Austrian artist Rainer Prohaska’s installation at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York is a kitchen, fragmented into modules which are spread throughout the multi-level gallery space of the building, and linked together with a system of pipes. On May 16, at the opening reception for Our Haus, the Forum’s 10-year anniversary exhibit, the installation was used for an interactive performance, where the audience used the modules to prepare - and then eat - a simple meal. All tasks and movements for this automated process were determined by exact graphic instructions. The site-specific Cuisine à tous les étages will be on view daily, from 10AM to 6PM through August 26, 2012. (Photos by Laura Suppan)
ACFNY
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York hosts over 200 free events per year, including exhibitions, concerts, lectures, panel discussions, dance and performance. The architectural landmark building also houses a state-of-the-art library with over 10,000 books.
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More preview install-shots of Our Haus.
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2012-05-11
Preview install-shots of Rainer Prohaska’s piece Cuisine à tous les étages, currently being installed in the ACFNY gallery for Our Haus. The work celebrates the narrow vertical structure of the building with a multi-level kitchen that runs through the center of the gallery. For the exhibition opening on May 16, he is developing a performance where you can help him prepare (and eat) food in the installation!
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Dorian Concept will play a set at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York next Friday, May 18, as part of the 10-year anniversary series!
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2012-05-08
![Our Haus, the Austrian Cultural Forum’s 10th anniversary exhibition, opens May 16, 2012.
5PM - 7PM ARTIST TALK & PERFORMANCE BY RAINER PROHASKA(RSVP REQ’D - Please visit acfny.org or call 212.319.5300 x 46)with participating artists Sabine Bitter, Judith Fegerl, Mathias Kessler, Fabian Patzak, Rainer Prohaska, and curator Amanda McDonald Crowley.
7PM – 9PM OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTISTS AND THE CURATOR(NO RSVP REQ’D)
[Illustration by Rainer Prohaska, Poster design by Ahoystudios.com]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3pwq7OPjQ1qlldfdo1_500.png)
Our Haus, the Austrian Cultural Forum’s 10th anniversary exhibition, opens May 16, 2012.
5PM - 7PM ARTIST TALK & PERFORMANCE BY RAINER PROHASKA
(RSVP REQ’D - Please visit acfny.org or call 212.319.5300 x 46)
with participating artists Sabine Bitter, Judith Fegerl, Mathias Kessler, Fabian Patzak, Rainer Prohaska, and curator Amanda McDonald Crowley.7PM – 9PM OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTISTS AND THE CURATOR
(NO RSVP REQ’D)[Illustration by Rainer Prohaska, Poster design by Ahoystudios.com]
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2012-05-03
Anna Mendelssohn: Cry Me A River
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2012-04-24
Klangforum Wien in performance at the ACFNY on April 19, 2012, as part of the ACFNY’s 10-year anniversary series. The concert featured the world premiere of Agata Zubel’s composition What is the Word, a poem by Samuel Beckett which she set to music.
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The 2012 CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival starts today, April 24.
Since 2004, the annual CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival Linz has devoted its program to idiosyncratic, contemporary, and socio-political auteur cinema from Europe.
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2012-04-23
Michael Strasser, Wall to Wall - Untitled (Form 1) (2010)
In his photographic work and installations, the Vienna-based artist Michael Strasser (*1977) examines the relationship between space and body as a result of diverse contexts and ascribed identities. In the framework of the exhibition in the Factory at Donaufestival (April 28 - May 5, 2012), the artist contextualizes the physical body between sculpture and architecture while decoding the design and dwelling function of space.
