For the Sake of Mobility

A festival whose remit includes concerts of New Music, lectures and an exhibition on ‘Poesie’ (Poetry).
The festival, which will take place in 2009 under the motto ‘Notizen, Ränder, Nomaden’ (Jottings, Borders, Nomads), will not only include several different areas of art but also several venues: the artists’ association MAERZ, the StifterHaus, the company headquarters of HMH GmbH in the Südpark and the Botanical Gardens. Mobility will be in evidence not only in individual contributions but also in the three countries that will be specially featured: Switzerland, Hungary and France. Michèle Métail and Louis Roquin from Lasalle, Péter Esterházy from Budapest and Jürg Laederach from Basel, to name just a few, will see to that. And so will artists from other countries, such as the Japanese- German author Yoko Tawada or the Upper Austrian composer Peter Ablinger. A retrospective of the versatile ‘poet’ Georg Jappe will form a kind of frame to hold the festival together.
The public is invited to accept the challenge inherent in ‘poetry’ in a wider sense of the word and to devote some thoughts to the business of sending poetic signals from Linz.

Poetical processes
In 2009 the biennial poetry festival FOR THE SAKE OF MOBILITY will take place for the third time. It takes as its basis a very generous definition of poetry in the sense of the original ‘poiesis’, a creative process of making, producing, and getting others to see the point of the finished product. Great store will be set not only by individual performances, but also by meetings and dialogue.

Saturday, 18th April 2009, 3 p.m.
Final concert at the HMH assembly hall, Im Südpark in Linz

Louis Roquin (FR): Priemière of a „Fanfare“ (untitled)

Annette Schmucki (CH): "fünfstimmig hüpfende"

Mathias Spahlinger (DE): "128 erfüllte augenblicke systematisch geordnet, variabel zu spielen"

Peter Ablinger (AT): from "Voices and Piano"

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Idea / Concept: Christian Steinbacher
In cooperation with Künstlervereinigung MAERZ and StifterHaus (OÖ Kultur), supported by Pro Helvetia and Collegium Hungaricum

Musicians:Hsin-Huei Huang: Piano, Heinz-Peter Linshalm: Clarinet, Judith Ramerstorfer: Soprano, Roland Schueler: Violoncello, Petra Stump: Clarinet, Berndt Thurner: Drums, Stefan Thurner: Tenor-Trombone, Peter Weitzer: Trumpet

Louis Roquin

Peter Ablinger
(Photo: Siegrid Ablinger)

Künstlervereinigung MAERZ