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Austrian Newsletter ŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋ Austrian Newsletter November & December 2016 ŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋ The exhibition is a rare opportunity to discover the influential work of artists Last Chance including Birgit Jürgenssen, Katalin Ladik and Nil Yalter. Info: The Photographers’ Gallery, 16 – 18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW Koo Jeong A: thephotographersgallery.org.uk 2016 Artist of the Year Tender Touches Until Saturday 19 November, Korean Cultural Centre, London Until Friday 13 January 2017, ACF London At her exhibition as Artist of the Year Koo Taking its title from a work by Austrian Jeong A invites fellow artists to transform feminist avant-garde artist Renate a solo show into a dynamic collaborative Bertlmann, this exhibition presents project. Among the selected artists is New works which examine representations York based Austrian artist Martin Roth of body, sexuality and relationships. who works with living organisms to create The exhibition traces its development thought-provoking and mesmerising and transformation from 70s until installations. contemporary artists’ practice. The artworks tackle stereotypes of Info: Korean Cultural Centre UK, Grand representation, fetishisation, domesticity, Buildings, 1 – 3 Strand, London WC2N 5BW as wells as digitalisation and hybridity www.kccuk.org.uk of these notions and their forms. Invited artists include Friedl Kubelka / vom Gröller (Austria), Renate Bertlmann (Austria), Eva Stenram (Sweden), Zoe Williams (UK), Julia Zastava (Russia / Austria). Tender Touches is presented in connection with the Photographers’ Gallery exhibition of Feminist Avant Garde works from the Verbund Collection, Vienna and thanks to the Installation by Martin Roth support of the Richard Saltoun Gallery. Feminist Avant Garde of the 1970s. Works from the Verbund Collection Until Sunday 8 January 2017, The Photographers’ Gallery, London This exhibition of works from Austria’s Verbund Collection highlights the ground-breaking practices that shaped the 1970s feminist art movement and provides a timely reminder of the impact of a seminal generation of artists. Tender Touches, 1976, Renate Bertlmann ŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋ many Germans found themselves in during the war, and the inner workings November of the Nazi propaganda machine. Austria, 2016, 109 mins, German with English subtitles, directed by Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer, Anthropology in Austria: Florian Weigensamer From the ‘Blue Danube’ Evi Wohlgemuth Memorial to Studying the Diversity Lecture: ‘Quo Vadis, Europe?’ of the World Thursday 10 November, 6.30pm, Tuesday 8 November, 10am, ACF London British Academy, London In partnership with the Centre for German Anthropology in Austria has completely Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, re-organised itself in recent decades, the ACF London presents this lecture in and has opened up to the world more than memory of Vienna-born Evi Wohlgemuth. ever before. The Royal Anthropological Former Ambassador to London Dr. Eva Institute’s day of anthropology in Austria Nowotny will give this year’s lecture. strives to take stock of these recent She will discuss some of the most developments by presenting and pressing issues Europe faces as well as discussing major trends, advances, and the transatlantic relationship, Europe’s insights in the fields of regional studies, role in the world and challenges of global qualitative methodologies, and topical governance. Ambassador Dr. Eva Nowotny areas of interest. is President of the Austrian UNESCO Wolfson Room, British Academy, 10 – 11 Commission and Chair of the Board of Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH the University of Vienna. www.therai.org.uk; This event is free, but registration is required: austriananthropology.eventbrite.co.uk Ryu Hankil + Matija Schellander + noid A German Life Sunday 13 November 2016, 8pm, Café Oto, London Wednesday 9 November, 6.30pm, Odeon Swiss Cottage, London In 2013, Noid and Matija Schellander travelled from Vienna to Japan, Hong Brunhilde Pomsel joined the Nazi party Kong, China and South Korea to meet in 1942 not because of strong conviction up with Ryu Hankil and other musicians. but because it allowed her to take Carrying compositions, sound art pieces a lucrative job as the secretary of Joseph and workshop preparations in their Goebbels. Now 105, Pomsel gives luggage they collaborated with locals a mesmerising account of the war years. and performed in unusual spaces from Though she denies any wrongdoing, Seoul rooftops to Osaka market stands she has been wrestling with a persistent to Hong Kong industrial buildings. sense of guilt ever since the war ended. A remarkably powerful documentary that At this concert they will perform explores both the near inevitable state a programme of works including tracks of becoming silent accomplices that so from their first CD – ‘Tokyo Office’. Their unmusical musicality is filled with My Mother Medea ‘Insight unusual sounds including a typewriter, Discussion’ & ‘Unicorn Late’ drums, double bass, cello, jing-hu and victorian synthesizer. Thursday 17 November, 2pm, Unicorn Theatre, London Café Oto, 18 – 22 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL; www.cafeoto.co.uk Unicorn Theatre presents a special ‘Insight Discussion’ featuring a Q & A with Austrian playwright Holger Schober and a talk with Justin Audibert (director of My Mother Medea) at 2pm. The same day, Unicorn Late invites to an evening performance followed by a late bar and live music in the foyer. Written for children 13+ years of age, My Mother Medea offers a completely new Ryu Hankil + Matija Schellander + noid angle on an age old myth. The play will run until Saturday 26 November. Friedl vom Gröller Film Unicorn Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, Screening & Talk 147 Tooley Street, London SE1 2HZ www.unicorntheatre.com Wednesday 16 November, 7pm, ACF London Colour Out of Space: Austrian artist and filmmaker Friedl vom Gröller (formerly Kubelka) introduces International Festival of and presents a screening of her work Experimental Sound and Art to accompany the ACF’s Tender Touches Friday 18 – Sunday 20 November, Brighton exhibition. Initially known for her Austrian artist Esther Strauß has been conceptual photographic self-portraits invited to the Colour Out of Space festival Friedl began making films in the late 1960s. to present Mirror Walk, a performative Born in London to Viennese parents, balade a pied. Reflecting on selfie culture, the family returned to Vienna after the war. tourism and photography Mirror Walk To date she has made over 80 films and offers an artistic response to the tourist was awarded the Austrian Kunstpreis who only experiences a city through (Art prize) for film 2016. The ACF’s Tender the viewfinder of their camera or smart Touches exhibition will also feature photos phone. Colour Out of Space is one of from her Pin-Ups series. the UK’s leading festivals for experimental music and art. www.colouroutofspace.org Meet the Composer: Georg Friedrich Haas Saturday 19 November, 3pm, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Delphine de Oliveira, directed by This year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Friedl vom Groeller, 2009 Music Festival Composer in Residence is Georg Friedrich Haas. Born in Graz, Austria arrangements), John Norman (bass) in 1953 Haas has quietly risen to become and Martin Siewert (guitar, lapsteel, one of the most important Austrian electronics). composers internationally, heralded by www.radian.at Sir Simon Rattle as having written the first ‘masterpiece’ of the 21st century, in vain, which received its UK premiere at Huddersfield in 2013. Phipps Hall, University of Huddersfield hcmf.co.uk The Dreamed Ones and Q & A with Director Ruth Beckermann Radian Monday 21 & Tuesday 22 November, Oxford and London Homo Sapiens The Dreamed Ones (Die Geträumten) Saturday November 26, centres on two actors, their emotions Curzon Bloomsbury, London and conversations, while recording the dramatic correspondence of the poets Homo Sapiens, directed by acclaimed Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan. documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter, The film was awarded Best Austrian is a film about the finiteness and fragility Feature Film at the 2016 Diagonale Film of human existence and the end of Festival and was also screened at this the industrial age. Powerful images year’s BFI London Film Festival. Following of empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly the screenings in Oxford and London overgrown with vegetation and crumbling renowned Austrian filmmaker, Ruth asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, Beckermann, will discuss her latest film. though humanity has disappeared. Now abandoned and decaying, gradually Austria, 2016, 89 mins, German with English reclaimed by nature after being taken subtitles, directed by Ruth Beckermann from it so long ago. Monday 21 November, 4pm, Taylor Institution, University of Oxford; Tuesday 22 November, Austria, 2016, 94 mins, directed by 6pm, King’s College London, Strand campus Nikolaus Geyrhalter; Bertha DocHouse www.germanscreenstudies.eu/events Screen, Curzon Bloomsbury, The Brunswick, London WC1N 1AW; dochouse.org Radian Friday 25 – Monday 28 November, UK Tour Viennese trio Radian have built up a formidable reputation for their incredible live performances and records, that draw influences from an impressively eclectic range of approaches and genres. The group includes Martin Brandlmayr (drums, electronics, editing and Still from Homo Sapiens by Nikolaus Geyrhalter ŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋŋ Produced by Michael Haas, the idea for the CD began
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