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23 November 2022
Music & Art. Audiovisual live performance 'Environ Me' by Manu Delago and discussion about music & environment at the art exhibition 'Grow. The Tree in Art' at the Lower Belvedere in Vienna
The exhibition 'Grow. The Tree in Art' (until 8 January 2023) at the Untere Belvedere leads for the exploration of the symbol 'tree' through the history of art, culture, philosophy and metaphysics to contemporary artistic expressions related to nature in the climate crisis. The journey starts literally with Adam and Eve represented by larger than life-sized golden shimmering naked sculptures 'The Damned' by Liza Lou (video insight with 'Grow'-curator Miroslav Haľák), a paraphrase of Masaccio's 15th century painting 'Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden' after they have eaten a fruit from the tree and leads along paintings, videos, installations like the one by Florian Raditsch commemorating the Creek Fire from 2020 in California where around 154,000 acres were burnt. The installation (on view above) shows a mask made from a tree that died in the fire in a coffin-like opened box. In a video, Florian Raditsch speaks about his work.
At the recently announced upcoming special event on 20 December (beginning at 19:00), musician Manu Delago will talk with 'Grow'-curator Miroslav Haľák about his vision of the relationship between music and environment. The percussionist and componist, who lives in London and in the Tyrolean Alps, is known from collaborations with musicians like Björk, Anoushka Shankar, or Ellie Goulding. After the talk, Manu Delago will perform his first audiovisual solo program 'Environ Me', in which electronic beats and sounds from nature merge.
Image: Exhibition view 'GROW. The Tree in Art' at the Lower Belvedere in Vienna, open from 23 September 2022 until 8 January 2023. Photo: © Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna.
In the video below, Manu Delago introduces the audiovisual live performance 'Environ Me':
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