Astrid
Rieder
Current Activities of Trans-Art
do trans-Art_109
Thursday, 10th July at 7:30PM
with Ana Topalovic, cello
in my studio at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals
Cellist and composer Ana Topalovic is a guest in the 109th performance of the do trans-Art performance series. Together with visual artist Astrid Rieder, she enters into an intensive dialog in which cello and electronics meet abstract drawing and both intertwine. The musician produces sound freely and improvises - the artist absorbs these vibrations and transfers them to paper. Conversely, the musician is inspired by the artist's lines, shapes, colors and body gestures and transfers them into the sound space - a dialogical cycle is created, a being here in the moment, in the now, to which the performance guests add a further “vibration” through their presence. The courage to engage in dialog is called for here - an open, curious and adventurous togetherness!
Born in Belgrade, living in Vienna and working internationally, Ana Topalovic moves between solo literature, chamber music, contemporary music with electronic sounds and interdisciplinary collaborations with dancers, actors and painters. She has performed as a soloist in venues including the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein and Carnegie Hall in New York, where she performed her own compositions.
free admission
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, 10th July
do trans-Art_109 with Ana Topalovic, cello
Thursday, 14th August
do trans-Art_110 with Sebastian Jolles, cello
"trans-Art on the road"
scheduled dates 2025
Saturday, 21st June 2025
trans-Art Performance with Dominik Kreuzer, trumpet
Kunst Klub Kräftner, Reitschulgasse 13, 8010 Graz
Saturday, 20th September 2025
trans-Art Performance with Annette Giesriegl, vocalist
Kunst Klub Kräftner, Reitschulgasse 13, 8010 Graz
PODCAST: "Atelier für neue Musik/trans-Art"
each 1st and 3rd Saturday per calendar month at 11AM
Saturday, 21st June
acoustic part trans-Art Performance with Erik Spangler
{Re}HAPPENING 13, Black Mountain College Campus at Lake Eden
Saturday, 5th July
acoustic Part do-trans-Art_108
Unidirectional drawing to piano improvisations by Eva Roscher on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of her death
each 2nd and 4th Tuesday per calendar month at 11pm
Tuesday, 24th June
transfer of the broadcast: acoustic part trans-Art performance with Erik Spangler
{Re}HAPPENING 13, Black Mountain College Campus at Lake Eden
Tuesday, 8th July
transfer of the broadcast: acoustic part do-trans-Art_108
Unidirectional drawing to piano improvisations by Eva Roscher on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of her death
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:
