Machines are like us – and they like us. “At the Danube Festival we are not so much interested in the superfluousness or the replacement of people, but in this interweaving”, says Thomas Edlinger, artistic director of the Danube Festival. It turns from April 24-26 and April 30 to May 2 in Krems everything about the interaction between man and machine.
On the program: Machines “like us” will take over (festival) command from April 24th in Krems and the surrounding area.
Lower Austria / Luger
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The multifaceted program reflects, with its different forms of presentation of film, music, installations, conversations and performance art, the entanglement of technology and the natural. Visitors to the Danube Festival can expect some highlights. One of these will be Robert Henkes’ CBM 8032 AV sound performance in the Audimax of Danube University Krems on May 1st. The musician, sound designer and software developer brings the green graphics of numbers and patterns and the pulsating sounds of five Commodore computers from 1980 to life in the lecture hall.
Another highlight will be the staging of Oscar winner Hildur Guðnadóttir (together with Chris Watson and Sam Slater), who won the award for the music of the film “Joker”. For the performance of their soundtrack for the TV miniseries “Chernobyl” on May 1st and 2nd, the festival will be expanded to include the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant.
Other performances come from Bendik Giske, who microphones his body, the machine-heavy future pop from SOPHIE, the noise-inducing Swans, the singer Ghostpoet and the free jazz natural force Caspar Brötzmann massacre. Microbiologist Ira Melkonyan and the rubberbodies collective also show the connection between nature and machines in their work “Upsairs Geology 50/50”, where the human becomes an addition to the balance in the system. Leaking vessels and trickling liquids can be seen.
Ariel Efraim Ashbel and Friends return to the Danube Festival with their world premiere of “Fire Walk With Me”. With their work inspired by David Lynch, they transform the Dominican Church into a zone between horror and entertainment.
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