MQ Artist-in-Residence Ronya Othmann
Kurdish at a time when the Kurdish language was banned in Turkey. In order to devote herself fully to music, she left her husband and child and worked first as a seamstress and later as a postal clerk in Izmir
MQ: Art installation by Nick Oberthaler - MuseumsQuartier Wien
digitally on a tablet using a vector program. The creative process can be compared with writing a musical score: Oberthaler frequently composes a drawing over many weeks, whereby sketches and studies also
MQ: Exhibition ‘No Dancing Allowed’ frei_raum Q21 exhibition space - MuseumsQuartier Wien
portrait of Steve Maia Caniço - a French party-goer who lost his life during La Fête de la Musique (Music Day) in Nantes. A police intervention on account of noise ended in 14 people falling into the nearby [...] with the infamous Criminal Justice Act of 1994 - giving police power to shut down events featuring music that's ‘characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats’. Unable to peacefully deal
MQ Artist-in-Residence Mlondiwethu Dubazane
Cape Town. As of late, Mlondiwethu identifies himself as a creative sound-maker, spontaneous spirit-musics practitioner and improviser. The sonic vision he's preoccupied with is one which aims to cultivate [...] sensitivity toward the unveiling of the heart, in sound and in practice. Mlondiwethu considers his music to be an offering toward the space of inspiration that thrums within us all. © Mlondiwethu Dubazane [...] a project of sounds capacity to inspire alternative ways of living in our here and now. Sound and Music in this project are considered not just as a medium of meaning, or entertainment; but as a medium
MQ Artist-in-Residence Yola Yulfianti
Jakarta Institute of The Arts and on this year 2025 initiated Jakarta Dance Hub. Yola composes her own music and visual elements to accompany her performances. Her artistic process does not focus solely on finished
MQ Artist-in-Residence Johannes S. Sistermanns
(German Society for Electroacoustic Music). In 2019, he co-founded the Academy for West-Eastern Dialogue of Cultures and is a delegate of the Society for New Music (GNM) at the German Cultural Council [...] Sistermanns is a German composer and sound artist who studied rhythmics, piano, composition, and “New Music Theater” at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He also received vocal and overtone singing training
paraflows – Platform for Digital Art and Culture
1988, I’ve been active in various cultural institutions and projects, especially in the fields of music, film, theatre, visual arts and media art. Many of my projects take place in the context of the i [...] addresses the question of composing in a digital world and who continue to explore this question in their music, compositions and works. Read more Feature monochrom: art, DIY enthusiasts and extravagant theoreticians
Q21 Backstage: Hermes Baby
regular basis, but they also experiment with new narrative styles using literature, art, performance, music, film, photography and all other cultural and representative techniques. Together with artists and
Overground Resistance: Aka Niviâna in conversation with Oliver Ressler
Greenland it is the artists who communicate this. A big part of our culture is music and when there is a gathering, they play music or sing. We had a revolution around 40 years ago, where we were trying to [...] Denmark and there was just a huge reaction and it was something everybody knew about. The power of music was central. Also, to give some context: Greenland is the biggest island on earth and it is a huge
frei_raum Q21 exhibition space: "No Dancing Allowed"
Spaces" the two performers Julius Pristauz and Hannah Sussitz meet in the exhibition space and dance to music that remains inaudible to the audience. In reference to the piece "Untitled" (Go-Go Dancing Platform)