Fri28.
Feb
18.00/
TQW Studios
Free admission
Goran Sergej Pristaš
Practicing the Impossible
Theory
100 years have passed since two artists were presiding over their self-proclaimed temporary states: Gabrielle D’Annunzio in his...
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
Fri06.
Mar
19.30 /
TQW Studios
Free admission
Salon Différance
Kunst & Erregung
Theory
Kunst & Erregung will be the debut night of the latest event series Salon Différance, an original cooperation...
Wed11.
Mar
17.30/
TQW Studios
TQW DOC
Theory
TQW DOC is an interdisciplinary, interuniversity post-grad forum on the subjects of choreography, performance, body, art and politics at Tanzquartier...
Fri20.
Mar
18.00/
TQW Studios
Free admission
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...
Sat21.
Mar
17.00/
TQW Studios
Free admission
Katherina T. Zakravsky
TransLate 2
Theory
If we want to cherish language diversity, we must cultivate practices of translation. From and into all kinds...
Sat28.
Mar
18.00/
TQW Studios
Free admission
Alessandro Questa, Juan Carlos Palma & Amanda Piña
Choreography as a tool for establishing socio-environmental relations
Theory
“Unlike us, white people are not afraid of being crushed by the falling sky. But one day they...
Thu02.
Apr
17.00/
TQW Studios
TQW DOC
Theory
TQW DOC is an interdisciplinary, interuniversity post-grad forum on the subjects of choreography, performance, body, art and politics at Tanzquartier...
Fri03.
Apr
18.00/
TQW Studios
Free admission
Klaus Theweleit
Male Phantasies
Theory
German magazine Der Spiegel celebrated Male Phantasies in 1977 as being “probably the most exciting German publication of...
Thu23.
Apr
19 /
TQW Studios
Free admission
Wissenschaft.Kunst.
Gesellschaft
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...
Thu07.
May
17.00/
TQW Studios
TQW DOC
Theory
TQW DOC is an interdisciplinary, interuniversity post-grad forum on the subjects of choreography, performance, body, art and politics at Tanzquartier...
Thu04.
Jun
17.00/
TQW Studios
TQW DOC
Theory
TQW DOC is an interdisciplinary, interuniversity post-grad forum on the subjects of choreography, performance, body, art and politics at Tanzquartier...
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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.
Mon16.–
Fri20.
Mar
00 /
TQW Studios
Katherina T. Zakravsky
TransLate 2
Labs/Theory
If we want to cherish language diversity, we must cultivate practices of translation. From and into all kinds of “mother tongues”, idiolects, media, styles. Not only vague analogies are to blame, but also the “natural-cultural coevolution” which has brought about the extinction of language diversity. The slow but steady disappearance of this linguistic and symbolic ecology is prompted by the overpowering dynamics of the all-encompassing use of the English language. If one were to change these dynamics, one would feel the need to appreciate language diversity again and one would have to face the relative untranslatability of this diversity. But to master this art, to fight fire with fire, means that not only historical national and regional languages have to be part of this task but also styles and codes of nonverbal expression and perception (movement, sound, space, etc.). As a follow-up to the lab TransLate 2006 and its starting point with Walter Benjamin, we will engage with translations from and into German, English and Russian and we will fend off the age of disruption of incompatible styles of life, thought and language with humour, wit and magic; not to be engulfed by the machinery of mere consensus.
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TQW Magazin Posts
1. February 2020
A CAST on dancing demons
Veza Fernández on Dancing’s Demons by Elizabeth Ward
there is no heaven just the vast sky holding up to the deepest of ancestral mineralia which is...
30. January 2020
Destuck
Guillaume Paoli on stuck by Doris Uhlich / Gabriele Oßwald / Wolfgang Sautermeister
Contrary to the second law of thermodynamics, the following axiom applies: utopia remains constant. Utopia knows no entropy...
18. January 2020
When there is nothing left to say, all you can do is laugh or cry or scream
Berenice Pahl on Augusto by Alessandro Sciarroni
Alessandro Sciarroni confirms philosopher and sociologist Helmuth Plessner’s hypothesis that bodily processes emancipate themselves in situations which render meaningful answers using signs, gestures, language or actions impossible...
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. You can find a current list of what is on the screens here.
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