A choreographic assemblage
as
installation & walks & performances & concert & reading
5. – 11. April 2025
kunstraum eindorf
r i v e r h o o d invites you to a series of gatherings accompanied by 9 artists and their relations with rivers.
Sabina Holzer (conception)
Wienfluss (script)
Jack Hauser (scenography)
Alix Eynaudi, Sabina Holzer, Oisín Ó Manacháin|Oisín Monaghan, Agnes Schneidewind (choreography, performance, walks)
Christina Gruber (hydrological counseling, walks)
Litó Walkey (writing companion & reading)
Boris Hauf (composition & sound)
Herbert Justnik (dramaturgical companion)
mollusca productions (production management)
With many thanks to: Sabine Grupe
Conceived & organized by Sabina Holzer – cattravelsnotalone
Cooperation: Kunstraum eindorf and Volkskundemuseum Wien.
Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna and the Cultural Commission of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus.
As lovers, neigbours, children, friends, parents, collaborators, and other kinds of connective beings, the artists share their concerns and imaginations for the condition of the world by thinking with rivers. Their shared artistic practices will move the public through forms of installation, walk, performance, concert and reading to open up to these collective reflections:
We turn to the Vienna River and the geological conditions of the 15th district and follow the extended riverbed and streams through time. By turning to one river, we connect with all the other rivers. The rivers and their waters are veins: in our bodies, in the landscape. They are vulnerable, endangered habitats. The Wienfluss was flooded some months ago. We are also flooded. Swept away into a flowing oblivion. How we were. How we will be. How we could be. We invite to bring the attention on the everydayness of our senses and dances.
Again and again we listen to the river. We hear its song. The water carries memories. Of the land, of time. We touch the edges and are touched by them. Flushed by rivers, we want to learn from the water. From the flow. The waves. The horizontal and vertical branches. The transitions, the living, from those who passed away. Witnessing water roots growing on soaked surfaces through touch, we braid dances and words. Our bodies do not belong to us, they are intertwined, part of each other and the living space. We practice cultivating what we have in common and what is different. We practice trust. Tributaries that we are, we come together from our native river land, bringing our gifts and boulders to share, to celebrate and dream. Often on the threshold, lingering, leaking, moving, being moved, waving, whispering, weeping; full of desires, memories, hopes, and gratitude. In the midst of how crazy we make this world, we connect, practice, and invite a community to come.
At Kunstraum eindorf, Reindorfgasse 8, 1150 Vienna:
~~ Installation: 5 – 11 April: Jack Hauser
~~ Performance: 10 & 11 April, 18:00 (doors open 17:00): Alix Eynaudi, Sabina Holzer, Oisín Ó Manacháin|Oisín Monaghan, Agnes Schneidewind, Jack Hauser, Boris Hauf
~~ Concert & Reading: 11 April, from 20:30: Boris Hauf & Litó Walkey
Box office: 10,00 € (cash only!)
Please register: eva@mollusca-productions.com
Reduced tickets are possible in special cases by arrangement!
At Wienfluss
~~ Walks: 05 & 06 April, 14:00.: Sabina Holzer, Oisín Ó Manacháin|Oisín Monaghan, Agnes Schneidewind, Christina Gruber, Jack Hauser. Meeting point: U4 Hütteldorf on the ground floor, Ströck bakery, duration approx. 2 hours. Afterwards, there is the possibility of a
get-together of the visitors at Kunstraum eindorf with the artists.
Participation: pay as you wish !
Please register: eva@mollusca-productions.com
Sabina Holzer has been designing workshops & artistic research settings on the human body, water and urban landscapes since 2022. Under the name Liquid Journey she has so far visited the Volkskundemuseum, Tanzquartier, dieAngewandte and ImPulsTanz in Vienna. In 2021, she received a working grant from the City of Vienna for her artistic research Fluvial. www.cattravelsnotalone.at
WITH
Alix Eynaudi, choreographer and dancer, lives in Vienna. Her works are shown internationally and are located in the field of extended choreography. www.alixeynaudi.com
Christina Gruber, freshwater ecologist and artist, works at the interface of art, science and technology. www.christinagruber.net
Boris Hauf, musician and composer, curator. Works in the field of performance and dance, as well as numerous albums and, since 2015, his own label. www.hauf.klingt.org
Jack Hauser, former filmmaker, performer, scenographer, claparatist, who has been exhibiting, presenting, designing, planning and supervising conceptual visual works with various materials and media as ‘Wohnung Miryam van Doren’ with friends since 1999.
https://www.cattravelsnotalone.at/jack-hauser/
Sabina Holzer, choreographer, dancer and writer. Her performances and texts explore the ecologies of human and more-than-human bodies with a particular focus on movement. www.cattravelsnotalone.at
Herbert Justnik, curator and cultural scientist. Since 2006 at the Volkskundemuseum Wien, where he has been curator, scientific spokesperson and head of the photo collection, where he conducts research with an open concept of science and a broad idea of the curatorial. www.volkskundemuseum.at/
Oisín Ó Manacháin|Oisín Monaghan is a dance artist and visual performer/creative currently based in Vienna. He works with numerous international artists for theatres, galleries and public spaces.
Agnes Schneidewind, lives and works in Vienna. Based on somatic body and dream practices, she works with dance, text and visual media. https://asjnijdewindt.wordpress.com/
Litó Walkey, lives in Berlin and explores non-hegemonic strategies through performance, writing and choreography. Her artistic practice seeks forms of relationships, responsibility and responsiveness.
https://litowalkey.org
Wienfluss, a river and desire of childhood, which mean future. A silver river in a bed of stones, which are currently surrounded by green plants. It is the home of the amazing green algae snake. Although the river also flows through urban areas, it has an alpine character and is considered white water.