POI: Mindfulness Mediatations
In cooperation with the Kunsthaus Graz. Are we living in a simulation? For Klanglicht, American media artist Signe Pierce broadcasts her subversive slogans into the city via the BIX media façade of the Kunsthaus, while at the same time playing matching soundscapes in both the elevator and the Aiola upstairs at Schloßberg. In a game […]
POI: Graz Fairytale Railway
Since November 2014, the Grazer Märchenbahn has been running again through the depths of Graz’s Schlossberg. Originally, the branched tunnel system provided shelter for the people of Graz during the Second World War. Since the 1960s, visitors have enjoyed rides on the old grotto railroad. Much has changed since then. During the ride on the […]
Arkestra of Light: levitate
OchoReSotto (Lia Rädler, Volker Sernetz, Stefan Sobotka-Grünewald), Monique Fessl A complex of four houses stands in the darkness of the night. The walls are static, rising rigidly into the air. The windows seem like eyes waiting for something to happen. Suddenly: light! It shines and sounds and the houses become a large projection screen of […]
those sounds are wrapped in scars
The sound installation ‘those sounds are wrapped in scars’ is based on the idea that we never perceive surrounding architecture and objects neutrally, but can hear their stories. The sound of a room or an object and its intrinsic resonance are made up of its material composition and its spatial dimensions. Every change, be it […]
Growth
Students of the Communication, Media, Sound and Interaction Design program at FH JOANNEUM. Supervised by Astrid Drechsler, Daniel Fabry and Michael Kernbichler.In cooperation with FH Joanneum, IDK Growth is a spatially and temporally structured increase, enlargement or division. The media production “Growth”, produced by students of the Institute of Design & Communication at FH JOANNEUM, […]
Special case of the rectangle
In her artistic work, Esther Stocker uses geometric drawing and grid systems to change space and architecture, creating dynamic pictorial spaces that lose their supposed pattern of order. “I need the grid or the order,” says the artist, “in order to be able to describe a deviation from it in the first place. Systemlessness can […]
Nocturne
Julia Dantonnet (lighting design), Shantidas Riedacker (sound)In cooperation with the Volkskundemuseum am Paulustor A landscape of light and shadow unfolds in the inner courtyard of the Folklore Museum, animated silhouettes dance across the façades: Nocturnal animals, deer, owls and foxes emerge from a mysterious forest. The symbolism of the forest, specific to myths and stories, […]
Putting away the light
For KLANGLICHT 2022, Miriam Prantl explores Plato’s cave allegory in nine stations in the side caves of the Schlossberg tunnel. “The eyes themselves do not see; it is through our eyes that we see,” writes Plato in his “Politeía”. Based on this, it deals with glare, clearing, passion of light, illumination, twilight, tail light, modulated […]
Limbo
Studio Antoni Arola, Arthur Haas (Choreography) Antoni Arola is an award-winning designer and artist from Barcelona. For him, light is the beginning of all things, light is order, without light there would be no expression, only chaos. He has therefore made light the primary tool of his work and considers it to be the most […]
Fantastic Planet
Under the collective “Parer Studios”, Amanda Parer creates objects for public spaces, sculptures and paintings that explore nature and its fragility. Oversized. Human-like. Brightly lit. This is how Amanda Parer’s designed art figures explore the Reininghausgründe and Graz’s Schlossberg during KLANGLICHT 2022. Inspired by the Czech-French film Fantastic Planet, the audience encounters these beings from […]