VERY VERY CONTEMPORARY Arts Practice Festival
Over a total of four days at the Klangtheater, there will be a lot to see, hear, feel – and be part of. It’s about myths, witches, death and revenge. About community and connections with the smallest creatures. About soil, leaves, different tempi and realities of life, and about bodies, homelands and solidarity.
WHEN
Friday, 09 May 2025 / start 6pm
Saturday, 10 May 2025 / start 5pm
Monday, 12 May 2025 / start 6pm
Thuesday, 13 May 2025 / start 6pm
WHERE
Klangtheater
Adresse
Future Art Lab am mdw-Campus
Bauteil V
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien
ADMISSION
free
PERFORMERS
Elena Arbonies Jauregui, Marko Arich, Nika Bauman, Angelo Beltrame, Anna Buchegger, Ada Günther, Viktoria Hofmarcher, Selina Pilz, Olga Rybakova,
Sophie Katharina Schollum, Laura Steiner, Max Zaloudek
Students of: Maria Gstättner-Heckel, Axel Petri-Preis, Veronika Kinsky, Dominik Grünbühel, Sarantos-Georgios Zervoulakos, Gerald Preinfalk, Adrian Artacho, Burkhard Stangl, Eva Königer, Verena Zeiner, Elisabeth Orlowsky, Meike Schmitz
PROGRAM
09 May 2025
Nika Bauman, Selina Pilz, Ada Günther
Nika Bauman (TMP)
Arache
Arachne is a lecture performance based on the musical theatre piece of the same title by Nika Bauman. Through storytelling, music and performance, it combines rituals, femininity and connectedness and invites the audience to lose themselves in the spider’s web.
Nika Bauman is a musician, director and performer. As an artist, she performs at the interface between interdisciplinary storytelling, music theatre, interpretation and improvisation. Her main projects include the multidisciplinary ensemble Synesthetic Project, the folkloristic-contemporary quartet Ensemble Illyrica and the curation of concerts by the TAKT Kulturverein.
Website: synestheticproject.com taktkulturverein.com
SELINA PILZ (MV/CM)
HÖRT MAN DAS NOCH?
HÖRT MAN DAS NOCH? examines transformative concert experiences with classical music that integrate elements from improvisation and contemporary music theatre. Schubert’s Death and the Maiden is thus re-contextualised.
Selina Pilz is a violist and community musician. Despite her ‘classical’ training, she still sometimes feels bored or unrepresented in ‘classical’ concerts. This leads her to experiment with and explore new frameworks for music (often together with the Saitenschneider Quartett).
Instagram: @selinaschlawiner
@saitenschneider.quartett
Website: www.saitenschneiderquartett.at
ADA GÜNTHER (TMP)
WUTCH
WUTCH is a performance experiment that explores and mixes the labels WITCH and BUTCH, so that lecture, witches’ coven and workshop, and the boundaries between seeing and being seen become blurred. (Ada Günther, Profile TMP)
Ada Günther (they/them) makes theatre, performance, text, translations and comic art. They are active in artistic and activist collectives (Richtung22 in Luxembourg and Radikal Spazieren, bootleg and queerconnexion in Vienna). In her work, Ada deals with media complexes, power structures, satire, gentrification, gender, magic and revolution, among other things. Ada also shouts and sings about slime, pigeons and landlords in the punk band ‘die Bandwürmer’.
Instagram: @scharfepfefferoni
10 May 2025
Ada Günther, Angelo Beltrame, Laura Steiner, Marko Arich
ADA GÜNTHER (TMP)
WUTCH
WUTCH is a performance experiment that explores and mixes the labels WITCH and BUTCH, so that lecture, witches’ coven and workshop, and the boundaries between seeing and being seen become blurred. (Ada Günther, Profile TMP)
Ada Günther (they/them) makes theatre, performance, text, translations and comic art. They are active in artistic and activist collectives (Richtung22 in Luxembourg and Radikal Spazieren, bootleg and queerconnexion in Vienna). In her work, Ada deals with media complexes, power structures, satire, gentrification, gender, magic and revolution, among other things. Ada also shouts and sings about slime, pigeons and landlords in the punk band ‘die Bandwürmer’.
Instagram: @scharfepfefferoni
LAURA STEINER (IMP/EM)
HUMBAH
HUMBAH is an artistic research and a project about the interconnectedness of all living creatures and an attempt to develop sympathy for smaller life forms.
Laura Steiner is a songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist. She produces her own music, plays in the grunge psychedelic folk band Storm Lily and is interested in listening and field recordings. Stylistically she likes to distort and twist things and is into DIY and underground.
Laura also works with visual media such as photography or stop motion and leads groups in interactive music practice.
Instagram: @storm__lily
ANGELO BELTRAME (MV/CM)
M4A
M4A is a community music project in which professional musicians and amateurs improvise. The group performs at the MDW festival without losing touch with the 4lthangrund cultural centre.
Angelo Beltrame loves to spend time at the sea shore in order to later bring sounds and colours to the surface with cello and electronics.
After 15 years of classical cello playing and a degree in political science, he was able to reposition himself artistically in the CAP Master’s programme by exploring improvisation and community building.
Together with Selina Pilz, he runs the music group for everyone at the 4lthangrund cultural centre, a low-threshold music format with a focus on improvisation. With M4A, he wants to highlight the relevance of projects and spaces for togetherness in a social and cultural context.
Instagram: @angelobellltrame
MARKO ARICH (IComP)
Oblivious Transfer
Oblivious Transfer is an interdisciplinary improvisation series in which cross-genre collaborations between music, art and performance are created. Four works will be shown in which new forms of sonic and visual encounters are explored in changing constellations with artists such as Liliane Kölbl and Mirko Malle – including the noise performance Blech, Malle’s colour conducting – Spheric Harmonies, the walking performance Aithēr en tōi chorōi and an ensemble improvisation.
Marko Arich is a guitarist and composer. In his artistic work, he deals with the intuitive and introspective dimension of improvisation and composition, especially at the interfaces between electronic sound aesthetics, contemporary music and electroacoustic experiments. He has created works for Kunstradio Ö1 and Art’s Birthday, composed music for the augmented reality book Solidarität an der Grenze and the documentary film of the same name (Diagonale 2022) as well as for contemporary dance and theatre performances. His composition Audijo an die Freude was honoured in the 2021 Ö1 composition competition Schiller meets Beethoven meets … YOU!
12 May 2025
Sophie Schollum, Elena Arbonies Jauregui, Max Zaloudek, Marko Arich
SOPHIE KATHARINA SCHOLLUM (IComP)
greygreenblue – gesammelte Zwischen(t)räume
Pressure Drop
when it occurs
suddenly and without warning
your eyes change color
translucent reflections
life happens between the lines
in memories, my created world.
Space for dialogue, for in-between
details and sensory impressions
ideas and perspectives.
In sounds and projections
the artists create
a transmedial performance
about and within
time (and) spaces.
Together with Ahoo Maher, Sophie Katharina Schollum is developing a transmedia performance consisting of sounds, projections and texts. An exploration of the different tempos of our lives and mostly hidden details.
Sophie Katharina Schollum is a flutist, singer, composer and music teacher. In addition to ‘greygreenblue’, her current projects include the trio ‘Mister Montelli’, which moves between classical and new music, and her band ‘Sanyoo’ – originally a singer-songwriter project that has been exploring experimental paths between pop and jazz for several years.
Website: www.sophieschollum.at
ELENA ARBONIES JAUREGUI (MV/CM)
I DON’T KNOW SO I GO INTO THE FOREST
An immersive, interdisciplinary new music performance inspired by Women Who Run with the Wolves. The space is staged as a minimalist forest, four solo clarinet pieces embody ritual, repetition and change:
Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps – III Abisme des oiseaux by Olivier Messiaen, FACE by Elena Arbonies, Interference by Leonie Strecker and Madame Pele by Petra Stump-Linshalm.
Elena Arbonies Jauregui is a clarinettist and bass clarinettist who specialises in contemporary music. She performs regularly with ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, PHACE, Ensemble N, VIO and others and plays at festivals such as Wien Modern, Impuls, Warsaw Autumn and TIMF.
She won the first prize of the Sounding Visions Award 2025 with her project FACE(S) and in 2024 she also won the third prize. She has also been a finalist in international competitions such as the Grachtenfestival Conservatorium Concours in Amsterdam and the Prix D’Harmonie Competition in Rotterdam.
She has a keen interest in transdisciplinarity and narrativity in new music as ways to create a close connection with the audience. She is particularly interested in the shared experience of space and time with the audience and the exchange that arises in this shared moment through listening and reflection.
MAX ZALOUDEK (IComP)
Gedankenkarussell im Phonodiktat
Thought Carousel in Phonodiktat (Gedankenkarussell im Phonodiktat) is a performative audio essay about becoming a parent. The musician and poet Max Zaloudek, the dancer Florent Golfier and the actress Susanne Hahnl mix performance, music and literature.
Max Zaloudek rhymes on strings and composes on paper. The guitarist and poet performs social innards as text, music or electroacoustics. Max rarely cooks according to a recipe, but improvises with whatever is available – always in search of answers that pose new questions.
Bandcamp: https://maxzaloudek.bandcamp.com/
MARKO ARICH (IComP)
Oblivious Transfer
Oblivious Transfer is an interdisciplinary improvisation series in which cross-genre collaborations between music, art and performance are created. Four works will be shown in which new forms of sonic and visual encounters are explored in changing constellations with artists such as Liliane Kölbl and Mirko Malle – including the noise performance Blech, Malle’s colour conducting – Spheric Harmonies, the walking performance Aithēr en tōi chorōi and an ensemble improvisation.
Marko Arich is a guitarist and composer. In his artistic work, he deals with the intuitive and introspective dimension of improvisation and composition, especially at the interfaces between electronic sound aesthetics, contemporary music and electroacoustic experiments. He has created works for Kunstradio Ö1 and Art’s Birthday, composed music for the augmented reality book Solidarität an der Grenze and the documentary film of the same name (Diagonale 2022) as well as for contemporary dance and theatre performances. His composition Audijo an die Freude was honoured in the 2021 Ö1 composition competition Schiller meets Beethoven meets … YOU!
13 May 2025
Viktoria Hofmarcher, Olga Rybakova, Anna Buchegger, Marko Arich
VIKTORIA HOFMARCHER (IComP)
BODIES – an alternative view
BODIES – an alternative contemplation is a photographic-musical exploration of the human body, in which photo|graphic scores become sound and movement and invite us to discover an alternative contemplation.
Viktoria Hofmarcher (she/her) is a musician, photographer and much in between. Having grown up musically with alpine folk music (Dreimäderlhaus), she embarks on new musical journeys with various projects (no string quartet, zoat, Vienna Soundpainting Collective) and is in search of new sound colours, also in combination with a visual aspect.
Website: www.viktoriahofmarcher.com
OLGA RYBAKOVA (IMP/EM)
Her Soul
Her Soul is an interdisciplinary theatre project that was created to give Russian-speaking women in Vienna the opportunity to talk about how they experienced the events of the last three years of war.
So that others do not forget.
So that they themselves do not run away from the past.
Because as hard as it is to talk about it, it is even harder to remain silent.
Olga Rybakova is a singer and music teacher who follows the principles of elementary music-making in her work and has a wide range of artistic activities. Among other things, she performs with the Philharmonia Choir and is the artistic director of the Flavia Choir in the town of Lambach. In 2024, she founded and directs the women’s ensemble for contemporary music Lilac Dawn.
In her spare time, she plays in the cover band Freud me, participates in the theatre 8+, for which she also writes children’s music – and is a crazy cat lady.
Instagram: @_velexys_
ANNA BUCHEGGER (TMP)
MY SOFTGUN, THE CONDOM AND ME
In Austria, ‘ Homeland’ means drinking beer, everything stays the old way, another beer and a bit of right-wing populism. But that’s over now. I want to bring ‘ Homeland’ back to us.
Anna Buchegger is a musician. In 2024, she released her debut album Windschatten, in which she mixes elements of Alpine folk music with contemporary urban pop music and renegotiates the concept of ‘Heimat’. Windschatten was honoured with the Hubert von Goisern Award and was nominated in two categories of the Austrian Amadeus Music Awards in 2025. With Meine Softgun, das Kondom und ich, Buchegger approaches the Austrian concept of Heimat from a transmedia performative perspective and with a wink.
www.annabuchegger.com , @buc.ann , Anna on Spotify
MARKO ARICH (IComP)
Oblivious Transfer
Oblivious Transfer is an interdisciplinary improvisation series in which cross-genre collaborations between music, art and performance are created. Four works will be shown in which new forms of sonic and visual encounters are explored in changing constellations with artists such as Liliane Kölbl and Mirko Malle – including the noise performance Blech, Malle’s colour conducting – Spheric Harmonies, the walking performance Aithēr en tōi chorōi and an ensemble improvisation.
Marko Arich is a guitarist and composer. In his artistic work, he deals with the intuitive and introspective dimension of improvisation and composition, especially at the interfaces between electronic sound aesthetics, contemporary music and electroacoustic experiments. He has created works for Kunstradio Ö1 and Art’s Birthday, composed music for the augmented reality book Solidarität an der Grenze and the documentary film of the same name (Diagonale 2022) as well as for contemporary dance and theatre performances. His composition Audijo an die Freude was honoured in the 2021 Ö1 composition competition Schiller meets Beethoven meets … YOU!
PROGRAMM (PDF)
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