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Karl Kilian Festspiele 2007 - Day I

vie_karl — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:01:51 +0000

Yesterday was the Warm-Up-Party to the Karl Kilian Festspiele 2007 at the Badeschiff Vienna. If you dont know the Badeschiff yet, check this pace out, its on Donaukanal near Urania, & it’s a really nice location, & there is really a indoor swimmingpool, that is supercool. Exspecially when winter came back like e did yesterday.
So there was yesterday the Warm-Up-Party with my old friend dj Kosmoprolet from Novosibirsk & 2 superbe live-acts:

Al Bird “the mummy” Dirt

mayr

& of course dj Kosmoprolet, he is the resident dj of the club “Diskoclub Proletarskij” & drinks really a lot ;-)

That was really a very good opening for a festival, so check out the next dates:

=> On myspace
=> Homepage

On friday you can see the multimedia installation

Retrospective Karl Kilian:
My Dump! Artrubbishdump-Installation

at wienstation, lerchenfelder gürtelbogen 28, 8 p.m.

Hearings for the next rector of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste

vie_karl — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:37:30 +0000

Yesterday was the first day of the hearings for the new university rector of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste. It was really interesting, i might say. Today is the next & last day, you can go there, it’s public & for free.
Enjoy!

Here’s the adress:
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Schillerplatz 3
A - 1010 Wien
Sitzungssaal

Today there are:

Sigrid Gareis
10 bis 11 Uhr

Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
11 bis 12 Uhr

August Sarnitz
12 bis 13 Uhr

Go there & learn about political speech (impressive this rhetoric…& brutal!)

=> More + Ausschreibungstext

Karl Kilian Festival 2007

vie_karl — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:58:25 +0000

Hallo ladies & gentlemen!
I’m back on metroblog. You didnt here quite a long time anything from me here on metroblog, because I prepared a huge & crazy project. I’m proud to present you now the “Karl Kilian Festspiele 2007″. This project deals with the idea of some politicians - that artists shoud act like an Ich-AG. That means, that the artist has to take care himself of his provisions for old age, his health-insurrance, promote himself etcetc.I dont think so. I think an artist should make good art. It’s not the job of an artist to promote or sell himself!
& here is it now, the MAXIMUM PROMOTION BABY :-)

& it uses everything that is not allowed: an nearly unknown artist celebrates himself 4 weeks with a Retrospektive, A Tribute-exhibition, concerts, dj-lines, screenings… & it’s the first time that all the different pseudonyms (fm zombiemaus, Pornobone, Kosmoprolet, trashterrier…) & arts of Karl Kilian are united in one big thing:

The Karl Kilian Festspiele 2007 on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/fkk2007
The Karl Kilian Festspiele 2007 Homepage: http://www.rasprechs.com/kkf2007/fkk2007.html

Music-links:
Mayr: http://mayr.cccp.at/
Al Bird Dirt: http://www.myspace.com/dirtbob
dj Kosmoprolet: http://www.myspace.com/djkosmoprolet

PornoBone: http://www.myspace.com/pornobone
fm zombiemaus: http://www.myspace.com/fmzombiemaus

Artproject Artstudies part III: “myprof” (sorry, only german): myprof

New Surface - Eastwood in Vienna

vie_karl — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:40:59 +0000

Oh my x!
We got a new surface, looks absolutely prol!
What do you think?
Shokedyshok!
I just wanted to write about the Clint Eastwood-film Firefow from the year 1981, & now i open the vienna metroblog - & RÖÖÖÖÖÖÖCHL!!!
But I want to come back to the subject:
Do you know the mentioned movie Firefox? Parts of it play in Moscow but these scenes are filmed in good old Vienna. Coooll: you shold imagine Moscow & you recognize Vienna :-) & I tell you: It all looked the same at the beginning of the 80ies here in Vienna, the Donaukanal, the underground, even the small orange cars cleaning the trottoire. The only thing that changed are the signs, it seems they were at this time in cyrillic. Funny. & fun to watch, because I like it to guess where Clint Eastwood & his team shot this or that scene.
Of course it is not really a good film, but I like the soundeffects & the trashy fx & I tell you: You never saw a si stupido first secretary of the USSR. A film right out of the cold war!
& not to forget: You also find the austrian actor Klaus Loewitsch (whom I hated when I was young for his tv-series Peter Strohm. But now I liked to see him, it was like greetings from my youth ;-)) as Vladimirov. Reallyreally funny!

Sleeping Bulbs

vie_karl — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:26:26 +0000

On the label is written:
Attention, here are bulbs sleeping!

Isn’t that cute?
We really have a sweet municipality in Vienna.
;-)

Found next to S-Station Breitensee

Things you find in the street V

vie_karl — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:14:04 +0000

This I also found in Sturzgasse:

Damned!
What happened in this town while I was not here?
I’m afraid!

End of romance part IV

vie_karl — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:59:00 +0000

I was out to buy some food.
You remember - 2 days ago Valentine’s day?
Now look at this…

Poor guy or girl that bought this bouquet of roses.

*sniff*
[Found in Sturzgasse (15th district)]

Eine Stadt. Ein Buch - 100.000 books for free

vie_karl — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:03:47 +0000

I don’t know in how many cities this is normal, but here in Vienna we have every year this “Eine Stadt. Ein Buch” (1 town. 1 book). That means you can get one of 100.000 books for free (in a library or other places in town). This year it’s a John Irving book called “Lasst die Bären los!” (O.T.: Setting Free The Bears). It’s quite ok, especially if you are ill & right out of prison like me (I always get ill if I come out of prison, it’s a problem with the society, or like a friend calls it “ A problem with reasocialization” ;)).
Irving is nice, every 5 to 7 years, because his books are somehow similar (often bears, often families, often Vienna, often…), but they are funny & easy to read. But if the green party says it’s strange, that since 4 years only books written by male writers are published – so that’s true (http://wien.gruene.at/frauen/artikel/lesen/4870/).

I like the idea that 100.000 people are reading the same book at the same time. So I started immediately reading when it came out the 14th. February in the underground. But I was frotten the only one & now I’m ill and can not see the others. How is it? Are people reading in public spaces? Are there now 99.999 readers all over the town?
I imagined an underground full of readers, the people start talking about the book, dicsuss it. That would be nice. But I think that’s only in my romantic 68ies head ;).

So – anyway. Irving uses in the german translation often the word “frotten”, & I dont know exactly what it means. Somebody could help me?
I give you some examples (in german):

Bei Gott – Graff – was bist du doch manchmal für ein verfrotteter Trottel.
(Oh god – Graff – what frotten idiot you are sometimes.) (p. 49)

Menschenskind, sagte Siggi. Frot!
(Man alive, said Siggi. Frot!) (p. 62)

Oh, frot! sagte er. Oh, frot, frot, frot!
(Oh, frot! he said. Oh frot, frot, frot) (p.74)

So anybody anidea what it means?

And another question I ask is:
Does anybody know what word Irving used in the original book?
Did he use also frott?
So – if he did – now I have to eat some frotten spaghetti, Bon Appetit!

ps: If you wanna read more about the book (in german): http://wien.orf.at/magazin/lustaufwien/wohlfuehlen/

Seems to be a special religion

vie_karl — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:31:10 +0000

This “temple” is near Naschmarkt.

???

vie_karl — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:07:23 +0000

Any body an idea what that could be or that was good for?
I found it in the old cellars of the gallery Artposition.