bb15 – space for contemporary art
bb15 – Raum für Gegenwartskunst
Hafnerstraße 4
4020 Linz
http://bb15.at
bb15 is an alternative, non-commercial location for the arts, which encourages experimental approaches. With roughly 100m² in the city centre of Linz, bb15 provides a regular program of exhibitions, performances, workshops, discussions and concerts. Alongside the main program of events, stand alone solo and group exhibitions are also hosted. In addition the space is regularly used in-house as studio and place of production. International co-operations with similar institutions as well as an annual artist in residence- program concludes the repertoire.
Team:
Clemens Mairhofer, Sebastian Six, Veronika Krenn, Marie-Andrée Pellerin, Laurien Bachmann
Deutsch:
bb15 ist ein alternativer Schauplatz der Kunst, nicht-kommerziell mit experimentellen Ansätzen und Freiräumen. Auf rund 100 Quadratmetern Ausstellungsfläche wechseln monatlich die Ausstellungen, finden Workshops, Diskussionen und Konzerte statt.bb15 versteht sich als offene Kunst- und Kulturplattform, welche immer bestrebt ist, auch internationale Beziehungen bzw. Kontakte zu suchen und zu pflegen. Ziel ist es einen lebendigen Austausch mit KünstlerInnen unterschiedlicher kultureller und regionaler Hintergründe oder Herkunft zu etablieren.
Exhibitions overview
- Kleft – Socken Zone | 2018
- Steve Bates & Kristen Roos – The
Diseasesof the Ear | 2018 - Yoojin Lee – As long as there is time to sleep | 2018
- Susannah Stark – Searchlights | 2018
- Marloes van Son – ∆∏ ̇·^¬ Devices | 2017
- Pio Rahner – Clouds (working title) | 2017
- Jan Adriaans – Synchrony Collapse | 2017
- Antje Guenther – The Beheading of the Fruitfly (initialized) | 2016
- Rachael Finney – Losing Chorus | 2016
- Helen Anna Flanagan – Game and Performance | 2016
- Miriam Hamann – 0,5 m³ | 2016
- Marita Bullmann – Three points where two lines meet | 2015
- Michael Heindl – Once I walked so far I lost my toenails | 2015
- Tomáš Moravec – Question of superficial affection (extended) | 2015
- David Gauthier & Jacob Sikker Remin – Waveforms of the Earth | 2014
- Julian Day – Consensus | 2014
- Ivo Francx & Bartholomäus Traubeck – Akkurat Orgeln | 2014
- Francesco Fonassi – A Brief Introduction to Turbulence | 2013
- Roman Štětina – STUDIO No. 2 (Slapstick) | 2013
- Stuart Croft – The Stag Without a Heart | 2011
sight seeing
as part of FAXEN
Site-specific sound intervention, 2009
4-channel audio 24-minute loop, speakers, dubplates, media player, modular synthesizer
An underground car park in a suburban settlement in Linz is the setting for the sound intervention sight-seeing. In a first step, the space was recorded and acoustically analysed to determine its predominant frequencies. Based on these findings, the artist group FAXEN created a sound performance that generates subtle interferences between the natural soundscape and the composition. A dystopian sound intervention that confronts the listener with the ubiquity of poorly designed acoustic spaces. “sight-seeing” was commissioned by the art festival “festival of regions” in Linz/Austria.
Deutsch:
Im Rahmen des Kunst in öffentlichen Raum Festival „Festival der Regionen“ wurde eine Tiefgarage in einer Wohnsiedlung von Clemens Mairhofer, Lucas Norer und Sebastian Six akustisch aufgezeichnet und analysiert. Die daraus gewonnen Parameter, dienten als Grundlage einer Komposition, welche regelmäßig Interferenzen zwischen der natürlichen Geräuschkulisse und den abgespielten Klängen generierte. Dabei wurde das vorhandene Klangspektrum, welches vor allem im 80Hz Bereich eine akustische Spitzte aufweist, mittels Sinustönen rekonstruiert, auf 4 Lautsprechern verteilt, und jeweils in der Tonhöhe leicht verändert abgespielt. Die Soundinstallation „sight seeing“ wurde im Rahmen einer Live Performance eröffnet.
Exhibitions
Normalzustand – Festival der Regionen | Auwiesen, Linz/AT | 9.5. – 1.6.2009
Tilt
as part of FAXEN
Sound Installation, 2009
Piezo speakers, audio cables, amplifiers, mp3 players
The sound installation „Tilt“ uses the mathematical concept of „squaring the square“ to divide the exhibition space into acoustic zones. By suspending 100 speakers from the ceiling, 15 zones were created to which specific acoustic properties were assigned. „Tilt“ created a sonic microcosm that incorporated high-frequency tones, field recordings of the gallery and the public space.
Deutsch:
Tilt besteht aus einer Anordnung von 100 Lautsprechern, welche eine komplexe visuelle Komposition basierend auf einem “Schichtungskonzept” darstellt. Die Grundfläche des Kunstpavillons wurde folgend dem mathematischen Prinzip “squaring the square” in 15 weitere kleinere Flächen dividiert ohne aber eine Größe zu wiederholen. Die Arbeit “Tilt” erweitert diese zweidimensionale Anordnung sowohl optisch über die räumliche Platzierung der Lautsprecher als auch mittels der Materie Klang auf den Raum. Hochfrequente pulsierende Töne kombiniert mit Feldaufnahmen und Stille unterschiedlicher Länge generieren auditive Schnittflächen im architektonischen Raum. Die permanente Veränderung der Synchronisation mit den Intervallen der einzelnen Klangelementen folgt dem Zufall und somit Komponiert sich der Raum immer wieder neu.
Exhibitions
Realoase
as part of May he hetal?
Album Release, 2008
digital file, Autark aa05
Modified keyboards and hand crafted interfaces, build the basis for the music of may he hetal? Through this way, they are able to worm out some unexpected and opinionated sounds. Out of this sound archive rises their music, which is located somewhere between Ambient, Elektronica and Noise.
Credits:
written + produced by Clemens Mairhofer, Lucas Norer, Sebastian Six
More here:
http://autark-net.org
May He Hetal?
as part of FAXEN
Sound performance, 2006-2011
Modified keyboards, handcrafted interfaces, sound equipment
May He Hetal? is a music project by the artist collective FAXEN which explores the potential of inexpensive, second-hand electronics that produce sounds, such as keyboards, drum machines and electronic toys. Through radical manipulation of the circuits within these devices, one hears the sound of the hardware, which consists of a multi-layered realm of subtle and differentiated sounds. With an emphasis on improvisation and the capriciousness of the rebuilt instruments, FAXEN creates noisy electronic textures accompanied by occasional melodies and broken baselines.
Concerts (selection)
- mehr kanal #5 |University, Linz/AT | 6.6.2011
- ALMOST IN PASSING | DogzStar, Istanbul/TR | 2.4.2010
- autark labelnight | Rhiz, Vienna/AT | 15.2.2009
- autark labelnight | Fluc, Vienna/AT | 19.2.2009
- Sound Characters | Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck/AT | 6.3.2009
- Appetite for Destruction | Rother Krebs, Linz/AT | 10.4.2009
- qujOchÖ im exil | Zentralcafe K4, Nürnberg/DE | 30.10.2009
- May He Hetal? | Parque del Sole Festival, St. Pölten/AT | 2009
- q_trigger | quitch, Linz/AT | 18.6.2008
- May He Hetal? | p.m.k, Innsbruck/AT | 22.11.2008
- Kunsthalle, Vienna, 2008
- Logement, Antwerpen, 2008
- Ars Electronica Nightline, Linz, 2007
Releases
- Various – 10, Autark, file, 2009
- Realoase, Autark, file, 2008
- Various – The Best Of NTNS Radio 2008
- The Hitman Demo, Lauthals, 2007
T3
as part of FAXEN
16mm film loop, 2006
1m30s digitised video loop with sound
T3 is a work that literally cuts open the logic of storytelling in movies. In contrast to typical film editing conventions, FAXEN cut the actual 16mm found footage film strip lengthwise into three parts with a blade. Through this rearrangement, the film is compressed both spatially and temporally. The original scene bends to the physical intervention and highlights the materiality of film. T3 is shown three times in a loop.
The lost denk-mal Tapes
as Astebianix
Album Release, 2006
11 tracks, digital file
The first official album of lauthals as mp3-release. The lost denk-mal tapes were adapted and improved by Astebianix and shines now in a new splendour. To purchase the whole album visit the following pages: Cd Baby, Amazon, Itunes, and Spotify.
Tower of Blues
Analog Photography, 2005
A picture of an piano fingerboard is turned from horizontal to vertical. So it turns into a building.
Exhibitions
- Das gefundene Bild, Galerie Maerz, Linz/AT, 23.05.2005