Simularr in the First Half of 2024

This year, two intervals of the Simultaneous Arrivals project took and take place, with a symposium inbetween. Being the second year of the project, we have a quite dense programme with two of the three intervals taking place. In spring, we had the honour and pleasure to work with two incoming artists-researchers, Elena Redaelli and Fulya Uçanok, in Graz and Klagenfurt, as well as two intensive weeks in a beautiful palazzo in South Italy. I returned to the sound materials developed for the upcoming album Shouldhalde, and incorporated them with texts contributed by the group in a tentative open-air installation on the roof top of our palazzo, as well as a ‘Medusa’ sound sculpture that was tested in a temporary research space in Klagenfurt as well as the Domenig Steinhaus in Carinthia.

Right after the spring interval finished, the hot phase in the run-up to the symposium Forum Artistic Research began, which took place at the GMPU in Klagenfurt end of June. Here, I was mainly in the role of conference chair, but we also convened in the form of a simularr panel, where previous artists in the project, Shane Finan and Charlotta Ruth, joined us. At the moment, the proceedings of the symposium are being prepared.

At the end of August, we went right into the third interval of simularr, with two intensive weeks of work at the Hoke Werkhaus in Carinthia, where we were joined by incoming artist Andrea Bakketun. Right now, we have picked up the work again and spend time in Graz, before inaugurating the new artistic research space at the GMPU in Klagenfurt in October. I have used the interval so far to experiment with a distributed installation made of small glass plates and piezos, within an overall work with the title Reticule.