Underground City 21 Vienna (2009 – 2011) was developed to record snapshots, utopias and potentials in real and imaginary urban networks and to manifest their structures of communication and activities in installative and performative sculptures. The idea of public space, in all its sociocultural and political dimensions, as well as the imaginative borderlines between upper and under ground was discussed as part of a process of discourse within the fields of art.
Thomas J. Jelinek
1964 born in Stockholm. Curator, Stage director, dramaturge, multidisciplinary artist.
Artistic director of NOMAD.theatre and LABfactory. Founding member and dramaturge of Liquid Loft
Co-founder and artistic director of MESSING-network (1990-2002)
2000-2008 chairman of IG-Kultur Vienna
Created various performances, theatre projects, video and space installations, music/performances and has worked in television productions, architectural projects and as a curator. As a curator he has a special interest in transdisziplinarity and cross border projects also at the cutting edge between arts and science. He realized a number of international cooperations and east-west connecting transdisciplinary art projects and festivals as: TRANSART - festival in Croatia (since 2000) or Vienna – Bratislava exchange etc. Contetxtual European projects as: LOGBOOK (Berlin 1993), CAMP-project (A/D/NL/SLO) etc. He is also working on projects in public space and development of urban open spaces.
One focus of his artistic work is on experimental-spaces and topics like the construction processes of so called reality, developed out of perception and communication, and human social behaviour, resulting in installations of contextual spaces and conceptional communication scopes. Thus interventions in public space and production of discourse zones as theatrical processes as well as stage-rooms and light concepts for theatre and art spaces are part of his practical work. In this context he also realized a number of performances, installations, stage-spaces and light concepts for theatre, dance-projects and performance.
As a stage director he realized performance, opera and theatre projects in public space and various theatre-venues in Europe and has worked as a dramaturge on performance and dance productions. He was joint founder and leader of MESSING network. From 2000-2008 he was chairman of IG Kultur Vienna (association of independent artists and cultural organisations/Vienna), founder of NOMAD theatre (2000) and the LABfactory (2003 in Vienna), where he is artistic director. He is Co-Founder, dramaturgic director of Liquid Loft (founding member with Chris Haring, Andreas Berger, Stephanie Cumming). He has been teaching in specific transdisciplinary settings as for example as guest professor at Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam/NL), in 2006/2007.
Awards: 1. Theater-award by Donaufestival (Krems/ A)1998, for Johnny got his Gun“ (Dalton Trumbo ORF Kunststückepreis „Best Short“ for „Dantes Inferno“ 2003
with Liquid Loft: Golden Lion for “Best Performance” at the 2007 Biennale in Venice,
drama-awards: Szczecin (PL), Biennale-Lyon (F) a.o.
Artistic director of NOMAD.theatre and LABfactory. Founding member and dramaturge of Liquid Loft
Co-founder and artistic director of MESSING-network (1990-2002)
2000-2008 chairman of IG-Kultur Vienna
Created various performances, theatre projects, video and space installations, music/performances and has worked in television productions, architectural projects and as a curator. As a curator he has a special interest in transdisziplinarity and cross border projects also at the cutting edge between arts and science. He realized a number of international cooperations and east-west connecting transdisciplinary art projects and festivals as: TRANSART - festival in Croatia (since 2000) or Vienna – Bratislava exchange etc. Contetxtual European projects as: LOGBOOK (Berlin 1993), CAMP-project (A/D/NL/SLO) etc. He is also working on projects in public space and development of urban open spaces.
One focus of his artistic work is on experimental-spaces and topics like the construction processes of so called reality, developed out of perception and communication, and human social behaviour, resulting in installations of contextual spaces and conceptional communication scopes. Thus interventions in public space and production of discourse zones as theatrical processes as well as stage-rooms and light concepts for theatre and art spaces are part of his practical work. In this context he also realized a number of performances, installations, stage-spaces and light concepts for theatre, dance-projects and performance.
As a stage director he realized performance, opera and theatre projects in public space and various theatre-venues in Europe and has worked as a dramaturge on performance and dance productions. He was joint founder and leader of MESSING network. From 2000-2008 he was chairman of IG Kultur Vienna (association of independent artists and cultural organisations/Vienna), founder of NOMAD theatre (2000) and the LABfactory (2003 in Vienna), where he is artistic director. He is Co-Founder, dramaturgic director of Liquid Loft (founding member with Chris Haring, Andreas Berger, Stephanie Cumming). He has been teaching in specific transdisciplinary settings as for example as guest professor at Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam/NL), in 2006/2007.
Awards: 1. Theater-award by Donaufestival (Krems/ A)1998, for Johnny got his Gun“ (Dalton Trumbo ORF Kunststückepreis „Best Short“ for „Dantes Inferno“ 2003
with Liquid Loft: Golden Lion for “Best Performance” at the 2007 Biennale in Venice,
drama-awards: Szczecin (PL), Biennale-Lyon (F) a.o.
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