Right on the Rim

April 2009 – February 2011

Projects in Right on the Rim

Aufrica

the 2nd Viennese School concert with the outstanding South African musicians Jill Richards, Waldo Alexander and Renette Bouwer performing and Dr. Christan Meyer, director of the Schoenberg Centre, Vienna, giving the introduction.

Lukas Ligeti performing new compositions and improvising with Mpho Molikeng, Lesotho,and Carlo Mombelli, South Africa;

Legends of Culture

Ancient stories from Japan, the Rhine, the Arabian desert and Africa told by Cindy Sampson, the writer and actress, and Prophet JD, the poet and poetry performer, under the trees of Arts on Main
Steve Kwena Mokwena: “A SoundLegacy” expressive paintings of jazz legends
Ryan Areson:“A Diary” or “Untitled”, silkscreen prints (Jill Ross) 2009 (and artist talks)
Red White (Australia)/Cynthia Schwertsik (Austria): “Imitating the Monumental”, a wind-blown installative sculpture in Baltchik, Bulgaria,2009
Monday Blues in the Atrium of Arts on Main, musicians, poets and an art poster competition
report your legends to the salon writers Cindy Sampson and Prophet JD in Right on the Rim

Love – Compassion

art by Mandy Conidaris (water colours), Graeme Williams (photos), Bev Price (jewellery)
Jann Turner reading from her books “Heartland” and “Southern Cross” and discussion on writing about love.
“White Wash” by Cynthia Schwertsik

Hate – War

art by Colleen Albourough, John Muafangejo (Namibia), James de Villiers, Portia Zvavahera (Zimbabwe), Chenjerai Mutasa (Zimbabwe)
Talk and Discussion: John Stewart, a Zimbabwean political activist and theorist speaks about what we can learn from history to solve current problems with violent governments
Movie: THE LARK FARM, 2007 – a gripping movie about the Armenian genocide in 1915, which is still denied by Turkey (2 hrs) – please register under rightonrim@yahoo.de, courtesy the Italian Cultural Institute
Movie: A LONG DARK NIGHT (3 hours in two parts), courtesy the Croatian Embassy, the tale of a young Croatian man through 2nd World War and the beginnings of Communism

Creative Relationships

Frieder DANIELIS (water colours), Susan SALM (music), PROPHET JD (poetry), Walter STACH (photo collage), Marcus NEUSTETTER and 15 South African artists (drawings)

Lives

Drawings by Sharlene Khan
Movie: KLIMT
Opening and Italian movie: THE VICEROYS
Music on the Move – Polyrhythms & Polysounds (Christos Daskalaskos, Peter Kuthan, Anna Kuthan, Marcus Neustetter, Steven Hobbs
Prophet JD, port from Soweto,produces poems inspired by Walter Stach’s photo collage ‘Johannesburg in my moments’

Beautiful

Photo work by Michael Rathmayer and Kasali (both Austria)
Beautiful Talk: The artist Colleen Alborough and the director of the Market Photo Workshop John Fleetwood introduce a discussion on ‘Beautiful and Art’ in South Africa today.
Architecture Talk:
Eva Egermann and Christina Linortner speak about the ‘Schuettehausproject’, discussing the life and work of the first Austrian female archtect Schuette-Lihotzky.
EKSTASE, movie (1934)with Heddy Lamarr, called the most beautiful woman of her times

Three artistic languages

Artistic work by Shneider (South Africa – Germany), Walter Stach (Austria) and Frieder Danielis (Germany, Austria, Italy)
Digital Metamorphoses by Walter Stach
Football paintings by Walter Stach and Marcus Neustetter (dialogue paintings)
Paintings and philosophical texts by Frieder Danielis
Books on “tales from the rim” available

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