Thu08.
Oct
17.00/
Zoom
TQW DOC
Theory
Interdisciplinary, inter-university PhD forum on topics concerned with choreography, performance, body, art and politics at Tanqzquartier Wien. Once...
Theory
The lecture and symposium programme is devised by Thomas Edlinger, Janez Janša and Janine Jembere.
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.
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
Janine Jembere is an artist and currently a participant in the “PhD in Practice” programme at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In addition to that she is involved in an international research project on the topic of “land and dispossession”. In her artistic work and research, she concentrates on resonances of somatic knowledge, sensory hierarchies, ableism, race and gender. Her works include videos, sound works, performances, plays, and installations. Jembere held a scholarship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Berliner Senat and Fleetstreet Theater Hamburg, among others. Her works have been in shown in Europe and beyond....moreless
Thu22.
Oct
19.00/
Stream auf ifvjelinek.at
Science.Art.Society
Stream: Presentation of the new collaborative university research platform Elfriede Jelinek
Theory
There are many things science and the arts have in common: both unearth the unpleasant truths of society...
Fri06.
Nov
17.00/
Zoom
TQW DOC
Theory
Interdisciplinary, inter-university PhD forum on topics concerned with choreography, performance, body, art and politics at Tanqzquartier Wien. Once...
María do Mar Castro Varela
Double Bind
Theory
Postcolonial readings in the arts and culture and in cultural education have recently become ever more popular. However,...
Klaus Theweleit
Male Phantasies
Theory
German magazine Der Spiegel celebrated Male Phantasies in 1977 as being “probably the most exciting German publication of the year”...
Oxana Timofeeva
Speaking the Languages of Beasts, Birds, and Fish: Movements and Translations
Theory
In 2018, I took part in a performance organized by our art collective Chto Delat? in Berlin. During...
Thu10.
Dec
17.00/
Zoom
TQW DOC
Theory
Interdisciplinary, inter-university PhD forum on topics concerned with choreography, performance, body, art and politics at Tanqzquartier Wien. Once...
Thu14.
Jan
17.00/
Zoom
TQW DOC
Theory
Interdisciplinary, inter-university PhD forum on topics concerned with choreography, performance, body, art and politics at Tanqzquartier Wien. Once...
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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.
Fri06.–
Sat14.
Nov
Closed to the public/
TQW Studios
Tonica Hunter
Imagining otherwise
Labs/Theory
„[I]t is our visions which sustain us. Do not neglect nor shortchange them. Do not treat your dreams lightly. They point the way toward a future made possible by our belief in them and our labors in their name, which is also ours. There is a world in which we all wish to live. That world is not attained lightly. We call it future.“ — Audre Lorde, I Am Your Sister
In the 1980s, Peter Weiss wrote his Aesthetics of Resistance, a novel about the educational standards of the working class and acts of resistance during the reign of European fascism, in which he made popular the term ‘artistic research’ and provided an alternative reading of our cultural history. This lab presentation will draw on Weiss’s theory by re-examining questions like: How could resistant aesthetics and an aesthetics of resistance look like today? In what ways can we use the arts to connect people and oppose division and nationalist tendencies? How can art help build a community, and what strategies can be developed that do not simply find fault with the status quo but provide alternative pathways?
Concept by Janine Jembere
Participants: Ulduz Ahmadzadeh, Ayo Aloba, Ina Aydogan, Faris Cuchi Gezahegn, Klara Kostal, Esther Maria Kürmayr, Imani Rameses, Adia Trischler
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TQW Magazin Posts
7. July 2020
The Animal called Human Being
Johanna Hörmann in conversation with Chiara Bersani about Gentle Unicorn
Where do unicorns come from? What is their story? To whom and where do they belong? How do...
30. June 2020
The Process of creating Climatic Dances
An interview with Amanda Piña by Claudia Heu
Climatic Dances is the fifth part of Amanda Piña / nadaproductions’ Endangered Human Movements series dealing with human...
28. June 2020
Arash T. Riahi in a conversation with Ulduz Ahmadzadeh and Johanna Figl on Force Majeure
Ulduz Ahmadzadeh and Johanna Figl are currently working on their piece Force Majeure, which among other things deals...
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.
In the exhibition area we present a monthly changing program that is selcted from our archive. It communicates with the stage program.
The library will reopen on 14 September. Visits by prior appointment only: bibliothek@tqw.at
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