HOW DO YOU WORK? Conversations, drawings and responses (Vienna) by Adelheid Mers

Preliminarily in 2012, and formally in 2013/14 , I asked experimental musicians and composers in Vienna "How do you work?". Based on those conversations, I created two drawings of what I call each artist's "epistemic engine", or the way I understood them to work. One drawing was a free form exploration, and the other mapped my notes onto the "Fractal 3-line Matrix", a diagrammatic instrument that emerged in my work in 2011, after the informal round of conversations. On sharing the drawings with them, artists were invited to produce a response in a medium of their choice. This project was supported by the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

Doris Ingrisch

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Doris Ingrisch, a gender studies scholar at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (MDW), invited me to conduct the conversations that drive this project.

We met in 2012, when I began to conduct conversations with artists, writers, social scientists, arts administrators and musicians about their work while in residence at AIR Krems and lecturing at the Institute for Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM) at MDW. Doris introduced me to sound artist Andrea Sodomka and, on a subsequent visit, to bassoonist Maria Gstättner, who then became instrumental in arranging introductions to the musicians participating here.

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