Sounds of the Living
Listening
session of the audio papers by the students of the Master programme Studies in Art and Culture for the seminar
Sonic Thinking (Kristina Pia Hofer), followed by a concert of Conny Frischauf in the framework
of their AIL residency.
The series of Sounds of the Living at the Otto Wagner Kassenhalle explores the
concept of living matter and questions the notion of nature.
Our understanding
of nature has changed over time, as has the soundscape on planet Earth. Natural sounds of abiotic elements such as wind, water
or earth movements were thus continuously augmented by the sounds of living organisms like humans and further their technology.
With these sound performances we want to take a closer look at our surroundings and soundscapes of today.
"Third
nature" – as Anna Tsing suggests in The Mushroom at the end of the World – is everything that exists alongside and in the
face of the destruction caused by the capitalist exploitation and what creates new synergies and coexistences. It is a moment
of awareness of the living activities of all beings and emerges within a temporal polyphony. But can we acknowledge this agency
and this activity of making worlds as a political act?
What if agency and political are not functions of a body
which must necessarily be a human one to enact them, questioning hence the anthropocentric assumption behind Western definition
of politics?
PROGRAMME
18.30
Listening session of
the audio papers by the students of the Master Program Studies in Art and Culture for the seminar ‘Sonic Thinking’ (Kristina
Pia Hofer)
Participating students: Nike Bekemeier, Anita Buss, Isa (Matthias) Conrady, Alexandra Elzbieciak,
Josephine Engelmeier, Camilla Hagenauer, Maria Harrison, Max Heirens, Olivia Pingpaya Hemsuthipan, Aljosha Kronberger, Anna
Mielke, Anna Rupp, Hannah Waniek, Nadja Webel, Annka Weber
20:00
Concert by Conny Frischauf with Q&A afterwards
Conny Frischauf will present Dwin City, a long-term work engaging with the Danube River and its environments between Vienna
and Bratislava, focusing on collective memory, heritage, and spaces in between scientific and (art) historical narratives.
Through sound-based and installative-performative approaches, the work explores questions of knowing, not knowing, and acknowledgement.
Conny Frischauf is a sound and visual artist based in Vienna, Austria. They studied transdisciplinary
arts (TransArts) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. They regularly perform, sound, conduct workshops and lectures,
repair and build audio equipment, score films and performances, host, listen, write and walk. Since 2024, they have been running
Sedimente, a platform that slowly inter-layers through text, sound, space, and more. 
