Festival 
TOGETHER THE PARTS Day 1

Myriam Lefkowitz, Alix Eynaudi with PARASOL, Nil Yalter, SERAFINE1369, Sabina Holzer/Hans Schabus/Philipp Gehmacher

An artistic-performative gathering
Alix Eynaudi

dances, works and writes between craft and chaos in a (most of the time) joyful mess. She doesn’t work alone; any event, research, or invitation is an alibi to spend time with accomplices, a mesh of friendships scintillating under skins, a stirring of full-of-wonder support. She specialises in (deep) choreographic hanging-out sessions. alixeynaudi.com

Eva Seiler

studied scenography and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In her sculptures and spatial settings, she questions anthropocentrism and speculates on how the co-existence of human and non-human animals, nature and technology could be articulated in the future. She embraces hybrid modes of relationship in her practice, using both organic materials and industrially produced fabrics for her objects. For TOGETHER THE PARTS, she has largely worked with and re-used elements that were previously part of other constellations. In such a way, she creates and activates material connections for the gathering that can then be transformed into new contexts.

Hans Schabus

was born in 1970 in Watschig, Austria, and lives in Vienna. From 1991 to 1996, he studied sculpture with Bruno Gironcoli at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since 2012 he has been teaching at the University of Applied Arts, where he heads the Department of Sculpture and Space. Hans Schabus has been showing his work nationally and internationally since 1992.

Katalin Erdődi

is a curator, dramaturg, and writer based in Vienna and Budapest. She works with a focus on socially engaged art, experimental performance, and interventions in rural and urban public spheres, in formats ranging from festivals and exhibitions to more site-specific and collaborative approaches. She has worked as a curator for steirischer herbst (Graz), brut/imagetanz (Vienna), GfZK (Leipzig) and Trafó (Budapest) a. o. In 2020 she received the Igor Zabel Award Grant for her locally embedded and inclusive curatorial practice. As a dramaturg, she collaborates with artists such as Igor and Ivan Buharov, Philipp Gehmacher, Sonja Jokiniemi, Gin Müller, Amanda Piña, Oleg Soulimenko and Sööt/Zeyringer.

Myriam Lefkowitz

is a performance artist based in Paris whose practice is centred on questions of attention, sensation and perception through a range of immersive devices that require a direct relationship between spectators and artists. Recent works include La Bibliothèque (2018), commissioned by ‘If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution’, Amsterdam; a film collaboration with Simon Ripoll-Hurier around the practice of ‘remote viewing’; and La Piscine (Swimming Pool, 2017–ongoing), a collaborative project that brings together practices of attention born from the research of eight artists, infiltrating and sharing public spaces. Lefkowitz regularly presents her work internationally, among others, at the 55th Venice Biennale (Lithuanian and Cypriot Pavilions), MOT (Tokyo), De Appel (Amsterdam), Le Nouveau Festival (Centre Pompidou), Survival Kit (Riga), Kadist Foundation (Paris), Bergen Assembly, Kaaitheater (Brussels) and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow). In Vienna, she last presented her work Walk, Hands, Eyes (A City) as part of imagetanz 2015 at brut Wien, curated by Katalin Erdődi. ificantdance.org

Nil Yalter

(b. 1938) was never formally trained as an artist. She creates videos, installations and photography-based work grounded in her feminist politics, her respect for labourers, and her experience as a Turkish immigrant. Based in Paris since 1965, she has participated in the French counterculture and revolutionary political movements of the late 1960s, immersing herself in debates around gender, migrant workers from Turkey, and other issues of the time. Her work is indebted to both documentary and conceptual art and is an important example of early video art and feminist performance art. Her seminal work Exile is a Hard Job was recently presented at the 12th Berlin Biennale. Her sculptures, videos, and installations are in the permanent collections of the Tate Modern, the Istanbul Modern, the Centre Pompidou and the Fonds National d’art Contemporain, among others. nilyalter.com

PARASOL – a dance group of TQW

is a newly formed dance group at Tanzquartier Wien (TQW). Each year, a group of five artists within the field of expanded choreography work with two choreographers on two dance pieces. PARASOL is a paid further training programme for artists that embraces studying together as a temporary company/collective/community. tqw.at

Philipp Gehmacher’s

artistic works use bodies and language as different forms of expression and engage with built and institutional spaces as if they were objects and sculptures. His works, which are not only limited to the black box or white cube settings, have been presented at local and international theatre festivals and exhibition spaces. Most recently, his piece The Slowest Urgency (an environment) was shown at mumok Wien as part of the 2022 edition of the Impulstanz festival. He created the lecture performance series walk+talk and SAY SOMETHING, a series of speech acts.

Sabina Holzer

is a performance artist, writer and movement facilitator. Her performances and texts explore the ecologies of human and more-than-human bodies with particular attention to movement. In friendship and poetry, she connects to a field of international artists and theorists. Together with them and artist Jack Hauser, she develops collaborative artistic research settings, performances and interventions in public spaces, galleries, museums and theatres. For her project Fluvial on liquids, human bodies and urban landscapes, she received an artistic research grant from the City of Vienna in 2022. cattravelsnotalone.at

Credits

How Can One Know in Such Darkness?
Concept Myriam Lefkowitz Created in 2018, in close collaboration with the performers Jean Philippe Derail, Ghislaine Gau, Thierry Grapotte, Catalina Insignares, Julie Laporte, Florian Richaud, Yasmine Youcef In Vienna performed by Anna Biczók, Marcus Fisch, Elena Francalanci, Catalina Insignares, Myriam Lefkowitz, Therese Leick, Carla Rihi

This Tune
Concept Alix Eynaudi with PARASOL Performed by Alex Bailey, Shahrzad Nazarpour, Theresa Scheinecker, Camilla Schielin Sound design Paul Kotal Piano Han-Gyeol Lie Costumes, objects An Breugelmans

 

Myriam Lefkowitz, Alix Eynaudi with PARASOL, Nil Yalter, SERAFINE1369, Sabina Holzer/Hans Schabus/Philipp Gehmacher

An artistic-performative gathering

17.00 (ongoing)
Myriam Lefkowitz
How Can One Know in Such Darkness?
(sensorial tent)

18.00
Alix Eynaudi with PARASOL
This Tune
(procession)

18.15
Katalin Erdődi and Philipp Gehmacher
Welcome/Opening TOGETHER THE PARTS

18.30
Nil Yalter
‘The White Circle’ or ‘Women Shelter’
(listening circle)

20.00
SERAFINE1369
(Practice for) When we speak I feel myself, Opening
(circle dance)

21.00
Sabina Holzer/Hans Schabus/Philipp Gehmacher
plumbing, levelling, propping that matter
(tournée/practice-in-motion)
In English and German

We start the gathering in darkness, with our eyes closed, embarking on a one-on-one experience in the ‘sensorial tent’. Myriam Lefkowitz and her co-performers activate different materials and objects to make contact with the lying bodies of the visitors. A choreography of attention unfolds, guided by a dramaturgy of touch.
The darkness is pierced by voices. There may be no discernible lyrics, no convenient message, but there will be This Tune, a speculative ‘procession’ of songs and dances crafted by Alix Eynaudi with PARASOL, the dance group of TQW.
Following words of welcome by Katalin Erdődi and Philipp Gehmacher, we will gather around Nil Yalter for the first ‘listening circle’. Nil will share insights into her work as a feminist artist and a pioneering figure of early video art, retracing her trajectory from the early 70s until today.
From the ‘listening circle’, we transition to the ‘circle dance’ proposed by SERAFINE1369. We tune into the unit of a minute, moving through time together, as minutes stretch and compress – marked by a sound bowl, fragments of text, or the artist’s voice.
In the final act of the day, Sabina Holzer, Hans Schabus and Philipp Gehmacher take us on a ‘tournée’, a journey through Halle G. They encounter the material and (infra)structural particularities of this space with different artistic approaches, from systemic and integrational movement study to the sculptural practice of propping.

 

Alix Eynaudi

dances, works and writes between craft and chaos in a (most of the time) joyful mess. She doesn’t work alone; any event, research, or invitation is an alibi to spend time with accomplices, a mesh of friendships scintillating under skins, a stirring of full-of-wonder support. She specialises in (deep) choreographic hanging-out sessions. alixeynaudi.com

Eva Seiler

studied scenography and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In her sculptures and spatial settings, she questions anthropocentrism and speculates on how the co-existence of human and non-human animals, nature and technology could be articulated in the future. She embraces hybrid modes of relationship in her practice, using both organic materials and industrially produced fabrics for her objects. For TOGETHER THE PARTS, she has largely worked with and re-used elements that were previously part of other constellations. In such a way, she creates and activates material connections for the gathering that can then be transformed into new contexts.

Hans Schabus

was born in 1970 in Watschig, Austria, and lives in Vienna. From 1991 to 1996, he studied sculpture with Bruno Gironcoli at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since 2012 he has been teaching at the University of Applied Arts, where he heads the Department of Sculpture and Space. Hans Schabus has been showing his work nationally and internationally since 1992.

Katalin Erdődi

is a curator, dramaturg, and writer based in Vienna and Budapest. She works with a focus on socially engaged art, experimental performance, and interventions in rural and urban public spheres, in formats ranging from festivals and exhibitions to more site-specific and collaborative approaches. She has worked as a curator for steirischer herbst (Graz), brut/imagetanz (Vienna), GfZK (Leipzig) and Trafó (Budapest) a. o. In 2020 she received the Igor Zabel Award Grant for her locally embedded and inclusive curatorial practice. As a dramaturg, she collaborates with artists such as Igor and Ivan Buharov, Philipp Gehmacher, Sonja Jokiniemi, Gin Müller, Amanda Piña, Oleg Soulimenko and Sööt/Zeyringer.

Myriam Lefkowitz

is a performance artist based in Paris whose practice is centred on questions of attention, sensation and perception through a range of immersive devices that require a direct relationship between spectators and artists. Recent works include La Bibliothèque (2018), commissioned by ‘If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution’, Amsterdam; a film collaboration with Simon Ripoll-Hurier around the practice of ‘remote viewing’; and La Piscine (Swimming Pool, 2017–ongoing), a collaborative project that brings together practices of attention born from the research of eight artists, infiltrating and sharing public spaces. Lefkowitz regularly presents her work internationally, among others, at the 55th Venice Biennale (Lithuanian and Cypriot Pavilions), MOT (Tokyo), De Appel (Amsterdam), Le Nouveau Festival (Centre Pompidou), Survival Kit (Riga), Kadist Foundation (Paris), Bergen Assembly, Kaaitheater (Brussels) and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow). In Vienna, she last presented her work Walk, Hands, Eyes (A City) as part of imagetanz 2015 at brut Wien, curated by Katalin Erdődi. ificantdance.org

Nil Yalter

(b. 1938) was never formally trained as an artist. She creates videos, installations and photography-based work grounded in her feminist politics, her respect for labourers, and her experience as a Turkish immigrant. Based in Paris since 1965, she has participated in the French counterculture and revolutionary political movements of the late 1960s, immersing herself in debates around gender, migrant workers from Turkey, and other issues of the time. Her work is indebted to both documentary and conceptual art and is an important example of early video art and feminist performance art. Her seminal work Exile is a Hard Job was recently presented at the 12th Berlin Biennale. Her sculptures, videos, and installations are in the permanent collections of the Tate Modern, the Istanbul Modern, the Centre Pompidou and the Fonds National d’art Contemporain, among others. nilyalter.com

PARASOL – a dance group of TQW

is a newly formed dance group at Tanzquartier Wien (TQW). Each year, a group of five artists within the field of expanded choreography work with two choreographers on two dance pieces. PARASOL is a paid further training programme for artists that embraces studying together as a temporary company/collective/community. tqw.at

Philipp Gehmacher’s

artistic works use bodies and language as different forms of expression and engage with built and institutional spaces as if they were objects and sculptures. His works, which are not only limited to the black box or white cube settings, have been presented at local and international theatre festivals and exhibition spaces. Most recently, his piece The Slowest Urgency (an environment) was shown at mumok Wien as part of the 2022 edition of the Impulstanz festival. He created the lecture performance series walk+talk and SAY SOMETHING, a series of speech acts.

Sabina Holzer

is a performance artist, writer and movement facilitator. Her performances and texts explore the ecologies of human and more-than-human bodies with particular attention to movement. In friendship and poetry, she connects to a field of international artists and theorists. Together with them and artist Jack Hauser, she develops collaborative artistic research settings, performances and interventions in public spaces, galleries, museums and theatres. For her project Fluvial on liquids, human bodies and urban landscapes, she received an artistic research grant from the City of Vienna in 2022. cattravelsnotalone.at

Credits

How Can One Know in Such Darkness?
Concept Myriam Lefkowitz Created in 2018, in close collaboration with the performers Jean Philippe Derail, Ghislaine Gau, Thierry Grapotte, Catalina Insignares, Julie Laporte, Florian Richaud, Yasmine Youcef In Vienna performed by Anna Biczók, Marcus Fisch, Elena Francalanci, Catalina Insignares, Myriam Lefkowitz, Therese Leick, Carla Rihi

This Tune
Concept Alix Eynaudi with PARASOL Performed by Alex Bailey, Shahrzad Nazarpour, Theresa Scheinecker, Camilla Schielin Sound design Paul Kotal Piano Han-Gyeol Lie Costumes, objects An Breugelmans

 

11.11.
Fri
17.00–22.00
11.11.
Fri
17.00–22.00
TQW Halle G

Day ticket: € 25/20/10
Weekend ticket* (3 days): € 60/42/21
Festival pass* (6 days): € 90/60/42

* available exclusively at the box office

 
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