I’m happy to return to Villa North in August. For five days the performing artists Sebastian Bark, [M] Dudeck and Charlotta Ruth will join me. Together with the artist Marie-Andrée Pellerin we will play and document „Das Aufhebungsspiel“. Please drop us a line, in case you’re in Kärnten!

Erik Buenger with Cordula Daus and Mihnea Mircan
Zentrum Fokus Forschung
Rustenschacherallee 2-4
1020 Vienna

What is the relationship between voice-over and image? Does a voice-over give voice to the image? Does it help the image communicate something that images cannot communicate on their own? Common sense tells us that this is how voice-over functions. This artistic research project explores a line of thought that runs contrary to common sense. A voice-over functions – not by giving voice to the image – but by taking voice away. By speaking of the image, the voice-over commands the image to silence. 

Thou Shalt Not Speak brings a group of artists together in a research project that examines whether it is possible to use this paradoxical logic against the voice-over. If the voice-over commands the image to silence, can this silence be mobilised against the voice-over? Can it become an obstacle to speech that blocks the voice-over from articulating what the image means? The evening will begin with Erik Bünger and Cordula Daus introducing the artistic works they have produced as part of their research. Bünger will present his video ‘Nature See You’. Daus will premier her brand new lecture performance ’nipplepeople‘ that responds directly to Bünger’s work. The event will conclude with a discussion between Bünger, Daus and curator Mihnea Mircan where they speak about the research presented and the implications this research has for the wider questions addressed by the project.

Erik Bünger is an artist, writer and composer whose work presents a continuous investigation into the human voice and its paradoxical relationship to human language. His videos, lecture performances and musical compositions have been presented at venues such as Centre Pompidou in Paris, The Wellcome Collection in London, The Curitiba Biennial in Brazil and the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara.

Cordula Daus is a writer-artist whose work is concerned with questions of place, sexuality, body and language. From 2010-2016 she published the journal series Toponymisches Heft (Fantôme Verlag Berlin). Her novel SEHR is forthcoming. She has presented her books, lecture performances and collaborative works at brut Vienna, the Research Pavilion #3/Venice and Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

Mihnea Mircan is a curator currently based in Bucharest. His most recent projects are the exhibitions Landscape in a Convex Mirror, for the 2021 edition of the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara (RO), and A Biography of Daphne at ACCA in Melbourne. From 2011 he served as artistic director of Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp. This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [AR688] 

In ihrem Vortrag spricht Cordula Daus über ihr aktuelles künstlerisches Forschungsprojekt „Outer Woman“ und die Herausforderung, sich einer entfremdenden Praxis, der Ektogenese, auf künstlerische und performative Weise zu nähern. Gemeinsam mit den Künstler*innen Sebastian Bark, [M] Dudeck und Charlotta Ruth, arbeitet sie an einer neuen Phänomenologie der Schwangerschaft bzw. des Schwangergehens. Dabei kommen verschiedene Verfahrensweisen zum Einsatz: Séancen, Atemübungen, Fragebögen, Mythen, Konversationsspiele und andere Formen experimentellen Ahnens.

Eine Veranstaltung der Kunstuniversität Linz (Abteilungen Kulturwissenschaft sowie Kunstgeschichte und Kunsttheorie) in Kooperation mit dem Kepler Salon
Gastgeberinnen: Anne von der Heiden, Jasmin Mersmann

I’m very happy to have been invited to a residency at Villa North in Millstatt/Austria. Laurien Bachmann and Sebastian Six have created an amazing space to work and to co-inhabit. I’m enjoying the deers in the garden, Peter North’s book treasures and The Lake. Besides that: Working on Outer Woman, the podcast. I’ll be back in August!

Tracing Presences
APL Practice(!)Symposium
Künstlerhaus
Karlsplatz 5
1010 Vienna

Cordula Daus and Charlotta Ruth
with: [M] Dudeck (performance) and Roman Harrer (technical direction)

Let’s spell it out: What is performance?  What is ______ and what can _____ do beyond the ______ of art and  ______?

On behalf of the Angewandte Performance Laboratory Charlotta Ruth and I co-conceived the symposium’s opening. We will give a speech thrice, summon collective human intelligence and call upon witch craft. We will refill forms and liquids, misread manifestos and send messages from our guts. Come and breed with us!

Entry is free of charge, register here

Zentrum Fokus Forschung
Rustenschacherallee 2-4
1020 Wien
Eintritt frei

Cordula Daus mit Sebastian Bark, [M] Dudeck und Charlotta Ruth
Sprache: Englisch/Deutsch

Derzeit lagern Millionen von eingefrorenen menschlichen Embryonen in Laboren weltweit. Frühreife Lämmer wachsen in Plastikbeuteln heran. Mäuse-Embryonen werden in Bioreaktoren aus Stammzellen kreiert. Wir behaupten, Ektogenese, die Schaffung eines lebendigen Wesens außerhalb eines Körpers, ist Realität. Unter dieser Voraussetzung sucht das Projekt Outer Woman neue Perspektiven auf den menschlichen Reproduktionskomplex.

In Das Aufhebungsspiel wollen wir die kulturelle Praxis der Schwangerschaft einer Revision unterziehen. Aus welchen Elementen setzt sie sich zusammen? Was ist zu bewahren; was ist entbehrlich? Wir nähern uns dieser Aufgabe durch Live Action Role Playing, durch Übungen des Vorausahnens und Wunderns. Entfremdung ist unsere Methode.

Die frohe Botschaft lautet: Wir sind schwanger. Die Revolution ist da. Der Bauch ist leer. Das Werk ist unser!

Outer Woman wird gefördert vom Austrian Science Fund (FWF): V 797 Richter Programm inkl. Richter-PEEK.

Zentrum Fokus Forschung
Rustenschacherallee 2-4
1020 Vienna

This workshop invites to a series of exercises that strategically confuse the binaries between free/automated writing and human/machine thinking. We will play with words, code and the relational space that emerges between participants. The focus is on how analogue and digitally interfered constrained writing can support experimental and collaborative thinking processes.

The exercises are part of Questionology an ongoing art project and research environment conceived by writer-artist Cordula Daus and choreographer Charlotta Ruth. Together with our collaborator, the programmer Simon Repp and the participants of the workshop we will activate some of Questionology’s core elements. The workshop takes place within the Almost Doctor Festival by Charlotta Ruth & friends.

13th SAR Confererence 2022
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Hörsaal A

presented by: Emma Cocker, Cordula Daus and Lena Séraphin

In July we will be in Weimar, Germany, introducing the activities of the Special Interest Group of Language-based Artistic Research as part of the Society of Artistic Research Conference 2022. For a more detailed program please click here.