Nixe

Mediterranean measures – science, research and the arts

Homage to Ludwig Salvator in science, research and art

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Music / Installation
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Graz
 

Researcher of the Mediterranean, Ludwig Salvator was a traveller all his life. A homage with contributions from the domain of sound, art and science sets out to do justice to this free thinker.

musikprotokoll concerts and projects

musikprotokoll 2015


Nigredo

Reshaping Club Music

Pure Elektronik

musikprotokoll to go

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Noise Me Tender

Radiazione di corpo nero

ensemble recherche

Scelsi Projekt

Dolomite Dub

Hildur Guðnadóttir / The International Nothing

Premieres

 

Nixe / The ship

08/10 – 18/10
Thu – Sun 10.00 – 19.00

Murinsel

Admission free

 

Thu 08/10, 17.00

Opening: Inauguration with Austrian President Heinz Fischer

 

Sun 18/10, 18.30

Closing: Surprise concert by Omar Niang (SN/ES)

 

Nixe / The harbour

08/10 – 18/10
Thu – Sun 10.00 – 19.00

Lesliehof im Joanneumsviertel

Admission free

 

Thu 08/10, 18.00

Opening: Reading from Ludwig Salvator's book "Lieder der Bäume"

 

With sound installations by Peter Ablinger (AT), Stanislav Abraham (CZ), Peter Brandlmayr (AT), die audiotapete (AT), Josef Klammer (AT), Marcus Maeder (CH), Mateu Malondra (ES), Hannes Rickli (CH), Christine Schörkhuber (AT), Valentina Vuksic (CH), Jana Winderen (NO) et al.


He has the makings of an icon of free science, beyond academia and yet full of passionate precision: researcher of the Mediterranean, Ludwig Salvator travelled all his life, going from island to island, and finally from continent to continent. From aboard the “Nixe”, his steam-driven yacht, he set his research radar on unexplored, as yet largely unknown Mediterranean islands and their original, indeed – in terms of civilisation – primeval flora and fauna, habits, customs and living circumstances. For decades, he published dozens of highly regarded specialist publications.

The Archduke from the Tuscan line of the Habsburg family, who died one hundred years ago in October 1915, was as much an ardent practising conservationist as a bohemian and pacifist. A homage featuring several artistic contributions from the fertile borderland of sound, art and science is dedicated to this free thinker. Venues and, at the same time, instruments of this undertaking are ORF correspondent booths in the Lesliehof im Joanneumsviertel and the Murinsel as the fictitiously resurrected research vessel Nixe – along with the appropriate background sound.

Concept Christian Scheib (AT), Elke Tschaikner (AT) & Fränk Zimmer (AT/LU)

Commissioned by musikprotokoll
In cooperation with Universalmuseum Joanneum, Naturkundemuseum Joanneumsviertel & SHAPE – Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe
Stanislav Abraham is SHAPE artist
Supported by Pro Helvetia – Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Lambda Labs

musikprotokoll concerts and projects

musikprotokoll 2015


Nigredo

Reshaping Club Music

Pure Elektronik

musikprotokoll to go

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Noise Me Tender

Radiazione di corpo nero

ensemble recherche

Scelsi Projekt

Dolomite Dub

Hildur Guðnadóttir / The International Nothing