© Verena Tscherner
The transition reflected in the word passage, along with the notion of passing, passing-by, strolling through, sets in motion a dynamics of transformation that is also reflected in the realisation of Verena Tscherner’s artwork.
Tscherner stages the aspect of transition implicit to the passage with a two-part work that consists of an interactive 3D animation in the TONSPUR_display and a still taken from it, and its sound in the TONSPUR_passage, where this sound is to be heard dispersed throughout the space, in analogy to the interaction and visual dynamics of the animation. The connection between the contents of the image and the sound dramaturgy triggered by passers-by is therefore only indirectly revealed in the space and remains abstract.
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Verena Tscherner
PASSAGE2
interactive 8-channel sound installation, 7-part series of A1 images, 3D animation • duration endless • concept, soundwork, A1 images, 3D animation Verena Tscherner • curator Wolfgang Fiel • installation set up Peter Szely • production TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien • artistic director Georg Weckwerth • in cooperation with University of Applied Arts Vienna, Digital Arts Department • special thanks Ruth Schnell
TONSPUR_passage | Micro Museum for Sound & TONSPUR_display | Showroom TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien
MQ Wien
17.6.24–31.7.24
daily 10–20 h
endless
Opening: Sunday Juni 16, 5p.m.
Unusual times require unusual measures.
To support our artists, we are launching this new series:
TONSPUR_live sets in times of COVID-19
The artists play a set via video live stream on the TONSPUR facebook page and answer your questions.
Panorama © Kai-Uwe Rosseburg, TONSPUR Jingle by Szely
TONSPUR for a public space
Tonspur (literally soundtrack) is a classical German term used in talking about visual and acoustic media, it is also the title of a truly unique project situated since 2003 in the Museumsquartier Wien as well as a temporary presence at other international locations.
The white cube is to the visual arts what urban public space is for sound art — that crossover between fine art, media art and music. The TONSPUR_passage in the Museumsquartier Wien (since 2006) or, venue for a while, Schlossplatz in the centre of Berlin (2009–2012), or the passage at the old Town Hall in Maribor in Slovenia (2016–2020) are just such public spaces. These locations are regularly passed as people traverse town, or during their exploratory forays through the metropolises. Artists from all disciplines and from around the world are developing and realising computer-controlled sound works in the TONSPUR series specially for these transitory locations. Their multi-channel compositions take sound well beyond the usual stereophonic experience, creating captivating acoustic architectures and sound spaces.
But TONSPUR offers more: a varied and interdisciplinary engagement with sound as a sculptural and malleable medium in contemporary art is broadened by concerts, sound performances and live streams, lectures and book presentations, workshops and guided tours, the TONSPUR_expanded series of exhibitions, the TONSPUR_library and the TONSPUR_display as well as special projects with art in public space or the TONSPUR_tribute show “Membra Disjecta for John Cage” and, last but not least, international guest appearances with the TONSPUR_collection.
TONSPUR unites artists from various disciplines acoustically while introducing its audience to a broader notion of the reception of art and of art itself. In this sense, TONSPUR für einen öffentlichen raum addresses everybody who encounters the city and art with their eyes and ears open.
Georg Weckwerth
founder, chairman, artistic director
TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien
