Fazit 26 – Lower Austria Open Studio Days

As part of Kulturvernetzung NÖ’s “Open Studio Days,” the Symposion Lindabrunn association is presenting a retrospective of the past year’s events, as well as the results of artistic work carried out on-site and by members of the association.

Program

October 17,
Starting at 11:00 a.m.: Exhibition “
” 1:00 p.m.: Talk with Christina Gruber (water ecologist, artist, activist) about the Kronsdorf data center
2:00 p.m.: Opening of “Haus ohne Geld” (work in progress)
3:00 p.m.: Opening of the workshop (work in progress)
3:15 p.m.: Daydancing with DJ Handgepäck
6:00 p.m.: Live concert & immersive video
Golden Diskó Ship and Paula Reissig: POV:BirdMix *

 

October 18, starting at 11:00 a.m.

Exhibition: ”
” 1:00 p.m. Workshop: “Live Remix”
Golden Diskó Ship and Paula Reissig: “POV:BirdMix”

Guided tour of the grounds upon request

 

Exhibition in the Exhibition Hall

Valentina Gruber

Rosa Jahnson Dietz

Golden Diskó Ship and Paula Reissig: POV:BirdMix *

 

At CUBO

Veronika Mayer, Elisabeth Wildling: The Imperceptible

 

In the listening booth

Christina Gruber: Thirsty Datacenter
Hollis Taylor, Claire Edwardes: Owen Springs Reserve 2014
Marie Lambropoulus: On the Locust Population
blablabor: fm-alarm-clock-radio-g641-t302-j
Sashe Urdovski: Singing Wire

 

Experimental Architecture on the Site

Aaron Michel

Robert Faul

 

LIVE: Golden Diskó Ship and Paula Reissig: POV:BirdMix

For years, pop music has followed the path of simplification and minimalism. And the tone of avant-garde pop has steadily grown darker and more serious. Theresa Stroetges, aka Golden Diskó Ship, offers an alternative to this trend. Her music is rich, colorful, and full of melodies. Stroetges loves intricate vocal harmonies that soar to the highest heights. Where many others shy away from opulence and melodic complexity, she brings precisely these qualities to the forefront. The consistently positive vibe of her driving, ultra-pop sound is incredibly infectious. At the same time, it serves as a coping strategy for the artist amid the multifaceted crisis of our present. In her live sets, Golden Diskó Ship presents a bubbling mixture of Krautrock, cinematic club music, ’80s pop, and disco (sic!). Clever rhythms and sophisticated arrangements are slipped into the audience’s experience with a smile. With lightning-fast transitions, the multi-instrumentalist switches between guitar, viola, percussion, and plenty of electronics. Top-notch entertainment for fans of unconventional and danceable pop music. With her live videos, media artist Paula Reissig expands the music program to include interactive visuals. Reissig has developed a remix game based on Golden Diskó Ship’s tracks that can be played for free in a browser. Musical elements are assigned to visual objects that can be remixed by the audience without any prior musical knowledge. The artist and the audience swap roles, and a finished piece of music is reimagined collaboratively. At the concerts, Paula Reissig will present the remix game live during the show and let the audience try it out in a workshop afterward.

* With the kind support of

Valentina Gruber: Zwischen Krisen und Wiesen, 2026
Fotoprint, Vinyl

I want to bathe in the sand and climb onto the meadow,
I want to unload the stars and shatter the sun,
I want to keep walking and pause forever,
I want to set out into all the vastness and fold myself into myself,
I want to see in salt water and dance in the lake,
I want to walk through caves and plant stones,
I want to be free and all alone,
I want to be with you and yours forever,
wants to sweat in the snow and freeze to death on the beach,
wants to own mountain peaks and rule over valleys,
wants to know all of you and no one at all,
until I fall and our paths part.

Rosa Jansohn Ditz – Works on Paper

Rosa has been working at one of the stone-carving stations at the Lindabrunn Symposium for the past two years. At Fazit 26, she is exhibiting her new stone sculptures for the first time, as well as works combining stone and paper—including pieces that incorporate yarn.
The artist’s working method is intuitive and process-oriented, leading to a dialogue with the emerging work.
The process of creating a work is based on a complex and multifaceted body of knowledge that exists beyond language and seeks to touch the audience emotionally.

 

Veronika Mayer, Elisabeth Wildling: The Imperceptible

Perception is an active, formative process. It selects, condenses and creates reality. A site-sensitive artistic practice unfolds from everyday life together – in observing, listening and visualizing – that responds to the situation rather than depicting it. This attitude characterizes the week-long collaboration between two artists in residence and is based on presence, repetition and lingering.

Macro shots open our eyes to the imperceptible – to transitions and subtle shifts in light, sound and materiality. Situationally used materials act as mediating filters that structure traces of light and shadow as well as tonal particles.

The resulting installation follows a relational understanding of sensory orientation: as an ongoing process of active awareness, in which heterogeneous environments, experience and artistic setting resonate and respond to one another.

Experimental Architecture

Robert Faul: Workshop

Robert Faul’s diploma project focuses on transforming a space previously used as a tool shed into a studio and workspace.

The goal is to expand the existing space in such a way that a high-quality workspace is created that is suitable for creative, theoretical, and practical activities, while maintaining the necessary storage function. In doing so, existing materials will be reused and recycled materials incorporated. The result will be a two-story workshop, with the lower level providing workspace for wood and metal work, while the upper level will house a 3D printing area, an electrical workshop, and Metafunk’s radio station. By combining two shipping containers with a wooden and steel extension, the space is expanded, creating two functionally distinct workspaces with a view of the adjacent quarry.

The formal exterior design complements the overall appearance and, through thoughtful details, responds directly to the conditions dictated by nature and the existing structure. The textile façade of the upper section displays an image of the spectrogram of the amateur radio station’s signal, thus forming a coherent integration of the material and immaterial exterior envelope.

As part of this process, design and implementation are linked within a continuous learning process. Architecture is understood as an ongoing process, as a tool for perception and dialogue. The project thus becomes a practical and theoretical experiment exploring how minimal interventions can provide impetus for cultural, spatial, and ecological development. The design of a studio is viewed here not as an end in itself, but as a means of exploring an idea: that small, precisely targeted interventions can generate resonance—in space, in thought, and within the community.