Sat27.
Apr
15 /
TQW Halle G
Free admission
The Jaguar Talks
Theory
In this series of lectures, we learn about the specific understanding of the body and the subject present...
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
Mon13.
May
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 redesigned library...
Fri24.
May
18.00/
TQW Studios
Free admission
Ramsay Burt
Contemporary dance and the self-defence of the commons
Theory
While there are costs and wages in the contemporary dance sector and attempts to capture and marketise the...
Sat25.
May
17.00/
TQW Studios
Free admission
Raul Maia & Elizabeth Ward
REKSOLL
Theory
If there is an impossibility in repetition, isn’t everything improvised? Improvisation: a single word. Within it, a vast...
Fri07.
Jun
18.00/
TQW Studios
Free admission
Elke Krasny
On the right to walk
Theory
“Exploring walking, walking explorations.” — Elke Krasny This lecture will offer an introduction to the epistemic politics of walking, relevant...
Mon17.
Jun
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 redesigned library...
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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.
Mon13.–
Sat25.
May
00 /
TQW Studios
Raul Maia & Elizabeth Ward
REKSOLL
Labs/Theory
If there is an impossibility in repetition, isn’t everything improvised?
Improvisation: a single word. Within it, a vast landscape of personal/collective histories and present knowledge, striding side by side with opaque conceptions and myths.
A laboratory on improvisation: a sentence, suggesting the study and experiment of improvisation through improvisation.
We come together as seven artists, each with our own past and present regarding this theme, to experience the diversity in the thinking, mapping and practicing of our existing improvisational practices while leaving an opening for cross-pollination to work its magic.
No longer to be defined in binary opposition to choreography, improvisation belongs to the realm of words we all necessarily relate to, but few agree on the exact meaning – a little bit like Love perhaps.
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TQW Magazin Posts
13. April 2019
CONSTELLATIONS (VIII- XX)
Christoph Szalay on Amadora Llama by Veza Fernández
VIII Have u ever found urself in (a) darkness, darling, what did u name it? IX When I...
26. March 2019
We need obscenity*
Interview by Dietmar Schwärzler with Gérald Kurdian on HOT BODIES – STAND UP
How did HOT BODIES – STAND UP come about? The starting point of the project were mainly questions...
18. March 2019
A Life’s Work [1]
Kate Strain and Donny Mahoney on CODOMESTICATION by Krõõt Juurak & Alex Bailey
I like the idea that when you put an animal on stage it doesn’t act. It can’t. It...
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, 8 – Fri, 12 April, 13.00
Sublin/mes. philosophieren von unten. a queer reviewed journal
Heft #3: be.wild.ered
Mon, 8 – Fri, 12 April, 13.00
Sublin/mes. philosophieren von unten. a queer reviewed journal
Heft #3: be.wild.ered
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