artist-in-residence
digital artist-in-residence
In this project I would like to explore the topic of empty time as a time when a person is not authentically themselve because of external circumstances, societal pressure, and especially laws enforced by dictatorship. It is interesting in a research sense to live through slow radicalisation and tightening of the regime. You start thinking a lot about empty time and missed opportunities for creating something truly meaningful when you had this freedom, but were not ready.
Inauthentic living before realising one's queerness can also be considered empty time. Time before you are truly yourself, before you have all the parts of your personality. When it is interconnected with living with a government that becomes more and more homophobic and starts viewing you as their main enemy, this puts empty time into dramatic perspective. Another interesting part of the empty time inside Russia - is creating something in the context of self-censorship a part of it? Or is it the only way to do something meaningful even with restrictions?
event // reading
fr, 31.05. / 5.00 pm / cinema
As part of her stay as Artist in Residence 2022, Susanne Gurschler roamed through Boden and the surrounding landscape. She condensed her observations and impressions into "Soil explorations"The author reads from the cycle of lyrical images of places, locations and perceptions that transform the high alpine region into a literary landscape. The author reads from the largely unpublished cycle.
The multi-award-winning poet Sünje Lewejohann on her poems:
"Susanne Gurschler's poems are like a detailed painting; you sink into them and discover a whole world. Every word is exactly where it should be. Nothing in these poems is accidental. They ARE the landscapes they describe and you enjoy following them, letting them carry you over mountains and passes and through villages, almost like an Alpine Peter Huchel."
event // impulse lecture & discussion round
tues, 11.06. / 8.00 pm / sternlodge boden
How real is the digital reality
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A conceptual lightweight sculpture constructed using a combination of tension and compression materials. It would enclose 'empty space' and would feel ethereal. It is open to speculation whether such structures are an art form or a practical building method.
artist-in-residence
"The aim of my residency is to create a work that lies somewhere between sculpture, installation and digital art. In doing so, I want to be guided by the place where I live in the high valley and the people I meet there and use both traditional and new technical working methods. What the result will look like in the end will be determined by the emptiness."
event // reading
so, 09.06. / 17.00 o'clock / cinema bschlabs
"layered poems"
From dialect to standard language and back.
Eva Maria Gintsberg reads from her latest volume of poetry.
event // opening / installation
sa, 25.05. -> / 12.05 pm / bschlabs
artist-in-residence
Symbiogenesis
"My artistic work explores the sculptural quality of organic and ecological materials, as well as the nature of structures and surfaces. The starting point is a morphological view of the biodiversity of nature. The changes and time traces of landscapes and forests in the advancing Anthropocene are unmanageable processes that influence the approach of my artistic work, a work on the memory of nature."
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Farewell Piece (Ascending Peaks Evoke Fading Thoughts)
"I will present a slow-paced performance inspired by the surrounding landscape. It will resemble an endurance act involving a slow walk up and over a steep slope, proceeding straightforwardly and without any climactic moment. The work aims to convey that what may seem like an insignificant act is, in fact, an action that prompts reflections on letting go and emptying oneself into the landscape to ultimately disappear, to the other side."
event // opening / real-time composition
sa, 25 May / bschlabs
The Bschlabertal marching booklet for dilettantes of any number invites all interested parties to perform different interpretations of empty time.
event // lecture
fr, 21.06. / 7.30 pm / cinema bschlabs
Transport - An ant infrastructure project
Unfortunately, remote forest ants have little infrastructure available for exploration and transport, so their lives are quite arduous and they cannot fully realise their potential for work. By improving transport conditions, transport and mobility can be speeded up and made more efficient.
event // concert
so, 02.06. / 20.00 / feldscheune boden
Dirty Space 3
The title of the series refers to the contrast between the "smooth" media worlds represented by models, algorithms and hardware and the noisy, chaotic, imperfect, "dirty" "real" world. The works in the series deal speculatively with syntheses and differences between the two domains. Dirty Space 3 is a site-specific, performative work that combines sound recordings of the immediate surroundings with feedback processes in the instruments used, which are also designed with set pieces from the surroundings. (Supported by the annual scholarship for composition of the BMKOES)
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"My work explores the sensuality of memory, tradition and cultural experience in the forms of site-specific sculpture, drawing and painting. Employing materials used within ritual and commemoration I communicate the sensitivity and vulnerability of these materials through my presentation of their exposed and overwhelming sensory potential and tactility."
artist-in-residence
"nothingness"
Emptiness as a pool of infinite (non-)possibilities. How much emptiness remains when a person completely surrenders to it? The paradox of the fullness of nothingness is examined and visualised with the help of an analogue photo series.
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The Spitzkopf towers lonely above Bschlabs. It is steep, inaccessible and hardly known outside the valley. The project explores the terrain and the significance of the omnipresent mountain for the village and its people.
event // opening / concert
sa, 25.05. / 8.30 pm / bschlabs village square
event // cabaret
thu, 20.06. / 8.00 pm / elmen community hall
Farmer Ours
An outlet-friendly cabaret produced by Tanja Ghetta and Daniel Lenz
Director: Johannes Leismüller
What position can open land or soil take? How much quality can you expect from a seal? Which injuries require a farmers' association? Tanja, detached from her cow village, and Daniel, a convinced urban neurotic, present a programme on a subject they know absolutely nothing about: Farmers - the stars of the furrow, the heroes of livestock farming, the demigods in wellies. They haven't done any research in the field, they haven't been under the milking machine and they certainly haven't infiltrated agricultural communities. And perhaps this naivety is precisely the fertiliser that makes the punchlines sprout and sweeps the audience along to a final "I've got the farmer!"!
Tickets are available at: reservierungen@medienfrische.com
event // concert
sa, 01.06. // 20.00 / barn floor
Presentation older and more recent works by and with students of the programme forr Electroacoustic and experimental music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
artist-in-residence
"I want to develop a series of panoramas about internal landscapes. To investigate how they existed in memory, as deformed with time, as affect the formation of worldviews. Combine it with visions from my memory. Detear spaces from the native village and the city that I do not have access to now."
artist-in-residence
"As part of medienfrische, I would like to explore the location and structure of the artists' residency and explore how peaceful coexistence in connection with nature and fellow human beings can succeed. In doing so, I will examine the concept of emptiness in connection with the creative process. Texts and artistic compositions can be created using found materials"
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Shine, shine, shine. 14x daydream
"My project is a homage to doing nothing, daydreaming and time that is not focussed on a goal. 14x daydreaming means lying in the sun, letting your mind wander and being unproductive - developing a routine for doing nothing. In the meantime, the sun does the work: a print develops on a sheet previously prepared with UV-sensitive colours, which reproduces the imprints of your own body, the things you have brought with you or blades of grass, without disturbing your own rest, virtually in your sleep. The result is objects in which no two are alike and which are created as if in a dream: colourful, disordered, unpredictable."
event // opening / concert
sa, 25 May / 7.30 pm / bschlabs
"We sing a capella: yodelling and three-part songs from different regions of Austria. The repertoire consists of songs that we sang in our childhood and youth with our families or in choirs. But we only discovered many Austrian yodellers in Frankfurt. We are always impressed by the immediacy and power of the traditional melodies."
event // reading
sa, 15.06. / 8.30 pm / church boden
Dulcimers zither
Rainer Egger reads poems and prose by Norbert C. Barrel (born 1947 in Brixen, died 1978 in Bruneck). Also to be heard: 3 choral pieces by Bert Breit
event // concert
fr, 31.05. / 20.00 / church bschlabs
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Investigations into the themes of time, light and space. The medium for this are long-term exposures on fabric with UV light, which then become sculptures.
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Kalin Mihov's proposal is for an act, a performance with the rural landscape, opening a dialogue with local narratives of the abandoned and the forgotten. By using simple repetitive motions referring to archaic and obsolete field work taken out of place, context and time the artist asks how in a modern context we evaluate our actions, what is the benefit of the artistic act and how it fits into the concept of labour today.
event // opening / organ concert
sa, 25 May / bschlabs
Where has the pause gone in music, the break, the silence, the nothingness, the dark matter of music, its antagonist, which it needs like day needs night? Today's music, at least the music that reaches the masses, keeps the level high. Staying tuned, always staying tuned is a must, so that listeners stay tuned, always stay tuned. The long note has also disappeared, the really long note, one that lasts minutes, hours, perhaps even days, months, years, or at least could last. The organ is the only analogue instrument that can play it.
The basic idea of this improvisation is to be a meditation on the pause and its soul mate, length, that has become music. But as with every improvisation, its king, the irretrievable moment, will also have the say here, and it doesn't like any kind of guidelines.
event // installation / land-art
sa, 15.06. -> / 8.00 pm / stadl boden
Colouring a haystack...
Flowers are used to colour the sun-bleached wood on the south side of a hayloft. A Japanese technique in which leaves and their dyes and structures are transferred to fabrics with a hammer is used here without the use of tools.
Photo by Simone Bader: o.T. (flower bank), 100 x 15 x 15, flower juice on wood, 2021
event // lecture
mo, 03.06. / 20.00 / sternlodge boden
ON THIN ICE
Tyrolean director and screenwriter Ernst Gossner reports on the production of his cinema film "ON THIN ICE", an international thriller co-produced with Spain and the USA.
artist-in-residence
"I would like to continue working on my third solo programme at medienfrische. In it, I will deal with the topic of memory, especially my own. Because I was born in Tyrol, the mountains should help me with this."
artist-in-residence
What grows on, around, in, on and next to the abandoned places in the Bschlabertal? Using documentary means, a diverse collection is created that tells the story of the Bschlabertal from a perspective that is both old and new. The herbarium of empty time brings together mosses, lichens, grasses and ferns as witnesses and actors of change and revitalisation.
event // opening / installation
sa, 25.05. -> / bschlabs
The Freewheel is a machine component that works like a ball bearing, but locks in one direction (or you can see it the other way round). Everyone knows this part from bicycles. It ensures that the pedal does not automatically turn in the direction of rotation of the rear wheel when it moves. 4 people can enjoy the freewheel for 30 minutes. Each person puts on the climbing harness, in case of rain the umbrellas can be used.
event // reading
mi, 05.06. / 8.00 pm / inn zur gemütlichkeit
tues, 18.06. / 8.00 pm / pfafflar
THE BERGE, MY LIFE FULL OF WORK AND LONGING
"In the course of time"
Characterised by the hard life of a mountain farmer in his childhood, Josef Friedl seeks balance in the mountains after significant changes. Beautiful experiences, Many dangers, deep feelings and valuable insights complete a turbulent life story.
event // opening / audio performance
sa, 25.05. -> / bschlabs cinema
CUMULUS
Figures of the Elusive - Politics of the Sky
Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir and Claudia Lomoschitz invite the attendants of this audio-performance to witness movements, choreographies, and politics of the sky through a feminist lens. CUMULUS opens up practices of acknowledging the sky and creating moments of bonding with the surrounding environment that is the living space we all share.
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The transition between wakefulness and sleep, a fog that rises, a trance-like intermediate state. A void in the universe, isolated flashes of light, figures of transition. The concepts of liminality and rituals as coordinates.
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Scrolling yoga (temporary title)
Focusing on the ubiquitous gesture of scrolling, often associated with excessive consumption and addiction, Scrolling yoga aims to juxtapose this behaviour born in the hypermodernity with the serene backdrop of rural Bschlabertal. The project will explore how the digital technologies changed our relation to time and our surrounding.
event // exhibition
so, 26.05. -> / 16.00 o'clock / old primary schools boden
Exhibition opening with music by Wolfi Mayr.
"She can paint the night white and the daytime black. She doesn't look back... and yet this landscape is still very original and a transition." (Bob Dylan)
On display are approx. 12 drawings and 7 woodcuts. The motifs are Boden, Unterhaus, Pfafflar, Ebele and the landscape around Pfafflar.
event // cinema
d0, 13.06. / 20.00 h / cinema bschlabs
In focus - Gabriel Tempea
Film projection. Research/recording for a location-based film project.
artist-in-residence
Seams and towersa piece consisting of mountain scores, polyphonic singing and field recordings, which deals with alchemy and emptiness. Diagrams drawn on site form the basis and notation, time and body turn emptiness into fullness - at the seams of being, at the towers of the mountains.
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Empty time is an experimental audio piece - inspired by Elfriede Jelinek's documentary film "Raumsau am Dachstein", among others. What does a valley between isolation, emigration and day tourism sound like in a present in which the speed of social change is sometimes overwhelming? What sounds and voices are bubbling beneath the surface?
The audio piece, which will be created as a playful process, is the first artistic collaboration between Camhy and Pichler.
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How does the supposed nature, the landscape, the seemingly untouched mountain change through the movements of man? What remains of him on it, in it? Can the landscape obstruct man, make his progress impossible? In the course of the residency, the dynamics of the landscape, which react or do not react to the human influence on it, in it, are explored linguistically.
event // opening / installation
sa, 25.05. -> / 12.05 pm / church bschlabs
"5 past 12" and keeping track of your own time
The only public clock in Bschlabs is stopped for a week. This gives us time - and we take it to make "time" the theme.
Due to family reasons, Bernhard Aichner unfortunately has to cancel his appearance at the medienfrische. Instead, there will be a medienfrische morning pint with music and film.
event // reading
so, 16.06. / 11.00 a.m. / barn floor
morning pint with aichner
artist-in-residence
Creation of a subjective map of the Bschlabertal based on the interactions and encounters with the landscape and the people from the mountain valley.
artist-in-residence
„Time and space again is a project about alternative measurement systems in an unconstrained experimental environment. By taking a closer look at different ways time and space can be measured I intend to discover and challenge concepts related to free time and its nonlinear nature."
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Untitled (Pipe Dream II) [to be confirmed]
site-specific sonic intervention with instrumental sculptures from piping; a response to present-day Bschlabs and an invitation for a future Bschlabs
event // opening / catalogue presentation
sa, 25.05. -> / at the bar
The Hinter-Bamer can now be seen as a catalogue following last year's exhibition in Boden.
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Breadwinners
"In my artistic work Brotverdiener*innen I ask myself what we do with our finite lives. I ask myself what our relationship to our time can be through hard, exhausting physical labour on the land, as farmers and in the working class. What does leisure look like outside of regeneration and the entertainment industry? I want to find melodies based on clay pipes, organ pipes and blades of grass. A performance is planned if someone lends me a dog kennel."
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Olga and Christoph come to the residency in search of what makes up the perfect nap, by inviting participants to join them in researching and documenting what location, position or activity makes for a good rest. But this time they have decided to add a twist to their usual practice by swapping their usual role of sound and visual artist and each working with the other's medium.
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Ephemeral Echoes
"Placing human activities within the broader context of universal movements, time becomes a thread connecting past and present. My body is the medium of duration.in my performance art piece, I aim to focus on bodily experience, spirituality, intimacy, and emotions, I engage in fluid movements-falling, twisting, and rolling; tensing up and letting go. Throughout the performance, I interact with my surroundings, inviting the audience to breathe with me and observe our environment together, fostering a shared contemplation of life's fluidity and the ever-present embrace of change."
event // opening / sound installation
sa, 25.05. / football pitch bschlabs
LICHTIFIS invites you to build a meeting place together, which will be available to everyone for the duration of the media freshness. Afterwards, we will inaugurate the new place together with liquid herbs, interwoven thoughts and refreshing activities.
event // closing / concert
sa, 22.06. / 20.00 h / barn boden
Three women, three voices about life and love. Eva Coco Banholzer, Eva Maria Hois and Erni Ströbitzer sing songs, dances and yodels from field research and archives - this time in Bschlabs "frisch auf da Ålm"!
