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Thursday 30 April 2009

BURGENLÄNDISCHE TANZTAGE


On 2nd of May we're going to present with Anna Nowak the results of our residency in Pinkafeld (D.ID - Dance Identity) that took place between 1-21 of February 2009.
It took finally a form of a performance.
It'll be presented in OHO in Oberwart within the programme of
BURGENLÄNDISCHE TANZTAGE festival.


































More informations about our project are published on this blog in posts from February'09.

For more details about festival click on attached pictures to enlarge them.



OHO - Offenes Haus Oberwart

7400 Oberwart, Lisztgasse 12, Tel 03352/38555, Fax 03352/38555-22, office@oho.at

"Tonights tune" in progress...


Tonight tune
is a score composed for 4 instruments.
The performers are the musicians and the instruments at the same time.
They act on according to the score.
It’s a concert.
They play using their bodies and voices.
It’s about singing physicalities and dancing voices.
It’s about physicality and voice tuning in with each other.


But it is also about the pitch of movement,
…a rhythm of the thought,
…a timbre of emotion,
…a the loudness of imagination,
…a melody of attention,
…a polyphony of different levels of perception,
…the musicality of the presence.

All in all it’s about tuning… again and again.
And it’s about particular tune of tonight.

The premiere will take place in WUK on 2nd of June. Further performances: 3, 4 June

Wednesday 29 April 2009

Pathos alarm in outer space


On Saturday and Sunday we had a presentation of our new movie: "Pathos Alarm. In space nobody can hear you sing".
It's a second episode of our science-fiction sequel happening in the outer space.
The premiere was spiced up by life performance.
The audience could see as well first part of "Pathos Alarm" (pilot episode) that had a premiere in 2008.






Exerpts of the review/analisys of our event by Helmut Ploebst:

"Aliens im PeinlichkeitsraumPrint

WIE DAS PATHOSBÜRO UND DIE BORN-TO-SIT-COMPANY AUS WIEN DAS OSTERMAYERSCHE ECHO ERKLÄREN

Von Helmut Ploebst


Weltpremiere des Films „Pathosalarm in Outer Space #1“ (Ö 2008) im Filmhaus Wien. Nach der spektakulären Veröffentlichung des Pilotfilms „Pathosalarm in Outer Space #0“ (Ö 2007) mit Katherina Zakravsky in der weiblichen Hauptrolle setzt das Wiener Pathosbüro nun mit einem Sequel nach, gegen das „Matrix Reloaded“ sich als, wie es im Österreichischen heißt, bloßer Lercherlschas [dt.: vernachlässigbare Flatulenz einer Lerche] ausnimmt.

Die Welt ist seither nicht mehr dieselbe. Und wieder geht das Virus einer großen Veränderung der Zeitläufte von Wien aus. Von jener Stadt also, in der das Wort „Diskurs“ immer kleiner geschrieben und in neuerer Zeit zunehmend mit einer flachen runden Scheibe verwechselt wird. Das diskurswerfen [sic!] ist eine intellektuelle Wiener Sportart, die durchaus den Rang eines Booms einnimmt. Sie zeichnet sich durch eine Bogenhaftigkeit aus, die den Ausgangsimpuls stets zu seiner Quelle zurückleitet („boomerang discourse“). Diese Bogenhaftigkeit wirkt wie eine Antwort auf Slavoj Zizeks „Parallaxe“: Aus der Rückbeugung des Wurfs entstehen gekrümmte Subperspektiven, in deren Dazwischen ein Möglichkeitsraum entsteht, der allgemein als Peinlichkeitsvolumen identifiziert werden kann."

The whole article in corpusweb.net.

Link to the article:

http://www.corpusweb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1184&Itemid=35

Sunday 19 April 2009

Some impressions from the process on "Tonights Tune"

Gabri:









Linda:









Dominik:









and Radek:

Artistic research with Mathilde Monnier in TQW

I'm going to participate in an artistic research with Mathilde Monnier. The workshop take place between 20-25 April in Tanzquartier Wien. It's a part of Insel No. 8 curated by Katrin Roschangar and Mathilde Monnier. On Friday 24th April at 5 p.m. there will be an open lab for public.

"In the open lab of the artistic research Copied by Mathilde Monnier interested spectators can inform themselves about the results and discoveries of the participants. In her five-day workshop, in place of the master Monnier places pictures, recollections or videos at the centre and uses these materials as the starting point to explore thematic complexes such as copying, re-enactment or plagiarism. The medium becomes the master. The participants attempt to approach the originals meaning of the original and so achieve a reinterpretation."



About research:

"Mathilde Monnier’s project Copied oscillates between workshop and artistic research and explores the thematic complex of copy, re-enactment, collage, reinterpretation and plagiarism. Together with her the participants gather choreographic excerpts, which are subject to a process of (re-)interpretation and which serve as the starting material for joint analysis of reproduction, interpretation, reworking and quotation: how can this material be re-used and how is it to be understood in its original meaning? Then the attempt will be made to create various versions of readings and to transform this into action, into representation. In the process, the concept of the master will be consciously dispensed with and instead tools such as memories, pictures and videos will be drawn on."



More informations under:
http://www.tqw.at/Content.Node/en/stage/repertoire/stage_detail_e.php?ver_id=1189
http://www.tqw.at/Content.Node/en/professionals/arrangements/professionals_detail.php?ver_id=1212

The Premiere of "Pathosalarm. In space nobody can hear you sing"


After a success of their first movie (pilot epizode) Pathosbüro will present new epizode "Pathosalarm. In space nobody can hear you sing". A premiere will take place on Saturday April 25th in Filmhauskino in Vienna. We'll also present a live-gala-performance and our first film "Pathosalarm. There is no change in space".



PATHOSBÜRO (Daniel Aschwanden/Andreas Braito/Radek Hewelt/Amanda Pina/Cezary Tomaszewski/Katherina Zakravsky/Brano Spacek)

PRESENTS:

EXTENDED CINEMA EVENT (a.o. premiere of new movie by Pathosbuero) WITH LIVE-PERFORMANCE

When: 25th and 26th April 2009





Programme of the evenings:
20.30 Pathosalarm Episode 1 (Premiere)
21.30 live Performance
22.00 Pathosalarm Pilot Episode

„PATHOSALARM IN OUTER SPACE“ Der Pilotfilm.
Entstand in sehr privater Atmosphäre in einem Privatgarten im Hochsommer 2007. Lehnt sich an die Weltraumabenteuer von „Raumschiff Enterprise“ an, Captain Kirk hat als Pappavatar sogar einen Gastauftritt. Drei unerschrockene Raumfahrer (Aschwanden, Hewelt und Zakravsky) geraten in die Fänge eines sinistren kugelförmigen Alien (dem letzten der Parmenidesianer), der die Erdlinge mit Halluzinationen, u.a. von Unterwasserballettschönheitenim Stile von Esther Williams, verwirrt. Sie warten ebenso heroisch wie erfolglos darauf, aufs Mutterschiff zurückgebeamed zu werden. Schließlich aber diskutieren sie im Plasmapool der Illusion die Frage des vollkommenen, sphärischen Seins, mit dem frei nach Parmenides alle Bewegung und somit auch jede weitere Erforschung des Weltraums endet.

In der Episode 1, gedreht auf dem Arsenalgelände in Wien, werden frei nach einer Kurzgeschichte von Philip K. Dick fünf „Einheiten“ (Aschwanden, Hewelt, Pina, Tomaschewski und Zakravsky) verfrüht aus dem kryonischen Schlaf geweckt. Sie erwachen zu einer Mission ohne ihr Programm zu kennen. Sie belauern einander misstrauisch ohne über ihre jeweilige organische oder künstliche Beschaffenheit bescheid zu wissen. Die Erkundung des Geländes gestaltet sich mühsam und fruchtlos. Der einzige lebende Bewohner ist ein schwer verständlicher Hühnermensch. Während die einen in die fruchtlose Verehrung eines Schlotes als Gottheit verfallen, andere ein dysfunktionales Entertainmentprogramm des aufmunternden Gesangs aktivieren, versucht der Rest erfolglos die Fluchtmit einem alten Vehikel.
Doch der Planet ist eine unsichtbare Festung.

Friday 3 April 2009

New production TONIGHTS TUNE starts now!


From today together with Gabri M. Einsiedl, Dominik Grünbühel and Linda Samaraweerova I start to work on the new production.
The working title is TONIGHTS TUNE.
It'll be presented at WUK (Vienna) between 2-4 June 2009.
Every some time I'm going to publish the updates from our process.

Artistic direction: Radek Hewelt
Choreography and performance: Gabri M. Einsiedl, Dominik Grünbühel, Linda Samaraweerova, Radek Hewelt

Support: Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien (MA7), WUK








TONIGHTS TUNE (working title) is going to concentrate on the relation between physicality and voice. What concerns this project in particular is a point where they both meet. It’s in the way the continuation of one of the aspects that were present in my last piece “Close-up” where in some point we connected quite abstract body forms with all sorts of verbal sounds that were related to breathing. All those sounds, together with choreography, created interesting emotional paths and tensions. In this new project I’d like to extend and enrich both: physicality and voice.

In this work we’re going to circulate around few topics:

Dance influence on the voice.
Each body can be seen as a particular music instrument. Our genetic abilities, physicality, forms we make, tensions have obviously an impact on our voice. We want to experiment with different forms and physical tasks and see how they affect and modulate the voice. Part of the material and the artistic output should come out of this research.

Voice influence on the physicality.
It’s an opposite process to the one I described above. The starting point in this case is the voice that leads to the dance. For instance singing very high tones creates very interesting physical patterns in the body that can be use as an input for dance/choreography.

Deconstruction of the material and puzzling the elements.
I’ve made once experiment while watching the movie. I watched quite emotional scene where the actor was slowly executing very physical task. Then I did it again with the sound turned off. Third time I put my own sound on it. The result was very intriguing and interesting. It changed the way of perceiving the scene. In new project I want to use similar method with the material we create. I can see it in quite a big range as the process of extracting the elements and juxtaposing them with each other in different relations. It leads to the next point that I describe below.

Abstraction and concreteness, abstraction and emotionality (Contrast).
The dance understood as making forms in time very often stays in the abstraction (or eventually brings some emotional output). The voice is much more related to concreteness and rather clear emotionality. In this work I’d like to achieve at the end a specific tension between those two. I’d like to create some kind of vibrating stream that would be open for interpretation or reading, a stream that would contain abstraction, concreteness and emotionality – and all those elements being in ongoing interaction.

Strong focus on musicality.
The artistic output of our work will be rich with different musical elements like sounds, rhythms, melodies and songs. I’d like to work with four dancers (including myself). Each of us can be considered as a different unique instrument. The aim is creating a performance that could be described as physical and musical concert.

BART supported by Valie Export in Tanzquartier Wien

You're very welcome to look at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Eobbjt6io

It's a video that I prepared with cooperation with BART's members and supporters for Valie Export charity event in Tanquartier Wien. All the money from selling her scissors sculptures will donate BART - an association iniciated by emerging, Vienna-based aritsts working in the field of contemporary dance and performance. BART functions as a platform to support artistic dialogue and exchange. It strives to improve the cultural, political and economic conditions for the moving young dance/performance community. It also aims to carry further the constructive collaboration with organizers, curators and sponsors.
BART rethink models for distribution of resources and knowledge and is dedicated to promoting the support and visibility of the emerging Vienna-based artists.
The event took place on March 31st in Tanzquartier Wien

Video: Radek Hewelt
Soundtrack: Andrea Maurer
Participants: Members and supporters of BART

Links:
http://www.valieexport.com
http://www.tqw.at/Content.Node/de/buehne/open-up-kommunikation-valie-export.php