Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek, Lucie Strecker, Victor Jaschke (research project Shaken Grounds -AR 780, AU)
Artists
SHAKEN GROUNDS. SEISMOGRAPHY OF PRECARIOS PRESENCES FWF-PEEK Project, AR-780
Shaken Grounds. Seismography of Precarious Presences is a research project initiated in 2023 and conducted by the artists Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek, and Lucie Strecker. The project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund and is affiliated with the University of Applied Arts Vienna at the Angewandte Performance Lab, and aims to explore and extend basic research in the arts. In this research project, a transdisciplinary team re-explores the role of artists as seismographs to train the perception of the interconnectedness between humans and a technologically modified geological environment through artistic-performative methodologies, anthropology, geology, and body awareness through somatic-therapeutic techniques.
https://shaken-grounds.org/
Nikolaus Gansterer (AT, artist, performer) is deeply interested in experimental diagramming of fragile atmospheres and environments. By unfolding their immanent structures of entanglement he questions the imaginary threshold between nature and culture, art and philosophy. https://www.gansterer.org/
Mariella Greil (AT, dance-maker, performer) asks through her somatic and therapeutic practices how artistic strategies can support the development of future scenarios of living with the trauma created through environmental damage and actively shape rather than suppress the anxieties surrounding these global urgencies. https://mariellagreil.net
Peter Kozek (AT, artist, performer) is interested in a nuanced yet personal artistic perspective on local conditions, landscapes, their history, present, and future, as well as their economic and social nature. Regions become transfer spaces between myths, realities, and fictional and constructed worlds. https://www.peterkozek.com/, http://kozek-hoerlonski.com/
Lucie Strecker (AT/DE, artist, performer) puts non-human entities at the centre of installations and life art. She considers microperformativity as a way to question human levels of perception (both spatial and temporal), emphasizing biological and technological micro-agencies. http://luciestrecker.com/
Victor Jaschke (AT, filmmaker, interactor) approaches people as animals, with a provoked basic trust in our essentiality. After four decades, he is still amazed by the concentrated images that enter the quiet chamber of his camera: what there is to see when you look back, free from expectations of interaction! A camera makes love easy. https://www.victorja.com
For Volcanic Attitude 2025
The Festival open by reconnecting with the video research and production of the Shaken Grounds collective, created during the last edition of the Festival. We will attend the screening of the video work resulting from the Austrian collective's research in the Phlegraean Fields and on the La Fossa crater on Vulcano island. Following a talk 'Trembling Volcanoes/Understanding volcanoes: from the world to Campi Flegrei' by Lucie Strecker (Shaken Grounds research collective) and Valerio Acocella, volcanologist at Roma3 University
Progetto per Volcanic Attitude 2024
The research project Shaken Grounds will be in Naples in the modern premises of the Osservatorio Vulcanologico Vesuviano with a 'conference performance' in the meeting room of the offices.
On the island of Vulcano they will accompany us on the descent from the crater with a participatory and filmed performance focusing on the seismicity of the territories and the interaction with the bodies of the performers involved.
IN NAPLES
Rituals of Resonance
Rituals of Resonance Lecture Performance, NGV - Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napels, 18.06.2024, 5pm
Mariella Greil and Peter Kozek are presenting their artistic practices and research questions applied within the currently running research project "Shaken Grounds. Seismography of Precarious Presences," in collaboration with Nikolaus Gansterer and Lucie Strecker.
In this 30-minute performance lecture, Mariella Greil and Peter Kozek engage in somatic scores, documentary material, and speech acts, reflecting on the relationship between volcanism, climate change, and eruption politics. Thereby, they reimagine artists as seismographs, adept at detecting and expressing the intricate relationship between humanity and an evolving, technologically influenced geological environment.
A specific module of the research project will be exhibited as part of "IMAGINE CLIMATE DIGNITY," hosted by the Austrian Ministry of European and International Affairs and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome.
IN VULCANO
Trembling Teorema: A live re-enactment of Pasolini's final scene from the 1968 film Vulcano Island, Crater La Fossa
Isola di Vulcano, Cratere La Fossa 21.06.2024, 18.00 – 21.00
In the final scene of Pasolini’s Teorema, the protagonist stumbles trembling down the slopes of a black volcano. He screams into the camera, seeking freedom from an inescapable capitalist realm. This urge finds its stage on the primordially seething landscape. 56 years later, a group of performers, choreographers, directors, camera men and costume makers will include an audience in a live re-enactment of trembling, falling, urging for a world untethered from historical constraints, flourishing despite its perceived desolation, all while integrating tension and trauma releasing exercises and neurogenic trembling into the performance.
This scenario is part of the ongoing FWF PEEK research project Shaken Grounds. Seismography of Precarious Presences, conducted by Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek and Lucie Strecker, in collaboration with Victor Jaschke (camera and field direction).
Places:
-Naples, Vesuvius Observatory modern site.
-Vulcano Island, La Fossa Crater
