Current Activities of Trans-Art

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Thursday, 13th March at 7:30PM

with Elisabeth Flunger, percussion

in my studio at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals

Elisabeth Flunger is Astrid Rieder's guest in the 105th performance of the monthly performance series do trans-Art. The percussionist, sound artist, performer and composer works for theatre, dance and concert productions, is active in ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, die reihe or Ensemble des 20. Jahrhunderts and conceives site- and theme-specific installations and performances, musical marble runs as well as soundtracks for video and audio installations. In the 105th do trans-Art performance, Elisabeth Flunger and Astrid Rieder meet for the first time in an artistic collaboration – an interactive dialogue between sound and abstract drawing unfolding in real time.

free admission

do trans-Art 2025
with Astrid Rieder

In 2016, Astrid Rieder created the monthly performance series do trans-Art in her studio at Künstlerhaus Salzburg, which she has since continued in her studio in Wals, Salzburg: On the second Thursday of every month, Astrid Rieder invites a musician from the field of new music to her studio to enter into an artistic, transdisciplinary dialogue in front of an audience. For 40 minutes, two artists interact between abstract drawing and new music, without a score, without rehearsals and without thematic guidelines. The drawing is neither a performance instruction nor a visualisation of the sounds played. Likewise, the sound is not a musicalisation of the drawing. Rather, the performance is a simultaneous action and reaction, a bi-directional dialogue based on mutual inspiration, in which the arts meet without any hierarchy.

Despite many obstacles, the performance series do trans-Art has taken place every second Thursday of the month without interruption since 2016. After each performance, the large-scale drawing, a documentary video and an audio recording remain. After the performance, the audio recording (consisting of the musical part and the sounds created during the drawing process) can be heard on Astrid Rieder's radio programme Atelier für neue Musik / trans-Art on radiofabrik and RadioFro, together with a conversation with her performance partner.

Thu 09 January with Susanne Hehenberger, violin

Thu 13 February with Peter WesenAuer, piano

Thu 13 March with Elisabeth Flunger, percussion

Thu 10 April with Karlheinz Essl, electronics

Thu 08 May with Paul Eiser, saxophone

Thu 12 June with Fernando Araujo, piano

Thu 10 July with Ana Topalovic, cello

Thu 14 August with Sebastian Jolles, cello

Thu 11 September with Stephan Kowarsch, electric guitar & electronics

Thu 09 October with Ingrid Wegmayr, electric guitar

Thu 13 November with Alba Llorach Roca, piano

Thu 11 December with Herbert Lacina, bass

Date: on the 2nd Thursday of every month

Time: 19:30

Place: trans-Art studio Astrid Rieder, Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals, 2nd floor

Admission free

SUMMIT of trans-Art 2024

on the topic of ‘Time’

on October 10th and 11th, 2024

SUMMIT 2024

trans-Art, the dialogue between abstract sounds and abstract drawing

artistic vision:

A trans-art performance explores the interplay between new music and abstract drawing. It is a regular exercise of an encounter in which two dialogue partners, coming from two different disciplines and thus also from two different worlds and everyday lives, engage in a dialogue in a shared "strangeness". In a constantly interactive, modulating, flowing process, without a score, without arrangements or rehearsals, a joint visual and auditory composition can be created - the Composition Graphique Musicale. The drawing process, like the musical process, is additive, i.e. what has already been drawn is overdrawn and thus expanded during the trans-art performance. The audience can perceive these processes simultaneously as movement that can sharpen the senses, as the phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty described Paul Klee's act of painting. The final product consists of the large drawing, a sound recording and a recorded video.

PERFORMANCESERIES: "do trans-Art"

EACH 2ND THURsday per month at 7:30pm

at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals

Thursday, 13th February

do trans-Art_104 with Peter WesenAuer, piano

Thursday, 13th March

do trans-Art_105 with Elisabeth Flunger, percussion

"trans-Art on the road"

scheduled dates 2024

Friday, 07th June at 7:00PM

trans-Art Performance with Elisabeth Moest, flute

at Galerie Lost Places, Metzgergasse 7, 5400 Hallein

Samstag, 6th July at 07:30PM

Frauenstimmen trans-Art Performance with Elisabeth Moest

at Atelier trans-Art, Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals

Stadtgalerie Mozartplatz

AIR - artists-in-residence 15. Jahresausstellung

Opening: Thu., 21.11.2024, 6.30 pm

Duration: 22.11.2024 – 31.1.2025

For September 2024 I have been granted a residency at the VCCA (USA) by the Cultural Office of the City of Salzburg.

Work created during the residency were on view in the 15th annual AIR - artists-in-residence exhibition at the Stadtgalerie Mozartplatz 5 in Salzburg from November 21, 2024 to January 31, 2025.

In the picture: Pastenak bench