Space Night

After years of absence and a complete hiatus, Space Night is finally back! This calls for a celebration. We’re looking forward to a fantastic and unforgettable evening! A brief look back at 55 past Space Nights, and an exciting glimpse of those yet to come. We’re very excited, Magdalena, Petra, and Stefan

A discussion of the miracle of chemical photography. Beginning with "pre-photographic" thought, through the early innovations that brought permanent, lens-formed images to the collective human experience. The basic 'puzzle-pieces' of photographic image making will be discussed, with historical examples and anecdotes, while also exploring the social effects and transformations that new technologies of picture-making heralded. Finally, examples of how these antique technologies are being celebrated today will aim to convince listeners that chemical photography has lost little of its romance in the wake of the digital revolution.

Anna-Maria König will read from her latest narrative project The Demos of Santa Isabel. This is about the creation of the song Strawberry Fields Forever, which John Lennon writes during a film shoot in Almería, Spain in the fall of 1966. The Beatles are at a turning point: After the Beatlemania threatened to run aground, they decided not to give live concerts anymore. There are retrospectives and side shows before the story finally changes into the frame and it ...

Nasser Ansari will accompany the reading musically (guitar and vocals)

MARIA LASSNIG KANTATE

A coproduction by Hubert Sielecki WITH Maria Lassnig! (1992)

Maria Lassnig tells us the story of her life.

MARIA LASSNIG: Es ist Kunst, jaja...

An aproximation of Sepp Dreissinger, 2015

Regie: Sepp Dreissinger & Heike Schäfer

From 2001 until shortly before she died in May 2014, the Austrian photographer and filmmaker Sepp Dreissinger regularly visited Maria Lassnig and accompanied her with the camera.

Who needs funding? What rule does politics play? Are dependencies created?

We want to pursue this and many other questions in the course of KULTURSALON#2

The UNICORN project is a complex artistic work, observation, imagination and manipulation, use of media, ways of seeing and mechanisms of truth formation questioned. It was developed by Heike Schäfer during a 2-month stay in Nida (LT) on the Curonian Spit on the border to Kaliningrad.

Before the 17th century was banished in the world of myths, the unicorn has beside all the exotic animals, which one knew only by hearsay. The shy and intelligent animal could be used by his young girl and his horn, his hooves and his liver for the preparation of medicine (including Hildegard von Bingen) ...

Imagination is the key to culture. Through these stories, some realities are created, before they enter as historical artifacts in the annals of human history. The transmission media may change, the mechanism remains eternally the same.

Heike Schäfer is a visual artist.  More Information: www.heikeschaefer.net/

Christoph Luger is a visual artist.

Further information at: www.christophluger.at/

drums and electronics

"Between nothing and nothing is something and in this room my music moves."

A point in transition. A place is created.
Previously, the environment was assessed, the area measured and tested for fitness for purpose.
The essence of the place, that is, the consequences resulting from the result, are not yet recognizable.

An atelier is an area designated by the artist, which is released for constant development without ever having to bear the consequences of the deeds.
It is equally slaughterhouse like workshop.

The American artist Agnes Martin built in the desert of New Mexico on a reason that did not belong to her, from her previously made adobe bricks two houses and a studio house. After that she started to paint again. In their pictures repeated raster appear.

As part of the lecture, I reflect the artistic production based on my own experience and try to get to the bottom of the mutual network of occupation, space, deconstruction and production.

Club Irrko Space Night turns into a night of space: we look at the processes of spatial development and a long visit to the bakery of a New York Italian patisserie. This provides all necessary information to build a sculpture.

New spaces are clearly defined by their outer boundaries and only visible through these interruptions. Here they arise during processes that require a complicated material overrun and are barely controllable. But you can succeed with feeling, knowledge and the respect for an in-material autonomy. I follow the concepts of croissant and sfogliatelle, in which the volume - unlike the whirlpool - is the largest possible distance from each other.

Judith Leinen is a sculptor, lives in Berkeley, CA and Kaiserslautern, D where she teaches and researches at the Department of Architecture at the Technical University. judithleinen.com

More anti-racism & civil courage: when, if not now!

This evening, Hikmet Kayahan, head of ANTIRASSISM CENTER VIENNA, which opened in January 2018, will be a guest and will report on the association's human rights work and provide insights into the various projects. Together we discuss and chat possible and necessary alliances and strategies against hatred and more civil courage.

Attempt a personal review and location
by Herbert Lacina (improvisation musician from Vienna)

After the lecture there will be a concert of the improvisation ensemble TiefKlang
(Edward Reardon: git, Andreas Eichhorn, bcl, Herbert Lacina 12 string bass)

Photo: Gustavo Petek

What are you reading ? Book Speed Dating.
Bring your (favorite) book! It will find new friends.

"This captivating documentary reconstructs James Baldwin's unfinished final book," Remember This House, "a ruthless treatise on racism in the US, told in the words of the African-American author, of three of his most prominent victims: Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers (member of NAACP) and Malcolm X, who were all murdered in the 1960s. "(Falter, 2017)

In 1705, a series commissioned by Count Leopold Joseph von Lamberg (1653 / 54-1706) was created for the documentation of his possessions located in what is now the Waldviertel. The peculiarity of this Urbare is that they contain watercolor paintings of every rule, painted by Kitzbühel artist Johann Paul Faistenberger (1654 -1705). On the one hand, these vedutas - by far the oldest pictorial traditions of dozens of villages - represent a "well-ordered landscape" in the self-assured sense of the landlord and client, but on the other hand also give a fascinating authentic insight into the living environment of the rural population of the Waldviertel at the beginning of the 18th century.

Ronald Salzer - historian, archaeologist and Waldviertler in Vienna.
https://univie.academia.edu/RonaldSalzer

Dino Schosche, CEO of the agency Alpha Plus and project leader of the Vienna Integration Week provides answers to the questions of who should integrate where in Austria, what the right problems of our society are and who should choose people without suffrage in Austria.

Dino Schosche was born in 1975 in Mostar, then Yugoslavia. In 1993 he came to Munich as a war refugee and in 2005 as an economic refugee to Vienna. He often calls himself a Bavarian Herzegovinian. Although he was not received by the enthusiastic crowd and brass music on his arrival at the South Station, he founded a few months later, a company to try as a brave top performers and to the state of Austria through sales, pay and trade tax to be able to give something back. In the following years he tried to be the publisher of the foreign language publication "Bum" (magazines in Serbo-Croatian and Turkish), as well as German glossy magazines "Kiox" and "Wiener Vielfalt". His projects include the "Vienna Integration Week" (event series on participation), "Divörsity" (day of action on which Austrian companies and institutions show their colorful side), "We are all Vienna" (video portraits of cosmopolitan Viennese and Wiener), etc. (The whole portfolio can be found at http://www.alphaplus.at). Today he is a threefold family man, a passionate musician and still a convinced Viennese.

Gianna Zocco is assistant and lecturer at the Department of Comparative Literature of the University of Vienna. After her dissertation on the subject of the window as an opening to the interior in contemporary literature and after a one-year research stay at Columbia University in New York, she is currently working on her habilitation on images and functions of German-speaking countries and its history in African-American literature.

For solidarity, spirituality and integration. Mainly, is not it ?!

Of course, everyone would come up with some foreign words. With these three exclusive keywords, I would like to present my work as a priest, curator of contemporary art in churches, society observers, responsible for Caritas and mission. In order for this cross-section crossover story to remain reasonably digestible and concise, I will also show some photos. I look forward to a nice meeting.

Hermann Glettler, since 2016 Bishop Vicar for Caritas and Evangelization in the Catholic Church of Styria. Pastor and social worker in the beautiful multicultural district Gries in Graz. Visual artist.

Since the revelations of Edward Snowden, I've been trying to unite two madness themes in a novel: The Massless Mass Surveillance and the Rapid Advances in Artificial Intelligence. A third theme is a link, it is the development of autonomy for military technology. I would like to introduce you to my research on these topics and also give a first insight into the novel and its characters, who hitherto carried the working title "The Silver People".

After teaching foreign languages and languages in Delhi / India and Nottingham / Great Britain, I am currently studying language arts at the University of Applied Arts / Vienna.

Photo: Nuclear Test Bench in Nevada (© Frank Ruf)

Much is being said about polyamory. But how much do we really know about emotional and sexual multi-relationships ? What research has been done and what has yet to be discovered ? Based on a quite tricky quiz the knowledge of the audience will be assessed and subsequently stereotypes will be dispelled. No prior knowledge necessary, monogamists very welcome.

Stefan Ossmann is a social and human scientist and currently researching in the context of a FWF project about commonalities and differences in the self perception and the media representation of polyamorously living people:  http://polyamorie.univie.ac.at/

Tableaux vivants were very popular especially at the time of Goethe. These were physical adjustments and re-sensations of canonized works of painting and sculpture. It should be conveyed "magical insights into the border world between reality and imagination". With photography, the tableau vivant later begins to become the product of one's own creative energy. The lively as well as the pictures in and of themselves can be so fascinating that you absolutely must understand their mystery - behind the picture wants to reach to solve his mystery. It is viewed as covetous, it is tilted and spaces are filled, which want to name the non-visible, the only ancestral. Ultimately, one surrenders to the sensuality inherent in the image and surrenders with a shudder of enchantment.
Lecture with picture examples

Nicola Schenk has worked at the Künstlerhaus, studied at the Theater-Film and Media Studies Vienna and is currently developing new professional horizons through transdisciplinary projects.

Presentation of the film followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.
Elfriede Jelinek: "I think this movie is great, especially because it's so factual."

Walter Manoschek is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna and has been researching the Holocaust, National Socialism and the politics of the past for many years.

For a decade and a half Vladimir Putin has lead his country with a strong hand. He also asserted his image internationally as a force with whom to be reckoned. But how successful is his regime ? Where are its vulnerabilities ?  Considering the economic crisis, is he the one who can give Russia a perspective for the future ?

Eduard Steiner, long year Moscow correspondent of the newspaper “ die Presse „

The so-called “Canaletto-view”, i.e. the panoramic view over baroque Vienna painted by the famous vedutista Bernardo Bellotto (called Canaletto) in the mid-18th century, is featured prominently on many postcards, puzzles and other tourist kitsch. Far less known, however, is the fact that Bellotto has left us not just one but 16 paintings from his time at the Habsburg court. Let’s roam the muddy streets of baroque Vienna through the eyes of Bellotto, discover the Venetian’s craze for the most minute details and ponder whether his paintings were meant to be more than just pleasant views: Bellottos Viennese paintings – a comic strip?

Nowhere in Europe is the resistance to the free trade agreements TTIP and CETA greater than in Austria. And that, although hardly anyone knows what it is about. Stefan Knoll should know. He sits at Greenpeace in the strategic planning staff of the CETA / TTIP campaign and describes his impressions from the Greenpeace perspective.

European Championship Austria vs Iceland

Last game of the Austrian group stage

The pictures live from the Stade de France Paris with the expert commentary of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Miloš Vec

(... this candidate will not work anymore ...)

1. Extrapolate and watch together until the end - with special (nerve) drink: frog cocktail

Lisa Weber and Markus Walenzyk present failure as a part of their artistic process and as an artistic motif, as well as failure in the art of others, in words, actions, thoughts, matter and things.

Lisa Weber, artist, lives and works in Mainz and Frankfurt
Markus Walenzyk, artist, lives and works in Mainz 
Lisa Weber and Markus Walenzyk

tefan glettler ist nicht da.

seine werkstatt ist das vorgefundene. eine ordnung. ein konkreter raum, eine stätte/gegend/landschaft das zu bearbeitende – nachspührend, gelassen abwartend.

auf/um/in dieses zu bearbeitende wird das zu schaffende gebaut.

mit dem, was da ist, oft auch mit irgendwas – material.

umgebungen korrespondieren, der werkstatt einen neuen denkraum zuordnend.

und nocheinmal mit albert paal gesprochen: die schwerkraft hält den raum um das geschaffene. die werkstatt ist jetzt werk – statt.

fertig. alles ist in ordnung.

morgen kommt er wieder.

e.d gfrerer/architect/space-artist

working in graz and abroad/in reference to private/half official/public spaces

foto: cafe milano/shelter/2o13/copyright zita oberwalder

A night of improvised music with the WOW trio from Lucerne, Switzerland and the Vienna based improvising ensemble TiefKlang.The two trios will merge for this concert and perform together as a sextet.

THE WOW TRIO

Steven Tod, E-Gitarre (Chicago/Luzern)
Christof Zurbuchen, Alto-Klarinette, efx (Zug)
Christian Bucher, Drums (Luzern).

Das internationale Trio hat die Fähigkeit sich durch Raum & Zeit zu bewegen.
Die Zuhörer lauschen, und stellen mit Erstaunen fest, dass sie Musik zum ersten Mal wiederhören. wow!

TIEFKLANG

Andreas Eichhorn: Bass- und andere Klarinetten (D)
Mathematiker und Improvisationsmusiker, lebt und arbeitet in Wien;
http://www.myspace.com/andeich

Herbert Lacina: E-Bass- und andere Bässe (A)
In Wien lebender und tätiger Musiker aus dem Jazz und-Improvisationsbereich.
https://digitalart.wordpress.com

Edward Reardon, guitar and piano (USA)
Composer and improviser born in Chicago and currently living in Vienna.
http://edwardreardon.com

Lukas Pusch is a visual artist. He lives and works in Vienna and Siberia. He is co-publisher of the artist magazine The Antist (together with TOMAK)

In the year 1944, 74% (i.e., 92 of 124) of the full- and extraordinary professors at the University of Vienna were members or aspirants of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and were therefore confronted with measures of denazification. The denazification and rehabilitation of the professorate was a complex and eclectic process that started at the end of the war and continued until the late 1950s.  In the end, most of them got off lightly.

Roman Pfefferle is a political scientist with an emphasis on past policies at the University of Vienna.  

he was eighteen, my mother told me, and spent her summers daydreaming and
writing poetry somewhere in the dusty countryside at the outskirts of Bucharest. Every
day, except Sunday, the postman would deliver a letter from her lover. „To Cristina“ the
envelope said in curled words that suggested the careful touch of his hands. Next to
the letters, folded inside the envelopes, she would always find five or ten lei, depending
on how much he had put aside by eating less.
„For cigarettes“, a note would say, „with all my love“. Reading the pile of letters years
later I wasn’t surprised to find none written by my mother. I have always felt that in the
meeting of art and love, love always loses.

Tudor Bratu is an artist and writer. He lives and works in Bucharest and Amsterdam and is the founder of the residency program Bucharest AiR.

(Partner: Rumänisches Kulturinstitut Wien)

She is simply the best, we don´t need another hero(ine)!

Born in 1936, first hit 1960, legendary performances with the „Ike and Tina Turner Revue“, married, beaten, escaped and divorced. New start, 1985 brilliant come-back as „grandmother of rock“ with lion`s mane and leather mini skirt. Since then a megastar on the sky of pop with numerous mainstream-hits with incredible power, energy, passion and a thrilling voice of the century.

Bernhard Schwarzenegger is an art historian and social – and professional pedagog, Tina Turner fan for 30 years.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

Michael Gumhold is an artist.
Lives and works in Vienna.

The 4 basic forms of anxiety by Fritz Riemann bravely performed by ES and the two Speisgirls.

Erika Schwarzgruber is an art therapist at the forensic psychiatry, female Clown, and actress.
The Speisgirls are Roswitha Altenhuber and Uli Zabini. Both of them work as lawyers.

fotocredit: Luca Unden

Sandra Hubinger is a writer and lives in Vienna.

An introduction and overview to the composer, bandleader, pianist, poet, philosopher, and visionary, Sun Ra on the occasion of his 101st birthday.

Edward Reardon is a composer, pianist and guitarist born in Chicago, currently living in Vienna.

Turning the virtue of sharing into something modern again: sharing goods, sharing experiences, sharing knowledge, sharing happiness and unhappiness, living in a community. This is the starting point to value and appreciate public spaces beyond former experiences through the possibility of a common good. The new takes courage, diversity, generousity, and patience – as well as the old.
Everything is in a flow. What is beautiful ? Can beauty be found in taming nature, in bending its assymetry ? Or is beauty nature`s unruly wildness ? I believe it is both. Both are arts, one is the art of creating, the other is the art of just letting things happen. In my opinion the only wrong thing is when the art of creating is turned into an industrial nature because it is connected with gene manipulation, artificial fertilizers and speculation with food. Who is pro the bees, butterflies and healthy food is also pro non industrialized nature – no matter if in a wild garden or in a raised bed garden. This is how Übelbach, the first eatable community, thinks. Without passing judgement, it wants to serve as an example for sustainibility in front of everyone`s door.

Markus Windisch is the mayor of the market town Übelbach in Styria, Austria.

Manuela Hämmerle is a filmmaker and puppet player. She lives in Vienna.

Aspects of Austrian Art Nouveau Ceramics – The Viennese Porcelain manufacturer Josef Böck

In 1889 the porcelan manufacturer Joseph Böck contacted Koloman Moser und Josef Hoffmann, newly assigned professors at the Arts and Crafts School of Vienna / Kunstgewerbeschule Wien, to have them manufacture porcelain tableware according to the drafts of their students. The porcelain tableware and decor designed by the students Jutta Sika, Therese Trethan and Antoinette Krasnik differed from the usual art deco style of that time by their reduced, very often strictly geometric ornamental and tectonic shape. Already at that point those tablewares were highly regarded, and traded under the label „School of Professor Kolo Moser“. Today they are in great demand by international collectors and sold for high prices.
The lecture gives a short overview about Austrian ceramics- and porcelain manufacturing at the beginning of the 20th century and introduces the wide spectrum of the work of the Viennese porcelain manufaturer Josef Böck.

Thomas Wenzl is a technical draftsman, interior architect and collector.

Foto © K-Hole

„Normcore“ is a neologism that denotes a unisex style in contemporary fashion. On the basis of current examples of „normcore“ the lecture deals with so called „fashion rules“ that are determined by social convention, morals and religion, but rarely by law. Nevertheless there is a competition, coexistence and cooperation of different normative systems. This hybridity is best described by the term „multinormativity“.

Miloš Vec is university professor for European Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna.

Johann Lurf and Stefan Zlamal are filmmakers living in Vienna.

This talk challenges the predominant assumption that the reform of urban education in the United States lies entirely in improved resource allocation. It explores the idea that the public education system acts as an agent of cultural reproduction whose primary purpose is to perpetuate the occupation of black bodies in their current stations within the collective American imagination. If this is so, compulsory education becomes a sophisticated trap rather than a mechanism of social mobility.  If it’s dismantled, what replaces it?

Eleni Linas is a teacher in the United States.  Formerly a computer engineer, Eleni began a second career in teaching seven years ago. She spent three years teaching in South Central Los Angeles and currently teaches mathematics at a public high school in Chicago.

We are moving to a street. We ask ourselves, after whom is that street named ? We ask around. Everybody knows a little bit, nobody knows more. We begin our investigation and a journey begins, from Odenwald to Syria, to Egypt and back to Mainz. We read traces and books. 1896, 1933, 2014. We unravel strings and different layers. It may not be science but we are able to tell a story.

Clara Wörsdörfer is art historian and comparative literature. Christoph Wirges is german- and history teacher and writer. They are living in Mainz.

Hans Pfefferle, 63 years, learned the craft of mosaics from his father, studied Germanistics and History at the University of Innsbruck and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He did drawings until 1973 and then started again after a 30 year long break in 2003.

Larisa Crunțeanu works with performance, video and sound. She is a PHD student in National Arts University in Bucharest. Her research is focused on voice and intimacy. Together with Xandra Popescu, she powers the project space Atelier 35. (Partner: Rumänisches Kulturinstitut Wien)

Expedition to the lake Genezareth!

Maria Wiebersinsky is an artist living in Vienna.

David Merlin, was born in Verona (Italy) and studied composition and music theory (masters thesis about liturgic chants for the Saint Leopold of Klosterneuburg). He is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute for Music Theory at the University of Vienna (Topic of the dissertation is an Antiphonary  (a liturgical book of chants for praying) that was printed in 1519 by Johannes Winterburger in Vienna).
His main topics of research are monophonic liturgic chants of the late middle ages and the renaissance and their handwritten and printed sources, the Holy Office, and the Cantus Fractus.

Lukas Zallinger is an artist living in Vienna.

Dorothee Gottwald is working at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna.

Gilles Becker is a Philosophy PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts and a stage designer. He is currently studying Biology at the Universtity of Vienna.

Diaries are places of self assurance, harbor, and of bookkeeping about one`s life. Why, and for whom, does someone keep a diary ? The lecture „the adventure of keeping a diary“ investigates internal and external writing and reading practices and puts the genre up for discussion.

Miloš Vec is university professor for European Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna.