Sägezahn x Bears in the Park – 19. October

ARTIST INFO:

Ariadne Randall | live

Ariadne Randall is an American artist, composer and writer based in Vienna. Her work has

been heard widely, from Lincoln Center and the Vienna Volksoper to countless basements.

Her Reverse Cowgirl Trilogy of performances rides her gender transition towards larger

questions of identity and becoming; its second chapter features McKenzie Wark and

premieres at Brut Wien in 2025. Her debut record under her chosen name was released in

2024 on Oxtail Recordings. She is represented by Peter Gaugy (Brussels/Vienna).

https://linktr.ee/ariadnerandall

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The Boiler | live

The Boiler is one of the numerous solo projects of Kristina Pia Hofer, musician and media

theorist based in Vienna. Kristina has been playing punk DIY shows since age 15, teaching

herself a number of instruments along the way. On the album BODY=DEATH, The Boiler

reckons with precariousness, change, vulnerability, resilience, and loss of close relations; by

way of maltreating a 22kg, 1965, manipulated Philips Philicorda organ (and her own body).

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Beyond the Beat | live

Judith Schwarz: Extended Drums

Arthur Fussy: Modular Synthesizer

Where does the beat begin? This is the central question that drummer Judith Schwarz and electronic musician Arthur Fussy explore in their performance “Beyond the Beat.” Their starting point is the exploration of rhythm’s boundaries, resulting in a constantly evolving symbiosis of acoustic and electronic sounds.

This cycle of solo and collaborative pieces reflects long-standing ideas the two musicians have explored in their work together. When does the ear and the mind recognize a pattern? How abstract can it become while still providing enough structure and coherence for listeners to grasp? Is rhythm also melody? How far can the imitation and contrasts between acoustic and electronic sounds go? What new formats emerge when these diverse sound qualities and techniques merge, creating a cohesive dramaturgical arc throughout the performance?

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Salvatore Viviano | performance

Salvatore Viviano studied art, history, anthropology and literature at the University of

Palermo, Italy, where he was born. After living in Paris for 10 years, working in the fashion,

cinema and TV industries, he moved to Vienna in 2010. Since then, he’s actively working in

the field of contemporary art as visual artist (mostly performance), curator and educator, for

Austrian and international art projects. In 2014 he opened the One Work Gallery in Vienna,

an art gallery project which exhibited one art work at a time (he curated more than 50

exhibitions until 2017.) As an artist, he’s exhibited locally and internationally since 2009. He’s

currently teaching at the Art University of Linz. For SÄGEZAHN Salvatore will perform his

piece „Performance, Anyone?“ for and with the audience.

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Cäcilia Brown | visual arts

Cäcilia Brown’s work deals with the structures and hierarchies of public space. She chooses

the medium of sculpture with its own structures and hierarchies. Some of which are rather

profane- weight, volume, color, dirt.The artist welds and casts concrete, steel, plaster, clay

into objects that remind us of elements of the public realm- rubbish bins, fences, gates,

walls, weights…Destructive acts like burning, or throwing something out the window are as

much part of her methods as are copying and archivingDespite the massive materials that

formally characterize Brown’s oeuvre her works have an ephemeral, almost brittle character,

and incorporate found or collected elements. They build bridges to an ordinary world outside

the art space, quote it and refer to it.It seems as if she were setting up a trajectory that can,

not least, be found in the artist’s titles, e.g.: From the series of working girls: the authority, the

unionist; Entglasung (Devitrification); Intercity. Welcome to Parliament) (…).

She calls her spontaneous, almost intuitive approach ‘the translation of material logic’.

Cäcilia Brown’s work deals with the structures and hierarchies of public space. She chooses

the medium of sculpture with its own structures and hierarchies. Some of which are rather

profane- weight, volume, colour, dirt.

The artist welds and casts concrete, steel, plaster, clay into objects that remind us of

elements of the public realm – rubbish bins, fences, gates, walls, weights… Destructive acts

like burning or throwing something out the window are as much part of her methods as are

copying and archiving.

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Pablo Chiereghin & Peter Kraus | RAUM S | installation

A performative installation where dimensions and depth are disrupted by the whiteness of

the inner landscape. Black structures and sound break the limbo in which the spectator is

suspended, much like the bass guitar hanging from the ceiling.The sound performance

unfolds in waves, enveloping in the space the spectator who stands as structure, reflecting

sound and light.