When a Shell Separates the Penny ...

Performance-Abend des Fachbereich Kunst und Zeit | Medien auf der MQ Summer Stage im MuseumsQuartier.

Die Performance “When a Shell Separates the Penny, Why Won’t a Grain Object Around Sound?” ist eine außergewöhnliche Carte Blanche, die von Studierenden des Fachbereichs Kunst und Zeit | Medien der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien auf der MQ Sommerbühne präsentiert wird. In diesem Rahmen wird eine vielseitige Mischung aus Performances, Interventionen und musikalischen Acts vereint.

The line, they said, appears to be metaphorical or abstract. The meaning might not be immediately obvious without context. A literal interpretation could be, they suggested, that a shell divides or splits a penny (a coin that might have sunken to the bottom of the sea and happened to land on a very sharp seashell). Or the line could express a concept of separation or division, perhaps symbolized by the shell and the penny, and questioning why there isn’t a corresponding reaction or noise from something else, symbolized by the grain object. But they doubted that this was the meaning intended. In their opinion it seemed to be more likely that this was a metaphor, an analogy, or an allegory perhaps? They had a really hard time with the second part on the grain object which they considered to be even more ambiguous. And what exactly is a grain object? Without more context, they said, it is challenging to provide a definitive interpretation. They asked us to provide more context. So we decided to do so.

Supervised von Constanze Ruhm, Marlies Pöschl und Axel Stockburger

Contextgivers are:
Friederike Steinert
Chelsea Amada
Hicran Ergen
Djoana Gueorguieva
Luisali Theisen
Liudmila Anoshenkova
Selin Karaman
Kseniia Nechay
Lila-Zoe Krauss
Vincent Entekhabi
Emma Bayer
Siri Baden
Kristina Cyan
Vivian König
Artem Konevskikh
Buket Özalevli