Festival
TOGETHER THE PARTS

Ein künstlerisch-performatives Gathering

Ein künstlerisch-performatives Gathering

Von und mit Alix Eynaudi, Susanne Songi Griem mit 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 mit 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.

An zwei Wochenenden im November wird die TQW Halle G zum Ort eines Gatherings künstlerischer, performativer und körperlicher Praktiken. Sechs Tage lang haben die Besucher*innen im Rahmen von TOGETHER THE PARTS die Gelegenheit, eine ganze Reihe performativer und diskursiver Beiträge von über 20 lokalen und internationalen Künstler*innen aus dem Bereich der darstellenden und bildenden Kunst nicht nur mitzuerleben, sondern auch daran teilzunehmen. Das Festival ist eine Einladung an einem Ort zu verweilen und sich einen eigenen Parcours durch die angebotenen Veranstaltungen zusammenzustellen. Kommen und Gehen ist jederzeit möglich. Nahezu alle Beiträge laden zur physischen Teilnahme ein, erlauben aber auch das Beobachten, Zuschauen und Zuhören aus der Ferne. Die Besucher*innen können sich beteiligen, jederzeit mitmachen und dabei selbst über die Art der Interaktion bestimmen.

Fünf verschiedene Formate wurden entwickelt, um die Fäden dieses Gatherings miteinander zu verweben. Die Formate finden nacheinander, manchmal auch gleichzeitig in der Halle G statt, die von der bildenden Künstlerin Eva Seiler von einem frontalen Performance-Setting in ein offenes, landschaftsähnliches Environment verwandelt wird.

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 und Philipp Gehmacher über TOGETHER THE PARTS. Zu den kuratorischen Statements

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CREDITS
Kuratiert von Katalin Erdödi und Philipp Gehmacher Raum, Objekte Eva Seiler Licht Victor Duran Sound Library Peter Kutin Produktionsleitung Stephanie Leonhardt – Initiiert von Philipp Gehmacher, koproduziert von Philipp Gehmacher / Mumbling Fish und Tanzquartier Wien. Philipp Gehmacher / Mumbling Fish wird von der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien gefördert.

11.11.
20.11.
Fr–So
 
TQW Halle G

In englischer Sprache

Tagesticket: € 25/20/10
Wochenendticket* (3 Tage): € 60/42/21
Festivalpass* (6 Tage): € 90/60/42

* ausschließlich an der Kassa erhältlich

Tickets
Festival Day 1
11.11.

17 Uhr (ongoing)
Myriam Lefkowitz
How Can One Know in Such Darkness?
(sensorial tent)

18 Uhr
Alix Eynaudi mit PARASOL
This Tune
(procession)

18.15 Uhr
Katalin Erdődi and Philipp Gehmacher
Welcome/Opening TOGETHER THE PARTS

18.30 Uhr
Nil Yalter
‘The White Circle’ or ‘Women Shelter’
(listening circle)

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

21 Uhr
Sabina Holzer/Hans Schabus/Philipp Gehmacher
plumbing, levelling, propping that matter
(tournée/practice-in-motion)
In englischer und deutscher Sprache

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 Uhr (ongoing)
Myriam Lefkowitz
How Can One Know in Such Darkness?
(sensorial tent)
Für die One-on-One-Sessions ist zusätzlich zum Ticket eine Anmeldung erforderlich: registration@tqw.at

16 Uhr – entfällt wegen Krankheit
Gáddjá Haarla Pieski
Going Through Thoroughly
(circle dance)

17 Uhr
Sabina Holzer/Hans Schabus/Philipp Gehmacher
plumbing, levelling, propping that matter
(tournée/practice-in-motion)
In englischer und deutscher Sprache

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

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

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

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

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

18 Uhr – entfällt wegen Krankheit
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 Uhr (ongoing)
Anne Juren/Sonia Leimer
Sensorial Transference Objects
(sensorial tent)

18 Uhr
Claudia Heu/Barbara Kraus
Gehen Auf den Spuren der Songlines der Halle G
(tournée/practice-in-motion)
In deutscher Sprache

19 Uhr
Shaymaa Shoukry
The Resilience of the Body
(circle dance)

20 Uhr
Michael Turinsky
Crip Choreography
(listening circle)

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

16 Uhr
Claudia Heu/Barbara Kraus
Gehen – Auf den Spuren der Songlines der Halle G
(tournée/practice-in-motion)
In deutscher Sprache

17 Uhr
Susanne Songi Griem mit Pete Prison IV
Plötzlich mit Orange in Salz 
(circle dance)

18 Uhr
Anne Juren/Sonia Leimer
Sensorial Transference Objects
(procession)

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

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

21.30 Uhr
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 Uhr
Satu Herrala
Being and moving in resonance
(sensorial tent)

16 Uhr
Susanne Songi Griem mit Pete Prison IV
Plötzlich mit Orange in Salz 
(circle dance)

17 Uhr
Satu Herrala
From resonance into collective action
(listening circle)

18 Uhr
Thomas Hörl/Peter Kozek
Kompositum V / Stubenspiel
(procession)

18.45 Uhr
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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