CARE
Gabriele Sturm, Lukas Weitaus
The L201 art space will be further developed in 2024, its fourth year of existence. The grandstand sculpture by artist Hans Schabus is now located on the site and will be integrated into further events.
In HochSommer 24, artists Gabriele Sturm and Lukas Weithas will add a new dimension to the site by staging a re-enactment of a traditional south-east Styrian subsistence economy.
The Care project is a staging on the edge of reality, on the border of the busy ‘L201’ country road. At the same time, however, it is also a re-enactment of the childhood of Johanna Lenz, the mother of initiator Alfred Lenz. She lives here and has been a committed supporter of L201 from the very beginning. Johanna Lenz, born in 1949, grew up on a small farm in south-east Styria. Back then, a completely different logic of utilisation and efficiency prevailed in agriculture. Many of these practices and behaviours have long since disappeared from today's farms.
In her work, Gabriele Sturm deals with the coexistence of all forms of life. Her work shows a ‘both-and’ of species-rich vegetation communities, insects, wild animals and anthropogenic habitats. She will remodel the soil in the house structure. Untamed vegetation is created here. The vegetative creatures are allowed to develop and unfold, while at the same time forming a stage for performances, concerts and other events.
Care is to be realised in the summer months of 2024 together with the artist Lukas Weithas. Together, we want to create an extraordinary scenario with the potential spaces of art that addresses the positive aspects of current and past strategies of the relationship between humans and the environment.
Events:
Thursday 1. August, 18:00
18:00 Opening and Talk with Elisabeth Fiedler
19:00 Kurt Strohmeier
20:00 Jung an Tagen
Kurt Strohmeier is a pianist and pop singer and is mainly active in the field of light music. He was asked to rehearse and perform a series of critical hits for a concert at Kunstraum L201.
Jung An Tagen (Stefan Juster) invites us to reflect on the diffuse but persistent term ‘experimental’, not as a deviation from aesthetic orthodoxy, but as the design and realisation of compositional systems that bring unpredictable results to light; ‘electronic’ as a suspension of the previous instrumental tradition and as a simultaneous return to aesthetic openness; as the fragmentation of a theoretical or mythical musical syntax through obsessive repetitions, sequential motivic mutations, aleatoric arrangements, pareidolic illusions and moiré effects; ‘electronic’ as the ultimate splitting, dehumanisation, mechanical strangeness.
Sunday 11. August, 19:00
19:00 Gischt / Ursula Winterauer
20:00 Scarabæusdream
Gischt / Ursula Winterauer generates raw sounds between brutality and harmony. Her eclectic soundscapes provide differentiated interpretations of the industrial, techno and ambient genres, which are reflected by means of bass guitar, synthesiser and electro smog clouds. She has performed at Austrian festivals and in cities such as Zurich, Berlin, Priština and New York. In addition to her curatorial work, she runs the Ventil Records label and works as a composer and sound designer for film productions.
Scarabæusdream is an orchestra of two: Their music is a duel between piano and drums, which allows everything to grow in the moment of creation and leads to an unconditionally present collision of sound. Without adhering to a rigid framework, they break down genre boundaries and challenge the listening habits of their audience.
L201
The art space L201 is located in Studenzen, in the southeast Styrian municipality of Kirchberg an der Raab. It defines the driveway of a single-family house and forms the border to the heavily frequented Landesstrasse 201. Due to its open structure, the surroundings remain visible and audible and become part of the works on display. In 2021, this display was conceived by Alfred Lenz as part of an intervention by Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark (Art in Public Space Styria) and has since been used by artists in a contextual way.