claudia bosse / theatercombinat

26.08.-15.09.2024 / haunted landscape on an unseen wasteland is a series of urban interventions by claudia bosse on a derelict site in the 10th district behind the main railway station in vienna.

projects of the series:
LANDSCAPE/S

haunted landscape/s

entanglement with a haunted forest

haunted landscape/s - about inner and outer landscapes

haunted landscape on an unseen wasteland

haunted landscapes or the breathing out of earth

the cycle
ORGAN/ismus - poetic of relations

haunted landscape on an unseen wasteland
by claudia bosse

a 2500m2 leftover space in the middle of the city, framed by railway tracks and roads, marked by what surrounds it, such as the facades of hotels, offices, the main railway station, seemingly without function. overgrown with grasses, flowers and thistles, the square will become the venue for haunted landscape on an unseen wasteland.

from the end of august, claudia bosse declares the place an urban laboratory and will gradually transform it. with visual, performative and acoustic interventions, mostly at dusk, this place will be temporarily activated: on 31 august at dawn, the composer günther auer will acoustically survey it with a concert. from the beginning of september, claudia bosse and participants of the public performance school PPS will performatively conquer the terrain over 10 days. on 3 evenings, performative interventions will be created from this, which will be presented at dusk on 5, 8 and 10 september. on 8 and 10 september, the performative interventions of haunted landscape on an unseen wasteland will be set to the sounds of musician katharina ernst and her drum set.

the series haunted landscape/s centres on endangered landscapes and their myths, narratives and experiences. it is about our planet, how we understand it and live with it. it is about enormous transformations of environments and their global effects. it is about wounded or poisoned landscapes, their healing, about the traces of the ghosts and monsters that inhabit them and their influence on the surrounding communities of human and non-human actors.

following haunted landscape on an unseen wasteland, further interventions by the urban laboratory on haunted landscape/s will take place on the area between karl-popper-straße and alfred-adler-straße in the 10th district until september 2025.

haunted landscape on an unseen wasteland by claudia bosse, 2024, photo: claudia bosse

concept/objects/interventions: claudia bosse
performative interventions: with participants of of theatrecombinat's intergenerational public performance school PPS
live sound: günther auer (31 august), katharina ernst (8 + 10 september)
assistance performative interventions: lucia mauri
coordination PPS and communication overall project: magdalena knor
catering: gggg
technical support and technical advice: martin eichler, marco tölzer
production: dilâ kırmızıtoprak

a production by theatercombinat. funded as part of the 2022-2025 concept funding programme by stadt wien kultur, KÖR Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum Wien and stadt wien. with support of the public performance school PPS and ÖBB. the 4-year public performance school PPS by theatercombinat (2022-2025) will take place in 2024 in collaboration with belvedere21.

haunted landscape on an unseen wasteland
a series of urban interventions
by claudia bosse

on the remaining urban space between karl-popper-straße and alfred-adler-straße, 1100 vienna

dates:

26 august 2024
declaration of the area as an urban laboratory

31 august 2024, 06:12/08:00
concert by günther auer at sunrise

05 september 2024, 18:30
performative intervention by claudia bosse
with public performance school,
beginning at belvedere21

08 september 2024, 18:30
performative intervention by claudia bosse
with public performance school and
live sound by katharina ernst

10 september 2024, 18:30
performative intervention by claudia bosse
with public performance school and
live sound by katharina ernst

further interventions by the urban lab on haunted landscape/s will follow until the end of september 2025.

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PROJECTS of haunted landscape/s:
haunted landscape/s is a multi-format series by claudia bosse through and with different landscapes. LANDSCAPE/S / in october 2023 the lecture performance by claudia bosse took place as part of the project celebrating trouble. choreographic convention. in timișoara (romania) - an installative expansion with different dimensions of time, space and living together about (performative) thinking and choreographic practice with, in or as landscapes. haunted landscape/s / in may 2024, the eponymous and multi-format series along 2024 began as a composition of images, bodies, sounds and movements in a construction field in aspern seestadt. as a performance, first outdoors on a fallow field, then in the seestadt studios, claudia bosse, together with dancers, movement choirs with participants from theatercombinat's public performance school PPS and jugend am werk, the indonesian artist irwan ahmett and live sounds by günther auer, opened up wounds and distortions with our planet. entanglement with a haunted forest / claudia bosses installation opened mahler forum 2024 on 15 june 2024 with a musical commentary by günther auer and takes the series about wounded landscapes into the forest around around gustav-mahler-komponierhäuschen in maiernigg on carinthia's lake wörthersee. the artistic installation between the built, the grown, the present and the past is accessible until the end of october. haunted landscape/s - about inner and outer landscapes / in the field research project by claudia bosse as part of impulstanz, which moves back to the fallow field in aspern seestadt, relationships between landscape/s, physical articulations, organisms and different cultural approaches to landscape/s are questioned and researched. haunted landscape on an unseen wasteland / from the end of august, a series of urban interventions will begin on an area in the 10th district of vienna between alfred-adler-straße and karl-popper-straße. from the end of august, the remaining urban space will be worked on, with people and materials, between rails, streets and houses, as an evocation of unseen landscapes. visual, musical and performative interventions will take place in the twilight. haunted landscapes or the breathing out of earth / the multi-format series about wounded landscapes will come together at the end of october in co-production with tanzquartier wien.

the haunted landscape/s series was created as part of the 2022-2025 concept funding programme by stadt wien kultur, the federal ministry of arts and culture, public service and sport, with the support of the district of donaustadt, mahler forum 2024, KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien and in cooperation with belvedere 21, impulstanz, jugend am werk, wien 3420 and ÖBB.

the cycle ORGAN/ismus - poetics of relations combines modules, motives and methods for the realization of different artistic formats and at the same time wants to build or expand structures. because we can only realize those works for which we are able to find or invent structures.