Foto: Agnes Miesenberger

We 2.9. –  Tue 8.9. 2009
6.00 – 10.00 PM

Grand Hotel Cafe zum Rothen Krebsen, Obere Donaulände 11, 4020 Linz

fabriqueee / Institut für erweiterte Kunst
http://www.roterkrebs.net/

Loudly and with high-impact visuals, the arrival of a new age is proclaimed and future worlds spoken of with a certainty as if the good old art of fortune-telling had been revived and declared to be a genuine science. Nostradamus and the whole host of sibyls seem to have risen again, just to make sure nothing is left up to free interpretation. Outfitted with diplomas, the latest technology and plenty of cash, they paint a picture of the past, present and future of mankind. Our successes, our setbacks, our bodies, our environment – all depending on the prevailing taste and the client. Fascinated and strangely fatalistic, we stand by and watch our destiny unfolding before us.

The “fabriqueee” doesn’t quite trust all this, and focuses its attention instead on a somewhat outmoded, at once ordinary and uncanny human (self)-awareness machine, in which certainty and delusion have always gone hand in hand: the mirror.

Based on this approach the group’s members develop along modular lines various individual projects – from installations to apparatus, from sculptures and objects to animation and visualizations – to finally generate in the “Grand Cafe zum Rothen Krebsen” a playful space that promises everything, except for any certainty or seemingly secure insights.

Every night during the week of the Ars Electronica Festival, “fabriqueee,” in association with the “Institut für erweiterte Kunst,” will offer visitors the opportunity to explore the world “Inside the Disco Ball.” What’s left is right, what’s up is down.

“fabriqueee” is made up of Jakob Breitwieser, Fabian Krenn, Matthias Lindner, Pamela Litzlbauer, Agnes Miesenberger, Sandra Li Lian Obwegeser and Joseph Reitsberger; students at the Art University of Linz, Department of Experimental Design.

Foto: Agnes Miesenberger

Wed 2.9. – Tue 8.9. 2009
Grand Cafe zum Rothen Krebsen & Institut für erweiterte Kunst (IFEK)
www.ifek.at & www.roterkrebs.net

Once again this year, the IFEK invites artists, musicians, DJs and Ars Electronica festivalgoers in general to the Rother Krebs to jointly investigate the extent to which human beings are transformed by music.

Wed 2.9. Grand Opening
Live: Ronnieism. Ronnieism composed with Gameboy music; 15 stuffed animals form an instrument that controls video and sound in real time.
DJ: Colette

Thu 3.9.
Futuristic Sound-Performance – Felix Kubin: new set for the Nightline. Afterwards DJ Baumann.

Fri 4.9.
Live: G.rizo. With her French Grace Jones vocals, G.rizo gets the disco ball rolling with electro, new wave and ghetto tech.
DJ Eve Massacre

Sat 5.9.
MAN IN THE MIRROR Taking as its point of departure Michael Jackson’s real-life human transformation—oscillating between black and white, feminine and masculine, silicon and flesh—audience members will be called upon to make their own contributions to the mechanism of change. Whoever can accomplish the fluctuation between extremes most exactingly gets cash in his or her hot little claw.
DJ: Youtube-disco

Sun, 6.9.
Live: Danielle Lemaire Danielle Lemaire uses game clocks, various organs, kiddie pianos and home-brew instruments in her continuing quest for the musically astonishing. At the Roter Krebs, she’ll deliver her performance and screen her film about slowness featuring “embroidered digital images.”
Installation: Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen
DJ Klub

Mon 7.9.
Live: Analogsat midi-controllable conductive strips, revamped kiddie guitars, drills and slot-car tracks will be taken to their acoustic limits and way beyond.
Live: Harald Starzer a stereo electric guitar in a feedback loop running through analog telecommunications electronics: the guitar becomes an instable system that plays itself. Noisecore without all the populist poseur pretensions!
DJ: Washer

Tue 8.9.
DJ: Hobby Exzellent