ROSA PISTOLA / EDNA MARTINEZ / MTASA
Rosa Pistola is fully committed to reggaeton, but remains underground and subversive at the same time. With her mixes, she euphorizes crowds at festivals, clubs and the Boiler Room. The perfect complement are DJ and curator Edna Martinez and Mtasa.
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WOXOW
DJ Woxow explores Black Music and its roots, moving from Funk, Jazz to Electronic Global Beats and Tropical Bass.
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DIE P (LIVE) / FIGUB BRAZLEVIC / PHEKT / D.B.H
Rapper Die P likes to talk straight and doesn't mince words, for example about the fakeness and lack of skills of some of her colleagues in German hip hop. With her deep lyrics and a musical balancing act between Boombap, 90s HipHop, R&B and contemporary sounds, she has become one of the most stable live acts in HipHop. Afterwards, instrumental hip hop producer Figub Brazlevic will lay down perfect beats and revive the Golden Era.
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TALK WITH LISANDRO ALONSO
Highly precise in his view of people and their mysteriousness, of the interplay of space and body, and minimalistically clear in the elaboration of the mythologies and spaces of possibility in which his characters move, director Lisandro Alonso has found a distinctive staging style. (Reviewed in detail in Viennale Texture #6). In a masterclass he talks about his work.
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TEREZA HOSSA
Tereza Hossa is a cabaret artist and veterinarian. She lives happily and contentedly in the matriarchy and eagerly awaits what the soundtrack will sound like. In her own words: "With me it will be unpredictable - like driving constantly Tagada."
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LARS EIDINGER
At the last two Viennales, the musical evenings of actor and not-so-neo-DJ Lars Eidinger caused mass euphoria on the dancefloor. All the greater is the joy that he will be back again this year and take us on a trip through various genres with his anti-disco.
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ALASKA AL TROPICAL
Alaska Al Tropical goes in search of never heard sounds and obscure beats and travels the globe with his record box.
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BJÖRN WAGNER
The musician from Hamburg is the driving force behind the funk band Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, which is also represented with its legendary 50 Cent cover on the film ANATOMY OF A FALL. His DjJSets promise deep funk and rare grooves from the Caribbean, psychedelic soul and B-movie block party vibes.
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FILMMAKERS AT THE TURNTABLES
Sudabeh Mortezai, Lilith Stangenberg und Ted Fendt – Filmmakers of this year's Viennale let us participate in their musical inspirations.
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PETER NACHTNEBEL
As co-operator of the Fluc, Peter Nachtnebel has helped shape Vienna's music scene for 20 years. He puts on vintage vinyl from the 70s and 80s and takes you musically from Addis Ababa to Lagos, from Nairobi to Bamako and back. His mixes include favorite genres Afrobeat, Afrodisco, Benga and Ethio Jazz. Get on up!
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TALK WITH CATHERINE BREILLAT
Because of her provocative and explicit approach to relationships, sexuality and gender dynamics, French director, writer and screenwriter Catherine Breillat is well known - and controversial. In addition to human desires, Breillat's films always address power relations and existential questions of identity. As part of the Viennale, she talks about her vision and her work, with a special focus on her screenwriting.
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DISCO ARABESQUO / LUMA / QAMAREEN AKA LUNA ALMOUSLI / ABU NAIMA
Behind Disco Arabesquo is Moataz Rageb – DJ, sociologist and passionate collector of Arabic music cassettes and vinyls. He specializes in the crossover sound between Arab music and the West, and portrays the accompanying search for identity of a creative generation in the diaspora. His guest is British-Iraqi DJ Luma, who brings electronic music from the SWANA region to life with her radio show Habibti Nation Underground.
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ANDAKA
Andaka is a DJ and designer from Linz, whose musical spectrum includes a variety of different genres and worldwide grooves. With her well curated sets she invites you to dance and expand your musical horizon in bars, clubs and festivals.
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BODY OF EXPECTATIONS
Von Yorgos Lanthimos’ POOR THINGS bis zu Lauren Moss’ BIRTH/ REBIRTH, von João Canijos MAL VIVER und Amat Escalantes PERDIDOS EN LA NOCHE werden männliche Tropen feministisch interpretiert und Erwartungen an weibliche Figuren unterwandert. Reproduktion, Sexualität, Macht liegen in weiblicher Hand und Körper. Jennifer Reeder (PERPETRATOR), Claire Simon (NOTRE CORPS) und Martha Mechow (DIE ÄNGSTLICHE VERKEHRSTEILNEHMERIN) diskutieren neue Anforderungen.
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KAMPIRE / ROZALY / DALIA AHMED
DJ Kampire is one of East Africa's most exciting musical protagonists. She is a core member of the queer Ugandan Nyege Nyege collective and tours clubs and festivals worldwide with her vibrant, bass-heavy sets. Also on the bill is DJ Rozaly from Curacao, who is dedicated to exploring the music of the former Dutch Caribbean colonies, placing it in a cultural context while deconstructing it.
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JJ WHITEFIELD
Guitarist and producer JJ Whitefield (Poets of Rhythm) is a legend for connoisseurs of funk, hip-hop and afro, mixing up several subgenres at the same time. With releases on Ninja Tune Mo'Wax and Daptone, he is one of the most recognized underground musicians from Germany.
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STEFANIE SARGNAGEL
Stefanie Sargnagel was already dubbed the "most important Austrian author of the 21st century" by VICE in 2013. With her radically subjective works about life, her comments and observations on social media, and her caricatures for the weekly FALTER, she is shaping at least one generation – what does the soundtrack sound like?
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EFDEMIN / NEWA / ALPHATRACKS / SCHOOL
Efdemin aka Philipp Sollmann is a composer, producer and DJ known for his own approach to house and techno. As a longtime Berghain resident, remixer, label owner and sound artist, he proves this time and again. For his Vienna comeback he invites friends and companions to support him: Georgian techno representative Newa, producer Alphatracks, who playfully combines avant-garde and trance techno, and the collective school.
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TALK WITH RADU JUDE
The new Romanian radicalism, this is how one could describe the works of Radu Jude. In brilliant combinations of narrative techniques, historical and literary allusions, absurd jokes and, most recently, the ubiquitous presence of TikTok, Jude analyzes economic colonialism, the communist past and the neoliberal present. A conversation about screenwriting and his style, which he describes himself as a "Bucharest architectural style."
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TEREZA
DJ and radio host Tereza conquers the dance-loving party crowd across Europe. She stands for groovy underground dance music, but also always tells exciting stories with her sets and thus feels at home in the most diverse contexts - whether at the jazz festival or at the club demolition.
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COMETA SÓNICO
The band members of Cosmica Bandida run the radio show El Cometa Sónica together, where they deepen their musical practice. In the process, the Bavarian remnants of Cosmic and 70s Disco fuse with Dark Cumbia and psychedelic sounds from Latin America. Warm-up for the live set at the Viennale closing.
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HANNAXDIZZY
Hanna, mastermind of the Impulstanz music program, celebrates eclecticism together with Dizzy and brings a belly-load of genres with her, in which often unheard pearls and rarities can be found. Plus lots of beats and bass.
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COSMICA BANDIDA (LIVE) / TEREZA / NSASI / DJ DIAMOND
The Colombian-German duo Cosmica Bandida combines analog synthesizers and space disco moods in their live sets, inspired by traditional cumbia, Peruvian chicha, electronic beats and modular sounds. For the end of Viennale's party line-up, there's reinforcement from DJ and radio host Tereza, whose always groovy and uplifting dance mixes, paired with her hip-hop background, have a personal signature. Last but not least, DJ Diamond pushes all the tempo limits.