Sonntagsmaler
Kurt Ryslavy
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Opening performance with Thomas Maurer on the occassion of the exhibition opening Kurt Ryslavy, Collector, Wine Merchant, Sunday Painter. A Conceptual-Sculptural Intervention at the MAK Study Collection Furniture.
Kurt Ryslavy considers himself to be a “Sunday painter.” He is a resident of Brussels, where he has worked selling Austrian wine since 1987. He is
currently putting together an exhibition at the MAK, which consists of several conceptually linked parts and integrates an installation from the museum’s collection alongside his own paintings, sculptures and videos. In doing so, Ryslavy is thus setting up an ironic likeness of the art market—which, as an independent artist and a collector of contemporary art, he questions in a critical manner.
With the kind support of the winery Emmerich Hoch (Krems-Hollenburg), Hans Igler (Deutschkreutz) und Schloss Gobelsburg (Langenlois).
Kurt Ryslavy considers himself to be a “Sunday painter.” He is a resident of Brussels, where he has worked selling Austrian wine since 1987. He is
currently putting together an exhibition at the MAK, which consists of several conceptually linked parts and integrates an installation from the museum’s collection alongside his own paintings, sculptures and videos. In doing so, Ryslavy is thus setting up an ironic likeness of the art market—which, as an independent artist and a collector of contemporary art, he questions in a critical manner.
With the kind support of the winery Emmerich Hoch (Krems-Hollenburg), Hans Igler (Deutschkreutz) und Schloss Gobelsburg (Langenlois).
copy! please copy!
Jutta Eberhard
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In the textile industry, unique items are viewed as luxury products—but when are such things actually luxury?
In copy! please copy!, Jutta Eberhard presents a “fake” collection—handmade, copied freely from existing haut couture— combined with the exhortation to use these works to make further copies. Eberhard’s pieces of clothing are not particularly wearable, however; the show’s models are limited in their mobility, a fact which points to the inefficiency of nonmass- produced handwork.
The presentation of the collection copy! please copy! will also be special in terms of its setting: the backdrop for this fashion performance is the relic of a work by Eva Schlegel made of giant weather balloons from the MAK Exhibition Hall, currently still on display in the exhibition “EVA SCHLEGEL. In Between” (to run till 1 May 2011). The inclusion of this work in copy! please copy! expands the concept of copyright-free use, re-contextualizing it at the MAK.
Afterwards Music by DJ Jay de Bean.
demand-to-copy.com
In copy! please copy!, Jutta Eberhard presents a “fake” collection—handmade, copied freely from existing haut couture— combined with the exhortation to use these works to make further copies. Eberhard’s pieces of clothing are not particularly wearable, however; the show’s models are limited in their mobility, a fact which points to the inefficiency of nonmass- produced handwork.
The presentation of the collection copy! please copy! will also be special in terms of its setting: the backdrop for this fashion performance is the relic of a work by Eva Schlegel made of giant weather balloons from the MAK Exhibition Hall, currently still on display in the exhibition “EVA SCHLEGEL. In Between” (to run till 1 May 2011). The inclusion of this work in copy! please copy! expands the concept of copyright-free use, re-contextualizing it at the MAK.
Afterwards Music by DJ Jay de Bean.
demand-to-copy.com
WAR UPON US
Alexandra Reill & DARKO
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A real-time audiovisual performance sees conceptual and media artist Alexandra Reill (Vienna) join with electronic sound composer DARKO* (Brussels) to examine the role of transnational enterprises in the creation of peace and/or the construction of war. Does war simply arise on its own, or is war something that is “made?” Who profits from war? What role does the media play? And to what extent are individuals subject to war-related interests from the economic and/or political realms? And can they themselves exercise any sort of influence over peace-building or war-planning?
Utilizing TV spots and blockbuster productions, DARKO* and Reill explore contemporary developments of a globalization which is formed and characterized by big business—and, not unimportantly, which is strongly influenced by the media.
Utilizing TV spots and blockbuster productions, DARKO* and Reill explore contemporary developments of a globalization which is formed and characterized by big business—and, not unimportantly, which is strongly influenced by the media.
LYDIA LUNCH & PHILIPPE PETIT
In Comfort
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With their new album “In Comfort,” New York music legend Lydia Lunch and Marseille-based experimental electronic musician Philippe Petit have created a surprisingly intimate duet. The EP, produced and released by the Viennese record label comfortzone, will see its first live presentation in Austria as part of MAK NITE.
For over 30 years now, Lydia Lunch has been a figure of tireless activity in the international music scene. This production represents her second collaboration with Philippe Petit, who himself has spent over 25 years working in the worldwide underground scene and is particularly interested in the soundtrack format as an artistic medium in his compositions.
On “In Comfort,” Lunch and Petit depart from the dark “psycho-ambient” sound they explored on “Twist of Fate,” their first EP together. Their new record features orchestral strings supported by a backdrop of avant-garde noise comprised of collected recorded sounds, all of which makes for a dense and dramatic listening experience. Acoustic instrumentation combines with digital sound filters to summon up the “psycho-film-noir”-atmosphere so typical of Lydia Lunch’s works.
Following the concert, the evening will continue with a DJ set by Christina “Chra” Nemec (comfortzone).
An event in cooperation with femous – platform for famous female culture.
For over 30 years now, Lydia Lunch has been a figure of tireless activity in the international music scene. This production represents her second collaboration with Philippe Petit, who himself has spent over 25 years working in the worldwide underground scene and is particularly interested in the soundtrack format as an artistic medium in his compositions.
On “In Comfort,” Lunch and Petit depart from the dark “psycho-ambient” sound they explored on “Twist of Fate,” their first EP together. Their new record features orchestral strings supported by a backdrop of avant-garde noise comprised of collected recorded sounds, all of which makes for a dense and dramatic listening experience. Acoustic instrumentation combines with digital sound filters to summon up the “psycho-film-noir”-atmosphere so typical of Lydia Lunch’s works.
Following the concert, the evening will continue with a DJ set by Christina “Chra” Nemec (comfortzone).
An event in cooperation with femous – platform for famous female culture.
Atelier 37.2 - The Space of Art
Francesca Bonesio / Nicolas Guiraud
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With The Space of Art, an installation conceived specifically for the MAK, the micro-architecture specialists of Atelier 37.2 are developing an extraordinary set of furniture for their night at the museum. In keeping with the institution’s interdisciplinary character, the MAK Exhibition Hall will be restructured using a series of art transport crates from the MAK Collection of Contemporary Art; these are usually stored at the MAK Contemporary Art Depot at the Arenbergpark flak tower. Furthermore, 37.2 will be retooling these transport devices using minimal methods, thereby turning them into mobile micro-dwellings.
Minimalist sound creations by Bono Goldbaum (iNSTINKT MUSIC) will expand The Space of Art into the acoustic realm, as well.
Minimalist sound creations by Bono Goldbaum (iNSTINKT MUSIC) will expand The Space of Art into the acoustic realm, as well.
SUMMER SPECIAL
Iv Toshain – Rainer Prohaska
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This highlight of the calendar year’s first half will see MAK NITE join forces with the University of Applied Arts Vienna to host a SUMMER SPECIAL in the MAK Garden; the event will feature a mix of performances, installations and projections.
Artist Iv Toshain has developed the staged sculpture Space Odyssey specifically for this MAK NITE Open Air: 200 LED balloons will be installed inside a cube made of the grate-like ornaments so typical of Toshain’s work, and this MAK NITE will climax with these balloons’ release and ascent into the sky—the act will be accompanied by a specially composed piece by sound artist Matthias Makowsky.
Music Armin Schmelz (TINGELTANGEL)
Restaurant Transformable
- Sound Jakub Velikovfksy, Dominik Traum
- Video Paran Pour
- Stage Flavia Mallmann
In cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Artist Iv Toshain has developed the staged sculpture Space Odyssey specifically for this MAK NITE Open Air: 200 LED balloons will be installed inside a cube made of the grate-like ornaments so typical of Toshain’s work, and this MAK NITE will climax with these balloons’ release and ascent into the sky—the act will be accompanied by a specially composed piece by sound artist Matthias Makowsky.
Music Armin Schmelz (TINGELTANGEL)
Restaurant Transformable
- Sound Jakub Velikovfksy, Dominik Traum
- Video Paran Pour
- Stage Flavia Mallmann
In cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
MAK Summernite
Happy Birthday John Lautner!
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Open-Air Kino
Ein spezieller Kinoabend im MAK-Garten anlässlich des 100. Geburtstages des kalifornischen Architekten John Lautner (* 16. Juli 1911).
Lautner steht für die Entwicklung einer eigenständigen, modernen Architektur an der amerikanischen Westküste. In seinen Bauten verband er ein Höchstmaß an Funktionalität mit originellem, modernem Design. Lautners Wohnhäuser waren nicht zuletzt aufgrund ihrer außergewöhnlichen Architekur unzählige Male Kulisse diverser Hollywood-Produktionen.
Programm
The Desert Hot Springs Motel / Sasha Pirker AT/USA 2007, 10:34 min
Infinite Space – The Architecture of John Lautner / Murray Grigor USA 2009, 90 min
James Bond. Diamonds Are Forever / Guy Hamilton USA 1971, 120 min
John Lautner, Elrod House, Palm Springs, CA, 1968. Foto © Ben Richards, Larkin Studios, larkinrichards.com, mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Mike Kilroy, dem Eigentümer des Hauses."
Ein spezieller Kinoabend im MAK-Garten anlässlich des 100. Geburtstages des kalifornischen Architekten John Lautner (* 16. Juli 1911).
Lautner steht für die Entwicklung einer eigenständigen, modernen Architektur an der amerikanischen Westküste. In seinen Bauten verband er ein Höchstmaß an Funktionalität mit originellem, modernem Design. Lautners Wohnhäuser waren nicht zuletzt aufgrund ihrer außergewöhnlichen Architekur unzählige Male Kulisse diverser Hollywood-Produktionen.
Programm
The Desert Hot Springs Motel / Sasha Pirker AT/USA 2007, 10:34 min
Infinite Space – The Architecture of John Lautner / Murray Grigor USA 2009, 90 min
James Bond. Diamonds Are Forever / Guy Hamilton USA 1971, 120 min
John Lautner, Elrod House, Palm Springs, CA, 1968. Foto © Ben Richards, Larkin Studios, larkinrichards.com, mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Mike Kilroy, dem Eigentümer des Hauses."
APPARATUS 22
Patterns of Aura (15° Synaesthesia)
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The multi-disciplinary collective APPARATUS 22 emerged from the fashion label Rozalb de Mura that has been initiated by Dragos Olea, Erika Olea, Maria Farcas and Ioana Nemes (1979 -2011) in Bucharest, Romania in 2006.
The group operates with ideas and actions that demonstrate the critical potential of fashion and clothing. They combine fiction with reality, blurring the boundaries between the sexes and share knowledge and experiences in art, design, sociology, literature and economics.
In cooperation with the Romanian Cultural Institute Vienna.
The group operates with ideas and actions that demonstrate the critical potential of fashion and clothing. They combine fiction with reality, blurring the boundaries between the sexes and share knowledge and experiences in art, design, sociology, literature and economics.
In cooperation with the Romanian Cultural Institute Vienna.
BBM – Aufräumen
with Janneke Schönenbach, Maarten Kippenbroek, Lars Vaupel, Olaf Arndt and Moritz von Rappard
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The artist group BBM (observers of machine operators) exists since 1989. BBM see themselves as artists, researchers and performers. Project based they collaborate with musicians, designers, architects and programmers. Since 1992, members of BBM also curate exhibitions and commission works on specific topics, and make their archives accessible for other artists.
Their operating principle is that of a collective: it is impossible for the public to recognize individual styles or artist personalities within BBM.
www.bbm.de
Their operating principle is that of a collective: it is impossible for the public to recognize individual styles or artist personalities within BBM.
www.bbm.de
Nathalie Koger / Barbara Schwertführer
ROADMOVIE
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Media and installation artist Nathalie Koger (last year’s Birgit Jürgenssen Prize recipient) and video artist Barbara Schwertführer will use MAK NITE to show their latest work: the experimental film ROADMOVIE.
ROADMOVIE deals from highly divergent perspectives with the mountain near Salzburg known as the Untersberg—a place steeped in legend as well as in connotations both Germanic and German nationalist. Beyond the mountain’s imposing appearance and symbolism, the focus will also be on associated mystical phenomena such as leaps in time and rips in the space-time continuum, black stones and magical symbols, as well as the question of why it held such significance for National Socialism.
In 1928, Adolf Hitler leased the building known as “Haus Wachenfeld” (later dubbed “Berghof”) on the Obersalzberg, a property which he was later to purchase and considerably expand. This distinctive building, with its famous 8x4-meter, electrically lowerable panorama windows in the great hall with a view of the Untersberg, served Hitler as a place in which to host diplomats and prominent personalities. Numerous widely familiar photographs of the Untersberg have been taken from this giant window-opening, which could also be covered from the inside by a screen lowered from above. Hitler even had a telescope installed on the patio of the Berghof, allowing the Untersberg to be viewed even more closely.
Over the course of their research work, the artists also hit upon the figure of Agnes Primocic, a local Austrian Communist Party politician and former resistance fighter who died in Salzburg in 2007. Impressed by her activities, they decided to include parts of Primocic’s life at various points in ROADMOVIE as a counterpoint to the Nazi dominance shown at the Berghof.
The film ROADMOVIE, made in 2011, will see its première screening at the MAK.
ROADMOVIE deals from highly divergent perspectives with the mountain near Salzburg known as the Untersberg—a place steeped in legend as well as in connotations both Germanic and German nationalist. Beyond the mountain’s imposing appearance and symbolism, the focus will also be on associated mystical phenomena such as leaps in time and rips in the space-time continuum, black stones and magical symbols, as well as the question of why it held such significance for National Socialism.
In 1928, Adolf Hitler leased the building known as “Haus Wachenfeld” (later dubbed “Berghof”) on the Obersalzberg, a property which he was later to purchase and considerably expand. This distinctive building, with its famous 8x4-meter, electrically lowerable panorama windows in the great hall with a view of the Untersberg, served Hitler as a place in which to host diplomats and prominent personalities. Numerous widely familiar photographs of the Untersberg have been taken from this giant window-opening, which could also be covered from the inside by a screen lowered from above. Hitler even had a telescope installed on the patio of the Berghof, allowing the Untersberg to be viewed even more closely.
Over the course of their research work, the artists also hit upon the figure of Agnes Primocic, a local Austrian Communist Party politician and former resistance fighter who died in Salzburg in 2007. Impressed by her activities, they decided to include parts of Primocic’s life at various points in ROADMOVIE as a counterpoint to the Nazi dominance shown at the Berghof.
The film ROADMOVIE, made in 2011, will see its première screening at the MAK.
BORIS+NATASCHA
Oracle Nite
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With an exhibition complemented by performative elements, the German-Australian artist duo BORIS+NATASCHA will use MAK NITE© to examine the theme of the “oracle” in terms of its transformability and the visitors’ awareness in terms of its malleability. As the evening’s highlight, Berlin-based medium Susanne Semrow will put visitors into a trance via mass hypnosis, enabling them to spend 15 minutes consulting with Sigmund Freud.
The MAK Columned Main Hall will spend the evening transformed into a “Museum of Applied and Contemporary Oracles”. This showing, curated by BORIS+NATASCHA for MAK NITE, will present their original seven-part series entitled Oracle together with etchings, film posters and textile designs from the MAK Collection.
Upon entering the event, the evening’s visitors will receive a stamp conceived by BORIS+NATASCHA specifically for MAK NITE.
The MAK Columned Main Hall will spend the evening transformed into a “Museum of Applied and Contemporary Oracles”. This showing, curated by BORIS+NATASCHA for MAK NITE, will present their original seven-part series entitled Oracle together with etchings, film posters and textile designs from the MAK Collection.
Upon entering the event, the evening’s visitors will receive a stamp conceived by BORIS+NATASCHA specifically for MAK NITE.
Heinrich Dunst
Der Kübel
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The impossibility of perfectly representing an image via words is a central aspect in the work of Austrian artist Heinrich Dunst. In the speech performance Der Kübel [The Bucket], Dunst examines possible forms of linguistic representation—for the first time not alone, but in concert with 20 individual speakers—and how various media interlock at the interface of object (a bucket) and space (the MAK Columned Main Hall).
Amidst the inherent tension of the relationship between object, text (spoken word) and projection, Dunst uses this performance to develop a form of organization in which not the coherence or closed nature of the whole, but rather the relationships between these levels of sensation and perception—the splitting of visibility and speakability—are at issue. Heinrich Dunst: “Are the individual parts completed by that which separates them from one another, or are they homogenous and analog, as the ideology of the grand staging (of the everyday) would suggest? To where does the rest disappear—the gap in the sentence, the discrepancy in the attempt to identically meld or homogenously inscribe text and image?”
Heinrich Dunst draws inspiration for his work from the book The Future of the Image (Le destin des images, 2003) by philosopher Jacques Rancière, in which a fictitious figure deals with precisely this relationship between language and visuality, between object, projection and text. Rancière calls the figure the “sentence-image,” the oscillating relation within these relations, which modality consists in a dynamically ambivalent changing of symbols and their correspondences; a figure which actual quality is a sort of non-completability.
Recent artistic practice has seen attempts to bring to the fore a relational order within a specific form of arrangement made by various artists including Florian Pumhösl and David Majkovich. Specifically, their aim has been to include the translatability and transformation of medial systems in the core of such an arrangement. Performances by Heinrich Dunst take place at precisely this interface of medial transformation; they represent a performative way of attempting to stage these relations between media fragments.
This project was conceived in collaboration with Sabine Aichhorn, Eva Tacha-Breitling (Konservatorium Wien University) and Sebastian Treytl.
Amidst the inherent tension of the relationship between object, text (spoken word) and projection, Dunst uses this performance to develop a form of organization in which not the coherence or closed nature of the whole, but rather the relationships between these levels of sensation and perception—the splitting of visibility and speakability—are at issue. Heinrich Dunst: “Are the individual parts completed by that which separates them from one another, or are they homogenous and analog, as the ideology of the grand staging (of the everyday) would suggest? To where does the rest disappear—the gap in the sentence, the discrepancy in the attempt to identically meld or homogenously inscribe text and image?”
Heinrich Dunst draws inspiration for his work from the book The Future of the Image (Le destin des images, 2003) by philosopher Jacques Rancière, in which a fictitious figure deals with precisely this relationship between language and visuality, between object, projection and text. Rancière calls the figure the “sentence-image,” the oscillating relation within these relations, which modality consists in a dynamically ambivalent changing of symbols and their correspondences; a figure which actual quality is a sort of non-completability.
Recent artistic practice has seen attempts to bring to the fore a relational order within a specific form of arrangement made by various artists including Florian Pumhösl and David Majkovich. Specifically, their aim has been to include the translatability and transformation of medial systems in the core of such an arrangement. Performances by Heinrich Dunst take place at precisely this interface of medial transformation; they represent a performative way of attempting to stage these relations between media fragments.
This project was conceived in collaboration with Sabine Aichhorn, Eva Tacha-Breitling (Konservatorium Wien University) and Sebastian Treytl.