Back to Double Lives. Visual Artists Making Music at MUMOK - Museum moderner Kunst Wien
About
Statement
The exhibition Double Lives will focus on visual artists who wrote or produced music, who performed music in public, or who were or are members of artists’ bands.
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Events
Concert: Beauties of the Night
Thu, Jun 28, 2018 from 8:00 – 9:30pm UTC
Beauties of the Night (Markus Krottendorfer, Alexander Wolff, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Christian Egger)
Venue: mumok kino
Extensive noise rock in the spirit of free jazz, challenging sounds, band members competing against each other – the Vienna artists’ band Beauties of the Night.
Concert: Hermann Nitsch
Thu, Oct 4, 2018 from 7:00 – 8:30pm UTC
Hermann Nitsch (organ concert)
Venue: the exhibition
Hermann Nitsch is not only a sculptor. He has also written a large oeuvre of music, consisting of pieces composed for orchestra, organ (harmonium), and string quartets. In this concert at mumok, he will play a piece for organ.
Concert: Hanne Darboven (played by Michael Duch during the Long Night of the Museums at mumok)
Sat, Oct 6, 2018 from 10:00 – 11:00pm UTC
Hanne Darboven (played by Michael Duch during the Long Night of the Museums at mumok)
Venue: the exhibition
Professor of music and double-bass player Michael Duch from Trondheim performs Hanne Darboven’s music in terms of a marathon with musical forms of movement and repetitive rhythms.
Concert: Essachai Vow
Thu, Oct 11, 2018 from 7:30 – 8:30pm UTC
Essachai Vow (Christian Kosmas Mayer und Alexander Wolff)
The band name Essachai Vow comes from a fictional Stone Age language and means “hunger.” The music of the two visual artists Christian Kosmas Mayer and Alexander Wolff is influenced by jazz and kraut rock. They combine their “hunger” for idiosyncratic compositions with low-fi and dream pop.
Concert: Emily Sundblad and Band
Thu, Oct 25, 2018 from 7:30 – 8:30pm UTC
Emily Sundblad and Band
Artist and musician Emily Sundblad performs in many different musical contexts—as a soloist, with new interpretations of Schubert, and as a folk singer, redefining the music of the legendary Shirley Collins and unsettling the New York art-rock scene with her friends and artists like Rita Ackermann and Jutta Koether.
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Location
Museumsplatz 1
Vienna, AT
