Following the first edition in 2008, the music and art festival “Gugginger Irritationen II“ took place for the second time on the 11th to 12th of June 2010 at the Art/Brut Center in Gugging, a town in Lower Austria. Together with the artist duo marshall!yeti (Ferdinand Karl and Gerald Plattner), the festival was originally initiated by Michael Martinek and his record label fabrique records. Under the motto “experience, art and irritation”, the very versatile program offered many world premieres and exciting artworks in the fields of electronic/classical music, literature and multimedia installations.
In comparison to other festivals, the organizers of “Gugginger Irritationen II“ tried to run their festival in a completely different and independent way. The focus was not only on musical performances, but rather on the artistic approaches in an interdisciplinary context and the dialogue between different art forms. The featured protagonists were challenged in their works to take a look beyond their own horizons and become active outside their comfort zone. The aim was to identify interfaces and points of contact between music, theater and film, literature and visual arts.
For two days the Art/Brut Center in Gugging was transformed into a place of experiment and border crossings. The Viennese electronic musician Kava, in cooperation with the British Christopher Chaplin, presented his new album, which will be appearing this summer. These classical electronic music pieces composed by the two artists were performed by the Polypop String Quartet. The festival also paid its respects to the Viennese electronic musician and member of the band Sofa Surfers Wolfgang Schlögl, who, in cooperation with Paul Divjak and the help of the visitors, designed an Art Brut-sound work.
Another exciting contribution was the work of Hans-Joachim Roedelius. The Austrian electronic music pioneer and composer read selected texts of the Gugging Art Brut poets Edmund Mach and Ernst Herbeck. The two co-initiators Ferdinand Karl and Gerald Plattner disclosed their permanent Gugging-photo-video installation, which was musically and visually accompanied by Reinhard Süss and Claudia Auer.
The author Eberhard Petschinka, the actor Norbert Schwientek and jazz trumpeter Franz Hautzinger crossed the boundaries of radio art and music with the August Walla radio play-composition “Gott ist brav” (God is good). The Viennese sound tinkerer Bernhard Fleischmann paid his tolls to the festival with his program “mikro_kosmos”.
The computer game expert Jogi Neufeld also contributed to the wide-ranging cultural offerings of the festival and turned one wall of the Art/Brut Center in a temporary house of the artists by projection. Christian Rosner, a journalist and also manager of the record label fabrique records, participated with a philosophical performance on language. The final notes for the two days were ministered by Felix “Bnckd” Leiter behind the DJ decks.
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