Saturday, May 4, 2019

“The Happiness Machine” // Klangforum Wien in Hamburg // Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, DE // 20 Women Animate a European Conversation about the Future of the World

• 20:00

• Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, DE

In ten animated films and ten new compositions, women artists of eleven European countries propose an alternative to the prevailing capitalist economic system.

Matthias Meinharter — Tiki Tiki Men
Elizabeth Hobbs/Carola Bauckholt — Die Flunder (2018)
Sven Hartberger
Rebecca Blöcher/Eva Reiter — Lickalike (2018)
Gerald Preinfalk
Eni Brandner/Misato Mochizuki — PANTOPOS (2018/19)
Vera Fischer
Joanna Kożuch/Ying Wang — Music Box (2018)
Andreea Dosa
Samantha Moore/Malin Bång — Bloomers (2018)
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Vera Fischer
Vessela Dantcheva/Electric Indigo — Hierarchy Glitch (2018)
Christoph Walder
Ana Nedeljković/Hanna Hartman — The Happiness Machine (2018)
Mikael Rudolfsson
Susi Jirkuff/Joanna Bailie — Vermessung der Distanz (2018)
Günther Bernhart
Andrea Schneider/Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri — Generator/ Operator (2018)
Andreas Eberle
Michelle Kranot/Iris ter Schiphorst — Suggestion of Least Resistance (2018)
Anders Nyqvist
Rebecca Saunders — Sole (2018)

Klangforum Wien
Musical direction: Konstantia Gourzi
Staging: Jacqueline Kornmüller
Dramaturgy: Peter Wolf
Sound design: Peter Böhm & Markus Urban
Film projection: Martin Repka

The artists on their works:
Happiness Machine – The Movies and the Compositions

Happiness Machine is a project of Klangforum Wien, Musik der Jahrhunderte and Amour Fou Vienna in cooperation with Tricky Women.
Funded by Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Vienna and Federal Chancellery of Austria with special funding from the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and Interfaces/Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
The commissions to Iris ter Schiphorst, Malin Bång, Eva Reiter, Carola Bauckholt and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri are funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.