Daniel Aschwanden †
urban transmedia: lab in performance

urban transmedia: lab in performance choreographing complexity Have you ever talked to a zeppelin during a performance? Ever danced in an invisible city? Have you ever contemplated future investments with real inhabitants of unreal houses? Have you ever counted grasses in slowmotion with urban planners? Or recited art manifests with bankers? We will investigate processes of urbanisation from different perspectives on the 240 hectares building site of aspern The Lake City in Vienna. We will dispose choreographic-performative approaches into the field of urban planning and the versatile intersections with art, architecture, social issues, economy, new media and we will cultivate them theoretically and practically as experimental-hybrid-approaches, which aim at interactions and new corresponding spaces. We will actively expose to the vastness of the space and its transformation processes, develop personal research approaches, apply methods of documentary theatre and media, in order to ask construction workers, neighbours, future and past inhabitants, urban planners and investors to become part of the process and to win them over to participate at the performance. Departing from these measuring processes we will develop a performative map, which will be presented as public parcours through real and virtual worlds. The body acts inside of qualities of space like the interjacent and the further more and mediates between figures of the planned (of space and society) and the marginal (waste land, the unplanned). Based on our experiences and reactions to the space we will create new tales, which will on their part endow the building site and contribute to the public representation of an identity. View also: http://www.aspern-seestadt.at/PUBLIK Daniel Aschwanden is performer and choreographer in the context of contemporary dance and performance. His interests also lead him into the field of video art and new media. He engages in performative interventions in the urban context, questions conditions of "specifity of location" and develops methods to establish the interfaces between media technologies and people. Since 2005 he creates a.o. with Peter Stamer different formats with an emphasis on exchange and communicative art & performance practices in China, Germany, France, Austria and Spain. His new focus is the artistic work and curation for the urban planning project of "aspern Die Seestadt Wiens" in Vienna and the organisation of the cultural temporary use under the label "aspern Seestadt PUBLIK" with the team of "content.associates". Aschwanden engages in process oriented work formats and collective creative approaches. In the late 1980ies he founded the first dance & performance festival of the "independend scene" in Vienna. In the 1990ies he worked in the field of arts and social involvement with a strong focus on experimental approaches with his mixed group of performers with and without disabilities called "Bildwerfer". They toured extensively throughout Europe, the US and South America and received the National Prize of the Ministry of Culture for the exemplary work in the field of art and disabilities. Daniel Aschwanden he was the co-founder of Kabelwerk, a centre for art and communication in the beginning of 2000 and artist in residence at Tanzquartier Vienna in 2006. 2007 he initiated the PATHOSBÜRO together with Katherina Zakravsky, which engages in the theoretical and practical research of formula of pathos according to Aby Warburg and their media transformations. They produce lectures and urban interventions, the magazine Pathospost, as well as science fiction videos and their performative extentions. Daniel Aschwanden is co-founder of SCREEN.tv, an artistic initiative for the operation of an internet tv-streaming station and inititated the media lab ABSENT INTERFACES, a European network, with Scott Delahunta. Since 2009 he is guest lecturer at the at the University for applied Arts in Vienna and co-founder of content.associates.