"Empathy project, vol 1" in Pinkafeld

Empathy project. Vol 1. on the way! The premiere will take place during imagetanz festival in brut in March 2010. We have made a research between drug-addicts on Karlsplatz and now a residency in Pinkafeld/Burgenland...
Project is initiated and led by Magdalena Chowaniec.

Few words about the project:

‘I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.’
Kathy Bates

‘Bodies of drug addicts on Karlsplatz became to me highly inspirational in all their ambivalent existence. The way they inspired me, and the admiration I started to share for their incredible bodily capabilities, occurred very paradoxal - in all its misery becoming almost poetic to my eyes.’
Magdalena Chowaniec

Empathy Project puts the phenomena of empathy in the center of interest and questions the importance of empathy our days, it looks for the possibilities of bridging the social and artistic, abstract on a ‘new’ empathic level. In ‘Vol. I’ reflections upon the outsiders lead to the questions about what's allowed, acceptable and what inappropriate in the society of theatre trying to turn excluded into exclusive. ‘Vol. I’ examines the methods, possibilities and effects of empathizing with the excluded ones through the process based at first on a search for a common empathy in a group. Three human beings turn into a ‘human tabula rasa’. Crossing the border between life and theatre, they rush through the world and melt with different surroundings becoming a part of various landscapes. They look for a ‘homeless esthetics’ in art, taking another point of view onto life – practicing homelessness, performing junkies, researching physicality of the rejected ones.


Participants:
Concept: Magdalena Chowaniec (PL/A)
Research/Creation/Performance: Gabri Einsiedl (A), Magdalena Chowaniec (PL/A), Radek Hewelt (PL/A)
Technical help/Sound: Vladi Tchapanov (BLG/A)

Links:
www.mariamagdalena.cc
www.myspace.com/rockthemob
www.madamlena.blogspot.com

Cooperativa Performativa in TanzQuartier

no territorialization no hierarchy no competition no property or: open source practices for diminish the ego

With: Maria Baroncea (RO), Magdalena Chowaniec (A), Adriana Cubides (A), Florin Flueras (RO), Fanni Futterknecht (A), Eduard Gabia (RO), Claire Granier (A), Radek Hewelt (A), Thomas Kasebacher (A), Alexandra Pirici (RO) and Iuliana Stoianescu (RO).









Cooperative Performativa is a collective that brings together the Romanian artists Maria Baroncea, Florin Flueras, Eduard Gabia, Alexandra Pirici and Iuliana Stoianescu. Starting from the basic idea of open source, they investigate the (power) relationship of art insti-tutions and artists, claims to ownership and copyright interests in one’s own work, the necessity of guidance and direction in a group as well as the product-oriented forms of collaboration, which are based on agreement, negotiation and compromises. The emphasis of their project is the process itself, which – on a largely grassroots democratic basis – creates heterotopias, differences and commonalities in one’s own as well as others’ artistic creation, connected with the attempt not to judge them but precisely to highlight their diversity.







During a one-week encounter with a group of artists working in Vienna, the discursive strategies developed by Cooperativa Performativa will be challenged and tested.










The results of this open working process will be presented on 16 December and are at the same time the curtain-raiser and framework for the discussion of the restructured residency programme that the Tanzquartier Wien together with KulturKontakt Austria and other partners will be continuing in the 2009/10 season.









Links:
http://cooperativaperformativa.blogspot.com/

Alles Gute. Ein Umgang 2009 - All the best. An advent tour 2009

I'm preparing a small showing for this year's "Alles Gute. Ein Umgang 2009 - All the best. An advent tour 2009"
If you want to have a nice evening tour through viennese 7th district's picturesque streets and cultural institution with different artistic ecounters feel very welcome. The organizers have a pleasure to offer you few short artistic programs from the fields of Literature, Music, Dance and Theatre plus to have a nice walk with opportunities to treat yourself with delicious Glühwein (hot spiced wine served specially in the period before and around Christmas).
The advent tour will start at 5 pm at Hauptbücherei am Gürtel (Main Library on Gürtel). Other locations are: Theater Spielraum, Jewish Theater of Austria, Literaturhaus, Medienwerkstatt Wien, Sieben*stern, Fleischerei/Projekt Theater Studio, mica - music austria, Architekturzentrum Wien and TanzQuartier.

I'll present a perforamance created specially for this occasion called: Tonight it’s just a tune. It will close the whole evening programme and it's scheduled at 9:30 pm at TanzQuartier.


Below I enclosed a short information in german. Detailed programme of the whole evening is displayed on the web-site of mica (music information center austria):
http://www.mica.at/mica_aktuell/detail_13488.html



Information in german:

"Alles Gute. Ein Umgang 2009"

Wie schon in den letzten Jahren findet auch heuer am 14. Dezember 2009 der bereits zur Tradition gewordene Adventrundgang „Alles Gute – Ein Umgang“ durch die Gassen des siebenten Bezirks statt. In diversen Kurzprogrammen aus Literatur, Musik, Tanz, Theater rund um den Advent soll das Publikum in einer gemütlichen Weise, auf die besinnliche Zeit eingestimmt werden.

Links:
http://www.mica.at

TONIGHTS TUNE trailer!!!

Dear guests,

I strongly encourage you to watch a trailer of my last piece TONIGHTS TUNE that I have just finished to edit.
TONIGHTS TUNE had its premiere on June 2nd 2009 at WUK in Vienna.
Video-recording was made during our 3rd performance at WUK on June 4th.



TONIGHTS TUNE

Artistic direction: Radek Hewelt

Choreogarphy and performance: Gabri M. Einsiedl, Dominik Grünbühel, Radek Hewelt, Linda Samaraweerova

Light design: Nicole Kropiunik

Special thanks to: Johannes Maile (WUK)

TONIGHTS TUNE could be developed thanks to the kind support of Culture Department of the City of Vienna (Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien - MA7) and WUK


TONIGHTS 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's also about pitch of movement,
... a rhythm of the thought,
... a timbre of emotion,
... a 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.


Original video was made by Werner Sohajek / kulturvision
(www.kulturvision.at)

You can view TONIGHTS TUNE trailer also on YouTube under:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGrgPezj1iI