Performance Hacklab
The Performance Hacklab is an open, collaborative environment where artists produce new transdisciplinary ideas together during Sonic Territories Festival week. It culminates in a public performance on Saturday, November 16th, 2024. An open call is out to all artists, experimenters, and thinkers of any discipline interested in collaborative creation.
Performance Hacklab – Open Call
The 2024 workshop program is held by Peter Kirn in collaboration with Uli Kühn /Studio Praxistext at Angewandte and Seestadt Studios, which provide additional resources and space for developing ideas technically and artistically.
The laboratory theme, in conjunction with this year’s festival theme BREAKING FREE, is LIBERATION ETUDES. What does it mean to liberate yourself? How would you embody that in a collaborative experiment? Does it impact your tools and how you work? How do you unlearn learned restrictions on who you are and what you do? And how can you find that liberation with others?
About the Hosts & Jury
Peter Kirn
Peter Kirn is an electronic musician and media artist. His music spans experimental and club sounds, with releases on FLASH Recordings, Kotä Records, Industrial Complexx, and his own Establishment, among others, from scored concert music to work with modern dance and techno. He has built and writes daily at CDM (cdm.link) and is co-creator of the MeeBlip music hardware line. As a speaker on expressive technology and facilitator of collaborative laboratories for music and performance, he has worked with TED, European Space Agency, Sonar+D, MUTEK, CTM Festival, and others, including producing collaborative labs in various formats as part of his practice.
Uli Kühn / Studio Praxistest
Studio Praxistest considers itself as a free, experimental studio situation, which, focused on auditory/visual artistic production, offers students a point of contact for their projects. Playful exploration of sound, video and media art, electronics basics beyond the Winkler kit, breaking in and out of digital systems/physical Computing. In contrast to a classic workshop with its equipment geared towards specific production, the studio resembles an experimental kit with analog and digital modules. As a prototype with a sketchy character, it functions as a supervised competence center for the conception of compositions within the fields of art and design.
Schedule & Deadlines
application deadline:
September 29th, 2024
Participants announced:
Beginning of October, 2024
Hacklab dates:
November 12th - 15th, 2024
Final performance:
November 16th, 2024
Participant & Application Information
In the application, we ask for a little more information about you. What's important to us is to learn how you'd work with other people – not just to present work you've made before – and how you can play together.
Up to 12 participants will be selected from the open call.
Please note - we cannot provide an artist fee or support for travel/lodging; this is just an open shared environment. We can provide what we think will be a great experience, a shared communal performance outcome, and a festival pass to Sonic Territories 2024 events.
We can write a formal letter of invitation if you wish to apply for support funding on your own.
Workshop Hours are:
November 12th/13th, 2024 | 13:00 - 18:00
University of Applied Arts / Room 322 (Studio Praxistest)
Vordere Zollamtsstrasse 7, 1030 Vienna
November 14th/15th, 2024 | 12:00 - 18:00
Seestadt Studios / Studio 2
Am-Ostrom-Park 11, 1220 Vienna
Snacks and non-alcoholic drinks for participants are provided daily.
Please find below an overview of the technical equipment available at Studio Praxistest (not exhaustive). Should your submission be successful, we can discuss any specific technical requirements in detail at that time.
For any further inquiry or assistance in filling out the open call form, send us an e-mail to:
hacklab@sonic-territories.at