hoelb/hoeb

training - Spielstätte für einen inklusiven Humanismus

6. März, 18 bis 22 Uhr, 7. März, 15 bis 21 Uhr, 8. März, 13 bis 19 Uhr | Ticket gilt für alle Tage

Key topic: imagetanz 2015 - Festival for Choreography, Performance and uncanny Bodies

Inspired by philosopher Thomas Macho’s text Werwölfe, Hausschweine und Terminatoren [Werewolves, Domestic Pigs, and Terminators], the artist-duo hoelb/hoeb uses its new project training to deal with processes of physical transformation and images of the body at the interface between human beings, animals, and robotics. At the center of hoelb/hoeb’s interest are physical transformations resulting from illness, disability or other forms of diversity that often entail exclusion and marginalization. Their project will critically question processes of physical disciplining related to topics ranging from disability, queer theory and art to sports, cyborgs and animal studies. To accomplish this, hoelb/hoeb will install a training laboratory in the exhibition spaces of Künstlerhaus Wien that will run for three days. Gymnastics equipment, horizontal bars, and wall bars will be combined with replicas of MRT scanners, intensive care unit beds, support pillows, robots and infusion pumps to create an associative setting. Throughout the three days, over 20 participants from the fields of art, science/research, and social practice will activate the installation with a mix of live performances, lectures, and training sessions that all relate to the theme at hand. The audience, together with artists, affected individuals, and experts, will take part in an interdisciplinary process of approximation, experimentation, and training. A broad spectrum of phenomena suggestive of inclusion and integration will be staged in the space, documenting the interfaces between everyday life, art, and social choreographies.

Since 2000, Barbara Hölbling and Mario Höber have been working together as an artist-duo called hoelb/hoeb. Their artistic work concentrates on inter- and transdisciplinary projects that aim to generate spaces of communication. A recent example of this was their project Close Link, realized for the festival steirischer herbst: Close Link dealt with individuals in persistent vegetative states and such individuals’ experience of consciousness. hoelb/hoeb have already been frequent guests at brut, most recently in 2013 with their whole-room installation upgrade/downgrade and in 2014 with the performance on duty at the opening of the imagetanz festival.

All collaborators are present during opening hours and will present interventions and lectures. Every day a blind football game will take place. Full programme of performances, lectures and training sessions coming soon!

Opening hours

6 March, 6 to 10 pm

7 March, 3 to 9 pm

8 March, 1 to 7 pm

Detailed Programme

Friday, 6 March 2015, 6 bis 10 pm

6 pm opening
Katalin Erdödi, imagetanz curator
Anja Quickert, journalist/author: Vom Abstand zu den Dingen
Prof. Susanne Alteneder, director of the Bundes-Blindeninstitut (Institute for Blind People), Vienna
hoelb/hoeb, Barbara Hölbling and Mario Höber

6.30 pm Interactionen of the collaborators / tour through the exhibition

7 pm Performance, interaction Gerlinde Ofner

7.30 pm Blind football: Six blind football players, referee: Judith Kowal

8 pm Impulse Susanne Alteneder: Menschliche Echolotung; Guided tour by Erich Schmid

8.30 pm Impulse Thomas Schelischansky: Aus der Perspektive der Intensivpflege; Nina Hömberg shows Inklusive Filme, music by Anna Trauffer

9 pm Lecture Josef Barla; Valentin Hasler „Jumping Sumo“-Interaction

9.30 pm Lecture Performance MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, Budapest

9.45 pm Phillip Schaufelberger: Performance with acoustic signals from an intensive care unit; Caro Dorn: Exoplaneten

Sturday, 7 March 2015, 3 to 9 pm

3 pm Gymnastics, Warm-up Tone Fink

3.30 pm Performance Anna Trauffer with Daniela and Angelika Angerer

4 pm Andreas Karl Interview with Erich Schmid and Günther Brodar; Guided tour by Erich Schmid

4.30 pm Lecture Performance MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, Budapest

5 pm Lecture by Anja Quickert: Vom Abstand zu den Dingen; Valentin Hasler „Jumping Sumo“-Interaction

5.30 pm Blind football: Six blind football players, referee: Judith Kowal

6 pm Performance Anna Trauffer / Lecture Josef Barla

6.30 pm Nina Hömberg shows Inklusive Filme, music by Anna Trauffer

7 pm Phillip Schaufelberger: Performance with acoustic signals from an intensive care unit; Caro Dorn: Exoplaneten

8 pm Julia Kurz art mediation

8.30 pm Lecture Performance MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, Budapest

Sunday, 8 March 2015, 1 to 7 pm

1 pm Gymnastics, Warm-up Tone Fink

1.30 pm Lecture Performance MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, Budapest

2 pm Performance Anna Trauffer with Daniela and Angelika Angerer

2.30 pm Andreas Karl Interview with Michaela Löschnigg-Tausz / Gerlinde Ofner

3 pm Performance Anna Trauffer / Phillip Schaufelberger

3.30 pm Viewing editorial office / Talk with Julia Kurz

4 pm Phillip Schaufelberger: Performance with acoustic signals from an intensive care unit

5 pm Nina Hömberg short presentation: Inklusion

5.30 pm Caro Dorn: Exoplaneten

6.30 pm résumé by Andreas Karl and Katherina Kinzel

Collaborators
hoelb/hoeb – Barbara Hölbling and Mario Höber, artists, Vienna
Susanne Alteneder – director of the Bundes-Blindeninstitut (Institute for Blind People), Vienna
Attila Andics – Comparative Ethology Research Group, Budapest
Josef Barla – philosopher (robotics), Vienna
Caroline Dorn – astrophysicist, Bern
Nina Hömberg – inclusion researcher, Berlin
Andreas Karl – musicologist, team hoelb/hoeb, Vienna
Jumping Sumo and Valentin Hasler, Vienna
Katherina Kinzel – researcher for history of science, Vienna
Julia Kurz – curator and art mediator, Museum for Contemporary Art Leipzig
Michaela Löschnigg-Tausz – carer for people in persistent vegetative state, Team Albert-Schweitzer-Klinik
Thomas Macho – cultural scientist and philosopher, Berlin
Gernot Müller-Putz – Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Graz
Gerlinde Ofner – graduate nurse/art therapist, Graz
Haiko Pfost – independent curator, team hoelb/hoeb, Vienna
Anja Quickert – journalist, author, Berlin
Philipp Schaufelberger – jazz guitarist, composer, Zurich
Thomas Schelischansky – head of Intensive Care Unit, State Hospital Graz
Erich Schmid – teacher at the Bundes-Blindeninstitut (Institute for Blind People), Vienna
Kerstin Tiefenbacher – social and cultural anthropologist, editorial department training
Six blind football players and director Judith Kowal
Anna Trauffer – double-bass player, singer, Zurich with Angelika and Daniela Angerer, students of the Blindeninstitut.

A co-production by hoelb/hoeb and imagetanz/brut Wien in cooperation with Künstlerhaus k/haus and the Museum for Contemporary Art Leipzig. With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich Kunst und Kultur, Bundes-Blindenerziehungsinstituts Wien, the collection Günther Bordar, ArjoHuntleigh, B. Braun, Vamed, AKH Wien, Triple A Aqua Service, Dräger, Stadt Feldbach, Albert-Schweitzer-Klinik Graz, WU Vienna, Ludwig & Adele, Vienna Business School Comparative Ethology Research Group Budapest and Discovery – Laboratory of Brain Computer Interfaces/Technical University Graz.

€ 6,- Admission / Ticket valid on all three days

Day ticket imagetanz

€ 16,-/€ 10,- reduced/€ 8 with the brutkarte*

Festival pass imagetanz

€ 56,-/€ 34,- reduced/€ 25 with the brutkarte*