public art

MIRRORED MUSIC – SOCIETY PIECES

GoGo!

Michael Baumgartner & Omid Darvish 

09/10/ – 11/10/2019

curated by Christine Bruckbauer

mirror sculpture by Michael Baumgartner, visual artist
performer: Omid Darvish, singer
sound design: Reza Tavakoli

performances: daily at 8:30 am and 4:30 am

Venue: Hauptbahnhof Wien, main hall, at the entrance from the Südtirolerplatz

Michael Baumgartner © the artist

In order to facilitate the encounter between strangers, Michael Baumgartner has been creating interactive mirror sculptures for some years.

On three days in October 2019 the sculpture “GoGo”! will be placed in the hall of the Hauptbahnhof Wien and Omid Darvish will give a performance by standing in it. The strong voice of the Iranian-Kurdish singer will improvise to the hurrying of the rushing people and the soundscape of the train station. Travellers are invited to approach and step on a little platform behind the performer. Through a little window the spectators’s gaze is directed through a sophisticated array of mirrors, scans the moving body and finally looks into the eyes of the performer. This generates a surprising closeness between two persons, who do not know each other yet.

artists

MICHAEL BAUMGARTNER 

born in Krems an der Donau in 1963, grew up in the Waldviertel, lives and works in Vienna. He graduated in sculpture with Bruno Gironcoli at the Academy of Fine Arts, after studies of architecture, stage setting and film design. Born in Tehran in 1989, Omid Darvish began his musical education at the age of ten. He learned the instrument Tanbur with Yahya Ranaei and classical Iranian vocals with Ali Khodaei, in Vienna he took jazz singing lessons with Martina Petz. In 2017 he founded the ensemble Kurdophone, which brings Kurdish melodies and Western influences into a musical unity.

OMID DARVISH 

Born in Tehran in 1989, Omid Darvish began his musical education at the age of ten. 

He learned the instrument Tanbur with Yahya Ranaei and classical Iranian vocals with Ali Khodaei, in Vienna he took jazz singing lessons with Martina Petz. In 2017 he founded the ensemble Kurdophone, which brings Kurdish melodies and Western influences into a musical unity.

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