SPINNING:BODIES

SPINNING:BODIES describes a multi-layered meditation on life in a state of emergency, on language as the last resource, on the failure of systems and the fragility of identity. The „Future Club“ is less a place than a state: a place of transitions, of searching, of ultimate hope in the midst of demise.

Collective body practice and hybrid identity: freak bikes, bicycle sculptures, bicycles specially adapted to the performers‘ bodies from bike polo and wheelchair basketball. Multi-channel concerts in motion turn language into a material, an soundtrack and a performative gesture. Bicycles are vehicles, instruments and performers.

SPINNING:BODIES  is an interdisciplinary project that is located between performance, film, sound art and audio-visual concert. The starting point of the project is the recently produced film spinning:bodies by Conny Zenk, to which Thomas Ballhausen has developed the text „Future Club“. The subsequent performance sees itself as a post-film transformation: a living, collective thinking space that brings language, sound, movement and space into new relationships.

„Twilight is just another form of attention. I hardly intervene, I just mediate between the states of aggregation, benevolently and somewhat enviously at the same time. This room is a ship, it falls, sinks, drifts.“

Thomas Ballhausen

Timetable

18:00 – Soundride
with sound by Mala Herba, Julia Just, Marta Beauchamp, Rahel Kraft, Gischt & text by Thomas Ballhausen
Route: By bike from the Prater Hauptallee, over the Praterbrücke, along the Danube via Lobau to Donaustadt and Seestadt
Meeting point: Prater Hauptallee / level with Südosttangente / GPS: 48.199782, 16.425869

19:00 – Open Air / Seestadt Studios
RAD Parcours, Freakbikes, installation by Veronika Mayer
Bike tattoos with Conni Ratriot & Martina Moro
Bike kitchen & galettes with Luca Guttmann

19:30 – SPINNING:BODIES
Performance with Cornelia Scheuer & Alexander Suppan
Live Laser Performance: Jerobeam Fenderson & Hansi3D
Kompositionen by Rahel Kraft & Mala Herba
Text for Spinning:Bodies: ”Future Club” Thomas Ballhausen
Sound / Performance / Concert: Creatures, Gischt, Veronika Mayer, Marta Beauchamp & Julia Just
Rodeobike #3: Gratis G
Concept & Artistic Direction: Conny Zenk

21:30 – Multichannel-Concerts
Marta Beauchamp
Julia Just