When a shell separates the penny, why won't a grain object around sound?

When a shell separates the penny, why won't a grain object around sound?

Fri 14.06.2024, 19h l MQ Summer Stage, Main Courtyard l Free entry

The performance ‘When a Shell Separates the Penny, Why Won't a Grain Object Around Sound?’ is an extraordinary carte blanche presented by students from the Department of Art and Time | Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna on the MQ Summer Stage. The programme combines an eclectic mix of performances, interventions and musical acts.

The line, they said, appears to be metaphorical or abstract. The meaning might not be immediately obvious without context. A literal interpretation could be, they suggested, that a shell divides or splits a penny (a coin that might have sunken to the bottom of the sea and happened to land on a very sharp seashell). Or the line could express a concept of separation or division, perhaps symbolized by the shell and the penny, and questioning why there isn’t a corresponding reaction or noise from something else, symbolized by the grain object. But they doubted that this was the meaning intended. In their opinion it seemed to be more likely that this was a metaphor, an analogy, or an allegory perhaps? They had a really hard time with the second part on the grain object which they considered to be even more ambiguous. And what exactly is a grain object? Without more context, they said, it is challenging to provide a definitive interpretation. They asked us to provide more context. So we decided to do so.

Supervised by Constanze Ruhm, Marlies Pöschl and Axel Stockburger

Contextgivers are:
Friederike Steinert
Chelsea Amada
Hicran Ergen
Djoana Gueorguieva (Instagram: djoanadjones, Website: www.djoanagueorguieva.com)
Luisali Theisen
Liudmila Anoshenkova (Instagram: lady_lebell, Website: www.anoshenkova.art)
Selin Karaman
Kseniia Nechay (Instagram: Nechay_marchay)
Lila-Zoe Krauss
Vincent Entekhabi (Instagram: vincent_entekhabi, Website: www.vincent.entekhabi.at)
Emma Bayer
Siri Baden (Instagram: siribaden, Website: www.siribaden.com)
Kristina Cyan
Vivian König
Artem Konevskikh (Instagram: aiculedssul)
Buket Özalevli

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