Interdisciplinary workshops and/or individual coaching

Motivation

Invent, reinvent, discuss and practice art and philosophy individually and/or with others of the same spirit

Teachers

Gertrude Moser-Wagner (leader), project-artist, sculptress, www.moser-wagner.com

Elisabeth Wörndl, photo-artist, www.elisabeth-woerndl.com

Evelyn Blumenau und Walter Kreuz, artists and cultural workers, www.geckoart.at

Ursula Baatz, philosopher, journalist, author, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Baatz

Place

„Waldhütte“ cottage Rossmann 73, Kaindorf Sued, 8861 St.Georgen/Murau, Styria, Austria.
Train station is Kaindorf Sued (change at Unzmarkt) then 15-20 min walk up the hill, or by car directly to the cottage. The landscape onsite is marvellous, completely silent and yet easy to be found. Murau is the nearest bigger town.

Workshops

Gertrude Moser-Wagner, Individual coaching for artists, students, cultural workers, July 11-23, 2014
Elisabeth Wörndl, Inner landscapes: Wood, digital photography, July 11, 12, 13, 2014
Evelyn Blumenau and Walter Kreuz, Audio-Art, Oral and Written Compositions, July 18, 19, 20, 2014
Ursula Baatz, MBSR Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction / intercultural philosophy, July 21, 22, 23, 2014

Accommodation

“Waldhütte” cottage Rossmann (2 shared rooms, € 12 per person/day). Rooms and apartments for rent locally.
Nearby, http://www.bauernhof-purgstaller.at

Application

Registration by May 15, 2014, Email: taste@chello.at, you will be contacted after the deadline.
Application/registration with short motivation statement (800 characters, 2 photos) f.i. art interest, examples of your own work, including photos. Intercultural attitude, openmindedness in a philosophical and social context.

Costs

Individual coaching for artists and cultural workers € 73/hour (if more than one hour, individual pricing).
Workshops € 300/three days (min 5, max 10 participants). Deposit in advance, workshop dates and bank details to be provided.

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WORKSHOPS / DETAILS

Evelyn Blumenau and Walter Kreuz, Audio-Art, Oral and Written Compositions,
July 18, 19, 20, 2014

Audio-Art, Oral and Written Compositions

In our audio-workshop, we deal with written compositions, artistic audio-recordings and speech-experiments. The participants are invited to create audio pieces or audio book modules. At the travelling studio, all scenes will be recorded
with their own voices, involving sounds or responding to sounds of the surroundings as well.

Elisabeth Wörndl, Inner landscapes: Wood, digital photography,
July 11, 12, 13, 2014

Inner landscapes: Wood

You can recognize within the silence of the woods (inner and outer) appearances, which at first sight cannot be identified. To the philosopher Heidegger the wood was a metaphor for the real. In this workshop you can approach the wood metaphorically or rather in a performative way … Together we develop and discuss different ways of seeing through an exchange of knowledge (please bring your own digital camera, card reader and laptop). Recommended literature: Robert Walser „The walk“.

Ursula Baatz, MBSR Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction / intercultural philosophy,
July 21, 22, 23, 2014

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a tool for all kinds of situations. Conflicts are useful although usually they create troubles: they can provoke change and growth, as soon as the hidden creative potential is being recognized and realized. The philosopher, focusing on questions rather than giving answers, with her intercultural and interreligious engagement, has been practising Zen for a long time. The workshop with her offers participants professional Mindfulness training (MBSR Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) and if required, individual coaching.

Gertrude Moser-Wagner, Individual coaching for artists, students, cultural workers,
July 11-23, 2014

Project art:

The idiom „To be nursing an idea“ triggers this dialogue around art affairs. As soon as one‘s own thinking and seeing grows to a certain intensity this can then evoke a poetical range of things. Personal coaching with the project-artist involves examples of her own art-experience and multifold activity and thus can stimulate others in decision-making. Also, if you choose to start art-studies at a university (advice on selection of artworks for entries).

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TEACHERS

Gertrude Moser-Wagner, a free lance artist, born in Styria, now lives in Vienna where she was awarded a degree in 1981 after studying under Bruno Gironcoli. For a number of years she taught at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts and University of Applied Arts and was an Adjunct Professor at Webster University Vienna. Her fields of endeavour: project art, land art, poetical interventions, installations, radio art, performance art and video. She runs art projects and participates at exhibitions/festivals internationally. Since 2000 as an artist- curator and editor she provides interdisciplinary symposiums. Her attitude/method as an artist is “concept and coincidence”.
Websites: www.moser-wagner.com; www.taste.at

Walter Kreuz s a performer, author and radio producer. Born in Vienna and talented in many areas, he firstly decided to study mathematics, philosophy and art history. He finally started to write and play theatre pieces with main focus on experimental theatre and on artistic concepts for groups and the public space.
Together with Evelyn Blumenau he founded the group 'gecko-art' in 1993, inventing and constructing numerous artistic walking acts for the public area. The main emphasis of his work is placed on the invention of innovative art-concepts of audio-work for different groups of participants. 2008 his book 'Karlas Lauf gegen die Raumzeit' (Edition Rösner) was published. From that time on he started to develop and perform dramatic and experimental readings of his own text production. Websites: www.sprech.org; www.geckoart.at

Evelyn Blumenau born in Vienna, is a trained actress. From 1981 to 1998 she played roles of Classical Theatre including Nestroy, Fassbinder, Turrini, Wilde, Frisch. In 1989 she founded the music group 'Novi Sad' together with music colleagues, acting as singer, composer, author and vocalist. They went on tour through South East Europe and were invited to New York, Oxford, Tblisi. 9 albums of the group have been released up to now (Current CD 'Almond Trees & Roses', Lindo Rec. 2013). In 1993 she founded the group 'gecko-art' together with Walter Kreuz, developping artistic audio-work-concepts for groups. These workshops were leading her to the medium of radio as well.
Websites: www.novisad.at;  www.geckoart.at

Elisabeth Wörndl lives in Salzburg and Mondsee, Austria. She has studied at Glasgow School of Art, Fine Art Photography and has had awards and residencies in Rome, Paris, Arizona, Chicago, New York City and Mexico City, Luxemburg, London and other places. Elisabeth Wörndl works in the field of digital photography and video. In her work she explores her own body in connection with image-generated diagnostic instruments in relation to urban space or desert landscapes. She also deals with issues of urban life and environment, contemporary nomadic life, and notions of identity. Elisabeth Wörndl‘s work has been shown in solo shows and group shows in Austria and abroad since 1992. Since 2005 she is on the board of Fotohof Gallery, Salzburg. Websites: www.fotohof.at; www. elisabeth.woerndl.com

Ursula Baatz, born in Vienna, works as a journalist with focus on science and religions, teaches at the Depatment of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, co-editor of "polylog", a biannual on intercultural philosophy, is an associate of Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation (Vienna-Jerusalem), teaches Qi Gong Yangsheng and MBSR (training at OASIS-Instituts, Center for Mindfulness, Univ. of Massachusetts). Ursula Baatz  publishes on Buddhism in the West, intercultural and interreligious dialogue. She has been for studies in  India, Japan and Brazil, and practices Zen since long. Website: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Baatz

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PHOTOS

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