Studies & Evocations

Performance - Kunsthalle Graz

©Arnold Reinisch / Kunsthalle Graz

“Oh beauty before us,
beauty behind us,
beauty to our right,
beauty to our left,
beauty above us,
beauty below us …
We are on the pollen path again …”

A performative requiem for a deceased bee colony: Paul Divjak & Wolfgang Schlögl, the two gentlemen bee pop-shamans are back and connecting with the magical world of the honey bee. – A piece in which Monsanto meets spirituality, and Beuys „Honigpumpe“ keeps on vibrating as a reference somewhere in the back of the audience´s minds.

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Paul Divjak und Wolfgang Schlögl (aka I-Wolf) treten als Bienenbotschafter auf und laden zu einer multimedialen performativen Inszenierung. Mit ihrer Performance nehmen sie eine quasi rituelle Anrufung verstorbener Bienenvölker vor und vermessen den Raum zeremoniell. Dabei oszilliert ihre Haltung zwischen wissenschaftlich/technologischen Annäherungsmodellen und archaischen Methoden zur Herstellung gemeinschaftlicher (Grenz)-Erfahrungen.

2017ArtworkPerformance

Triad of the Garden

Klanginstallation

The Soundtrack of Summer – Sound installation commissioned for:
“Musikgarten: Zwischentöne”, Landesgartenschau Kremsmünster, 21.4.-15.10.2017

„Warum muss die Welt ein Amphitheater sein, in dem Gladiatoren auf Leben und Tod miteinander kämpfen, statt zum Beispiel ein geschäftiger kooperativer Bienenkorb oder Ameisenhügel?“ (J. M. Coetzee, zitiert von Zygmunt Bauman in: ESSAY ZU EUROPA – Ein unvollendetes Abenteuer)

Basierend auf Field Recordings – im Rahmen von „akustischen Landvermessungen“ vor Ort aufgenommene Geräusche und Töne – haben Paul Divjak & Wolfgang Schlögl (Team Tool Time / Bee Pop) harmonische Klangbilder destilliert. In ihrer Komposition “Triad of the Garden / Der Dreiklang des Gartens” verschmelzen Geräusche von Flora, Fauna und Mensch zum faszinierenden Soundtrack eines Sommers, der dazu einlädt, mit allen Sinnen in die Vielfalt der Erfahrungswelt einzutauchen.

2015ArtworkPerformance

Echoes of Past …

Performance @AIL - Angewandte Innovation Lab

Echoes of Past, Present, and Future: Studies in Time, Space and Sound
Sound art / performance, 2015 – Paul Divjak & Wolfgang Schlögl aka Team Tool Time
Commissioned for: AIL – Applied Innovation Lab, University for Applied Arts, Vienna

“Entering a laboratory for me is always a religious experience.” Anton Zeilinger

A site-specific intervention, an acoustic and performative mapping of the physical and symbolic space at the occasion of the opening of the new AIL. A location, which used to house a gallery of an Austrian bank, and a pile company, as well as the renown Jewish Cultural Theatre until the year 1938. – With special equipment Paul Divjak and Wolfgang Schlögl are searching for the yet unheard, and creating a live-soundscape of the memory of space.
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2010ArtworkPerformance

Klanglulu

Partizipative Performance - Art Brut Museum

Setup “Klanglulu”, Art Brut Museum, Gugging

„Klanglulu“, Art Brut Museum, Gugging (participative sound performance)

With their site-specific sound performances / workshops Divjak & Schlögl explore the possibilities and intersections of sound art, live composition, performativity and participation.
The two artists are inviting and enabling the audience to be part of a collective sound producing ceremony. By using everyday tools like a hammer, pencils or kitchen ware in a nonfunctional, creative way the audience and the artists learn to consciously redefine their relationships towards their personal environments in a sensual manner. From this perspective the whole group of participants become some sort of musical entity. Fascinating orchestral soundscapes are taking shape and new spaces of shared experiences are beeing created. — mehr —