KLANGHAIN: Symbioses and Networks
Public Sound Installation for non-human living, and human sonar-digital subcultures.
25.05.-14.07.2024
Schönbornpark (Entrance Lange Gasse), 1080 Vienna.
Open daily 7:00-21:30.
Every day we walk, run and jump on streets, lawns and paths, unaware that there are vast and fantastic worlds beneath the surface. The media artists Saša Spačal (SI), Jiří Suchánek (CZ) and Leslie Garcia alias Interspecifics (MX) explore these subterranean life forms: how they live together, but also how we humans interact with them. They develop artistic instruments that make these alien species audible.
Under the heading “Symbioses and Networks”, this year’s edition of KLANGHAIN fathoms the subterranean worlds. We mirror nature in culture and vice versa.
Technology lends itself perfectly to being combined with living processes in various ways and utilised for electronic sound generation. Thus, animal organisms become initiators for electrical circuits and the basis for new music (Jiří Suchánek). Bacteria and humans’ interspecies connection is made tangible (Leslie Garcia). Symbiotic and sensual contact between humans and fungi is rendered possible (Saša Spačal). We leave behind the anthropomorphic by sonifying bio-data and seeking sound experiences that reflect the bare systems of nature.
Artists: Interspecifics (MX), Saša Spačal (SI), Jiří Suchánek (CZ).
The positions and artistic utopias of KLANGHAIN oscillate between poetry and scientific scepticism.
PROGRAMME
Opening
Friday, 24.05.2024, 18:00
Schönbornpark (Entrance Lange Gasse), 1080 Vienna
Deep Listening with Soil Bacteria (live)
Saturday, 25.05.2024, 16:00-20:00
Anatomy of a Symbiosis by Saša Spačal (SI),
Interspecifics (MX).
Discourse
Saturday, 08.06.2024, 16:00-18:00
Expert talk on underground life forms.
Why are they important to us?
How can we protect them?
Bridging Species (live)
Saturday, 13.07.2024, 18:00-20:00
Jiří Suchánek (CZ),
more artists TBA.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
KLANGHAIN seeks points of contact between nature and culture. The publicly owned Schönbornpark in Vienna serves as our urban exhibition space in the city’s greenery. This project is intended to annually showcase a variety of artistic and scientific works that curiously explore the world around us.
We ask, what if culture is actually nature? Does nature have an agentiality of its own? Are there signals from nature that enter our collective consciousness to tell us what it needs? Does nature even try to establish contact with us, or are our insights into nature more of a coincidence—perhaps even mere fiction?
Curator: Lona Gaikis
Graphics: Peter Oroszlány
Display Design: ACPTeam (Enrique Guitart)
Co-production with the The Austrian Museum for Folk Art Vienna as part of the series before it gets better … . In media cooperation with the Klima Biennale Wien.
Funded by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport Austria (BMKÖS), The City Council of Vienna, and The Austrian Museum for Folk Art
