• Start time: 19:00 - sharp
• Entrance: 6-8 € (up to your offer)

Arts+science / ephemerality+transience / performance+symposium

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7p.m. (sharp): Introduction and opening: Transient Hole Research - Instationarity as an artistic concept / a scientific particularity

On display:
Arnold Berger, Atzgerei Productions, Sophie Dvořák, Alexander Felch/Aisek Ifraimov, Harald Hund, Christoph Höschele, Hrvoje Hiršl, Anja Nowak, Jaysha Obispo, Nina Prader, Jeroen van Amelsvoort, Anna Vasof, Stefan Voglsinger, David Wauters, Hui Ye

8.p.m. (sharp): Performances (running order tba):

T_A-Z (Paul Gründorfer) (Vienna)
Paul Gründorfer is using process-related setups to explore sonic worlds and to realise site specific interventions. He is developing real time audio systems, that act autonomous or in reference to the spatial constellation. While considering the encounters between analog and digital, structured or improvised elements, his works focus on the abstract occurrence of sound and its physical impact. His artistic activities examine variable connections between transmitter-receiver networks, which function as a conceptual framework for experimentation with sound and transmission of information.
http://tricx.net/

Nicolas Spencer
His work can be described as a fragmented, decomposed form of sound and machinery installations. In many different ways, this Chilean artist based in Berlin-Vienna is working in areas of installations and music in a very special way. In his works with software, vinyl and Oscillators he betakes to sound different forms that submit to any form. It's just music. And it is beautiful and an exploration of contemporary music, which is also danceable and physically.

Margaret Unknown (Vienna/Berlin) MARGARET UNKNOWN is a variation of Max Bogner, in flux between Berlin and Vienna since 4 years. Not only traveling between the physical realms and borders, his art likewise avoids and positively fails to remain in specific genres over longer amounts of time, criss-crossing between improvisation, deconstruction, pop, performance, lyric and composition constantly moving and combining different terrains, shifting the center of attention and moving against stagnancy to continually evolve and overcome his limitations, pushing towards the unknown, the undefined, the possibility.
Projects: Gueule Populaire (with Réka Kutas), (In) The Abyssity Of The Grounds (with Linda Sharrock, Mario Rechtern and others), SEELE (with Albert Graten) and many more.
http://www.margaretunknown.com/
 

Arik Kofranek (Vienna / Berlin) Arik Kofranek is a media artist and computer musician based in Vienna. His main focus lies in exploring diverse methods of creating sound, performance setups and ways of interaction and instrument playing, often bridging the analogue with the digital domain. Over the last few years Arik Kofranek has been involved in musical and artistic projects, composing and performing audiovisual pieces with the duo Miley Cyrus, the performance group Setzkasten Extern or the Society for Nontrivial Pursuits Berlin.
https://vimeo.com/arikkofranek

Lithium (Berlin)
https://www.facebook.com/ancestral.futuroremoto

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About the Project: Transient Hole Research (THR) is a hybrid curatorial/artistic project and a symposium started in summer of 2017 by viennese artist and curator Alexander Felch. The project`s title refers to a concept for a media artwork, that cannot, properly speaking, be materialized for it deals with a moving void – a transient hole.

Across the floor of a white, three-dimensional room a little black hole constantly and randomely moving. The hole is simultaneously there and not there. It is a portal to nowhere. But is it really? Might it not lead to transcendence, to another reality, or perhaps our reality can only be understood through this liminal presence of nothingness?

Although this concept is easy to understand, it is nevertheless impossible to represent it in reality. There is no way to depict an actual hole moving through space and time, apart from virtual digital simulations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbFzbsy3pxE

Therefore the participants of Transient Hole (Variations) are invited to provide their own interpretation of this problem and develop means to represent it, whether through art or science, to display processes, that cannot be depicted in reality. The aim of the project is obviously not to find a solution to this existential paradox but to bring about a reflection on the topic from a myriad of disciplines and different perspectives which explore the limit of representation. The various responses to the THR problematic will be gathered in a collected volume that is in itself a reflection on the boundary between art and science, reality and fantasy.

Transient Hole (Variations): The project appears – just like the transient hole itself – in different cities popping up in various formats and is accompanied by lectures, talks and (sound-) performances.

concept: Alexander Felch
http://www.alexanderfelch.net

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 Made possible with kind support by the Federal Chancellery of Austria - Art and Culture