not quiet spring yet – 22.February

not quiet spring yet

In the spirit of up-coming spring we have invited up-coming artists with fresh voices. We welcome you to experience a journey through diverse artforms and engaging performances.

From 18:00: Soft Opening

Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli  with Rey Molina Joichl – Soccer Sensuale
Soccer Sensuale is an in-between of a performance and a workshop. It is a space open to any FLINTA* body who wants to unleash their inner drama queen, king, or prince-ss as an act of radical connection with their emotions. We will deconstruct and re-enact high-scale male soccer gestures, playfully creating our own heroic narrations with no time to think. This is a space to have fun, make fun, and feel the heat!
Audience: While the participation is for FLINTA* individuals, during Soft Opening everyone is welcome as an audience to cheer and celebrate this playful exploration!

Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli: concept, performance/mediator.
Rey Molina Joichl: performance/mediator, DJ.

FYI: If you want to register for the workshop (starting at 17:00 already) send an email to: charlotte@bearsinthepark.org. Here you find more information on the workshop.

From 19:00: Performances

Verena Frauenlob – Die Entstörerin
In the multi-part performance, the artist moves on and with self-made milking stools, whose shapes are inspired by traditional, agriculturally used stools. Their forms serve as a starting point for movement, music, and provocative reflections on questions such as: How do I deal with the ‘male gaze’? How can I perceive my body as erotic—and why do I find that empowering and amusing?
Sound by Fabian Schober.

Els van Houtert – Oh porous membranes…
When I go in the water, we work together and exchange. Melt at some places. I am not capable with my mind to recognise or describe what is exchanged or changed, but I sense it with my body. I know that we share, at this moment, more than usually. I trust that marks are left, memories are activated, remade. Children are born. — I give the door a nod, Els van Houtert, pp. 42, 57, 81, 107.
The performance “Oh Porous Membranes…” is an intimate sharing of sensory water experiences. It explores the relationship between the human Els and the entity water, making clear how the notion of the “I“ appears, changes, and dissolves in the perception of the other. How does this multitude of bodies work together and exchange? Can they merge at some places?

From 20:30: Concert

RENT
Rent’s sounds refer to industrial ecosystems, interconnections, dark landscapes and their stories. At the same time, it is the processes of sound creation itself that emerge in Rent’s compositions: sounds influence each other, reinforce each other, cancel each other out, dissolve and become noise, sound like the city, a car alarm for example. Then everything gets lost in the fog again. Together with the Viennese Label Ventil Records Rent released their first LP Kill A Phantom in June 2024 after releasing the EP As Cold As Sunlight in collaboration with TRANSFORMER andWilhelm Show me the Major Label in 2023. Building from a reputation of thrilling live performances Rent breaks new ground with Kill A Phantom, evolving from the tropes of industrial and noise to forge cinematographic scenes of dark matter and metamorphic bodies. What first appears as confrontational music undergoes a idiosyncratic alchemy. Harsh sounds collide with digital remains and field recordings and form an ephemeral unity whose story unfolds and changes over time, while at the same time revealing genuine vulnerabilities. Rent aka Katrin Euller is also part of several artistic collaborations and member of Doom band EAERES.

Link to soundcloud.

From 21:30: DJ-Set

 

Ongoing: Exhibition Opening

Malashree Suvedi: Die Deep
Die Deep is part of an ongoing collaboration between the real artist Malashree Suvedi and the imagined artist Rekha Bhatta. It is an unfinished spectacle to death. The abstracted and figurative monsters of anger, of joy, of sadness are our friends…even feelings usually deemed negative hold great virtue. The spectacle, as it is currently, was created at the Bears in the Park residency and will be opened by the artist with a song.

 

Further Information

  • The entry is free of charge!
  • Main spoke language in performances will be English, partly German.
  • Entry and exit is possible at all times.

Location:

Bears in the Park,
Eyzinggasse 12/2 (entry at corner to Otto-Herrschmanngasse)
1110 Wien