Astrid
Rieder
Current Activities of Trans-Art
do trans-Art_116
Thursday, 12th February, 7:30PM
with Karen Schlimp, piano
in my studio at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals
The 116th do trans-Art Performance brings together artistic practices that arise in the immediate act of doing: large-format drawing and freely improvised piano music. In an open, dialogical process, line and sound, body movement and musical gesture, materiality and time encounter each other.
Internationally active improvisational musician Karen Schlimp has been working for many years at various universities in Austria—at the intersection of music, space, image, and movement. She has set more than 50 silent films to contemporary music and regularly plays music to accompany images and texts. Her travels to Asia and the Orient serve as a constant source of inspiration for her musical work. During Astrid Rieder's audiovisual do trans-Art performance, the two artists interact in their different art forms. A fragile balance emerges between line and sound. In a 40-minute time window, a flow can develop in a sustained interplay, a compositiongraphiquemusicale.
Admission: €10,-
Exibition
"trans-Art in Black Mountain"
PROGRAM:
2ND & 3RD OCTOBER open hours 12PM – 7PM
Exhibition of large-scale drawings and a video installation about Astrid Rieder's trans-art performance in Black Mountain 2025
2ND OCTOBER
6PM–Presentation of the conference proceedings SUMMIT of trans-Art 2024 with accompanying words by Andrea Lehner-Hagwood
7PM – trans-Art Performance by Astrid Rieder und Paul Eiser, saxophone
3RD OCTOBER
4PM – Photo presentation by Astrid Rieder on Black Mountain Presentation by Werner Raditschnig: “John Cage – Emancipation is reasonable”
Open dialogue with the audience until 7PM
Presentation of works at the annual exhibition
of the IG bildenden Kunst (Association of Fine Arts)
Exhibition of the large-scale drawing and film about the trans-Art performance
at the 13th {Re} Happening in Black Mountain, NC, USA, with Erik Spangler, electronics, in May of this year
PERFORMANCESERIES: "do trans-Art" 2026
with Astrid Rieder
10 years do trans-Art with Astrid Rieder – 2016–2026
10 years – 115 do trans-Art performances – always on the 2nd Thursday of each month
Astrid Rieder's studio in Wals near Salzburg is a place of encounter, interaction, sound, and drawing—a “free space” for artists to meet in the here and now—but also a “free space” for performance visitors, where they can simply BE, without prior knowledge, without the pressures of everyday life and time.
Astrid Rieder's consistently pursued concept shows the “lively dialogue between two art forms” – between musician and visual artist – an interdisciplinary exploration and an open and non-judgmental engagement between new improvised music and abstract drawing. Astrid Rieder's audiovisual trans-art performance is carried by musical and graphic improvisation, without prior agreement, without sheet music, without predictability of what arises spontaneously. The artist calls this moment of “flow” that could develop “compositiongraphiquemusicale.” The essence of the performance is the live experience. What remains is an audiovisual work of art consisting of a large drawing, a documentary video, and an audio recording. In Astrid Rieder's radio program Atelier für neue Musik / trans-Art on Radiofabrik and RadioFro, the recorded sounds of the performance are regularly broadcast along with an interview with the musicians. The videos are presented on FS1 and on Astrid Rieder's own YouTube channel.
do trans-Art_115 | Thu. 8th January with Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, double bass
do trans-Art_116 | Thu. 12th February with Karen Schlimp, piano
do trans-Art_117 | Thu. 12th March with Danial Moazeni, tar (long-necked lute)
do trans-Art_118 | Thu. 9th April with Madeleine Dietrichstein, saxophone
do trans-Art_119 | Thu. 14th May with Fernando Araujo, piano
do trans-Art_120 | Thu. 11th June with Claudia Cervenca, vocal
do trans-Art_121 | Thu. 9th July with Mariana Ungureanu, elektronics
do trans-Art_122 | Thu. 13th August with Manuel de Roo, guitar
do trans-Art_123 | Thu. 10th September with Anna Sophia Defant, piano
do trans-Art_124 | Thu. 8th October with Burkard Stangl, elektronics
do trans-Art_125 | Thu. 12th November with Angela Koppenwallner, piano
do trans-Art_126 | Thu. 10th December with Jakob Widerin, guitar
Date: on the 2nd Thursday of every month
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: trans-Art studio Astrid Rieder, Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals, 2nd floor
Admission: 10€
"trans-Art on the road"
scheduled dates 2025
Thursday, 2nd October 2025, 6 pm
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
from 12 noon:
Exhibition "trans-Art in Black Mountain"
Large-scale drawing for the trans-Art performance with Erik Spangler (Baltimore) on 3 May 2025
at the 13th Annual {Re}HAPPENING at Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain, NC, USA
from 4 pm:
Lecture by Werner Raditschnig "John Cage - Emancipation is reasonable"
Picture lecture by Astrid Rieder "The historic buildings of Black Mountain"
APPENDIX Art Hub des Salzburger Kunstverein, Hellbrunner Straße 3, 5020 Salzburg
Thursday, 23rd October 2025, 7:30 pm
trans-Art at Artisserie, Lenaugasse 6, 1080 Vienna
with Laura Pudelek - Cello & Gammon - Modular Synthesizer
Wednesday, 29th October 2025, 7:30 pm
trans-Art at ART LOUNGE at Café Korb, Brandstätte, 1010 Vienna
with Alba Llorach Roca - piano
PODCAST: "Atelier für neue Musik/trans-Art"
each 1st and 3rd Saturday per calendar month at 11AM
Saturday, 3rd January
acoustic part – do trans-Art performance with Paul Eiser, saxophone
(at my studio in Wals/Salzburg)
Saturday, 17th January
acoustic part – trans-Art in the Artisserie with Gammon, electronics & Laura Pudelek, cello
(at Lenaugasse 6, in Vienna's 8th district)
each 2nd and 4th Tuesday per calendar month at 11pm
Tuesday, 13th January
broadcast overtake: acoustic part – do trans-Art performance with Paul Eiser, saxophone
(at my studio in Wals/Salzburg)
Tuesday, 27th January
broadcast overtake: acoustic part – trans-Art in the Artisserie with Gammon, electronics & Laura Pudelek, cello
(at Lenaugasse 6, in Vienna's 8th district)
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:
