Astrid
Rieder
Current Activities of Trans-Art
do trans-Art_104
Thursday, 13th February at 7:30PM
with Peter WesenAuer, piano
in my studio at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals
The composer and conductor Peter WesenAuer is Astrid Rieder's guest and performance partner in the 104th performance of the do trans-Art performance series. Since 2002 Peter WesenAuer has been chief conductor of the Sinfonietta da Camera Salzburg, which has been praised for its exceptional sound culture. From 2006 to 2012 he was also Music Director of the Salzkammergut Mozart Festival, since 2012 Artistic Director of the Burghausen Chamber Orchestra and since 2013 of the HallstattClassics Festival. Concert tours have taken him to France, Poland, Russia, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, the United Arab Emirates, China and Japan. As a composer, he has written more than 300 works, moving effortlessly and stylistically between genres. On 13 February, Peter WesenAuer will engage in an improvisational dialogue at the piano with visual artist Astrid Rieder. At the core of the performance is the conversation between new music and abstract drawing, which unfolds in real time in front of the audience.
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
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, 9th January
do trans-Art_103 with Susanne Hehenberger, violin
Thursday, 13th February
do trans-Art_104 with Peter WesenAuer, piano
"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 will be 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
PODCAST: "Atelier für neue Musik/trans-Art"
each 1st and 3rd Saturday per calendar month at 11AM
Saturday, 04th January
acoustic part do trans-Art_102 with Dominik Kreuzer
Saturday, 18th January
tba
each 2nd and 4th Tuesday per calendar month at 11pm
Tuesday, 14th January
transfer of the broadcast: acoustic part do trans-Art_102 with Dominik Kreuzer
Tuesday, 28th January
tba
Here is the link to all the radio shows that have been broadcast so far:
Here you can find videos of individual trans-Art performances:
