2010ArtworkPerformance

The Book Jockeys

Literaturperformance / Literaturhaus Wien

THE BOOK JOCKEYS – Paul Divjak & Christian Schachinger

Was DJs tun, ist bekannt. Ob Techno oder House, minimale Elektronik oder die Hits der letzten Dekaden: mit einem Koffer voller Musik gestalten sie einen Abend. Paul Divjak & Christian Schachinger – einer Autor und Künstler, der andere Kritiker und Redakteur bei der Tageszeitung „Der Standard“ – tauschen Platten gegen Bücher. Vor sich Büchertürme – Sachbücher, Belletristik, Lyrik, Theorie: kein Genre bleibt unbeachtet – performen sie, was die Texte hergeben: Textfragment trifft auf Textfragment, Neuerscheinungen krachen auf Klassiker und die Syntax produziert heftige Nebengeräusche. Der Sinn produziert Überschüsse. Das Tempo macht Spaß. Ein Abend der zeitgemäßen Wissensvermittlung.– Word Up! — mehr —

2010ArtworkPerformance

Du unendliche Spur

Partizipative Performance - MUMOK / Overpainted

Setup “Du unendliche Spur” @MUMOK

“Du unendliche Spur”, 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.
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2010ArtworkInstallation

Tourists of Life

Taken from the series “Tourists of Life”, 2007
(4 C-prints, variable sizes)

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 —