donaufestival at the Klangraum Krems Minorite Church

On two consecutive weekends in late spring the donaufestival (since 2005 under the direction of Tomas Zierhofer-Kin) creates an international platform for new performance art and music in Krems. New forms of theatre, media theatre, film, video, rap, spoken word, hip hop, experimental music, sound art, post rock, electronic, and disc pop are the columns of an outstanding festival model unafraid of the exciting trip into the world of advanced pop and sub culture.
Artists from the most diverse genres confront themselves with the phenomena, strategies, distopias, and utopias of our media and mass society. Be it as “analysts” dealing with the concept of pop culture, be it as “rebels” operating from within the pop context itself—they all share the same method of creating new artistic territories as a basis for their work: territories like strangely generated biotopes switching from one possible medium to the other, and moving from sub culture to high culture, from counter movement to mainstream and back again.
Performance, media theatre and actionist art interweave with advanced forms of music blurring the lines between sitting in a cinema and watching a theatre play, between attending a rock concert and a symphonic orchestra, between taking part in a performance and being in a laboratory to experiment on the future of electronic music…

The cooperation with the Klangraum Krems Minorite Church is an integral part of this border-crossing concept.

Cooperations donaufestival – Klangraum Krems Minorite Church




2010
29|04 - 01|05 Showcase Beat Le Mot
06|05 Whale Watching Tour featuring Ben Frost, Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigurdsson
08|05 Theo Adams Comapany

2009
Mirror/Dash
Goblin
Chrome Hoof
Leila
God's Entertainment

2008
Gustav & Trachtenkapelle Dürnstein
Ursula Rucker
Die Goldenen Zitronen & Irm Hermann
Naked Lunch & Thomas Woschitz

2007
David Tibet Project: Cyclobe, Baby Dee, Sunn O))), Pantaleimon, Simon Finn, Julia Kent, Little Annie With Paul Wallfish
Schnee & Sand
Jamie Lidell & Friends: Gonzales, Mocky & Pablo Fiasco
Gonzales Solo Piano

2006
SOUND BODY. Curated by David Toop with Ryoji Ikeda & Carsten Nicolai – cyclo. – produced by forma, Oval, Cosmos – Sachiko M & Ami Yoshida, Akio Suzuki, Evan Parker, Kaffe Matthews, Rafale Toral, Rhodri Davies, Lee Patterson, and David Toop (project in two parts)
Faust (concert)

2005
Josef Reiter: minoritenkirche sounding über die allmähliche verfertigung der gebäude beim hören IV (sound installation)
Bernhard Gál/Yumi Kori: Defragmentation. An audio-architectural exploration of time (sound installation)
zeitkratzer: James Tenney / John Cage / Nam June Paik / Reinhold Friedl (concert)
Alvin Curran: Beams – an architectural symphony (commissioned work)
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