Current Activities of Trans-Art

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Thursday, 12th December at 7:30PM

with Dominik Kreuzer, trumpet

in my studio at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals

Trumpet, trombone, tuba, double bass and occasionally voice: The versatile musician Dominik Kreuzer from Graz is Astrid Rieder's performance partner in the 102nd performance of the do trans-Art performance series. Over the years, Dominik Kreuzer has worked in a wide variety of genres, from jazz and urban brass to reggae and Afrobeat. For some time now, he has been improvising in various contexts in and around Graz. He is a member of the Styrian Improvisers Orchestra, which was founded in 2012 by Annette Giesriegl and Seppo Gründler, the improv trio First Row Dancer and the jazz formation Trapped in Styles. He is also chairman of the Graz art association Kulturkotter, which was founded in 2020. On 12 December, he will join Astrid Rieder in an improvisational process between new music and abstract drawing - a transmedia collaboration.

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 Arounjo, piano

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

SUMMIT of trans-Art 2024

on the topic of ‘Time’

on October 10th and 11th, 2024

SUMMIT 2024

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.

PERFORMANCESERIES: "do trans-Art"

EACH 2ND THURsday per month at 7:30pm

at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals

Thursday, 14th November

do trans-Art_101 with Annette Giesriegl, voice & electronics

Thursday, 12th December

do trans-Art_102 with Dominik Kreuzer, trumpet

"trans-Art on the road"

scheduled dates 2024

Friday, 07th June at 7:00PM

trans-Art Performance with Elisabeth Moest, flute

at Galerie Lost Places, Metzgergasse 7, 5400 Hallein

Samstag, 6th July at 07:30PM

Frauenstimmen trans-Art Performance with Elisabeth Moest

at Atelier trans-Art, Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals

For September 2024 I have been granted a residency at the VCCA (USA) by the Cultural Office of the City of Salzburg.

Work created during the residency will be on view in the 15th annual AIR - artists-in-residence exhibition at the Stadtgalerie Mozartplatz 5 in Salzburg from November 21, 2024 to January 31, 2025.

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