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
Wake Words audio publication
The departure point for the exhibition Wake Words by and with The Golden Pixel Cooperative is the term “voice recognition”: It refers, on the one hand, to technological systems for language assistance and detection, which are silently creeping into many parts of our everyday lives. On the other, the second part of the formulation – recognition – indicates that this phenomenon already assumes a certain concept of a voice that is to be recognised. What is the basis of this (re)cognition? Which voices are heard, and which not? And isn’t there a potential advantage in remaining incognito?
The accompanying audio publication gathers artistic-scientific contributions in the form of audio pieces and is available online at the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich podcast channels. Additionally, there is a listening station in the exhibition space. In collaboration with 3sechzig/360, an edition of ceramic objects, which contain the audio publication, was designed.
With contributions by: AM Kanngieser & Lucreccia Quintanilla, Constanze Ruhm, Jessica Feldman, Eleni Ikoniadou & Viki Steiri
Here you can find the accompanying booklet to the exhibition.
Katharina Brandl, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Olena Newkryta und Marlies Pöschl, Rojin Sharafi:
Wake Words I
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:
Edition (ceramic object) by 3sechzig
Opener and mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image Credits: ©️ Andrea Lehsiak
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:
Edition (ceramic object) by 3sechzig
Opener and mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image Credits: ©️ Andrea Lehsiak
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
Throwback: Stormy Weather
This time we don't go far back into the history of the Kunstraum and look at Stormy Weather. The exhibition Stormy Weather explored the political and meteorological climate, focused on all sorts of human-made clouds and our agency over cloud infrastructures. The show was on view at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in the fall of 2020 and was conceived in cooperation with Centre culturel suisse, Paris, where the exhibition was on view until April 18, 2021. Co-curators Claire Hoffmann and Katharina Brandl talk about some of the works on view, share their thoughts on translating a show from one exhibition space to another, and discuss how they encountered exhibition making during the pandemic. Enjoy!
The conversation is recorded in German.
Credits:
Host: Katharina Brandl
Sound: Excerpts from Total Refusal, Circumventing the Circle of Death – A pacifist finger exercise, 2018 & Stefan Karrer, Cool clouds that look like they should be spelling something, but they don’t, 2016
Editor: Marina Ninić
Opener & Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Credits: Stormy Weather,Centre culturel suisse. Paris, 2021 © Margot Montigny
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
Forever Young
A cycle of poems by Ötzi - presented by Ariane Koch
Ötzi is the oldest human mummy ever found. He is known as a piece of frozen history that provides us with information about the Stone Age and evolution itself. With Forever Young, Ötzi addresses the public as a poet for the first time and not only evokes his life in the Stone Age, but also describes his present, unfulfilled love for another exhibit - the primeval horse. But did you know that Ötzi also had enemies, not only those responsible for his death? And that he secretly pursued his second career as a DJ?
With the radio play "Forever Young" and an accompanying edition, artist and playwright Ariane Koch focuses on the human ability to appropriate the millennia-old history of mankind through fiction. Even if we cannot fully comprehend the rift between Ötzi and Yeti. Drama!
Credits:
Text: Ötzi
Concept/Director: Ariane Koch
Sound: Lukas Huber
Voice: Lukas Marsoner
Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Many thanks to Pizzeria Sole & friends
H13 Winner Julischka Stengele in conversation
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
Guest: Alice Wilke
Host: Katharina Brandl
Editing: Barbara Kovar
Opener und Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image: © Eva Würdinger 2020
Lücken lassen? Gedanken aus der Isolation
Editing: Barbara Kovar
Opener und Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image: © Roman Seifert 2020
Throwback: Stone Telling
Host: Katharina Brandl
Editing: Barbara Kovar
Opener und Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image: © Kunstraum Niedereoesterreich 2019
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
Falte Falte Tier schlucken, 2019
40:38 - 41:55 & 42:25 - 43:25
- Netaly Aylon, Massive Asteroid Approaching Earth, 2017
- Gillian Dykeman, Dispatches from the Feminist Utopian Future, 2016
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Gillian Dykeman, Moon, 2016
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Isolde Joham, Steinernes Meer (aus der UFO-Serie), 1976
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Isolde Joham, Königin, 1976
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Isolde Joham, Schneealmmassiv (aus der UFO-Serie), 1976
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Isolde Joham, Ausgetrocknetes Flußbett – Taliamento (aus der UFO-Serie), 1976
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Zsófia Keresztes, Totem of Hidden Accounts, 2018
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Claudia Lomoschitz, Vulkankompendium – Der flüssige Mantel, 2019
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Hanna Mattes, Fotografien aus den Serien Encounters, 2013; Stones and Craters, 2015; Searching for the Cold Spot, 2016; Supernatural#1-4, 2014
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Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Heavy Blood, 2018
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Larissa Sansour mit Søren Lind, In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain, 2016
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Marianne Vlaschits, Falte Falte Tier schlucken, 2019, Sounds & Voiceover: Rana Farahani (Fauna)
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.
Guest: Johanna Bruckner
Editing: Barbara Kovar
Opener und Mastering: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Image: © Joanna Pianka / @ eSeL.at
Episode 5 - Throwback: The Enforced Dress
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!
Guests: Elke Krasny and Marlies Pöschl
Episode 2: Togethering (German)
Guests: Alice Chauchat, Friederike Kersten (NEOZOON), Ines Lechleitner, Ingo Niermann
Episode 1: TechnoCare im Dialog (German)
Opener: Alexander Wieser | Sonobelle Recordings
Editing: Katharina Brandl
Audio excepts from the video works (in order of appearance)
Alexa Karolinski & Ingo Niermann, Army of Love, 2016
NEOZOON, MY BBY 8L3W, 2014
Elisa Giardina Papa, Technologies of Care, 2016
(with kind permission of the artists)