bastardTALKS

Interviewreihe im Rahmen des Projekts: bastardCROWD[mobile]
2013-2015

Gespräche über Stadt und Urbanität, digitale Kultur, Underground, Musik, Kunst und Architektur mit: Margarethe Jahrmann (ünstlerin, Professorin, Wien/Schweiz), Liu Chang (#architekt #bycicle activist #london #china), Cici (#founder of “flicking your forehead” #micro-space between cyberspace and physical space), Qing Qing (#beijing based dance critic #professor #scholar), Bekele Megonnen Nigussu (#poet #visual artis #professor at Alle Fine Arts University – Addis Abeba), Nets Art Village (#artist collective #addis abeba, ethiopia), Gogojie (#sound #artist #founder of shan audio-visual lab #beijing), Fasil Ghiorgis (#architect #chair of ethiopian institute of architecture)

Interviews: Daniel Aschwanden / Conny Zenk

bastardTALKS

Addis Abeba : Performances and Condominum Party

An event in the condominium of Lideta / Addis Abeba. Condominiums are well known flats and blocks in Addis Ababa … outdoors within the yard – we invite neighbours for a gathering of music, buna, food, talks and sharing of arts and performances. It’s an open invitation to many artists including students of the Alle Fine Arts University where Daniel Aschwanden and me recently did a workshop and presentation.

visual performance collaboration with poetry and conceptual artist Mihret Kebede Alwabie

VENTIL

was founded 2014 on an initiative of Peter Kutin & Florian Kindlinger who previously worked together within the project DIRAC, which released acclaimed records for labels such as the japanese Spekk .

Expanding their sound by collaborating with Katharina Ernst on Drums and Michael Lahner on Synthesizers they create an intense form of music that most likely be found somewhere in Tekkno, Ambient & Industrial.
On live occasions, the Vienna based media artist Conny Zenk expands VENTIL’s Music into a visual world far beyond common club aesthetics.
They will release their first album in May 2015 on VENTIL RECORDS

Upcoming Shows :
13.12.2014 – WUK, VIENNA
09.03.2015 – RHIZ, VIENNA
25.03.2015 – tba, GRAZ
02.05.2015 – DONAUFESTIVAL, KREMS

Workshop : bastardCROWD[mobile] @Alle Fine Arts University

Präsentation und mehrtägiger Workshop im Rahmen der Vorstellung des Projektes „bastardCROWD[mobile] an der Alle Fine Arts University in Addis Abeba, Äthiopien.

workshop with students of 2 days duration and longterm involvement of interested students throughout the project.

interventions in public space
exploration of sites, building relations with people
research relations of local people to daily use of gadgets
research about the interrelations of culturally coded communication appropriating new communication technology
performative presentation of results

Addis Abeba, February 2015

LABADI RISING @ LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES DE CINÉMA NOUVEAU ET ART CONTEMPORAIN

Les Rencontres Internationales
3rd December 2014 – 5.30pm – Gaîté Lyrique / Paris
in the context of the short film series: URBAN PUBLIC

HD-Video
3 min. 33 sec.
Vienna, Accra 2014

Conny Zenk / Daniel Aschwanden
Sound: Matthias Hurtl

In collaboration with Serge Atukwei Clottey und GOLOCAL
Performers: Cassandra Amoako, Emanuel Ananq, Serge Clottey Atukwei, Daniel Clottey, Ralph Humble, Charles Nortey, Rhodaline Parlon, Jennifer Patterson

Every year, Rencontres Internationales presents an international programme focused on new cinema and contemporary art – film, video, multimedia -, explores emerging art practices and their critical issues. Rencontres Internationales offers more than a simple presentation of the works, it introduces an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world – artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations. The event aims to reflect specificities and convergences of artistic practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores emerging media art practices and their critical purposes, and makes possible a necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged.

The Rencontres Internationales is a great meeting-place dedicated to contemporary cinema and media art. During 7 days, Gaîté Lyrique will host screening sessions, performances, panel discussions and a forum.

art-action.org/

bastard crowding. selfie looping.

A swarm of performers acting like normal users of smartphones are organised by Daniel Aschwanden and Conny Zenk. By extensive use of the communication devices they apparently voluntarily surrender themselves to self-surveillance and quantification. The production of “selfies” as a self-related practice as well as the integration into an anonymous mass likewise take place. Connected in all-embracing networks, whose individual exponents allow personal data to stream into gigantic virtual techno-landscapes controlled by state authorities and multinational corporations.

We no longer act, we stroke/swipe across the screens of our smartphones and pads, states the philosopher Bjung Chul Han in an essay, and in the everyday use of the gadgets we also swap the dimension of solidarity-based political action for short-lived hype. Thus my mobile phone picks me up just as much as I pick it up. Ergonomic scores dictate the immediate physical communication, which, as dictated by the device, arranges body and perspective into patterns and poses.

Former passive users or spectators have metamorphosed into active participants in cultural production, argues Mirko T. Schäfer in his book Bastardkultur: “Participation has become a key concept to understand the expanding new media practices.” He describes the consequences as an extension of the cultural industries. The most diverse user groups and practices are superimposed. Aschwanden and Zenk use the practice of “superimposing” as an artistic strategy in the visualisation of imaginary intersections between real bodies and their data in the material and immaterial worlds.

CONCEPT: Daniel Aschwanden, Conny Zenk
PERFORMERS: Charlotta Ruth, Nici Rutrecht, Dominik Grünbühel, Raphael Michon
CHOREOGRAPHY: Daniel Aschwanden
AV PERFORMANCE: Conny Zenk & Veronika Mayer

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SCORES N°9 takes an extended view of choreography – also beyond the body, extended to things, materials, to the autonomy of the non-human. How to get matter to speak and which organ to listen to it with? How to reorganise perception? How to assume responsibility for the surroundings that we ourselves shape? How to focus on the way in which things choreograph us?

Artists and theoreticians are invited to re-think things in their performances, lectures, lecture performances, dialogues, in workshops and training: by setting the world of matter in motion, and in particular the theatre machinery, exposing the apparatus, questioning embodiments.

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www.tqw.at/

TANZQUARTIER WIEN

WED 26. NOV 2014

bastard crowding, selfie looping
in the context of SCORES N°9: no/things

B. Y. O. B. – Shanghai

mobile audio-visual performance @basement 6 | Shanghai 2013

mobile Video-Projektion / Performance-Konzept mittels Mini-Laser Projektionen im urbanen Stadt-Raum, sowie Mikro-Performance für 1-10 Personen.

Erste Präsentationen und Labore:

Wien: Setzkasten On|nO #1, AIL – angewandte innovation lab, Shanghai: basement6, Beijing: Zajia Lab

In einer Performance wird der Körper selbst jenseits genormter Screen-Geomtrien als Projektionsfläche eingesetzt. Das Gadget in der Hand, die Interaktion des Lichts mit dem Körper, erzeugen eine intime Unmittelbarkeit, die trotz ihrer Immaterialität nahezu spürbar wird.

urban noise

Im Rahmen von „open music“ realisieren Brigitta Bödenauer, Daniel Lercher, Vinzenz Schwab und Conny Zenk zwei speziell für „open music“ entwickelte Performances, in denen Bild und Ton gleichberechtigt in Erscheinung treten. Beide verwenden unterschiedliche Ansätze zur räumlichen Anordnung und Interaktion der Klang- und Bildquellen. Als zentrale Arbeitsweisen dienen dabei das Schaffen von Texturen und Fragmenten sowie Sampling, Looping und Layering. Musikalisch sind sie zwischen Drone und Noise Musik verortet.
Obgleich sich die visuellen Arbeitsweisen von Conny Zenk und Brigitta Bödenauer stark unterscheiden, verbindet sie ihre starke Bezogenheit zur Musik. In ihren experimentellen Animationsfilmen und Installationen mischt Bödenauer analoge und digitale Techniken. In den letzten Jahren dienten Filmprojektoren häufig als Klangquelle für ihre musikalische Arbeit. Inspiriert von einer veränderbaren, von Menschen und Dichte geprägten Landschaft, dem urbanen Rauschen und den Technologien der digitalen Kultur, lässt wiederum Conny Zenk computergenerierte Bilder entstehen, die wachsen und zu neuen Formen und Räumen mutieren.
Lercher und Schwab arbeiten u. a. auch in den Bereichen Filmmusik und Sounddesign, sowie in den Feldern Elektroakustische Komposition und Freie Improvisation. Dieses Projekt wird die erste Zusammenarbeit zwischen den vier KünstlerInnen sein.

workshop : bastard crowding | ur5anize festival

WORKSHOP Bastard Crowding

Bastardschwärmen im »Selfie«-Loop

Das Selfie als paradigmatischer Akt der Selbstinszenierung und Selbstüberwachung, mittels Smartphone produziert und in die virtuellen Techno-Landschaften entsandt, macht aus passiven NutzerInnen aktive TeilnehmerInnen kultureller Produktion. Der Choreograph Daniel Aschwanden und die Medienkünstlerin Conny Zenk laden im Workshop Bastard Crowding zur performativen Untersuchung der Gadget-Gesellschaft und ihrer Praktiken in den öffentlichen Raum.

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