Im Kunstraum - the Podcast of Kunstraum Niederoesterreich

Matrix Bodies
Edson Krenak: Colonialism has many children.

So, what about the relationship between human and nature? Was human exceptionalism only an illusion afterall? The first exhibition in 2023 at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich goes out in search for possible answers with six artists. Admittedly: An art show is probably only one side of the coin here. How do other –also non-art – disciplines and forms of knowledge relate to it? In her first podcast episode as the new artistic director, Frederike Sperling talks with Edson Krenak, an Indigenous activist and literary scholar, about the holistic worldview of the Krenak community in Brazil and the threatened futures of this and many other Indigenous peoples.

The conversation was held in English.

Credits:
Guest: Edson Krenak
Moderation: Frederike Sperling
Editing: Maximilian Steinborn
Opener and Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Photo:Edson Krenak © Julianne Rudisser; Graphic Design: Andrea Lehsiak

Matrix Bodies
Eduard Fadeev: We are a walking ecosystem.

Are we humans really that different from animals and plants? Or are we, in the end, much more like a collection of biological mass (which could possibly mix with other species in the distant future)? And what is the difference between bacteria, microorganisms and viruses? We wanted to know more and invited marine microbiologist Eduard Fadeev for a talk in our exhibition Matrix Bodies. Starting from his field of research - the oceans - he speaks with curator Frederike Sperling about the emergence of life on Earth, but also its destruction and preservation. Spoiler: Eduard Fadeev is indeed optimistic about us humans.

The conversation was held in English.

Credits:
Guest: Eduard Fadeev
Moderation: Frederike Sperling
Editing: Maximilian Steinborn
Opener and Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Photo: © Eduard Fadeev, graphic design: Andrea Lehsiak

 
Matrix Bodies
Mira Ungewitter: Master this earth?!

"Master this earth" it says in the creation story of the bible: the human as the crowning glory of creation, as the ruler over nature?! What does the bible have to do with the emergence and continuity of human exceptionalism? We took a closer look at this question with Mira Ungewitter on the occasion of our exhibition Matrix Bodies. Mira Ungewitter is a Baptist pastor in Vienna, she advocates for a progressive church, is a member of the feminist women's network Sorority and was a lecturer for the New Testament. In 2019, her biography "Roadtrip mit Gott" was published by Herder, and currently her new book "Gott ist Feministin" can be heard as an Audible Original. Get ready for a "bible lesson" of a different kind...

The conversation was held in English.

Credits:
Guest: Mira Ungewitter
Moderation: Frederike Sperling
Editing: Maximilian Steinborn
Opener and Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recording
Photo: Mira Ungewitter © Jana Mack, graphic design: Andrea Lehsiak

Previous Episodes:

HIIIIIIIT

Creative, fit, independent and well prepared for the next case of emergency – this is the profile of the neoliberal subject in crisis mode. In HIIIIIIIT Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler take a look at the different social manifestations and contexts of this neoliberal ethos of personal responsibility and private crisis and risk management. In this year´s last podcast episode, curator Katharina Brandl talks with the artists about the video works in the exhibition populated by SUVs, border guards and fitness exercises.

Credits:
Guests: Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler
Host: Katharina Brandl
Editing: Marina Ninić
Opener and Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image credits: © eSeL.at

LIMINAL SPACE RECORDS

What goes better with summer temperatures than a refreshing deep dive into the content of the exhibition LIMINAL SPACE RECORDS? In this episode of the podcast, the show's guest curator Frederike Sperling answers various questions about her concept and the artistic works on display by Stine Deja, Monika Grabuschnigg, Eva Papamargariti, Louise Sparre and Rowdy SS. Recommended intake: listen to the podcast either to whet your appetite for the exhibition or as a personal audio tour in the art space. We look forward to your visit until July 30!

The conversation was recorded in German.

Credits:

Guest: Frederike Sperling
Host: Katharina Brandl
Editing: Marina Ninić
Opener and Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image credits: © eSeL.at

The Earth is wretched

At Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, the program 2022 starts with the exhibition Oh, make your fingernails into spades, Your palms into shovels by the Polish-Lithuanian duo Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė. In the first podcast episode of the new year, curator Katharina Brandl takes a look behind the scenes of the new exhibition with the two artists: What role do ecofeminist theories, Slavic ghost stories, and mourning rituals from ancient Greece play in the artistic practice of Gawęda and Kulbokaitė? And how did the unusually long exhibition title actually come about?

In a short game, the listeners also learn why Eglė Kulbokaitė was afraid of becoming a sleepwalking murderess as a child and which of the two would be the first to fall victim to a zombie apocalypse (and why...).

The conversation was conducted in English.

Credits:
Guests: Dorota Gawęda and Eglé Kulbokaité
Host: Katharina Brandl
Editing: Marina Ninić
Opener und Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image credits: © Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė, Mouthless Part II, 2021, video still.
Music: Excerpts from Mouthless Part II by Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė. Composition: Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Haraldur Thrastarson; text: Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė; Vocals: Valentin Bezençon, Anastasia Chaguidouline, Abongile Gwele

Throwback: Sara Lanner - MINE

"We worked with forms of touch that go deep but don't harm. We pull, we support, we push. Sometimes the support unexpectedly breaks away and we have to catch each other." (Sara Lanner, transl.)

When case numbers suggest that we should stay at home and going to the drugstore is the weekly highlight in terms of cultural events, we like to remember evenings we could spend together - for example, the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance ceremony on 08 09 2021. In the new episode of our podcast, Katharina Brandl, the artistic director of Kunstraum Niederoesterreich talks to Sara Lanner, this year's winner, about the award-winning project MINE, about the performance in September and about her working process. Enjoy! [the Podcast is recorded in German]

Credits:
Guest: Sara Lanner
Host: Katharina Brandl
Editing: Marina Ninić
Opener and Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image credits: ©️ eSeL.at

AM Kanngieser & Lucreccia Quintanilla: On The Volatility Of Noise, Residual Bass

Based on the four layers of the exhibition Wake Words - noise, echo, machine error and improvisation - The Golden Pixel Cooperative commissioned four audio pieces: AM Kanngieser & Lucreccia Quintanilla respond to the layer "noise" in their contribution.

AM Kanngieser is a geographer, sound artist, and Marie Curie Re­search Fellow in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of Lon­don; Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, and writer.

Credits:

Edition (ceramic object) by 3sechzig
Opener and mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image Credits: ©️ Andrea Lehsiak

Constanze Ruhm: Echo is dead

Based on the four layers of the exhibition Wake Words - noise, echo, machine error and improvisation - The Golden Pixel Cooperative commissioned four audio pieces: Constanze Ruhm responds to the layer "Echo" in her contribution.

Constanze Ruhm is a filmmaker, artist, author, and curator.

Credits:

Edition (ceramic object) by 3sechzig
Opener and mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image Credits: ©️ Andrea Lehsiak

Jessica Feldman: Human Use Of Machine Error

Based on the four layers of the exhibition Wake Words - noise, echo, machine error, and improvisation - The Golden Pixel Cooperative commissioned four audio pieces: Jessica Feldman's contribution responds to the layer "Machine Error".

Jessica Feldman is a sound and new media artist and researcher.

Credits:

Edition (ceramic object) by 3sechzig
Opener and mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image Credits: ©️ Andrea Lehsiak

Eleni Ikoniadou & Viki Steiri: The Lamenters

Based on the four layers of the exhibition Wake Words - noise, echo, machine error, and improvisation - The Golden Pixel Cooperative commissioned four audio pieces: Eleni Ikoniadou & Viki Steiri respond to the layer "improvisation" in their contribution.

Eleni Ikoniadou is Senior Tutor at the Royal College of Art, Lon­don; Viki Steiri is a composer, cellist, and pianist.

Credits:

Edition (ceramic object) by 3sechzig
Opener and mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image Credits: ©️ Andrea Lehsiak

Katharina Brandl, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Olena Newkryta und Marlies Pöschl, Rojin Sharafi:
Wake Words II

Based on terms from the exhibition Wake Words, Katharina Brandl, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Olena Newkryta and Marlies Pöschl have recorded an incomplete abécédaire - as the opening and closing segments of the audio publication. Their words are accompanied by excerpts of Rojin Sharafi's Open Sound, which she composed especially for the exhibition project.

Credits:

Sweet Sixteen 

Happy Birthday!
Aside with anti-aging recipes and rhetoric about "aging with grace": we celebrate our birthdays in the best of moods! On the occasion of Kunstraum Niederoesterreich's 16th birthday, we'll have a special edition of our podcast, with everything you need for a pandemic birthday party: friends (but not too many) and good spirits (unlimited!). Together with founding director Christiane Krejs, who led Kunstraum from 2005-2018, and artist Claudia Lomoschitz, who just showed her performance project Partus Gyno Bitch Tits at Kunstraum, our artistic director Katharina Brandl plays a game of Taboo on our past and present. A listening recommendation for all those who always wanted to know how the Kunstraum made it into inquiries of the Lower Austrian Landtag, what witch's milk is and how the Kunstraum had its canteen flair exorcised - enjoy!

The podcast ist recorded in German.

Credits:
Guests: Christiane Krejs, Claudia Lomoschitz
Moderation: Katharina Brandl
Editing: Marina Ninić
Opener and mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image Credits: ©️ eSeL.at

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)