Nikolaus Gansterer & Arno Böhler | Hugo Canoilas, Vasco Futscher, Sophia Hörmann, Fernando Mesquita, Thea Möller, Nikolai Nekh, Sofia Montanha, Pedro D. Reis, Maddison Rowe, Andreia Santana, and Anna Schachinger

For the third event in this year’s Tuesday@Secession series, we cordially invite you to an evening of community in the Secession’s garden. Look forward to contributions by Hugo Canoilas and Nikolaus Gansterer & Arno Böhler.

Hugo Canoilas, Vasco Futscher, Sophia Hörmann, Fernando Mesquita, Thea Möller, Nikolai Nekh, Sofia Montanha, Pedro D. Reis, Maddison Rowe, Andreia Santana, and Anna Schachinger

Treffen in Guincho – Prelude

In concordance with the evenings final act Treffen in Guincho Hugo Canoilas will begin with a culinary delight.

Nikolaus Gansterer & Arno Böhler

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A trans-lecture performance by Nikolaus Gansterer and Arno Böhler

The artist Nikolaus Gansterer employs expanded drawing to explore performative simultaneous translations of processes of thinking and speaking. The philosopher Arno Böhler will read Plato’s Timaeus as a voice from the future presenting us with a cosmogenesis that is still ongoing: how many rosy-fingered dawns have yet to rise?

On the scene, this question will be developed by Böhler in cross-sensitive resonance with Gansterer’s artistic practice and unfolded between the two. Signifiers, gestures, and objects become coequal actors in a lively tabletop choreography that is recorded on camera and livestreamed to the Secession’s exterior wall.

Hugo Canoilas, Vasco Futscher, Sophia Hörmann, Fernando Mesquita, Thea Möller, Nikolai Nekh, Sofia Montanha, Pedro D. Reis, Maddison Rowe, Andreia Santana, and Anna Schachinger

Treffen in Guincho – Part II

Treffen in Guincho is an evening evolving from an eponymous communal video work with feminist and ecological concerns made in poetic immanence with Guincho Meeting—a meeting organized by Ernesto de Sousa in collaboration with Noronha da Costa and Oficina Experimental in 1969 including the act of destroying a piece of art.

Treffen in Guincho is an ephemeral group of authors composed of Filipe André Alves, Hugo Canoilas, Clothilde, Vasco Futscher, Sophia Hörmann, Fernando Mesquita, Thea Möller, Nikolai Nekh, Sofia Montanha, Pedro Diniz Reis, Maddison Rowe, Andreia Santana, and Anna Schachinger.

Biography

Hugo Canoilas, b. in Lisbon in 1977, lives and works in Vienna.

Arno Böhler teachers philosophy at the University of Vienna and aesthetics and philosophy at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw). In 1997, he and the actor Susanne Valerie Granzer founded baseCollective, a cultural workshop on the intersection between philosophy and art that seeks to restore the materiality of philosophy by integrating artistic practices into philosophical praxis. The workshop developed research formats including Philosophy On Stage, Arts-based Philosophy, Artist-Philosophers, and field performances that were put to practical—and intercultural—tests in a residency program for artistic research and arts-based philosophy held annually in southern India from 2016 until 2020.

Nikolaus Gansterer is an artist, performer, and researcher who studies the relational field between drawing, thinking, and action. Gansterer makes installations and performances to examine possible ways of translating phenomena of perception into an artistic setting. His trans-media works focus on ephemeral and emergent processes, uncovering immanent networked structures and deftly questioning the ostensible boundary lines between nature and culture, art and philosophy. Gansterer teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and leads Contingent Agencies, an interdisciplinary PEEK research project (2019–2023) on the cartography of atmospheres, situations, and environments. www.gansterer.org

Programmed by the board of the Secession
Curated by Christian Lübbert