artist-in-residence

Scrolling yoga (temporary title)

Focusing on the ubiquitous gesture of scrolling, often associated with excessive consumption and addiction, Scrolling yoga aims to juxtapose this behaviour born in the hypermodernity with the serene backdrop of rural Bschlabertal. The project will explore how the digital technologies changed our relation to time and our surrounding.

event // cinema

d0, 13.06. / 20.00 h / cinema bschlabs

In focus - Gabriel Tempea

Film projection. Research/recording for a location-based film project.

artist-in-residence

Seams and towersa piece consisting of mountain scores, polyphonic singing and field recordings, which deals with alchemy and emptiness. Diagrams drawn on site form the basis and notation, time and body turn emptiness into fullness - at the seams of being, at the towers of the mountains.

artist-in-residence

Due to family reasons, Bernhard Aichner unfortunately has to cancel his appearance at the medienfrische. Instead, there will be a medienfrische morning pint with music and film. 

event // reading

so, 16.06. / 11.00 a.m. / barn floor

morning pint with aichner

artist-in-residence

Creation of a subjective map of the Bschlabertal based on the interactions and encounters with the landscape and the people from the mountain valley.

artists-in-residence

Untitled (Pipe Dream II) [to be confirmed]

site-specific sonic intervention with instrumental sculptures from piping; a response to present-day Bschlabs and an invitation for a future Bschlabs

event // closing / concert

sa, 22.06. / 9.00 pm / barn floor

artist-in-residence

Breadwinners

"In my artistic work Brotverdiener*innen I ask myself what we do with our finite lives. I ask myself what our relationship to our time can be through hard, exhausting physical labour on the land, as farmers and in the working class. What does leisure look like outside of regeneration and the entertainment industry? I want to find melodies based on clay pipes, organ pipes and blades of grass. A performance is planned if someone lends me a dog kennel."

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Ephemeral Echoes

"Placing human activities within the broader context of universal movements, time becomes a thread connecting past and present. My body is the medium of duration.in my performance art piece, I aim to focus on bodily experience, spirituality, intimacy, and emotions, I engage in fluid movements-falling, twisting, and rolling; tensing up and letting go. Throughout the performance, I interact with my surroundings, inviting the audience to breathe with me and observe our environment together, fostering a shared contemplation of life's fluidity and the ever-present embrace of change."

event // closing / concert

sa, 22.06. / 20.00 h / barn boden

Three women, three voices about life and love. Eva Coco Banholzer, Eva Maria Hois and Erni Ströbitzer sing songs, dances and yodels from field research and archives - this time in Bschlabs "frisch auf da Ålm"!

digital artist-in-residence

In this project I would like to explore the topic of empty time as a time when a person is not authentically themselve because of external circumstances, societal pressure, and especially laws enforced by dictatorship. It is interesting in a research sense to live through slow radicalisation and tightening of the regime. You start thinking a lot about empty time and missed opportunities for creating something truly meaningful when you had this freedom, but were not ready.

Inauthentic living before realising one's queerness can also be considered empty time. Time before you are truly yourself, before you have all the parts of your personality. When it is interconnected with living with a government that becomes more and more homophobic and starts viewing you as their main enemy, this puts empty time into dramatic perspective. Another interesting part of the empty time inside Russia - is creating something in the context of self-censorship a part of it? Or is it the only way to do something meaningful even with restrictions?

event // impulse lecture & discussion round

tues, 11.06. / 8.00 pm / sternlodge boden

How real is the digital reality

event // reading

so, 09.06. / 17.00 o'clock / cinema bschlabs

"layered poems"
From dialect to standard language and back.
Eva Maria Gintsberg reads from her latest volume of poetry.

event // virtual reality exhibition

08.06. -> / widum

artist-in-residence

Farewell Piece (Ascending Peaks Evoke Fading Thoughts)

"I will present a slow-paced performance inspired by the surrounding landscape. It will resemble an endurance act involving a slow walk up and over a steep slope, proceeding straightforwardly and without any climactic moment. The work aims to convey that what may seem like an insignificant act is, in fact, an action that prompts reflections on letting go and emptying oneself into the landscape to ultimately disappear, to the other side."

event // lecture

fr, 21.06. / 7.30 pm / cinema bschlabs

Transport - An ant infrastructure project

Unfortunately, remote forest ants have little infrastructure available for exploration and transport, so their lives are quite arduous and they cannot fully realise their potential for work. By improving transport conditions, transport and mobility can be speeded up and made more efficient.

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"My work explores the sensuality of memory, tradition and cultural experience in the forms of site-specific sculpture, drawing and painting. Employing materials used within ritual and commemoration I communicate the sensitivity and vulnerability of these materials through my presentation of their exposed and overwhelming sensory potential and tactility."

artist-in-residence

The Spitzkopf towers lonely above Bschlabs. It is steep, inaccessible and hardly known outside the valley. The project explores the terrain and the significance of the omnipresent mountain for the village and its people.

event // cabaret

thu, 20.06. / 8.00 pm / elmen community hall

Farmer Ours

An outlet-friendly cabaret produced by Tanja Ghetta and Daniel Lenz

Director: Johannes Leismüller

What position can open land or soil take? How much quality can you expect from a seal? Which injuries require a farmers' association? Tanja, detached from her cow village, and Daniel, a convinced urban neurotic, present a programme on a subject they know absolutely nothing about: Farmers - the stars of the furrow, the heroes of livestock farming, the demigods in wellies. They haven't done any research in the field, they haven't been under the milking machine and they certainly haven't infiltrated agricultural communities. And perhaps this naivety is precisely the fertiliser that makes the punchlines sprout and sweeps the audience along to a final "I've got the farmer!"!

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"I want to develop a series of panoramas about internal landscapes. To investigate how they existed in memory, as deformed with time, as affect the formation of worldviews. Combine it with visions from my memory. Detear spaces from the native village and the city that I do not have access to now."

artist-in-residence

Shine, shine, shine. 14x daydream

"My project is a homage to doing nothing, daydreaming and time that is not focussed on a goal. 14x daydreaming means lying in the sun, letting your mind wander and being unproductive - developing a routine for doing nothing. In the meantime, the sun does the work: a print develops on a sheet previously prepared with UV-sensitive colours, which reproduces the imprints of your own body, the things you have brought with you or blades of grass, without disturbing your own rest, virtually in your sleep. The result is objects in which no two are alike and which are created as if in a dream: colourful, disordered, unpredictable."

event // reading

sa, 15.06. / 8.30 pm / church boden

Dulcimers zither

Rainer Egger reads poems and prose by Norbert C. Barrel (born 1947 in Brixen, died 1978 in Bruneck). Also to be heard: 3 choral pieces by Bert Breit

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event // installation / land-art

sa, 15.06. -> / 8.00 pm / stadl boden

Colouring a haystack...

Flowers are used to colour the sun-bleached wood on the south side of a hayloft. A Japanese technique in which leaves and their dyes and structures are transferred to fabrics with a hammer is used here without the use of tools.

Photo by Simone Bader: o.T. (flower bank), 100 x 15 x 15, flower juice on wood, 2021

artist-in-residence

What grows on, around, in, on and next to the abandoned places in the Bschlabertal? Using documentary means, a diverse collection is created that tells the story of the Bschlabertal from a perspective that is both old and new. The herbarium of empty time brings together mosses, lichens, grasses and ferns as witnesses and actors of change and revitalisation.

event // reading

mi, 05.06. / 8.00 pm / inn zur gemütlichkeit

tues, 18.06. / 8.00 pm / pfafflar

THE BERGE, MY LIFE FULL OF WORK AND LONGING

 "In the course of time"

Characterised by the hard life of a mountain farmer in his childhood, Josef Friedl seeks balance in the mountains after significant changes. Beautiful experiences, Many dangers, deep feelings and valuable insights complete a turbulent life story.