Thu15.
Nov
18.00/
TQW Studios
Free admission
Nina Yuen
The Doomed Gesture in All Its Forms
Theory
Drawing from sources including her own memories and experiences, literature, poetry, science, and art history, Nina Yuen merges...
Theory
The lecture and symposium program is devised by Katrina Daschner, Thomas Edlinger and Janez Janša.
The three Theory curators bring different perspectives to the table: in addition to a choreographic-analytical approach, a pop-culture outlook critical of society and a queer/feminist perspective are increasingly taken into account as well. Some of the theory programme is thematically linked with TQW’s performance programme, but besides that it also investigates essential issues in the fields of choreography and performance, or, more generally, major concerns of our time. In addition, Tanzquartier Wien promotes a new way of engaging with the performances. Experts from various disciplines will write a text to accompany every work shown at TQW, which will provide both artists and visitors with additional material for analysis. The texts will be collected and published atour Newsblog and, moreover, as a print magazine once a year.
Katrina Daschner, born in Hamburg, is an artist and film-maker who has been living in Vienna for over twenty years. She taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 2005 to 2010. From 2009 to 2014, she hosted the queer CLUB BURLESQUE BRUTAL. In her projects, she primarily investigates sexuality, power structures and queer-feminist (body) politics as well as the transfer of theatrical acts and performances into the context of exhibitions and films. She presents her projects in exhibtions and at film festivals....moreless
Thomas Edlinger, born in 1967 in Vienna, is a radio broadcaster, freelance arts and culture journalist, curator and author of books. Together with Fritz Ostermayer, Edlinger has been producing and presenting the FM4 radio show Im Sumpf since 1995. He held a post as curator at the O.K. Centre for Contemporary Art in Linz from 2002 to 2004 and at Lentos Art Museum Linz from 2004 to 2006. In 2015, he published the essay Der wunde Punkt. Vom Unbehagen an der Kritik. He has been artistic director of the donaufestival in Krems since 2017. Edlinger teaches in the Department of Art and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna....moreless
Janez Janša, born in 1964 as Emil Hrvatin, is a Slovenian performance artist and theorist. He edited and published Maska, a bilingual (English/Slovenian) performative arts magazine, and was director of an institute of the same name for publication, production and education from 1999 to 2006. He has presented many performative and installative projects and given lectures in many parts of the world since the early 1990s....moreless
Thu22.
Nov
14.00–18.00/
TQW Studios
Free admission
Kunstverein
Archipelago
Dancers at Work
Theory
„Dance is not close to work issues because it can function as a representation of work or an...
Sat24.
Nov
18.00/
TQW Studios
Free admission
Bojana Cvejić
Choreographing Problems
Theory
+++++ Unfortunately, the discussion has to be cancelled due to illness. It will be rescheduled for a new...
Mon10.
Dec
17.00/
TQW Studios
TQW DOC
Theory
Interdisciplinary, interuniversity post-grad forum on the subjects of choreography, performance, body, art and politics at TQW. In the...
Mon07.
Jan
17.00/
TQW Studios
TQW DOC
Theory
Interdisciplinary, interuniversity post-grad forum on the subjects of choreography, performance, body, art and politics at TQW. In the...
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Labs
The lab programme regularly held at the TQW Studios is dedicated to exploration and exchange between local as well as international artists and experts.
Unhampered by the customary pressure to produce and present, the participants can explore general topical, specific or utterly unusual aspects of contemporary choreography and performance. Some of the subjects addressed relate to the contemporaneous performance programme at Tanzquartier Wien to enable a closer examination.
However, the labs also provide those interested with a platform to inquire into urgent issues of our time, irrespective of TQW’s programme. Experts or artists curate and run the labs.
Mon03.–
Fri07.
Dec
00 /
TQW Studios
Andrea Maurer
a sentence is a stage for words
Labs/Theory
„what is a stage? a stage for staging staging? a stage for staring? a stage for sharing? caring? a stage for staging the unstageable? a stage has a voice and a body. a stage can move and be moved. a stage can think thinking. a stage can disappear. let’s stage the stage underneath the stage besides the stage before behind beyond the stage stage. imagine a shy stage, a screaming stage, a still stage, a stuttering, a stumbling, a shivering stage: a sentence is a stage for words. a word is a stage for letters. a letter is a stage for sounds. a sound is a stage for breathing.“ — Andrea Maurer
a sentence is a stage for words brings together artists from different disciplines to engage into an experimental exploration revolving around expanded notions of poetry, sculpture, typography, scenography and performance. approaching language, objects, space and sound as raw materials that can be used as devices to dig into and unsettle the relationships between form and meaning, in order to think of a stage in its widest sense: not the stage that is inscribed in us, but rather a stage that we don´t quite know how to speak about. something we are searching for as a tool for something else. an instrument or a container for communication. a unknown stage for unspoken words. a stage for for all senses.
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TQW Magazin Posts
2. November 2018
I AM WHITE, SNOW WHITE
Stephanie Misa on Princess by Eisa Jocson
It is, or seems to be, an exercise in impossibilities. Here we have two Snow Whites, replicas...
27. October 2018
Brokkoli and worry stone
Gabriele Edlbauer on The Endless Island of Absence by Linda Samaraweerová
Hello. Or something like that, says the friendly nod on entering. It takes a moment to orient yourself,...
20. October 2018
“Two Steps Back” in Three Steps
Diane Shooman on two steps back by Tanz Company Gervasi
you will be forgiven if you wonder momentarily whether the gang warfare of “West Side Story” has been revived with the wrong kind of cast...
Library
The reference library in the TQW Studios comprises a unique collection specialising in contemporary dance and performance. The well-stocked inventory, which is the core of the library, comprises over 2,600 titles and 2,100 magazines.
The foyer area accommodates general literature and anthologies on the subjects of dance, performance, art, theory and more, including subject-specific works from the fields of gender theory and philosophy. A comfortable, publicly accessible room for reading, researching and riffling is located on the first floor under the roof. A computer workstation is provided to browse the complete digitised archive of live performance recordings, lectures and labs held since the opening of TQW in 2001.
Moreover, a regularly updated selection of books, articles and videos related to the performance programme is available here to read up on or preview. The daily LUNCH BOOK reading session provides an opportunity to read together but also to exchange and reflect.
LUNCH BOOK Menu
Mon, 05 – Fri, 09 Nov, 13.00
Rudi Laermans
Moving Together: Theorizing and Making Contemporary Dance
Mon, 05 – Fri, 09 Nov, 13.00
Rudi Laermans
Moving Together: Theorizing and Making Contemporary Dance
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