ABOVE THE RIVER AND UNDER THE SKY
Music

© Sebastian Wiesflecker

Trio Peter Madsen (Piano), Adrian Mears (Posaune / Didgeridoo), Claudio Spieler (Percussion)

As always at INN SITU, the concert format is a specially developed response to the exhibition: The focus this time has been conceived by the pianist Peter Madsen, who lived and worked in Vorarlberg for many years.

Peter Madsen

©Gerhard Klocker

Now living in Toronto, the pianist is one of the most influential musicians in Vorarlberg. He taught at the Jazzseminar Dornbirn for twenty years. His most famous student to date is David Helbock. In Vorarlberg he founded the Collective of Improvising Artists (CIA) and developed numerous series such as his live silent movie soundtracks. Peter has toured and continues to tour the world with such performers as Stan Getz, Mario Pavone, or Kiyoto Fujiwara, to name a few. He has released more than 140 albums to date and composed over 500 pieces.

For this project, the New York-born musician developed a special format: He projects selected images from the exhibition into the concert hall. Each of the three musicians plays a solo to two images, while the other two musicians respond with improvisations. The two main elements in Maciej Markowicz’s work provide the framework for the musical interpretation: the bridge as the vantage point and the continuous flow of the water.

Adrian Mears

He was named best Australian Trombonist and his band Best Australian Jazz Group. He composes for various jazz ensembles, chamber orchestras, choirs, a classical brass ensemble as well as for documentary films. Adrian has worked with such legends as McCoy Tyner, Klaus Doldinger, Kenny Wheeler, Carla Bley, or Steve Swallow. From 2000 to 2009, he was a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra. In addition to his concert performances with the Adrian Mears Electric Trio, he is also a professor at the Jazzcampus Basel.

Claudio Spieler

©Salar Baygan

He studied classical percussion in Austria, continuing his training in Hakim Ludin’s master class from 2004 to 2012. Today Claudio’s diverse musical style ranges from South Indian music and flamenco to Afro-Cuban music, jazz, pop, and Islandic folk music. In concerts and on concert tours with his current formations, including the Austrian Syndicate, Tevana, and the Groovetrotters, he graces international stages at the Reykjavik Jazz Festival, Flamenco Biënnale Nederland, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, or at the Wiener Konzerthaus, among others.

 

ABOVE THE RIVER AND UNDER THE SKY
Dialogue

Jam session for a kayaker, journalist, art historian, and jazz trio

Each speaker selects a work from the exhibition and discusses it before and with the audience. An open dialogue between various perspectives, with music and inspired by Maciej Markowicz.

Marieke Vogt

Marieke Vogt

©Cat Ekkelboom-White

Marieke Vogt has been kayaking since she was a child. She came to Innsbruck in 2011 to study meteorology, has worked for many years at the Source to Sea kayak school in Natters, co-founded WET, and has been active in water protection for more than a decade. The organization «WET – Wildwasser erhalten Tirol» (Protect Tyrol’s Whitewater) has been working to safeguard the rivers and streams of Tyrol since 2015. Originally founded by kayakers, WET has meanwhile grown into a recognized environmental organization.

Candice M. Hamelin

©Ulrich Wüst

Candice M. Hamelin is a Berlin-based art historian and curator whose work focuses on photography and its histories. As the artistic director of the Stiftung Reinbeckhallen Sammlung für Gegenwartskunst, she is in charge of the institution’s exhibitions, publications, and collection development. She is the author of the essay on Maciej Markowicz’s work contained in this exhibition catalogue.

Florian Gasser

©David Payer

Florian Gasser grew up in the Pradl quarter of Innsbruck. He studied political science at the University of Innsbruck and history at the University of Perugia. He started working as a journalist as a student and is now the head of the Vienna office of the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. In addition, he is one of the hosts of the podcast «Servus. Grüezi. Hallo.»

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