Festival
TOGETHER THE PARTS

An artistic-performative gathering

An artistic-performative gathering

By and with Alix Eynaudi, Susanne Songi Griem with Pete Prison IV, Gáddjá Haarla Pieski, Satu Herrala, Claudia Heu/Barbara Kraus, Sabina Holzer/Hans Schabus/Philipp Gehmacher, Thomas Hörl/Peter Kozek, Anne Juren/Sonia Leimer, Peter Kutin, Myriam Lefkowitz, Eliana Otta, PLF (Freya Edmondes/Lukas König/Peter Kutin), PARASOL (Theresa Scheinecker, Alex Bailey, Camilla Schielin, Shahrzad Nazarpour), Marta Popivoda, Karol Radziszewski, Eva Seiler, SERAFINE1369, Shaymaa Shoukry, Michael Turinsky, Elizabeth Ward with Samuel Feldhandler & Mzamo Nondlwana, Nil Yalter

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.

11.11.
20.11.
Fri–Sun
 
TQW Halle G

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

Tickets
Festival Day 1
11.11.

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.

 

Festival Day 2
12.11.

15.00 (ongoing)
Myriam Lefkowitz
How Can One Know in Such Darkness?
(sensorial tent)
For this one-on-one experience, registration is required in addition to the ticket: registration@tqw.at

16.00 – cancelled due to illness
Gáddjá Haarla Pieski
Going Through Thoroughly
(circle dance)

17.00
Sabina Holzer/Hans Schabus/Philipp Gehmacher
plumbing, levelling, propping that matter
(tournée/practice-in-motion)
In English and German

18.00
Elizabeth Ward with Samuel Feldhandler and Mzamo Nondlwana
Promenade
(procession)

19.00
Karol Radziszewski
Queer Archives Institute: Shifting Narratives
(listening circle)

20.30
SERAFINE1369
(Practice for) When we speak I feel myself, Opening
(circle dance)

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.
Gáddjá Haarla Pieski invites us to thoroughly scan Halle G, exploring our sense of place and pushing against the walls that enclose us to expand our horizons. Let’s imagine that we are out in the open, perhaps on a mountaintop and if we spin or twirl, we create a 360-degree horizon.
Our journey doesn’t end here: Sabina Holzer, Hans Schabus and Philipp Gehmacher open up questions of horizontality and verticality, asking what it means to prop, plumb or level that matter in the curious interplay of Halle G’s material and (infra)structural particularities and our bodies. A counter-movement occurs, traversing the performance space but also travelling through time: a Promenade through dance history by Elizabeth Ward with Samuel Feldhandler and Mzamo Nondlwana.
We settle in the ‘listening circle’ to welcome the Warsaw-based Polish visual artist Karol Radziszewski, who talks about his research on queer histories in Eastern Europe, and how archiving and shifting narratives became such an integral part of his artistic practice.
From discourse to movement – we close the day by tuning into the unit of a minute with SERAFINE1369 in a final ‘circle dance’. We move through time together. Minutes stretch and compress, marked by a sound bowl, fragments of text, or the artist’s voice.

 

Festival Day 3
13.11.

15.00 (ongoing)
Alix Eynaudi
Rest(s)
(tournée/practice-in-motion)

16.00
Eliana Otta
Tales of loss and mourning, gestures for collective mending
(listening circle and sensorial tent)

17.45
Peter Kutin
ROTOЯ – A Sonic Body
(procession/sonic interruption)

18.00 – cancelled due to illness
Gáddjá Haarla Pieski
Going Through Thoroughly
(circle dance)

On Sunday afternoon, we gather for Rest(s) with Alix Eynaudi, a (deep) choreographic hanging out session, where among others, we practice ‘slipping words under the skin’.
In her ‘listening circle’, Eliana Otta considers objects of loss, mourning practices and transformative politics based on her research in Greece and Peru, then hosts us in the ‘sensorial tent’ for a session of drawing, movement, and immersion in silence to explore the possibilities of collective mending.
A ‘sonic interruption’ by experimental musician Peter Kutin brings us back to the space of Halle G, which Gáddjá Haarla Pieski invites us to scan thoroughly. Her ‘circle dance’ revolves around the sense of place and pushes against the walls that enclose us. Let’s imagine that we are out in the open, perhaps on a mountaintop and if we spin or twirl, we create a 360-degree horizon.

 

Festival Day 4
18.11.

17.00 (ongoing)
Anne Juren/Sonia Leimer
Sensorial Transference Objects
(sensorial tent)

18.00
Claudia Heu/Barbara Kraus
Gehen – Tracing the Songlines of Halle G
(tournée/practice-in-motion)
In German

19.00
Shaymaa Shoukry
The Resilience of the Body
(circle dance)

20.00
Michael Turinsky
Crip Choreography
(listening circle)

21.00
Thomas Hörl/Peter Kozek
Kompositum V / Stubenspiel
(procession)

Anne Juren and visual artist Sonia Leimer open the gathering with Sensorial Transference Objects, an ongoing practice in the ‘sensorial tent’. They propose ways of treating and receiving treatment – using notions of the proxy body, co-regulation and diffracted attention – while searching for answers to how one can sense across objects, within objects, in proximity to objects, always questioning the boundaries between object/subject.
Claudia Heu and Barbara Kraus draw on their respective practices of walking – through urban space and natural landscapes – to trace the songlines of Halle G in their ‘tournée’. What awaits us around the corner? What spurs us to move forward? We take our time, letting our curiosity guide us.
Akin to Anna Halprin’s planetary dance, the Cairo-based artist and choreographer Shaymaa Shoukry runs in a circle, uttering demands of both political and personal nature. Her ‘circle dance’ takes an embodied approach to resilience, perseverance, and solidarity, inviting us to consider what it takes to create and sustain a movement collectively.
Michael Turinsky reflects on crip time and the political potential of lingering, asking how we can mobilise – bring a collectivity into motion – to different rhythms and beats. Interested in sonic-somatic practices, resonance and the temporality of resistance, Michael draws on both his theoretical work and his artistic practice for the ‘listening circle’.
Queer aesthetics meet local tradition and folklore in the work of Thomas Hörl and Peter Kozek, who close the day with a procession of magical archaic figures and invite us to a final collective act, a gesture towards a ‘coming community’.

Festival Day 5
19.11.

15.00 (ongoing)
Anne Juren/Sonia Leimer
Sensorial Transference Objects
(sensorial tent)

16.00
Claudia Heu/Barbara Kraus
Gehen – Tracing the Songlines of Halle G
(tournée/practice-in-motion)
In German

17.00
Susanne Songi Griem with Pete Prison IV
All of a Sudden With Orange in Salt
(circle dance)

18.00
Anne Juren/Sonia Leimer
Sensorial Transference Objects
(procession)

19.00
Marta Popivoda
Feminist Storytelling: Old Stories for New Bodies
(listening circle)

20.30
Shaymaa Shoukry
The Resilience of the Body
(circle dance)

21.30
PLF (Freya Edmondes/Lukas König/Peter Kutin)
PLF live
(procession/sonic interruption)

Anne Juren and visual artist Sonia Leimer open the gathering with Sensorial Transference Objects, an ongoing practice in the ‘sensorial tent’. They propose ways of treating and receiving treatment – using notions of the proxy body, co-regulation and diffracted attention – while searching for answers to how one can sense across objects, within objects, in proximity to objects, always questioning the boundaries between object/subject.
Claudia Heu and Barbara Kraus draw on their respective practices of walking – through urban space and natural landscapes – to trace the songlines of Halle G in their ‘tournée’. What awaits us around the corner? What spurs us to move forward? We take our time, letting our curiosity guide us.
Susanne Songi Griem and Pete Prison IV invite us to dance, draw, move, and make music in a ‘circle dance’ that brings together bodies, materials and melodies, forming mountains, waves and blossoms, to end with a picnic on stage. In the meantime, the sensorial objects of Anne Juren and Sonia Leimer are activated collectively, becoming the protagonists of a ‘procession’.
Filmmaker and artist Marta Popivoda ponders the core questions of the ‘listening circle’: Whose voices do we listen to? How do stories travel from one body to another? Sharing her approach to feminist storytelling, landscape dramaturgy and radical slowness, Marta will talk about her work on antifascist memory and her own practice of listening.
Akin to Anna Halprin’s planetary dance, the Cairo-based artist and choreographer Shaymaa Shoukry runs in a circle, uttering demands of both political and personal nature. Her ‘circle dance’ takes an embodied approach to resilience, perseverance, and solidarity, inviting us to consider what it takes to create and sustain a movement collectively.
The sonic finale by PLF fills the space of Halle G with a liberating and transformative ‘procession’ of sound, a combination of post-punk, noise, and free improvisation

Festival Day 6
20.11.

15.00
Satu Herrala
Being and moving in resonance
(sensorial tent)

16.00
Susanne Songi Griem mit Pete Prison IV
All of a Sudden With Orange in Salt
(circle dance)

17.00
Satu Herrala
From resonance into collective action
(listening circle)

18.00
Thomas Hörl/Peter Kozek
Kompositum V / Stubenspiel
(procession)

18.45
Peter Kutin
ROTOЯ – A Sonic Body
(procession/sonic interruption)

On the last day of the gathering, Satu Herrala attunes us to the resonances within one’s own embodied being, allowing these to guide us in weaving together a field of relations. She asks: What kind of collective body emerges from this field? What does it do? Later in the ‘listening circle’, she reflects on this practice of ‘being and moving in resonance’ as a possible path to embodied collective action, talking about the role of bodily knowledges and embodiment in gatherings (such as art events) and in organising collective action.
Susanne Songi Griem and Pete Prison IV invite us to dance, draw, move, and make music in a ‘circle dance’ that brings together bodies, materials and melodies, forming mountains, waves and blossoms, to end with a picnic on stage.
The six days of gathering end with a ‘procession’ of Thomas Hörl’s and Peter Kozek’s magical figures and a ‘sonic interruption’ by Peter Kutin.

 
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