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Mazzanti<br>
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</font> <font
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laden herzlich
zu den
Performances
des ORF
musikprotokoll
2023 am 5.10.
und 8.10. und
zur Langen
Nacht der
Museen am
7.10. im
Rahmen unserer
Veranstaltungsreihe <i>Desert of Realities</i> ein:</font></div>
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">5.10.,
18:00 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
<b><font
face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">Beyond My Skin</span></font></font></b><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Flavia Mazzanti mit
Manuel Bonell,
Brootworth,</span>
<span
lang="EN-US">Imani
Rameses, </span></font>Viviane
Tanzmeister</font><br>
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Performance </span></font></font><font
face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">im Rahmen von ORF
musikprotokoll</span></font></font><br>
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style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">7.10., 18:00 Uhr – 1:00
Uhr</span></font></font><br>
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style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">ORF Lange Nacht der
Museen</span></font></font><br>
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style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">8.10.,16:30 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
<b><font
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style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">disposable instruments –
reuse</span></font></font></b><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">noid, Anthea Caddy,
Elisabeth
Flunger</span></font></font><br>
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style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Performance </span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">im Rahmen von ORF
musikprotokoll<br>
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<span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"
lang="EN-US">Hinweis:
in der Galerie
<i>Room of
Fine Arts</i>
sind bis zum
25.10.
Arbeiten von
Flavia
Mazzanti aus <i>Sympoietic
Bodies</i> und
<i>Beyond my
Skin</i> zu
sehen sowie
vom 5. </span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:
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lang="EN-US">–</span>
8.10. </span>die
Installation <i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">disposable instruments –
reuse von </span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US"></span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"
lang="EN-US">noid,
Anthea Caddy,
Elisabeth
Flunger.</span></font><br>
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<div
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color="#000000"><span
lang="en-US">Zur
Ausstellung: <a
href="https://esc.mur.at/de/projekt/desert-realities"><i>Dese</i><i>rt
of Realities</i></a></span></font></font></div>
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<div
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face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><b>Desert
of Realities</b></font></font></div>
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<div
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face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><i>Welcome
to the desert
of the real.</i></font></font></div>
<div
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face="Arial"><font
size="6"
face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%" lang="DE-AT">[Morpheus zu Neo
im Film
Matrix]</span></font></font></div>
<br>
<font
face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
lang="DE-AT">Mit
diesem
Versatzstück
des
Medienphilosophen
Jean
Baudrillard
leitet
Morpheus die
Vorbereitung
Neos auf seine
Aufgabe ein,
wenn er Neo
aufzeigt, in
einer
Traumwelt zu
leben, die nur
als Teil einer
neuro-interaktiven Simulation</span> <span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial"
lang="DE-AT">–</span>
<span
lang="DE-AT">einer
Matrix</span>
<span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:Arial"
lang="DE-AT">–</span>
<span
lang="DE-AT">existiert,
während er
sich in einer
zerstörten,
sonnenverfinsterten,
von Maschinen
regierten Welt
befindet:
"Willkommen in
der Wüste der
Wirklichkeit".</span><br>
<br>
<span
lang="DE-AT">Im
Film wird der
Beginn der
Matrix mit der
Erschaffung
der Systeme
der KI
definiert.
Tatsächlich
durchdringen
Anwendungen
der KI längst
all unsere
Lebensbereiche
und haben
sowohl
Auswirkungen
auf unsere
Entscheidungen
und sozialen
Beziehungen
als auch
Einfluss auf
Wirtschaft,
Politik und
Gesellschaft.</span><br>
<br>
<span
lang="DE-AT">Die
Simulation
löst die
Differenz
zwischen
Realem und
Imaginärem auf
und verwandelt
sie in eine
Indifferenz,
eine "hybride
Wirklichkeit".
Innerhalb des
Hyperrealen
sind Reales
und Imaginäres
nicht mehr
auseinanderzuhalten;
Physisches und
Digitales
verschmelzen,
werden
"phygital".</span><br>
<br>
<span
lang="DE-AT">Ebenso
verändert sich
das Verhältnis
von Mensch,
Natur und
Technik hin zu
einer neuen
Konfiguration,
einem neuen
Beziehungsgeflecht.
Schon Donna
Harraway
verwies auf
die
transformativen
Potenziale in
dichten
Beziehungsgefügen.
Wenn wir aus
dem Simulacrum
der Matrix
erwachen
können, können
wir die Wüste
der
Wirklichkeiten
mit bestimmten
Werkzeugen
verändern?</span><br>
<br>
<span
lang="DE-AT">Die
Nutzung von
Technologie
erscheint in
der
Ausstellung <i>Desert
of Realities</i>
nicht mehr nur
als
dystopisches
Modell einer
düsteren
Vision der
Zukunft oder
als
Darstellung
des
Ist-Zustandes,
sondern auch
als Teil der
Lösung, den
wir uns zu
eigen machen
sollten: <i>Es
macht einen
Unterschied ob
man einen Weg
nur kennt,
oder ob man
diesen Weg
auch geht.</i>
[Morpheus]</span></font></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
lang="DE-AT">In
<i>Desert of
Realities</i>
werden mittels
Multi-Media-Installationen einerseits Aspekte der Simulation offengelegt
und
andererseits
Gegenentwürfe
entwickelt:
die
Möglichkeit
einer
digitalen
Berührung bei
physischer
Trennung (<i>Beyond
My Skin</i>,
Flavia
Mazzanti); wie
Nahrungsmittel
wie Fisch
aufgrund der
sich
verändernden
Umweltbedingungen
nur mehr für
reiche
Menschen
zugänglich
sind, während
sich der Rest
mit aus dem
Labor
gezüchteten
Lebensmitteln
begnügen muss
(<i>Future
Sushi</i>,
Etsuko
Ichihara);
Entwicklungen
im Kontext der
Konvergenz
digitaler und
biologischer
Körperlichkeit
anhand der
Annäherung von
Kleidung
(Mode) an das
zugrundeliegende / darunterliegende / bloßliegende Nerven“kostüm“ (<i>Internal
Collection</i>,
Amy Karle);
Netzwerkdynamiken,
wie die
Interaktion
von Natur mit
Technik und
deren
Beobachtung
sie in Gang
setzt (<i>Hyle</i>,
Theresa
Schubert);
alternative
Materialien
zur
Herstellung
von Mode (<i>Materia
Bruta,</i>
Surzhana
Radnaeva);
oder sogar als
Kommunikation
zwischen
Mensch und
Bakterium (<i>The
Haori Biofilm,</i>
Vivien
Roussel); und
Strom als
ästhetischer
Motor eines
modularen
Hörstücks das
eine
multiperspektivische
Erzählung
geleitet über
Kupferdrähte
entwickelt (<i>Circuits</i>,
Christine
Schörkhuber)
und Konzepte
von
Überwachung
und
Privatsphäre
im Zeitalter
von Big Data
und die
gegensätzlichen
Gefühle von
Unbehagen und
Sicherheit aus
verschiedenen
Perspektiven (<i>Watch
Me</i> - Zhe
Wang).</span></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><b>Künstler:innen:</b></font></font></div>
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face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Etsuko Ichihara (JPN)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Amy Karle (USA)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Flavia Mazzanti (ITA/BRA/AUT)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#00000A;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Surzhana</span>
<span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span
style="color:#00000A">Ra</span>dnaeva (RUS/FRA)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Vivien
Roussel (FRA)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Christine Schörkhuber (AUT)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Theresa
Schubert (DEU)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Winnie
Soon (HKG)
& Lee
Tzu-Tung (TWN)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Zhé
Wang (CHN/DEU)</span></font></font><br>
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<font
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face="Arial"><b>Alle
Programmpunkte
im Überblick:</b></font></font><br>
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">5.10.,
18:00 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">Beyond My Skin</span></i></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Flavia Mazzanti mit
Manuel Bonell,
Brootworth,</span>
<span
lang="EN-US">Imani
Rameses, </span></font>Viviane
Tanzmeister</font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Performance </span></font></font><font
face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">im Rahmen von ORF
musikprotokoll</span></font></font><br>
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<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">7.10., 18:00 Uhr – 1:00
Uhr</span></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">ORF Lange Nacht der
Museen</span></font></font><br>
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<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">8.10.,16:30 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">disposable instruments –
reuse</span></i></font></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">noid, Anthea Caddy,
Elisabeth
Flunger</span></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Performance </span></font></font><font
face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">im Rahmen von ORF
musikprotokoll</span></font></font><br>
<br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">10.10., 14:00 – 22:00
Uhr</span></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">Ada Lovelace Day</span></i></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Workshop und
Performance</span></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">23.10. – 28.10.2023</span></font></font><br>
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<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Workshop</span></font></font><br>
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<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">17.11., ab 18:00 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
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<font face="Arial">We cordially invite you
to the performances of ORF
musikprotokoll 2023 on 5.10. and 8.10.
and to the Long Night of Museums on
7.10. as part of our <i>Desert of
Realities</i> event series:<br>
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5.10, 6pm<br>
<b>Beyond My Skin</b><br>
Flavia Mazzanti with Manuel Bonell,
Brootworth, Imani Rameses, Viviane
Tanzmeister<br>
Performance as part of ORF
musikprotokoll<br>
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7.10., 6:00 p.m. </font><font
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1:00 a.m.<br>
ORF Long Night of Museums<br>
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8.10., 4:30 pm<br>
<b>disposable instruments </b></font><font
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reuse</b><br>
noid, Anthea Caddy, Elisabeth Flunger<br>
Performance in the context of ORF
musikprotokoll<br>
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Note: works by Flavia Mazzanti from <i>Sympoietic
Bodies</i> and <i>Beyond My Skin</i>
can be seen at the <i>Room of Fine Arts
</i>gallery until 25 October, as well as
the installation <i>disposable
instruments - reuse</i> by noid,
Anthea Caddy, Elisabeth Flunger from 5 -
8 October.</font><br>
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face="Arial">About the exhibition: <a
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<font face="Arial"><b>Desert of
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<font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font
face="Arial">Welcome to the desert
of the real.<br>
<font size="2">[Morpheus to Neo in
the film Matrix].</font><br>
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With this phrase by the media
philosopher Jean Baudrillard,
Morpheus introduces Neo's
preparation for his task when he
shows Neo living in a dream world
that exists only as part of a
neuro-interactive simulation - a
matrix - while he is in a
destroyed, sun-darkened world
ruled by machines: "Welcome to the
desert of reality".<br>
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In the film, the beginning of the
Matrix is defined by the creation
of the systems of AI. In fact,
applications of AI have long
permeated all areas of our lives,
impacting our decisions and social
relationships as well as
influencing the economy, politics,
and society.</font></font></font><br>
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<div class="moz-text-html"
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face="Arial"><font face="Arial">Simulation
dissolves the difference between
the real and the imaginary and
transforms it into indifference, a
"hybrid reality". Within the
hyperreal, the real and the
imaginary can no longer be
distinguished; the physical and
the digital merge, becoming
"phygital".<br>
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Likewise, the relationship between
humans, nature and technology is
changing towards a new
configuration, a new network of
relationships. Donna Harraway
already referred to the
transformative potentials in dense
webs of relationships. If we can
awaken from the simulacrum of the
matrix, can we change the desert
of realities with certain tools?<br>
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In the <i>Desert of Realities</i>
exhibition, the use of technology
no longer appears only as a
dystopian model of a bleak vision
of the future or as a
representation of the current
state, but also as part of the
solution that we should embrace:
It makes a difference whether you
only know a path, or whether you
walk that path. [Morpheus]</font></font></font></div>
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face="Arial"><font face="Arial">In <i>D</i><i>esert
of Realities</i>, multi-media
installations reveal aspects of
simulation on the one hand and
develop counter-designs on the
other: The possibility of digital
touch in physical separation
(Beyond My Skin, Flavia Mazzanti);
how food such as fish is now only
accessible to rich people due to
changing environmental conditions,
while the rest have to make do
with lab-grown food (Future Sushi,
Etsuko Ichihara); developments in
the context of the convergence of
digital and biological
corporeality through the
approximation of clothing
(fashion) to the
underlying/underlying/exposed
nerve "costume" (Internal
Collection, Amy Karle); Network
dynamics, as the interaction of
nature with technology and its
observation sets it in motion
(Hyle, Theresa Schubert);
alternative materials for the
production of fashion (Materia
Bruta, Surzhana Radnaeva); or even
as communication between humans
and bacteria (The Haori Biofilm,
Vivien Roussel); and electricity
as the aesthetic engine of a
modular audio piece that develops
a multi-perspective narrative
guided by copper wires (Circuit,
Christine Schörkhuber) and
concepts of surveillance and
privacy in the age of Big Data and
the conflicting feelings of unease
and security from different
perspectives (Watch Me - Zhe
Wang).</font></font></font></div>
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face="Arial"><b>Artists:</b></font></font></font></div>
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
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mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Etsuko Ichihara
(JPN)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New
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mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Amy Karle (USA)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
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New
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mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Flavia Mazzanti
(ITA/BRA/AUT)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
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lang="EN-US">Surzhana</span> <span
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Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span
style="color:#00000A">Ra</span>dnaeva
(RUS/FRA)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Vivien
Roussel (FRA)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Christine
Schörkhuber (AUT)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
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lang="EN-US">Theresa Schubert
(DEU)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
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lang="EN-US">Winnie Soon (HKG)
& Lee Tzu-Tung (TWN)</span></font><br>
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lang="EN-US">Zhé Wang
(CHN/DEU)</span></font><br>
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points at a glance:</b><br>
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10/5, 6pm <br>
<i>Beyond My Skin</i><br>
Flavia Mazzanti, with Manuel
Bonell, Brootworth, Imani
Rameses, </font></font></font><font
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face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
lang="EN-US"></span></font>Viviane
Tanzmeister</font> <br>
Performance in the context of
ORF musikprotokoll<br>
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10/8, 6pm </font></font></font><font
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1am<br>
ORF Long Night of Museums<br>
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10/8, 4:30pm<br>
<i>disposable instruments </i></font></font></font><font
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reuse</i><br>
noid, Anthea Caddy, Elisabeth
Flunger<br>
Performance<br>
in the context of ORF
musikprotokoll<br>
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10/10, 2 - 10pm<br>
Ada Lovelace Day<br>
Workshop and Performance<br>
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10/23 - 10/28/2023</font></font></font></div>
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<i>Techno-Disobedience</i><br>
Workshop<br>
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11/17, starting at 6pm<br>
Finissage<br>
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In co-production with Constant
VZW Brussels, Immerea,
kunst@werk, Mori Art Museum
Tokyo; a cooperation in the
framework of steirischer herbst
'23.</font></font></font></div>
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