[t = Stein]
Performance – Concert – Installation – Exhibition
Live Performance June 3 2025,
Exhibition June 3 – July 3, 2025
CENTRAL GNEISS
Kunstraum EWIGKEITSGASSE, Wien
concept & idea: Heimo Fladl, Andrea Nagl
performance: Helga Hafner, percussion;
Rita Schiller, accordeon;
Herbert Lacina, piano; Heimo Fladl, saxophone & percussion;
Andrea Nagl, dance performance
photos exhibition: nagl～wintersberger
Performance – Concert – Installation – Exhibition
Horizontal movement meets vertical gravitation: the continuous murmur of geological processes contrasts with punctual impacts/events.
At the center: the installation "t" as an intersection of two forces and two times. The durational plane is interrupted by falling stones—Central Gneiss, collected in the Zillertal Alps. The musicians, too, orient themselves within this tension: surface and impulse, noise and impact.
A dancer embodies the moment in space. The body becomes a seismograph—between tension and stillness, gravitation and uplift, grounding and rupture.
Framing the live event is an exhibition of photographs by nagl～wintersberger, taken along the "Dreiländer Tour am Alpenhauptkamm". Inspired by the immediacy of rock, the body itself becomes a vessel for geological processes—both witness and material (Nacktes Gestein / Bare Rock). In Geschiebekörper | variscan bound, this practice of "embodied research" expands to include a fragment of Weinsberg Granite—a distant relative from the Variscan orogeny, carried through the landscape like a relic. In the vast forefield of the melting glacier, body and stone encounter one another—two archives meeting, touching, and for a moment, folding their timelines into one another.
[t = stone]
The exhibition
The photographs in the main room were taken in the summer of 2024 along the Dreiländertour on the Alpine ridge.
The triptych Geschiebekörper | variscan bound references the geological kinship between the mountain landscape of Central Gneiss and a small fragment of Weinsberg Granite from the Waldviertel, carried through the landscape like a relic. Both trace their origins to the Variscan orogeny approximately 300 million years ago. In the expanse of the glacial forefield, body and stone encounter one another—two archives touching, their timelines folding into one another for a moment.
The movement choreographies in the series Nacktes Gestein (Bare Rock) are based on dance research embodying geological processes such as weathering, glacial erosion, endurance, or bare rock. In the field, further inspired by the immediacy of surface forms, the body becomes both witness and material—simultaneously participant and expression.
The cultivation of the "stone sense" (Novalis) in embodied research and geological embodiment.
The images in the side room belong to the series Randnotizen (Marginal Notes), from the exhibition project Randnotizen oder die Auflösung der Wunderkammer (Marginal Notes or the Dissolution of the Cabinet of Curiosities) by nagl～wintersberger at Galerie Lindenhof, Raabs an der Thaya, as part of the *Wald/4 Festival Niederösterreich* 2023.
The focus lies on the recontextualization and revaluation of the unloved fieldstones from the agricultural lands of the Waldviertel. Stone becomes mask and shell, a "Steintlitz" (stone-face), the petrification of time—sedimented, decayed, and transformed—carried as a precious object of research or floating weightlessly through the depths of black space.
Among the countless observations of nature drawn from the inexhaustible resource of our world, my attention falls upon stone. Stone bears, holds, (de)cays, and allows for a deeper gaze into time. The measure of time becomes the measure of stone, condensing through proximity into an active counterpart—a dance partner in the wake of an introspective relationship. Longing becomes arrival; memory reshapes the past—sediment of chance and weathering.
Stone as mountain and substrate, as found object and relic, dictates the path, while time limps behind. It is not the stone that carries weight—only gravity determines its direction.