PARK(ing) Day 2023: poetry & tea #6 // caught in the divine pull of a horned nucleus // hosted by Agnes Schneidewind (AT)
Fri 15.9.2023 // 18.00
collage: samhain skin by leonora carrington, quotes from piranesi by susanna clark, the flowering wand by sophie strand and drawing by agnes schneidewind
Fri 15.9.2023 // 18.00
Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna / pay as you wish_can / tea & cake
hosted by Agnes Schneidewind (AT)
with Imani Rameses (US/AT) and Fabian Faltin (AT)
In dreams, a house is often read as our body. In Susanna Clark’s novel “Piranesi,” the entire world is fit into a giant, labyrinthine house. Endless halls and corridors, ocean tides, birds, and sculptures speak of long-lost ideas and magical knowledge. Piranesi wanders through this labyrinth like a lightfooted minotaur. His discoveries may inspire us to infuse our voices with tea and reenchant our bodies with poetry. Enjoy somatic tea treatments and bring poems you’d like to share, as we celebrate international park(ing) day and the new moon.
Agnes Schneidewind (AT) (*1986, she/her) is an artist, performer, and researcher in the field of somatic choreography and performative poetry. Based on dream practices, she works with dance, text, and drawing in site-specific and process-oriented contexts. She co-creates experimental formats and performances—such as “through which they have wandered” (2022, with Johanna Nielson and Zoumana Méïtè) and “eleven. each print in the mud fills with honey” (2021, with Johanna Nielson and Marina Poleukhina), both co-produced by brut Wien. She studied philosophy and further training in choreography, dance, and craniosacral bodywork. In 2017, Schneidewind completed the postgraduate artistic research program a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies) in Brussels. Her work has been supported by residencies and production grants from, among others, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture and the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna. She regularly works in dialogical constellations with artists such as Sabina Holzer, Iris Dittler, Jack Hauser, Robert Steijn, Elina Lautamäki, Marta Forsberg, and the considering network. For several years, she has been exploring physical experiences of darkness and the intertwining of inner and outer landscapes. From a three-week Arctic night in Longyearbyen, she developed the piece “I want to be delicious for the bear” (2024). She is currently artist in residence at the Kuffner Observatory in Vienna. https://sjnijdewindt.works
Fabian Faltin (AT) is known for his performances, novels and as a gardener. His major works have been shown at Festival der Regionen, London National Theatre, brut, WUK, Beijing Fringe, Bears in the Park, and many more. He teaches writing and public speaking at Bruckner University Linz, and is currently running a speaker’s agency for Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024 – European Capital of Culture. www.fabianfaltin.com
Imani Rameses (US/AT) is in service to her community as a cognitive scientist, choreographer, and dancer. She investigates the phenomenology of silence within the intersections of cognitive (emotion) psychology, participatory performance, and African alchemic practices. She received her Master’s degree at the University of Vienna with a focus on Neuroaesthetics. Rameses has presented work at Impulstanz, SAR, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Harvard University, the University of Zurich, and other international festivals and conferences.