An artistic-performative gathering
Bodies gather and settle in this space. We celebrate these bodies and their parts. A circle opens and closes – we trace its contours. A circle we can join – a sign of collectivity. We come together to commune with people and things. We look back on times past and tell stories of a future yet to come. We listen, we turn to one another, we hold up, we hold on. We are guided through space, invited to interact, to move together, to linger or rest.
The desire to gather is the desire to make time and take space collectively. We interrupt our individual trajectories to come together on shared terrain, in the theatre space, re-imagined as a landscape that we co-create, and inhabit. We exercise collectivity: in stillness or in motion, we join in the physicality and ideas of others to give shape and body to our own. We attend to others’ stories and experiences to remember our own.
For two weekends in November, TQW Halle G becomes a place of gathering: a gathering of artistic, performative and embodied practices. All six days, the doors are open for visitors to join and witness a series of performative and discursive contributions shared by over 20 local and international artists from the performing and visual art fields. Everybody is invited, even encouraged, to find their place, hang out, come and go, and choose their own continuous trajectory through the chain of events offered each day. Almost all contributions invite close physical participation, yet also allow for witnessing, attending to and listening from a distance. You are invited to partake whilst choosing your mode of interaction. You can decide to join in at any moment.
Five different formats have been devised to weave together the threads of this gathering. These unfold consecutively and at times simultaneously in the space of Halle G, which will be transformed from a frontal performance setting into an open landscape-like environment by visual artist Eva Seiler.
The listening circle is a moment to settle our bodies in a circle and listen to personal as much as philosophical accounts of artistic trajectories. Practitioners will speak about their artistic practices and concerns, as well as their engagement with broader socio-political contexts. After an initial impulse, all her/historytellers will open the circle for conversation.
The circle dance invites visitors to engage in physical and performative practices that draw on the vast heritage of circle dance but also re-invent this form. This format questions and triggers notions of learning and sharing, of making and building together through the lens of the collective.
The sensorial tent is a space within a space in Halle G. The invited artists and researchers propose bodily practices that engage with the sensorial and the somatic, sense-making and embodiment to question notions of materiality, objecthood, relationship and orientation.
The tournée (practice-in-motion) is a tour that takes its inspiration from guiding through an exhibition or travelling across a site whilst acknowledging the marks that create a journey. Artists will invite you to follow in creating a terrain of physical and discursive acts spread out in the setting of Halle G.
The procession/sonic interruption is an event that intervenes in the ongoing forms of the gathering. It is the appearance and passing of a visual, auditory or performative action, akin to a parade or demonstration, that you witness passing through the streets, unannounced but suddenly all-encompassing.
Please take a look at the detailed schedule of events for each festival day. Take your time, stay on and join in.
Katalin Erdődi and Philipp Gehmacher on TOGETHER THE PARTS. Read their curatorial statements here.
Download festival overview (pdf)
CREDITS
Curated by Katalin Erdődi and Philipp Gehmacher Set, objects Eva Seiler Light Victor Duran Sound library Peter Kutin Production management Stephanie Leonhardt – Initiated by Philipp Gehmacher, co-produced by Philipp Gehmacher / Mumbling Fish and Tanzquartier Wien. With support from the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna.
In English
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
