Baustelle

For VERSUCHSANSTALT, Katrin Euller aka Rent develops a joint concert together with Didi Kern and Philipp Quehenberger, which will take place in the Project Space. The elements developed by Nicole Six and Paul Petritsch will serve as the stage, plus all sorts of viable objects found on the construction site. And perhaps they will appropriate one or the other works by the other artists who have already made use of the space on previous dates. In any case, expect a loud and tumultuous conclusion for your ears and your mind!

Sinister ambient soundscapes, harsh noise worlds. As RENT, Vienna-based KATRIN EULLER filters unwieldy analogue sounds out of her synthesizer and blends them with distorted voices and digital artifacts. The outcome is a darkly tinted aural experience in which physical impact is paramount.

Keyboarder PHILIPP QUEHENBERGER and drummer DIETER aka DIDI KERN (BULBUL, FUCKHEAD) have been active as a duo for more than two decades. Known for their ecstatic live shows, they are the best proof that free improvisation is not necessarily limited to just one genre, rather it opens the door for a fusion of the most diverse musical languages. In the case of KERN/QUEHENBERGER, the spectrum ranges from punk to free jazz, techno to Krautrock, grindcore to avant-pop – here, too, the bodily experience plays a decisive role.

The concert „Baustelle“ by Katrin Euller aka RENT, Didi Kern and Philipp Quehenberger is the final opening of the “growing” exhibition Ping Pongin VERSUCHSANSTALT. For three sub-openings, Kunsthalle Exnergasse teamed up a female artist with an artist or one of the WUK workshops.

Each of the interdisciplinary collaborations forms a contribution that integrates into the VERSUCHSANSTALT project in a performative, installative, or accumulative way. Taking on various forms, the interventions respond to each other, intrude, oscillate between genres, or distance themselves from what is present in the space.