Flytjendur
Aoife O’Brien – voice
Graduale Nobili – choir
Sunna Karen Einarsdóttir – conductor
Katie Hitchcock – dance
Tumi Torfason – trumpet
Magdalena Lorenz – violin
Friðrik Örn Sigþórsson – double bass
Anna Wielend – prepared piano
Marí Kerndle – video
Anna Wielend
BA Hljóðfæratónsmíðar
Anna Wielend’s artistic work focuses on the mediums of sound and body and their interaction. Her work often revolves around the dissolution of anthropocentric thinking and the relationship to more-than-human beings. Studying music and movement education/rhythmics at the mdw in Vienna broadened her artistic thinking and sparked her interest in interdisciplinary exchange.
To deepen this, she studied composition with Carola Bauckholt at the ABPU in Linz and with Sóley Stefánsdóttir at the LHÍ in Reykjavík. Her first EP ‚nebelnichts‘, was released in December 2022. Since May 2023, she has been organizing the retreat Yoga.Natur.Zeit together with Felicia Geber, where she shares her enthusiasm for plants and the connection between somatic practices and working with nature.
Anna has worked with ensembles such as Cantando Admont, Duo Merors, AXKAM String Quartet, and Academy Singers. Her works have been performed at venues including the Konzerthaus Wien, Theater am Spittelberg Wien, and Mariendom in Linz. The connection between nature and music is also present in her trio AVEL.
Um verkið // About the piece:
tauchgang – Anna Wielend – 15′
Marine biologist Angelina Ivkic was interviewed for this interdisciplinary artwork. She talks about everyday life in the reef and her experiences in the water as part of her doctoral thesis “Coral reefs in the Red Sea: A comparison between the Pleistocene and the present” [FWF project P 31592-B25]. Further information: https://corals.univie.ac.at
Originally, the interview was originally in German, but has been translated into English.
The crocheted corals are inspired by the works of Christine and Margaret Wertheim. They are a symbol and an act of „becoming-with“ more-than-human beings, as described by Donna Haraway in her book „Staying with the Trouble“.
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ABSORBED
looking deeply
taking in
everything what is
the poetry of being
alive
