FESTIVAL NIGHTS 2023
BET ALPHA
in
HEIDI HORTEN COLLECTION
Hanuschgasse 3, 1010 Wien
Doors open 19:30
and
VILLA MAUTNER-JÄGER
Landstraßer Hauptstraße 140/142, 1030 Wien
Programm in HEIDI HORTEN COLLECTION:
The floor plan:
Hear: Hearing, Atrium
Feel: The Melting World, Plateau 1
See: La Muse and La Mode, Plateau 2
Immersive performance creates a dialog of music, visual art, theater, dance, and fashion.
The museum transforms into the stage, where the audience becomes part of the performance.
The floor plan:
Hear: Hearing, Atrium
Feel: The Melting World, Plateau 1
See: La Muse and La Mode, Plateau 2
1.10.2023 Sunday THE CONCERT OF ARTS (Opening Night)
ARTISTS:
Yury Revich and Project OLARIO
Mariko Hara (Viola)
Basha Slavinska (Accordion)
Simone Sgarbanti (Piano)
Manaho Shimokawa (Dance)
Martin Tardy (Live-Painting)
and Special Guests
Music: Bach, Sarasate, Revich, and others.
3.10.2023 Tuesday THE CONCERT OF ARTS
ARTISTS:
Yury Revich and Project OLARIO
Philipp Hochmair (Theater)
Mariko Hara (Viola)
Basha Slavinska (Accordion)
Manaho Shimokawa (Dance)
Martin Tardy (Live-Painting)
Music: Paganini, Vivaldi, Revich, and others.
6.10.2023 Friday THE CONCERT OF ARTS
ARTISTS:
Yury Revich and Project OLARIO
Joe Rabl (Theater)
Markus Freistätter (Theater)
Mariko Hara (Viola)
Basha Slavinska (Accordion)
Cat Jimenez (Dance)
Martin Tardy (Live-Painting)
Music: Beethoven, Gershwin-Frolov, Revich, and others.
7.10.2023, Saturday
19:30
DREAMLAND CHARITY GALA CONCERT FOR UNICEF AUSTRIA
with Yury Revich
Gedeon Burkhard
Sunnyi Melles
Cesar Sampson
Valerie Huber
Helge Payer
Liudmila Konovalova
…and others
Programm in VILLA MAUTNER-JÄGER
1-7.10.2023
Artists:
Miroslaw Balka
Marianne Beerenhaut
Ira Eduardovna
Lior Gal
Amos Gitaï
Danielle Kaganov
Sharon Lockhart
Efrat Natan
Samir Odeh-Tamimi
Miri Segal
Buky Schwartz
Nira Pereg
Peter Welz
...and others
Taking its place as part of the first Festival Nights with Yury Revich edition in Vienna, the presentation Bet Alpha is an array of video installations and spatial screenings occupying the Villa Mautner-Jӓger over the course of one week as a sort of an urban storm or a provisional fairground. Borrowing its title from the name of Kibbutz Bet Alpha, the presentation revolves around the idea of 'exhibition as place,’ amounting to an experience of both a concrete and abstract locale. The title points to a primary state of things (in Hebrew ‘Bet Alpha’ stands for The House of Alpha) as well as a disruptive framework (when read as the inversion of the term Alphabet).
Bet Alpha seeks to transform a given architecture into a sequence of screened spaces. Through the use of projections and screenings it partly veils the physical reality of its venue, but also brings forth the question of accessing historical-social reality as an open, elusive one. Oscillating between documentary representation and elaborated fantasy, fiction, and optical illusion, Bet Alpha is dotted by the display of the 1963 documentary film by Pier Paolo Pasolini Location Hunting in Palestine(Sopralloughi in Palestina) created during the legendary filmmaker’s preparations for his seminal 1964 film The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo).
Unfolding a wide range of projected entities in space, from cinema to video, to recorded performance, the presentation includes works by twenty artists of different backgrounds. Moving between the spaces Bet Alpha becomes a sort of film in itself edited and re-edited irregularly in accordance to the contingent movement of the viewers in real time. It shifts back and forth between the real and the imaginary, the material and the virtual, through different forms of projection and display, as well as a few sculptural interventions. Representing the fully material pole of Bet Alpha the sculptural interventions anchor the presentation within a physical ground which is abandoned and rediscovered time and again.
Bet Alpha amounts to an experience converting Villa Mautner-Jӓger into a haven, an enclave severed from its surrounding, from the urban, communal fabric in which it is imbued. It treats its venue as a site of day-dreaming, as a launch pad towards events and situations transcending the historical present; the commonly established, or rather, the ideologically hegemonic, everyday reality.
Organized in collaboration with the Kira A. Princess of Prussia Foundation and the Tel-Aviv Institute and curated by Ory Dessau.