HUDBA MIKULOV

WHAT ECHOES REMAIN FROM UNDERGROUND VOICES –
AND HOW DO WE RIDE WITH THEM TODAY?

RAD Performance – Along the Line is a performative sound project that reimagines musicmaking
through mobility, collectivity, and spatial intervention. By using the bicycle as both instrument and medium, the project explores how experimental and electroacoustic compositions unfold across landscapes, with Mikulov and its surroundings forming a central stage. Audience members, equipped with mobile PA speakers, actively participate in this performative journey – becoming part of a spatial and sonic choreography that continually evolves as they move.

This edition engages in a unique dialogue with Radek Kroupa’s exhibition documenting the punk scene in Mikulov from 1980 to 2000. Kroupa’s archive captures a local culture of resistance: a network of underground concerts and DIY expression that thrived under socio-political constraints. RAD Performance draws on this spirit – not through nostalgia, but by continuing the legacy of using music to reshape public space, forge community, and challenge normative structures.

Routes become scores; roads, instruments. Start and end points of each journey define the temporal structure of the composition. The collective movement of cyclists creates a dynamic, shifting soundscape in which audience members are both receivers and cocreators. In connecting Mikulov’s sonic past with contemporary performative practice, RAD Performance – Along the Line asks:

How can sound, movement, and memory activate spaces in new ways?

ALONG THE LINE

Saturday, 16th August 2025
17:30 – CONCERT, PERFORMANCE, INSTALLATION
Sound by Marie Vermont
Bike Tattoos / Performance by Martina Moro & Conni Ratriot
Screenprinting / T-Shirt Design by Conni Feitsinger & Vali Santner

18:20 – SOUNDRIDE
Punk Rock Music from 1984-2000 selected by Martin Šuba & Conny Zenk
Route: By bike from Mikulov along the Iron Curtain Trail to Falkenstein Castle Ruins.
Meeting point: Mikulov, ‘Project-space – Gallery Stucco Hall’
Project-space – Gallery Stucco Hall
Namesti 6, Mikulov 69201 [CZ]
GPS: 48.8067, 16.6389

Burgruine Falkenstein
2162 Falkenstein bei Poysdorf [AT]
GPS: 48.7242, 16.5787

Weather-related changes will be announced no later than two hours before the start via
the RAD Performance newsletter and website.

ARTISTS | HUDBA MIKULOV

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.
https://marievermont.world

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.
https://martinamoro.com/

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

TEAM

Concept / Artistic Direction: Conny Zenk
Concert / Composition / Remix: Marie Vermont
Soundride Mix by Martin Šuba & Conny Zenk
Bike Tattoos / Performance: Martina Moro & Conni Ratriot
Screenprinting: Conni Feitsinger & Valentina Santner
Exhibition: Martina Moro, Conni Ratriot, Valentina Santner
Technical Direction / Sound / Engineering: Georg Hartl
Produktionsmanagement / PR / Social Media: Michaela Zenk
Live Kamera: Francesca Centonze, Mimi Schmidl
Illustration: Marie Vermont
Grafik Design: Conny Zenk, Hannah Mayr
Fotografie: Hannah Mayr

Production: a_maze | HAZE
Kindly supported and in cooperation with FLUVIALE