Festival 2014

«A MATTER OF...» is the title of this year’s sound:frame festival. Placing the practice of posing questions and calling things into question front and center, it focuses on reflection processes within the development of audiovisual formats, the audiovisual artwork and its reception, and on the term “audiovisual art” itself.

A matter of perspective, a matter of process, a matter of reflection, a matter of content, a matter of... this may be expanded at will. The question itself remains. Important key words such as “perspective,” “(self-)reflection,” “development,” “rethinking,” “placing,” or “going beyond yourself” are an array of terms that have shaped the sound:frame tradition for the past two years: bringing up festival-specific questions and thus making the festival itself the topic of discussion. After two years of formal, social, and organizational self-reflection, the art form itself, the creative process, and the artwork once again take center stage.

Looking at the development of audiovisual tendencies within the past years, it has become clear that audiovisual art must finally establish itself as a general term. Countless movements have come up and have been developed, so that the discourse now requires a significantly larger number of definitions and categories than it did ten or even five years ago. The superordinate term, audiovisual art, has become necessary to distinguish the global development of this contemporary art form from such categories as media art. After all, audiovisual art has developed into an equally broad and general term as the term media art.

If it was still possible in the beginning to point at the international phenomenon of visualizations – closely entwined with the development of electronic music – on the basis of a small circle of visual artists, 2014 is witnessing an incomprehensibly large number of artists, signatures, and movements in this field. By now, critics are able to distinguish between various schools, categories and genres in the realm of audiovisual expression – on both national and international levels. The context in which we perceive audiovisual art has expanded as well. It has moved from its performative origins toward the museum. sound:frame advocates the inclusion of this young art form in the current art discourse.

How can we pinpoint audiovisual art in all its facets? How do we define audiovisual formats? Where does it intersect with media art, film, and design, and how, in turn, does it distinguish itself? sound:frame sheds light on the processes that drive these considerations.

Program

Tue
25
Tuesday, 25. March

Wed
26
Wednesday, 26. March

Thu
27
Thursday, 27. March

Fri
28
Friday, 28. March

Sat
29
Saturday, 29. March

Sun
30
Sunday, 30. March

Mon
31
Monday, 31. March

Tue
01
Tuesday, 1. April

Wed
02
Wednesday, 2. April

Thu
03
Thursday, 3. April

Fri
04
Friday, 4. April

Sat
05
Saturday, 5. April

Sun
06
Sunday, 6. April

Mon
07
Monday, 7. April

Tue
08
Tuesday, 8. April

Wed
09
Wednesday, 9. April

Thu
10
Thursday, 10. April

Fri
11
Friday, 11. April

Sat
12
Saturday, 12. April

Sun
13
Sunday, 13. April

Ausstellung

EXHIBITION «IF THIS IS THE ANSWER, WHAT IS THE QUESTION?»

A Cooperation of sound:frame and MAK
MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna
Opening / MAK NITE Special: Tue, 03/25/2014, 7 PM
On view from Wed, 03/26 thru Sun, 04/13/2014

Curated by GERALD MOSER and EVA FISCHER

Artists:
Karin Fisslthaler, Rainer Kohlberger, Andreas Koller, Lampenschirm - Nuors////02 - Kohlmayr Lutter Knapp, LIA (Audio: Miguel Carvalhais & Pedro Tudela, Portugal), Veronika Mayer & Gerald Moser & Conny Zenk, Sixtus Preiss, Benjamin Tomasi

The exhibition, «IF THIS IS THE ANSWER, WHAT IS THE QUESTION?», shows viewpoints and works of art which render the basic qualities of audiovisual art tangible. The exhibition revolves around the question, “If audiovisual art is the answer, what is the question?” Subsequently, another mental loop is created: “If this exhibition is a question, what are the answers you will find for yourself?”

EXHIBITION «VIENNA VISUALS»

presented by The Gap 
Künstlerhaus Passagegalerie, Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Vienna
Opening: Wed, 03/26/2014
On view from Thu, 03/27 thru Sun, 04/13/2014

special «VIENNA VISUALS» live show: 
LUMA.LAUNISCH + 
SUPER U, KONEA RA (live+DJ) + DJ PHEKT 
live painting: OLGA GEORGIEVA

Curated by FLORIAN TANZER (LUMA.LAUNISCH, Vienna)

The Künstlerhausʼs Passagegalerie becomes the exhibition space of a sound:frame project already in existence – the so-called VIENNA VISUALS. VIENNA VISUALS looks into the City of Vienna and its characteristic places and people, which might not even be visible at first glance, and connects visual image worlds with current musical formats.

EXHIBITION «OPEN STUDIO»

presented by WKW & Creative Space
mo.ë contemporary, Thelemangasse 4/1, 1170 Vienna
Opening: Fri, 03/28/2014, 7 PM 
The exhibition is open during all mo.ë events until 04/06/2014 and upon request.

Artists:
100UND1, NITA., COLOURSEXIST, EMILONE, FUXHERZ, ULI KÜHN, LEONHARD LASS, WOEISHI LEAN, LWZ, VALENCE, THOMAS WAGENSOMMERER, JYD, CONNY ZENK

In the course of the new sound:frame format «OPEN STUDIO» Viennese visuals/AV studios and design studios create artworks which will be included in the festival catalogue in the form of art posters, and are also shown in the «OPEN STUDIO» exhibition at the mo.ë contemporary in the 16th Viennese district. 
«OPEN STUDIO» puts each artist and designer from the live-performance and design part of the festival in the spotlight. This way, sound:frame once again highlights the fact that audiovisual trends take place in the most diverse contexts, such as art exhibitions, live performances, and design. It emphasizes the diversity of positions and formats that make up the Austrian audiovisual art scene – and sound:frame itself.

Audiovisual installation «What is This That Stands Before Me?»
Starts at 8:30 PM

Direction: THOMAS WAGENSOMMERER and MARKUS WINTERSBERGER (FH / University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)

Über sound:frame

Established in 2007, the sound:frame festival deals with audiovisual forms of expression within the contexts of exhibitions and performances. Each year, intercreativity and the convergence of musicians, artists, and theoreticians from visual arts, media art, architecture, and music constitute the core of the festival’s thematic focus. In 2014, sound:frame will follow up the previous years’ themes, «EVOLUTION remixed!» 2009, «dimensions» 2010, «perFORMance» 2011, «substructions» 2012, and «collective» 2013, with «A MATTER OF…».

«A MATTER OF...» is the title of this year’s sound:frame festival. Placing the practice of posing questions and calling things into question front and center, it focuses on reflection processes within the development of audiovisual formats, the audiovisual artwork and its reception, and on the term “audiovisual art” itself. A matter of perspective, a matter of process, a matter of reflection, a matter of content, a matter of... this may be expanded at will. The question itself remains.

Important key words such as “perspective,” “(self-)reflection,” “development,” “rethinking,” “placing,” or “going beyond yourself” are an array of terms that have shaped the sound:frame tradition for the past two years: bringing up festival-specific questions and thus making the festival itself the topic of discussion. After two years of formal, social, and organizational self-reflection, the art form itself, the creative process, and the artwork once again take center stage.

Tickets

PRESALE TICKETS

03.04.2014 / 04.04.2014 / 05.04.2014
AV LIVE PERFORMANCES
brut im Künstlerhaus

3-Day Festival Pass: 34€ (excl. advance booking fee) 
Day Ticket: 14€ (excl. advance booking fee) 

AT THE DOOR TICKETS

03.04.2014 / 04.04.2014 / 05.04.2014
AV LIVE PERFORMANCES
brut im Künstlerhaus
Day Ticket: 16 € (at the Door)

27.03.2014
AV SCREENING
Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
Ticket: 8,50 € each screening

Tickets for the AV Screenings are exclusively available at Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus (Akademiestraße 13, 1010 Vienna).

EXHIBITION
«IF THIS IS THE ANSWER, WHAT IS THE QUESTION?»

MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
Tickets are available at the MAK (Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien).

All presale tickets entitle to visit the sound:frame exhibition at MAK.

FREE ENTRY

All other sound:frame events are free. 

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