The House of Drift @ MAK Vienna
5.4.2013 – 21.4.2013 @ MAK Vienna Opening: Thu 4.4.2013, 19h The House of Drift is an extensive installation project commissioned by sound:frame festival 2013, including cooperations with costume designers (Lisi Lang, Anita Steinwidder & co), architects (Gerald Moser & Christina Simmel), dancers (Sebastijan Geč & co) and photographer Andreas Waldschütz & co. Creative Direction, Concept & AV Creation by Depart (Leonhard Lass & Gregor Ladenhauf) # Nothing can happen and it will. where strings remain and strains unchain I stripped myself to pieces I hollowed out what doubt left out and wrapped myself in creases weave high and dry Incense and rye collapse to boundless groundings immersed in flock a swaying clock a circle out of boundaries part of and produced by sound:frame festival 2013
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Roaming Rooms
Room I — Mill Room II – Turn Room III – Reception Screencaptures of our upcoming, collaborative installation “The House of Drift” presented as three tableaux vivants. grounded in roundtrips between ends and eaten away by orbiting bites – the holder of breaths the setter of suns the spender of nights and the raiser of voices the crosser of minds the broker of silences and the passenger of time the shifter of grounds the lector of intent and many more… Filming by Andreas Waldschütz Volkmar Geiblinger (Assistant & Light), Merlin König (Assistant & Light), Thomas Mairitsch (Helper), Su Noya (Costume Assistant), Steffi Lamm (Hair & Makeup), Adia Trischler (Styling), Lauren Cooke (Styling Assistant), Robert Hack (Documentation), Michael Merzlikar (Documentation) Performer/Models: Sebastijan Geč, Asher O’Gorman, Milan Loviška, Otto Krause, Raphael Nicholas, Mana Malek, Malika Fankha, Katrin Blantar, Laura Welzenbach, Gregor Ladenhauf, Silvio Canazei Polypod (VFX Consulting, Tracking and Rendering Facilities) Part of the Exhibition “The House of Drift” Produced by sound:frame festival in cooperation with MAK, 2013
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Thank you Schmiede!
Cloud Chamber Diaries Installation at Schmiede. We thought aloud as a cloud could. Thanks to the whole Schmiede team and show2go for the support!
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Cloud Chamber Diaries @ Schmiede Hallein
Wed, 19.09.2012, 22h @ Schmiede (Boiler Room) Just back from NY we are heading directly to the wonderful Schmiede where we will show a version of our latest AV installation “Cloud Chamber Diaries”. Would be lovely to see you there! Schmiede Schmiede Program Pernerinsel, Mauttorpromenade 7, 5400 Hallein, Austria Photo by Andreas Waldschuetz check this post for more info and images
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Cloud Chamber Diaries @ ACF New York
AGAINST THE SPECIALIST Austrian Cultural Forum NYC exhibition opening on Wednesday SEP 12 5pm-6pm artist talks 6pm-8pm opening reception 10pm afterparty, Le Poisson Rouge Our new work “Cloud Chamber Diaries” is part of the exhibiton “Against the Specialist” at the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, alongside Konrad Becker, John Brill, Tina Franks / Florian Hecker, Robert Howsare, Rainer Kohlberger, Kurt Kren, Claudia Märzendorfer, Gerald Moser Cloud Chamber Diaries by Depart 2012 2 channel video installation, Full HD, 10’40” Camera: Andreas Waldschuetz, Hair & Make Up: Jasmin Simak, commissioned by ACFNY 1) that which is out of itself I thought aloud as a cloud could like thickets of light would erecting reflections and noticing not a thing. a thing which around itself settles into an opposite that has not been there before the thing has been there, although afterwards already seems like having existed before. Before I notice what sinks behind me, from where I can, but won’t look at it, it would seem quite deliberate, is not and moves on, or not, I know [before I notice]. What it takes is circles of circles, but what for is not entirely made clear from being held in a spot – a spot […]
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Glyph
Glyph is a projection sculpture with references to ritual monuments such as obelisks or stelas. It deals with cyclic change and constantly regenerates itself. An alphabet based on fundamental geometric shapes (rectangle, circle and triangle) acts as an communication device as well as a pure aesthetic element. All texts displayed are permanently evolving and restructured based on linguistic rules. The installation runs in realtime – the video shows a random segment recorded at schmiede 2011. Made with processing & reaktor supported by Subnet AiR, Schmiede, Polypod, Waldschuetz Photography , Show2Go, Holzcraft I glyph cleavage like man-high menhirs one line unbroken heading for a fold in the ministry of mist a high official locks the primary gate seals it thoroughly with wax as he does every evening thinking about molten rocks and flocks therof fold what you have at hand if nothing for a fold creates a separation that is an union that is a divide that is a joint for nothing is ever so insisting as an unbridged gap At the atoms’ of words nightly fission demounted scriptures let letters be and build. A Kohen’s head leaking kowtow prostration high I rise downlift in steadfast decline loose faith and lost […]
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Glyph & Δ Aurigæ @ Schmiede
We are currently working on Glyph to be presented together with Δ Aurigæ at Schmiede Hallein 21.09.2011, 21h supported by Subnet AiR, Schmiede Hallein, Andreas Waldschütz, Holzcraft, Polypod
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Δ Aurigæ @ sound:frame
Δ Aurigæ – A performance constellation produced by sound:frame AV & depart. Fri 25.03.2011, 20:45 & 23:00 Sa 26.03.2011, 21:00 & 22:00 @ sound:frame festival opening weekend Ottakringer Brauerei, Wien sound:frame schedule – o-O-orbiting the delta skelta In merry barycenter go-rounds. Let’s build a whole city of glass houses, only a stone’s throw away To regard the light night sky, dive drown Dissolving vis-à-vis-viva equators In our monolitheral observatory. We will, we will… + some work in progress stone samples, delta on the rocks that is: Thanks to: sound:frame, Michael Grossauer & polypod, woei, joreg & vvvv, leo & ben (Bildwerk), Pomme, Gerald Moser, Romana Kleewein sound:frame festival opening weekend
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Altar Ego
Altar Ego by Depart – mixed media installation Thanks Andreas Waldschütz & Thomas Rath (photography and video support), Patrick Glatthaar (hair), Steffi Lamm (makeup), Happy Lab Kunstraum pro arte 17.09 – 9.10.2010 V_port / Museumsquartier Q21, 28.03 – 30.04.2010 V_port www.soundframe.at
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Altar Ego Vernissage
V_port / Museumsquartier Q21, 28.03 – 18.04.2010 Vernissage: Sa 27.3.2010, 16h Altar Ego’s main focus is the projection as a mechanism of the psyche. Inspired by a recording that documents a choleric outburst of the tennis player John McEnroe, Depart mounted portraits of themselves on a mock triptych. The Freudian categories id, ego and super-ego form a psychoanalytical triad, a field of tension in which the futile efforts of Sisyphus meet the tragic vanity of Narcissus. The suppressed inner motive becomes the linchpin that distorts perception and its selfreflection. Thanks Andreas Waldschütz & Thomas Rath (photography and video support), Patrick Glatthaar (hair), Steffi Lamm (makeup), Happy Lab V_port www.soundframe.at
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Spy Collectives Iminami
Iminami (by the Spycollective) is a multiroom performance installation. Drained brains swash in narrative tsunamis exhaling from the metamyth of the White Woman. Audience-swarms with spread waterwings on the tideway from mother to smother get carried away by drowned voices. This is fishy, oh buoy. Supported by Steim (Amsterdam), SARC (belfast) and ARGE Nonntal (Salzburg) Iminami Trailer
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Gespraum
“Gespraum”: pathos of the inanimate in spatium mutans installation piece (loop: video, sound) duration: ca. 45 min. broom, sweep sweep sweep the room. rumbling & tumbling biedermeier blowup. Passers-by look through a window into a (projected) rooom, which is undergoing a constant change. It shows an unstable situation that is seemingly stripped bare of temporality and causality. Furniture, books and other objects are in a tilted state or thrown in the air by unnamed forces, suddenly frozen still. Chairs bursting into flames, salt trickling from the ceiling, black beads bubbling up from an orifice in the parquet… The constellation of objects in the projected room is changing constantly in such a manner that only the outer frame of the room (walls, doors, windows) is keeping still. A moving picture where often the speed of mutation is barely noticeable. Due to the style of production the video has a kind of slightly unreal quality, a doll’s house aesthetics maybe. There is no real reference of size and so an interpretation of the video as a documentary of real events is also constantly in doubt. A room as an output of the subconscious. The “Gespraum”, a psychoanalytic talk of a room with […]
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My Myo Mayhem
“My Myo Mayhem”: a platonian cave canem kafkaesque coffin break kammerspiel performance installation piece for three performers, myoelectrical stimulation, a chicken called Tesla, video & sound. duration of one cycle ca. 15 minutes imperial chickensouperpowers for the white room-o-botter what happens: groups of 10 people are lead into an anteroom where they are ordered to sit and wait. a strange person behind a counter is giving out questionaries and calling people to the desk in random order. this character is mutating over the duration of the whole piece from casual guy to kafkaesque clerk to lunatic to chicken. every 5 minutes one person is admitted to an adjoining room where an attendant is showing them about. a puppet emperor and his rural adventures are presented on screens while a glimpse into an overhead orifice provides an inverse cage perspective on the confetti chicken. the gloomy atmosphere of the first two rooms is followed by an eery transition to the center stage. There, the “emperor” is performing his private little hatching dance, controlled and hardsynced to the installation soundtrack by a mystical myoelectrical device dangling around his neck. after this shocking galvanic experience, the lounge room is a chill out, big […]
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