Sounds like an interesting project - have a look and would be nice to see you there. Best . Andrea

which dances – or how to imagine a future beyond extraction a choreographic assemblage designed and arranged by Sabina Holzer / cattravelsnotalone In collaboration with Jack Hauser, Elisabeth Schäfer, Alix Eynaudi, Eva Holzinger and Esther Figueroa, Kilian Jörg, Herbert Justnik, Anna Leon, Stefan Pogatscher

9–14 April 2024, daily 10:00–17:00, choreographic assemblage / exhibition

which dances – or how to imagine a future beyond extraction a choreographic assemblage / exhibition exploring materiality, production, and wastage of aluminium.

Hissing sounds, glittering lights, and weightless mobility are dedicated to the beauty of the material, the intelligence of the ground and earth from which it comes. It is said that metals have no memory. We ask: what would aluminium tell us if it had one? Would we get to know that because of its effects on the quality of air and water, on agriculture and ecology, the excavation of bauxite impacts the surrounding communities’ life and basis of existence? Would it inform us about the destruction of the last remaining natural habitats in remote parts of the world? Would it ask us why at the same time gigantic amounts of energy are used for producing a metal which only enables growth and modernisation for a few political economics, which thus require even more energy and resources? Would it ask us whether we were at all able to imagine sustainable consumption? Because it actually means being able to develop a different understanding of happiness and fulfilment in order to give our living together another direction?

Dates

12 April 2024, 18:00 feature & documentary film: Fly me to the moon by Esther Figueroa (English) with an introduction by Sabina Holzer in German. The film traces aluminium around the world and into outer space. We encounter technological innovations, numerous wars, social upheaval, and the destruction of the environment. In the here and now of the climate crisis, it prompts us to ponder the consequences of our consumption, and to change our material culture and political economy. Winner of the Awareness Festival Merit Award 2019. After the screening: activation of the space and informal exchange, with drinks.

13 April 2024, 14:00–17:00 workshop: which dances – or how to imagine a future beyond extraction We are searching for other micropolitics & perceptions. Landscapes are bodies; they concentrate time. By exploiting them, they become like flesh around spooky vacancies. They ask: how can we live in the anthropocene and beyond? How can we get in tough with the challenges of climate change, embedded in capitalism and extraction, and imagine a sustainable future together? With Sabina Holzer (dancer, writer), Kilian Jörg (philosopher, artist) Stefan Pogatscher (scientists in the field of circular economy of aluminum) and a contribution by Esther Figueroa.

14 April 2024, 18:00 performance & book presentation Performance: which zones Hissing sounds, glittering lights, and weightless mobility relish the beauty of aluminium and the intelligence of the earth that produces it. They say that metal has no memory. What would aluminium tell us if it had one? Perhaps about landscapes as living bodies. How they compress time and prompt us to develop prefigurative, poetical dances, actions, and exercises in order to transform the questions regarding the consumption of resources in complex carefulness.

By and with Aluminium (artistic director), Sabina Holzer (material, choreography & performance), Elisabeth Schäfer (text & performance), Jack Hauser (space, light & scenography), Thomas Wagensommerer (sound material), Alix Eynaudi (choreographic accompaniment), mollusca productions.

Book presentation: which dances – which writes, edited by Sabina Holzer & Elisabeth Schäfer, Sonderzahl Verlag 2023. In conversation with Anna Leon and Herbert Justnik (English / German) which dances – which writes – Aluminium Assemblagen is an informative as well as poetical and philosophical collection of texts around silvery aluminium, “the shimmer metal”. With contributions by Thomas Ballhausen, David Ender, Alix Eynaudi, Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer, Katrin Hornek, Herbert Justnik, Niamo Lattner, Jeroen Peeters, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Elisabeth Schäfer, Tanja Traxler, Brigitte Wilfing.

A coproduction of cattravelsnotalone and Volkskunde Museum Wien. MA7 Wissenschaft, Bezirksamt Josefstadt.

With many thanks to: Brigitte Wilfing, Jeroen Peeters, David Ender, Christa Spatt.

As part of before it gets better …https://www.volkskundemuseum.at/before_it_gets_better and the Vienna Climate Biennale 2024. **************************************************************************

🕊️Let’s engage in peace on all levels!🕊️ U P C O M I N G

* 9th – 14th April: 'which dances - or how to imagine a future beyond extraction' - a choreographic Assemblage by Sabina Holzer. Film, Workshop & Performance with Bookpresentation. With Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer, Elisabeth Schäfer and Esther Figueroa, Kilian Jörg, Anna Leon, Herbert Justnik a.o. @ Volkskundemuseum Wien

* 7th March – 2nd June: Texts for texts-messengers in the installation 'testing grounds' by Katrin Hornek in collaboration with Karin Pauer, Sabina Holzer and Zosia Hołubowska @ Secession Vienna

* The book: which dances - which writes. Aluminium Assemblages, Hrsg.: Sabina Holzer & Elisabeth Schäfer. Sonderzahl Verlag 2023. ******************************** www.cattravelsnotalone.at performance - text - movement facilitation

sabina holzer anschützgasse 17/6 a - 1150 wien