Thanks to the
Austrian Cultural Forum, I’m delighted to announce a new project that
celebrates the culture of Habsburg Vienna a century ago, with commissions of
contemporary artists from 21st century London. Kakania - over 4
events, each in different venues, 4 original publications and an array of
contemporary artists working in poetry, visual art, sound & conceptual art -
aims to not just to evoke the Habsburg era, but to envelope it, to transpose it,
to avoid nostalgia and in its stead bring the intensity and innovation that
marked the last days of the Habsburg era. www.kakania.co.uk
Each artist is
creating new work based on one specific figure from that time. The website
features an artists section where you can see the full list of commissions,
which include Emily Berry
on Sigmund Freud, Colin Herd on
Oskar Kokoschka, Caroline Bergvall on Gustav Klimt, & George Szirtes on
Arthur Schnitzler, amongst many others, including, in time, works on Stefan
Zweig, Robert Musil, Egon Schiele, Gustav Mahler, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alma
Mahler, Joseph Roth & many others.
The first event takes
place in just over two weeks and is completely free to attend.
Kakania
November Tuesday 25th – 7.30pm
the Rich Mix Arts Centre – Main space – Free Entry
Featuring brand new commissions from:
Sharon Gal on Anton Webern
Jeff Hilson on Ludwig
Wittgenstein
Ariadne Radi Cor & Diane Silverthorne on Alma Mahler
Dylan Nyoukis on Raoul Hausmann
Stephen Emmerson on Rainer Maria Rilke
Maja Jantar on Lou Andreas-Salome
The following three
events will take place on:
January thurs 22nd at the Freud Museum
http://www.freud.org.uk/events/75773/kakania/
Featuring brand new
commissions from:
Emily Berry on
Sigmund Freud
Damir Sodan on Gustav
Mahler
Jeff Hilson on Ludwig
Wittgenstein
& many more
February thurs 19th at TBC
Featuring brand new
commissions from:
Caroline Bergvall on
Gustav Klimt
Stephen Emmerson on Rainer Maria Rilke
Tom Jenks on Otto Gross
Colin Herd on Oskar
Kokoschka
Martin Bakero on TBC
Morten Sondergaard on TBC
March thurs 26th at
the Austrian Cultural Forum
Featuring brand new
commissions from:
George Szirtes on
Arthur Schnitzler
Joshua Alexander on
Paul Wittgenstein
Jeff Hilson on Ludwig
Wittgenstein
Emily Berry on
Sigmund Freud
Marcus Slease on Max
Kurzweil
Stephen Emmerson on
Rainer Maria Rilke
Kakania is an
ambitious project which explores the legacy of the Habsburg past through
decidedly contemporary, original works of text and art, which will attempt to
be as complex and genre testing as the works, and the people, they are
responsive to. Please come out to support the endeavour.
Kakania is also partnered
by Pushkin Press, who will have books to sell at the events & who publish
vital Habsburg figures like Stefan Zweig http://pushkinpress.com/
& the website is ever growing with new works of art and poetry published
online, as well as information on the project and its commissions, so please
check back regularly www.kakania.co.uk All
thanks go to the Austrian Cultural Forum http://www.acflondon.org/