Downstream #01 - exhibition at KC Grad / Belgrade

 

I am exhibiting two works of mine at the exhibition "DOWNSTREAM 01" in KC Grad in Belgrade from 3rd to 15th of April 2023. Both works were produced during my residency stay on-board the MS Fusion last year. 

One of them is the 6,5 m-long poem "Die Donau hinab" - I have written one verse every km we passed down the Danube and tried to take "poesis" literally as becoming a medium for the environment we were passing. The whole poem/performance can be seen as an installation in the exhibition and I will also give a workshop on this kind of poetic practice on the 6th of April (more info in a separate post later on). 

My second work exhibited is a sound composition I have creatively titled "MS Fusion" in which I have created a composition of sound I gathered with and around the MS Fusion passing the kms along the Danube. I tried to regard the whole patchworky boat as one medium and instrument and am in fact very happy with the result. I hope I will find away to make it available to listen to for non-Belgrade residents soon.

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Toxic Temple @donaufestival '23

 

Now that the program has been released, I can finally announce that Toxic Temple will have a pretty big presence at this years' donaufestival in Krems an der Donau. 

We will celebrate a MESS in Forum Frohner and the public space of Krems and Stein from 28th to 30th of April and will lead a big Procession as a closing event through the city to the Dominikanerkirche to meet with Alfredo Barsuglia's SKIMMER performance crew. Additionally Julia Grillmayr and me will give one workshop each on the second festival weekend on the 6th and 7th of May.

I will post more information in due time. As of now, I want to thank the whole team of this year's MESS for making such a huge thing happen - especially co-religious founder and dear friend Anna Lerchbaumer for sticking with the project at its most dire times (curation of the donaufestival has not always been optimal, to say the least) and our new dramaturg Claus Philipp for helping us grow and stick with the trouble! 

You can find the whole program on the festival homepage here.

And our little propaganda page www.toxictemple.beauty is on again and you will be able to find more precise information on timing etc. there.