SPIRAL BIKE car is over

Soundrides & Feminist Mobility Utopias in Vienna

In 2025, the city of Vienna will once again become the stage for an extraordinary festival that radically merges bicycles, sound art, and urban space: SPIRAL BIKE car is over. This participatory RAD Performance transforms urban infrastructures such as bridge ramps, spiral bike paths, and traffic arteries into temporary spaces for concerts, performances, and discussions about the future of mobility.

In the performance heck A CARe less WORK, performer Tanja Peinsipp, together with Ulrich Schleicher (sound), explores how we can speak about cars from a feminist perspective in the 21st century. Through aerial acrobatics, object manipulation, and dance, they deconstruct the car trunk as an object. Live concerts by Conny Frischauf and Michael Fischer respond directly to the location: Frischauf’s long-term project Waters and Borders engages with the Danube and other bodies of water in varying contexts, addressing questions of geopolitics, national identity, ecology, and climate change. Fischer focuses on spatial sound, adapting his sonic explorations to the site-specific acoustics – this time, under and around the Brigittenauer Bridge.

Between performances, you can get real bike tattoos, a project by Martina Moro and Conni Ratriot.

The specially designed Soundrides – mobile multi-channel sound systems mounted on cargo bikes – turn sound art into motion and invite you to rediscover Vienna as an acoustic playground and a space for socio-ecological transformation. This time, with a live DJ set by Qamareen.

Dates & Highlights 2025

July 5 – SPIRAL BIKE car is over: Brigittenauer Brücke
Meeting Point: 18:30 PM, Prater Hauptallee (under A23)
Start Soundride: 19:00 PM
Concerts from 8:00 PM at the RAD-Spiral Brigittenauerbrücke (1200 Vienna)

• Live Concerts: Conny Frischauf, Michael Fischer
• Performance: heck a CARe less WORK by Tanja Peinsipp (Sound: Ulrich Schleicher)
• Bike Tattoos: Martina Moro
• DJ-Set: Qamareen / Raqsound

September 6 – SPIRAL BIKE car is over: Südbahnhofbrücke
Meeting point: 6:30 PM, Prater Hauptallee (under A23)
Soundride starts: 7:00 PM
Concerts from 8:00 PM at the RAD-Spiral Südbahnhofbrücke (1030 Vienna, Arsenalstraße 5)

• Live Concerts: Kreishell, Maja Osojnik, Lan Rex
• Performance: heck a CARe less WORK von Tanja Peinsipp (Sound: Ulrich Schleicher)
• Screen Printing Station: Conni Ratriot & Vali Santner

SPIRAL BIKE car is over: Poster Exhibition

Throughout the summer, in your local Bike Kitchen and selected bike shops across Vienna.
Illustration: Marie Vermont

SPIRAL BIKE car is over; is more than a festival – it’s an invitation to collectively listen, ride, and rethink the city.

In case of bad weather, alternate dates will be announced at least 2 hours before the event on radperformance.at and via newsletter.

Contact & Press:
Michaela Zenk – zenk.michaela@gmail.com
Press materials: Google Drive Folder

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ARTISTS | SPIRAL BIKE car is over

heck a CARe less WORK by Tanja Peinsipp (Sound: Ulrich Schleicher)
Tanja Peinsipp is as a transdisciplinary artist in Vienna. She works artistically in the fields of contemporary circus, theater, stage and costume design. She is part of compagnie lou and works both solo and in collaboration with artists from other fields. In 2024, she was a scholarship holder of the working grant for contemporary circus funded by the City of Vienna for six months with her project heck.

Conny Frischauf is a sound and visual artist based in Vienna. Their work spans various media, including audio-production, performance, installation, publication, and sculpture. Experimentally exploring exclusionary politics of language and narration Conny is interested in decentralized forms of relationship, encounter, and resistance.Within Spiral Bike, Conny will present Dwin City—a spatial, speculative, and ongoing narrative that draws on the blurring of existing stories and forgotten, misty atmospheres preserved by the Danube River between Vienna and Bratislava.

Michael Fischer – musician-composer, instant composition conductor, arbeitet an der Sprachimmanenz von Klängen, ihrer skulpturalen und dramatischen Evidenz im Bereich der radikal Frei Improvisierten und experimentellen Musik. 1999 begann er das akustische Phänomen Feedback in seine Arbeit zu integrieren und schuf mit der Entwicklung des Feedback-Saxophon einen völlig neuen Klangaktionsraum. Seit 2003 zahlreiche Zusammenarbeiten mit Autor:innen experimenteller Textformen. 2004 gründete er das Vienna Improvisers Orchestra. Guest-lectures und Festivaleinladungen in Europa, Kanada, USA und Japan.

Martina Moro is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vienna. She presented her works in exhibitions, theatre stages and virtual spaces, as solo artist and in collaborative works. Moro is part of the multidisciplinary collective columbosnext. and Verschub Records, is a faculty member of PIP (Pegasus Institute for Pataphysics) and is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary master of Art and Science at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria.

Qamareen aka. Luna Al-Mousli, legt Ihre Lieblings-Wohlfühl-SWANA-Sounds auf und mischt nahtlos Pop, Indie und elektronische Beats. Ihre Sets nehmen dich mit auf eine musikalische Reise, bei der die Texte genauso wichtig sind wie die Melodie. Gemeinsam haben Qarmareen und d.b.h. die Party-Reihe Raقsouna (oder Raqsouna) ins Leben gerufen, in der sie die Feierkultur neu definieren, Räume schaffen und gemeinsam mit nationalen und internationalen Musiker*innen Wien aufmischen mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Musik aus der SWANA-Region.

Marie Vermont is based in Vienna and moves between different fields of music, drawing, painting and collage in the broadest sense, cassettes, printing and publications as means of reproduction. She has been creating music both collaboratively and independently since 2007, currently with projects like IEOGM (w/ the concept horse), Micro Mata (w/ RSMA), BILLA ENSEMBLE (w/ Michiu, turmeric acid, the concept horse) and others. She co-organizes the concert series „knopfwissen” in Vienna, recently toured in Japan with IEOGM and released on various DIY labels like eëditions, Breton cassette, Molt Fluid, Beach Buddies Records and Hard Return.

Conny Zenk works as an artist and artist researcher in the fields of performance, video and sound art. She applies narratives such as continuity and acceleration through audio-visual compositions and live performances. Conny is the initiator of the art project RAD Performance, which focuses on the fusion of performance and sound art with collective practices such as cycling. Since then, numerous projects in the field of sound art, city history, and feminism have been realized with bicycles in public spaces. With projects such as sound x tracks, VELODROME, and Soundrides, she has been working on a new music format, developed as an innovative possibility for concerts in public spaces.
https://connyzenk.com

RAD PERFORMERS ON SOUNDBIKES

Astrid, Bokan, Belli, Gulnaz, Emilio, Lili, Lu, Omay, Stefan
Thanks to: Hermes Radbot*innen Wien, flinktas Vienna, Lastenradkollektiv, velopeaches

TEAM

Artistic Direction: Conny Zenk
Technical Direction: Georg Hartl
Technical Crew: Markus Liszt
Production Management: Michaela Zenk
Illustration: Marie Vermont
Photography: Hannah Mayr
Costume Design: Astrid Eder sew.i.y.
Merch Artwork: Conni Feitsinger
Graphic Design: Marie Vermont
Cinematography: Francesca Centonze
Production: a_maze | HAZE

Kindly supported by the City of Vienna MA7 and the Federal Ministry of Austrian Culture