8. – 15.8.2022
Foto: Barbara Buttinger-Förster
8. – 15.8.2022
Zaunreiter Akademie
Transdisciplinary laboratory
By and with: Marta Forsberg (SE/DE), Anne Glassner (AT), Anita Kaya (AT), Agnes Schneidewind (AT), Shusha
In the Sleep Laboratory at Zaunreiter Akademie (8.8.-15.8.22) four artists from different disciplines and the dog Shusha came together to explore sleep and dreams in the rural landscape of the Mühlviertel in Upper Austria.
In this episode of an ongoing research project they address and investigate possibilities and the potential of sleep as a communal and regenerative experience in times where the society we live in appears to be exhausted, cought in selfdestruction and in need of space to dream. The receptive sleeping body as well as living in the paradox of dream images decelerates our collective loneliness and opens a sensual, intimate space.
The group found an inspiring place – Zaunreiter Akademie – for their everyday slow dance dreaming, reading and drawing practices. In a physical dialogue wir plants, animals, minerals,weather, … they experience the rural landscape connected to their inner dream images: Continuity, slowness and regularity are temporal aspects that are of central importance for their sleep research and thus also for this project, which aims at regeneration and deceleration.
At the end of the week, traces of the work were shared with the guests present on site.
Thanks to Barbara Buttinger-Förster/Zaunreiter-Akademie for her hospitality and sharing her place and knowledge with us.
Text by Marta Forsberg:
Text by Anne Glassner:
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
Anita Kaya (AT) born 1961, is a freelance choreographer, performer and curator living in Vienna. Under the label OYA-Produktion (1988-2005) she created dance productions, site-specific performances, performative installations and dance videos that were presented internationally. In 2000, she initiated the artists for artists initiative Im_flieger – research laboratory for dance, performance and transmedia art (Concept funding from the City of Vienna 2022-25). In artistic direction and in collaboration with numerous artists and theoreticians, she develops new concepts and structures of artistic cooperation and mentoring programmes: e. g. the European residency programme for young choreographers TERRAINS FERTILES 05 (Innovation Prize 2005 of IG-Kultur Vienna). She is engaged with the body as a reservoir of individual and collective memory, and its potential for communication with the environment, the human and more than human: e. g. Translocations / One-to-One Performance located at the intersection of history/trauma, archiving, installation and performance. 2023 she cooperates with Theatercombinat/ Claudia Bosse as performer/ choreographer in the production Bones & Stones. In 2019/20 she completed the university course “Curating in the Scenic Arts” at the University of Salzburg and Munich. She is co-editor and author of the publication VISCERAL FICTION – Im_flieger schreibt Geschichte/s – 20 Jahre Künstler:innen für Künstler:innen. 2021, monocrom. www.imflieger.net, www.stffwchsl.net
Anne Glassner (AT) is a Vienna-based visual and performance artist working primarily with interventions in public space, performance, installation, video and drawing. Inspired by everyday situations, her work is often process-based. Many works deal with sleep and consciousness, private and public, fake and reality and the borders of legal and illegal. She has been exploring the theme of sleep and dreams for several years. Anne Glassner studied art history at the University of Vienna, art and communication at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (graduated in 2008) and fine arts (painting) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she graduated in 2016. Numerous exhibitions, performances and workshops in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, Turkey, Latvia, the USA and South Korea. www.anneglassner.at
Marta Forsberg (SE) is a Swedish composer, sound artist and violinist working in the field of installation art, drone music and free improvisation. Her work is dedicated to creating an immersive environment, expanding the sensory world through multichannel augmentation and through light sculptures – an acoustic visualisation. In 2012, Marta co-founded organisation “Konstmusiksystrar” with composer Lo Kristenson, working for gender equality in the contemporary music scene in Sweden. In 2016, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Electroacoustic Music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. www.martaforsberg.com, www.konstmusiksystrar.se