café gerstl to go

exhibition

"café gerstl to go"

parallel to their online class "café gerstl" augusta laar and judith nika pfeifer create a photo exhibition with poetic texts and corresponding paraphernalia: cafés from vienna to tucson, from the inside and outside, details and snapshots in a dialogue of poetry and photography. the texts move from the images, the images move towards the texts.

exhibition opening with augusta laar & judith nika pfeifer on 20 april 2018 at 7 p.m.

plus: interim presentation online-class "café gerstl"
with poets from the class & augusta laar and judith nika pfeifer

online class until 16 may 2018
wanted: coffeehouse poems inspired by the austrian poet elfriede gerstl
infos & free participation (just register): >> www.sfd.at/gerstl (in german)

exhibition from 23 april until 31 august 2018

venue: schule für dichtung / vienna poetry school
mariahilfer straße 88a/stiege III/7, 1070 vienna
mo-fr t: +43-1-522 35 26

exhibition set-up: paul horn

augusta laar

artist, lyricist, musician. exhibitions, projects and performances.
once student of nick cave's class at sfd: "the lovesong and how to write one" (1998). together with ernst molden she taught the legendary "brothel"-class "orpheus in eurydike – poetry and singing from the half- and other world" (sfd in association with wiener festwochen 2006). numerous cooperations with sfd, amongst others during the "schamrock"-festival of women poets founded by augusta laar (since 2012). in 2016, she represented sfd in medellín at the 20th anniversary of the escuela internacional de poesía with a class titled "see me - hear me. city street life poetry" (together with kalle laar)
www.poeticarts.de
www.schamrock.org
recent publications:
"planet 9", poems, fragments, instructions", berger verlag a-horn 2017, "summt dem fall", poems, edition art science, a-st. wolfgang 2016, "99 love poems", poems and records, gedok munich 2012
recent exhibitions:
"stand by me", galerie der künstler, munich 2017; "the reconstruction of poetry", latvian center for contemporary art, riga 2016


judith nika pfeifer

*1975. writer, perfomance and language artist, engages in subversive practices, sense in senselessness/sin in sinlessness, applied idiocy resarch, pleasure-for-all-(simulations)concepts. publishes poetry, prose, scenic and radio texts. transmedia art projects and cooperations in vienna, berlin, edinburgh, montreal, rome.
reinhard-priessnitz-prize 2012, artist residency of the cities of munich and paliano (ita).
judith nika pfeifer once took part in the legendary "brothel"-class by augusta laar & ernst molden and since then has been involved in a number of artistic projects of the vienna poetry school. 2017 she held the class "idiocy & resistance" (together with jörg-lukas matthaei).
judith nika pfeifer lives in vienna and berlin.
www.judithpfeifer.com
publications:
"nichts ist wichtiger. ding kleines du". poems. mitter 2012
"zwischen". prose. czernin 2014
"violante". novella. czernin 2017
and publications in anthologies and periodicals.