Studies & Evocations

Performance - Kunsthalle Graz

"Studies & Evocations", Performance, Paul Divjak & Wolfgang Schlögl

©Arnold Reinisch / Kunsthalle Graz

“Oh beauty before us,
beauty behind us,
beauty to our right,
beauty to our left,
beauty above us,
beauty below us …
We are on the pollen path again …”

A performative requiem for a deceased bee colony: Paul Divjak & Wolfgang Schlögl, the two gentlemen bee pop-shamans are back and connecting with the magical world of the honey bee. – A piece in which Monsanto meets spirituality, and Beuys „Honigpumpe“ keeps on vibrating as a reference somewhere in the back of the audience´s minds.

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Paul Divjak und Wolfgang Schlögl (aka I-Wolf) treten als Bienenbotschafter auf und laden zu einer multimedialen performativen Inszenierung. Mit ihrer Performance nehmen sie eine quasi rituelle Anrufung verstorbener Bienenvölker vor und vermessen den Raum zeremoniell. Dabei oszilliert ihre Haltung zwischen wissenschaftlich/technologischen Annäherungsmodellen und archaischen Methoden zur Herstellung gemeinschaftlicher (Grenz)-Erfahrungen.



Du unendliche Spur

Partizipative Performance - MUMOK / Overpainted

Setup “Du unendliche Spur” @MUMOK

“Du unendliche Spur”, participative sound performance

With their site-specific sound performances / workshops Divjak & Schlögl explore the possibilities and intersections of sound art, live composition, performativity and participation.
The two artists are inviting and enabling the audience to be part of a collective sound producing ceremony. By using everyday tools like a hammer, pencils or kitchen ware in a nonfunctional, creative way the audience and the artists learn to consciously redefine their relationships towards their personal environments in a sensual manner. From this perspective the whole group of participants become some sort of musical entity. Fascinating orchestral soundscapes are taking shape and new spaces of shared experiences are beeing created.
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Bee Pop – Bienendisko

Museum der Moderne, Salzburg

Performance Bee Pop von Paul Divjak und Wolfgang Schlögl

Am 5. Oktober feiern österreichweit über 700 Museen die Lange Nacht der Museen und Galerien, die für kulturelle Nachtschwärmer bei Öffnungszeiten von 18:00 bis 01:00 ein jährlicher Fixtermin ist.

Im Rahmen der Langen Nacht und im Rahmen der Ausstellung “Flowers & Mushrooms” (noch bis 27.10.2013 zu sehen) wird das Musem der Moderne zur Bienendisco. Die Wiener Künstler Paul Divjak und Wolfgang Schlögl haben mit einem Orchester von 100.000 Biener einen faszinierenden Sound kreiert, der das Museum zwischen Pilzen, Blumen und Wäldern zu einem Wonderland werden lässt.

5.10.2013
Museum der Moderne / Mönchsberg
Mönchsberg 31
5020 Salzburg


Echoes of Past …

Performance @AIL - Angewandte Innovation Lab

Echoes of Past, Present, and Future: Studies in Time, Space and Sound
Sound art / performance, 2015 – Paul Divjak & Wolfgang Schlögl aka Team Tool Time
Commissioned for: AIL – Applied Innovation Lab, University for Applied Arts, Vienna

“Entering a laboratory for me is always a religious experience.” Anton Zeilinger

A site-specific intervention, an acoustic and performative mapping of the physical and symbolic space at the occasion of the opening of the new AIL. A location, which used to house a gallery of an Austrian bank, and a pile company, as well as the renown Jewish Cultural Theatre until the year 1938. – With special equipment Paul Divjak and Wolfgang Schlögl are searching for the yet unheard, and creating a live-soundscape of the memory of space.
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Klanglulu

Partizipative Performance - Art Brut Museum

Setup “Klanglulu”, Art Brut Museum, Gugging

„Klanglulu“, Art Brut Museum, Gugging (participative sound performance)

With their site-specific sound performances / workshops Divjak & Schlögl explore the possibilities and intersections of sound art, live composition, performativity and participation.
The two artists are inviting and enabling the audience to be part of a collective sound producing ceremony. By using everyday tools like a hammer, pencils or kitchen ware in a nonfunctional, creative way the audience and the artists learn to consciously redefine their relationships towards their personal environments in a sensual manner. From this perspective the whole group of participants become some sort of musical entity. Fascinating orchestral soundscapes are taking shape and new spaces of shared experiences are beeing created. — mehr —