Im Kunstraum - the Podcast of Kunstraum Niederoesterreich

In April we planned to start the performance series Sweet Sixteen, in celebration of Kunstraum’s 16th birthday, with Fanni Futterknecht's project Power to the Unspoken_Echoes of Resistance. The renewed lockdown forced us to replan - Fanni Futterknecht transformed the performance into a video, which is now in post-production. In this episode of "Im Kunstraum" Fanni Futterknecht and her collaborator Miwa Negoro talk about all the things you couldn't see (yet): the transformation of the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich into an image carrier, the role of the unspoken in times of isolation, and the feat of constant artistic rescheduling. Have fun!

Credits:
Guests: Fanni Futterknecht, Miwa Negoro
Host: Katharina Brandl
Editing: Marina Ninić
Opener and Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Images: © eSeL.at – Lorenz Seidler

Life constantly escapes

In the first episode of the new year, Katharina Brandl, artistic director of Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, talks to guest curator Andrea Popelka about our most recent exhibition "Life constantly escapes". Andrea Popelka elaborates on theories of the black radical tradition that were important to her in the course of conceiving the project, and what it means to create an exhibition based on a togetherness of the senses in the era of Covid-19. The episode is accompanied by a harp piece by Ahya Simone. We hope you enjoy listening! (The conversation is recorded in German)

Credits
Guest: Andrea Popelka
Host: Katharina Brandl
Sound: Ahya Simone, Jinsei no kokoro (Life of the Heart), 2021
Editing: Marina Ninić
Opener and Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image: © Eva Würdinger 2021

On September 3, 2020, Julischka Stengele presented her performance "BALLAST | EXISTENCE", which was awarded for this year's H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance, in the Kunstraum. In the September episode of our podcast, Julischka Stengele talks about her ideas behind the project and her interest in performance art. The interview is also accompanied by extracts from her column "leib & leben", which is regularly published in the feminist magazine an.schläge. Enjoy listening!

Credits:
Guest: Julischka Stengele
Host: Katharina Brandl
Spokeswoman of Julischka Stengeles columns "life & body": Franziska Schindler
Editing: Barbara Kovar
Opener and Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image: © Magdalena Fischer 2014

Vampirische Prozesse

Throwback: Stone Telling

Gillian Dykeman
Dispatches from the Future Feminist Utopia (2016)
07:30 - 09:00
Moon
09:13 - 09:53 & 11:28 - 12:02
 
Netaly Aylon
Massive Asteroid Approaching Earth (Dokumentation des Sounds der Installation)
20:08 - 20:44
 
Larissa Sansour
In the Future, They Ate from the finest Porcelain, 2016
Podcast: 37:37 - 38:25 & 39:00 - 39:45

Queere Entanglements: Johanna Bruckner im Gespräch

For the first episode in 2020, Katharina Brandl, artistic director of Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, and the artist Johanna Bruckner have sat down in front of the microphones and talked about polymorphic forms of interaction, queer etanglements and sex robots: What influence do technologies have on our intimate desires? Johanna Bruckner gives insight into her artistic practice, the performance "Quantum Brittle Stars" and the molecularization of our world. 

In episode 5 of our podcast "Im Kunstraum" Markus Pires Mata (Designer) chats with Susanne Neuburger (Head of Collection, mumok) and  Milica Tomic (Artist) about the exhibition “The Enforced Dress”, which was shown at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in 2007 and curated by Susanne Neuburger. The exhibition "The Enforced Dress" (2007) gathered artistic works that worked with fashion and textiles. The proximity of fashion to the body, its social dimensions and its narrative potential were the focus of the project. In this episode, the panelists talk about Dior shows, the memory-political potential of fashion, Jörg Haider & Wolfgang Schüssel in Porsche and fashion as a social seismograph.

The discussion took place within the framework of the discourse series "Throwback", which is dedicated to past exhibition projects in the history of Kunstraum Niederoesterreich and renegotiates the set topics.

The discussion was recorded on November 21, 2019 and conducted in German and English.

Credits:
Host: Katharina Brandl
Guests: Susanne Neuburger, Milica Tomic, Markus Pires Mata
Research Assistant: Lena Schaller
Opener: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Editing: Barbara Kovar
Image: © Joanna Pianka / @ eSeL.at

Credits:
Host: Katharina Brandl
Guest: Helena Eribenne
Research Assistant: Lena Schaller
Opener: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Editing: Katharina Brandl
Image: Helena Eribenne © Christian Lauer

Episode 3: Über Emotionsmaschinen und einen Planeten auf der Intensivstation: Care Matters (German)

The third episode of our podcast "Im Kunstraum" is the recording of the panel discussion Care Matters, which took place on May 10 at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich as part of the exhibition TechnoCare. The artist Marlies Pöschl, the artistic-artificial intelligence Aurore and Elke Krasny, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and co-curator of the exhibition Critical Care at the Architekturzentrum Wien (April 25 – September 09, 2019), will investigate Care as a curatorial and artistic practice in art and architecture. They will talk about emotion machines, about a planet in intensive care and why life with algorithms will not free us from the question of who should take away garbage after the revolution.

Before the discussion, which was moderated by Katharina Brandl and Friederike Zenker, the lecture performance Main, tenant / Hand, Holding of Les Maintenants & Marlies Poeschl took place. Enjoy! 

Episode 2: Togethering (German)

Episode 1: TechnoCare im Dialog (German)