Wien Modern at the MAK 2024

Schedule

In cooperation with Wien Modern, the MAK extends an invitation to the Vienna premiere of the Swiss artist duo Cod.Act’s remarkable sound installations. The works of brothers André and Michel Décosterd, recipients of many international awards, are located on the interface between sculpture, architecture, performance, sound, and music and overwhelm audiences with their sheer presence. In the MAK Columned Main Hall and the MAK Forum, the sound sculptures πTon und πTon/2, created in 2017, unfold their autonomous choreography accompanied by a remarkable sound sequence. At the start of the project and as part of the official opening of the Vienna Modern Festival 2024, Cod.Act will be performing live on Wednesday, 30.10.2024 at 6.30 pm in the MAK Columned Main Hall. Following the opening performance, Cod.Act will be presenting four further performances in the MAK Columned Main Hall. These and all other Wien Modern dates at the MAK can be found here.

Cod.Act Performances featuring Sound Installation πTon (2017) − 20'
30.10.2024, 6.30 pm
31.10.2024, 5.15 pm
1.11.2024, 5.15 pm
2.11.2024, 5.15 pm
3.11.2024, 5.15 pm
MAK Columned Main Hall

πTon/2. Kinetic Sound Installation (2017 EA) − 14'
will be performed daily at half-hourly intervals:
31.10.−1.12.2024, Performance on the full and half hour
Tue 10 am–9 pm, Wed to Sun 10 am–6 pm
MAK Forum

This year the MAK is also the venue of the Festival Wien Modern’s closing concert and of the PARTY MODERN: WIEN MODERN FINALE (30.11.2024). In addition the MAK extends an invitation, within the framework of its cooperation with Wien Modern, to a podium discussion on 12.11.2024:

12.11.
5 pm
Wien Modern Podium Discussion: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky 2
MAK Columned Main Hall
A podium discussion with Rainald Franz (MAK), Julia Mihály (Untere Reklamationsbehörde), Monika Platzer (Architekturzentrum Wien), Bernadette Reinhold (University of Applied Arts Vienna), and Christine Zwingl (Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Zentrum). Questions under discussion include: why, of the 200 women who studied architecture in Vienna before 1938, have to date only a handful been mentioned in histories of architecture.
Production: Wien Modern and MAK
In cooperation with the Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Zentrum and the Architekturzentrum Wien
Admission free
No registration required

After the discussion there will be a tour of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s works. If interested, please register at MAK.at/talkwienmodern

30.11.
6 pm
YOUNG MUSIC | CORNELIUS CARDEW: THE GREAT LEARNING §1
MAK Exhibition Hall, upper floor
Students of the Music Schools of the City of Vienna Voices, pipes, stones, organ
Cordula Bösze, Michael Weber: concept and production Jens Schubbe: counselling
Cornelius Cardew: The great learning. Paragraph 1 (1968) – ~30'
15 € (reduced <30: 50 %, Ö1) | Festival Pass valid as ticket
Tickets via wienmodern.at

6.45 pm
CORNELIUS CARDEW: THE GREAT LEARNING 2024–2025
Foyer, MAK Exhibition Hall, upper floor Project preview
John White: Drinking and Hooting Machine (1968) – ~10'
Admission free

8 pm
Closing Concert
Premiere of Enno Poppe’s Streik für zehn Drumsets [Strike for Ten Drumsets] (2024 EA) – 55'
MAK Upper Exhibition Hall
Composition commissioned by SWR, MaerzMusik, November Music, NOW! Festival for New Music Essen, hcmf Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Wien Modern
15 € (reduced <30: 50 %, Ö1) | Festival Pass valid as ticket
Tickets via wienmodern.at

9.15 pm
BAR MODERN
Artists’ Discussion with Enno Poppe and Bernhard Günther
Foyer, MAK Exhibition Hall, upper floor
Production Wien Modern
Admission free

9.30 pm
PARTY MODERN: WIEN MODERN FINALE
MAK Exhibition Hall, upper floor
Participants
Adriana Celentana: Turntables
DJ Armonia: Turntables
S. Nicolussi: Turntables
Production Wien Modern
Admission free
Ends ca. 1.30 am

Exhibitions

Cod.Act: πTon & πTon/2

in cooperation with Wien Modern

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts