Current Activities of Trans-Art

do trans-Art 2024
with Astrid Rieder

On the 2nd Thursday of every month, I invite a contemporary musician of new music to my studio to engage in a transdisciplinary dialogue with them in front of an audience: for 40 minutes, in constant interaction, without rehearsal or score, two artists modulate, act and react - and along with them, two art forms: new music and abstract drawing. Neither the music nor the drawing has priority. We artists engage in a bidirectional dialogue based on mutual inspiration, in which the two art forms meet in constant interdependence and without hierarchy.

The performance series do trans-Art was developed in 2016 in my studio at Künstlerhaus Salzburg and later continued in my studio at Bundesstraße 37, Wals, Salzburg. Despite many obstacles, do trans-Art has since taken place every 2nd Thursday of the month without interruption.

Do. 11 January with Susanne Hehenberger, violin

Do. 08 February with Jordina Millà, piano

Do. 14 March with Peter Arnesen, piano

Do. 11 April with Paul Eiser, saxophone

Do. 09 May with Lukas Lauermann, cello

Do. 13 June with Celina Hubmann, soprano & transverseflute

Do. 11 July with Christian Tschinkel, acousmatic music

Do. 08 August with Sebastian Jolles, cello

Do. 12 September with Lisa Hofmaninger, saxophone

Do. 10 October with Elisabeth Moest, transverseflute

Do. 14 November with Annette Giesriegl, voice & electronics

Do. 12 December with Dominik Kreuzer, trumpet

Date: on the 2nd Thursday of every month

Time: 19:30 Uhr

Place: trans-Art studio Astrid Rieder, Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals, 2nd floor.

Admission free

SUMMIT of trans-Art 2024

on the topic of "Time"

on October 10 and 11, 2024

On October 10 and 11, I will be holding the scientific-theoretical symposium SUMMIT of trans-Art for the 3rd time. The theme of this year's SUMMIT of trans-Art is Time. Ten speakers from in and outside Austria have been invited to talk about time from their respective perspectives. On the evening of October 10, we will open the symposium with the 100th performance of my performance series do trans-Art. On October 11, the lectures on the topic of time will be held and afterwards discussed on the podium. See the full program here.

Date: October 10 and 11, 2024

Location: trans-Art Studio Astrid Rieder, Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals, 2nd floor.

Admission free. Please register in advance: mail@astrid-rieder.com

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Thursday, 8th August at 7:30PM

with Sebastian Jolles, cello

in my studio at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals

Astrid Rieder's guest in the 98th performance of the do trans-Art performance series is the Vienna-based cellist Sebastian Jolles. Sebastian Jolles combines the path of the classical orchestral musician with that of the seeker "out of the box". He has played in the Cairo Symphony Orchestra in Egypt, as a street musician, in prisons, at the Vienna airport, and for several years in the Immling Festival Orchestra. His interest in improvisation was further deepened in the course "Improvisation in the Teaching of String Instruments" at the Bruckner University in Linz. Thinking outside the box and building bridges out of the comfort zone remain driving forces. This led him to trans-Art a few years ago. The 11th joint performance with Astrid Rieder will take place on August 8th. Bridges between new improvised music and abstract drawing will be built, designed and maintained.

trans-Art, the dialogue between abstract sounds and abstract drawing

artistic vision:

A trans-art performance explores the interplay between new music and abstract drawing. It is a regular exercise of an encounter in which two dialogue partners, coming from two different disciplines and thus also from two different worlds and everyday lives, engage in a dialogue in a shared "strangeness". In a constantly interactive, modulating, flowing process, without a score, without arrangements or rehearsals, a joint visual and auditory composition can be created - the Composition Graphique Musicale. The drawing process, like the musical process, is additive, i.e. what has already been drawn is overdrawn and thus expanded during the trans-art performance. The audience can perceive these processes simultaneously as movement that can sharpen the senses, as the phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty described Paul Klee's act of painting. The final product consists of the large drawing, a sound recording and a recorded video.

SUMMIT OF TRANS-ART 2024

10th - 11th October

Review of SUMMIT of trans-Art 2022