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

For September the Cultural Office of the City of Salzburg granted me a residency at the VCCA (USA) from 8/30 to 9/30/2024.

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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. 11 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

do trans-Art_99 - with Astrid Rieder and Lisa Hofmaninger

get together trans-Art

Thursday, 12th September

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), USA

On 12 September 2024, a special experiment took place in my studio at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) in Virginia, USA: the first ‘get together trans-Art Performance’. I had the honour of performing together with my VCCA Fellows - Linda Cut-ting, Zeke Berman, Rob Marks, Greeshma Chenni Veettil, Paul Reisler and Jane Zweibel. We acted and interacted in different roles: The audience became performers and vice versa. A sound person and a draughtsperson stepped out of the group and interacted for a period of time.

Beforehand, I had asked my colleagues to bring a sound element for the performance. I had provided the paper canvas and the graphic materials. In this way, a joint additive drawing was created on the one hand, and a variety of sounds were generated on the other. We used paper, ice cubes, hands, feet and voices. Anyone who wanted to could try this two-way dialogue with another person.

An impressive finale to the get together trans-art performance was the sound contribution of Linda Cutting, a former concert pianist who now works as a writer. She brought with her a five-minute recording of a performance of the first movement of Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto, featuring herself as the pianist. The work was conducted by John Williams and performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra as part of the WGBH's 'Evening at Pops'.

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Thursday, 10th October at 7:30PM

with Elisabeth Möst, transverse flute

in my studio at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals

In 2016, Astrid Rieder developed the monthly performance series do trans-Art, which has taken place every second Thursday of the month without interruption ever since. On the opening evening of the symposium SUMMIT of trans-Art we can now celebrate the 100th performance of do trans-Art. Astrid Rieder's performance partner for this jubilee performance is the flautist Elisabeth Möst. Elisabeth Möst performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician in the USA, Europe and South America. She gives masterclasses, bodywork workshops and works on compositions by women and forgotten compositions. In April this year, Elisabeth Möst had the honour of performing Anne de Boysson's 'Metamorphosis' for flute and harp at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Elisabeth Möst and Astrid Rieder have performed together on several occasions, most recently in July 2024 as part of the Maria Anna Mozart Society's concert series Frauenstimmen.

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