Astrid
Rieder
Current Activities of Trans-Art
do trans-Art_111
Thursday, 11th September, 7:30PM
with Stephan Kowarsch, E-Guitar
in my studio at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals
Stephan Kowarsch is a guest in the 111th performance of the do trans-Art performance series. The Viennese electric guitarist, electronic musician and art educator is part of the duo Zahnsisters, which released the EP ‘Das Ewige Leben’ in 2022. Last year, he worked on sketchy audio exports of a musical project, which he processes into new constellations characterised by the fragility of the material. He performs live with electric guitar and effects, solo or in collaboration. In the do trans-Art performance between Stephan Kowarsch and Astrid Rieder, sound and drawing meet in a continuous modulation: abstract sound formations meet drawing traces at the moment of their creation. An electronic-analogue dialogue.
Admission: free
do trans-Art 2025
with Astrid Rieder
In 2016, Astrid Rieder created the monthly performance series do trans-Art in her studio at Künstlerhaus Salzburg, which she has since continued in her studio in Wals, Salzburg: On the second Thursday of every month, Astrid Rieder invites a musician from the field of new music to her studio to enter into an artistic, transdisciplinary dialogue in front of an audience. For 40 minutes, two artists interact between abstract drawing and new music, without a score, without rehearsals and without thematic guidelines. The drawing is neither a performance instruction nor a visualisation of the sounds played. Likewise, the sound is not a musicalisation of the drawing. Rather, the performance is a simultaneous action and reaction, a bi-directional dialogue based on mutual inspiration, in which the arts meet without any hierarchy.
Despite many obstacles, the performance series do trans-Art has taken place every second Thursday of the month without interruption since 2016. After each performance, the large-scale drawing, a documentary video and an audio recording remain. After the performance, the audio recording (consisting of the musical part and the sounds created during the drawing process) can be heard on Astrid Rieder's radio programme Atelier für neue Musik / trans-Art on radiofabrik and RadioFro, together with a conversation with her performance partner.
Thu 09 January with Susanne Hehenberger, violin
Thu 13 February with Peter WesenAuer, piano
Thu 13 March with Elisabeth Flunger, percussion
Thu 10 April with Karlheinz Essl, electronics
Thu 08 May with Paul Eiser, saxophone
Thu 12 June with Fernando Araujo, piano - did not take place
Thu 10 July with Ana Topalovic, cello
Thu 14 August with Sebastian Jolles, cello
Thu 11 September with Stephan Kowarsch, electric guitar & electronics
Thu 09 October with Ingrid Wegmayr, electric guitar
Thu 13 November with Alba Llorach Roca, piano
Thu 11 December with Herbert Lacina, bass
Date: on the 2nd Thursday of every month
Time: 19:30
Place: trans-Art studio Astrid Rieder, Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals, 2nd floor
Admission free
PERFORMANCESERIES: "do trans-Art"
EACH 2ND THURsday per month at 7:30pm
at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals
Thursday, 11th September 2025
do trans-Art_111 with Stephan Kowarsch, E-Guitar
Thursday, 09th October 2025
do trans-Art_112 with Ingrid Wegmayr, E-Guitar
"trans-Art on the road"
scheduled dates 2025
Saturday, 20th September 2025
trans-Art Performance with Annette Giesriegl, vocalist
Atelier 12, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz
Sunday, 28th September 2025
trans-Art Performance with Elisabeth Möst, transverse flute
in remembrance Eva Roscher at the Int. polyaisthesis Symposium 27. / 28. Sept. 2025
IGPE-Zentrum, 5020 Salzburg, Eschenbachgasse 1
Thursday, 2nd October 2025
trans-Art Performance with Paul Eiser, saxophone
& presentation of the conference proceedings SUMMIT of trans-Art 2024
with opening speech of Andrea Lehner-Hagwood
APPENDIX Art Hub des Salzburger Kunstverein, Hellbrunner Straße 3, 5020 Salzburg
Friday, 3rd October 2025
Exhibition of large-scale drawing - lecture - presentation of photos and videos
for the trans-art Performance with Erik Spangler (Baltimore) on May 3rd, 2025
at the 13th Annual {Re}HAPPENING at Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain, NC, USA
APPENDIX Art Hub des Salzburger Kunstverein, Hellbrunner Straße 3, 5020 Salzburg
PODCAST: "Atelier für neue Musik/trans-Art"
each 1st and 3rd Saturday per calendar month at 11AM
Saturday, 20th September
repetition: acoustic part do trans-Art_108 Unidirectional drawing to piano improvisations by Eva Roscher
in memoriam on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of her death
in the studio of Astrid Rieder in Wals near Salzburg
Samstag, 04. Oktober
acoustic Part do trans-Art_111 with Stephan Kowarsch, E-Guitar
in my studio in Wals/Salzburg
each 2nd and 4th Tuesday per calendar month at 11pm
Tuesday, 9th September
transfer of the broadcast: acoustic part do trans-Art_110 with Sebastian Jolles, cello
in my studio in Wals/Salzburg
Saturday, 23rd September
repetition: acoustic part do trans-Art_108 Unidirectional drawing to piano improvisations by Eva Roscher
in memoriam on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of her death
in the studio of Astrid Rieder in Wals near Salzburg
Here is the link to all the radio shows that have been broadcast so far:
Here you can find videos of individual trans-Art performances:
