As always at INN SITU, the especially developed concert format in artistic resonance with the current exhibition: this time the musical focus was conceived by Manuel de Roo, a composer and guitarist who was born in the Netherlands and grew up in Tyrol. He studied at the Tyrolean State Conservatory and the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, is a member of “œnm . œsterreichisches ensemble fuer neue music”, and has performed as a guest soloist with various ensembles, including Klangforum Wien or the Bamberg Symphony. He has been commissioned to compose works for Klangspuren Schwaz, the Theater Heidelberg, and the Salzburg Biennale.

Manuel de Roo on the evening’s dramaturgy: “The incredible sense of calm that the selected photographs radiate inspired me to create a moving, musical texture. The opposite of this tranquility would be rotor blades, which are either moved by the force of the wind or are themselves intended to move a body. To me, the selection of twelve images, each with its own very specific justification, correlates directly with the idea of twelve-tone music in which each tone has its own strong justification.”

©Manuel de Roo

The concert program comprises the following composers and works:
Manuel de Roo: Rotor Suite
Igor Stravinsky: Three Pieces for solo clarinet
John Cage: In a Landscape for solo harp
Leo Brouwer: Elogio de la Danza for solo guitar
Claude Debussy: Syrinx for solo flute

Performed by: Manuel de Roo, guitar and synthesizer; Katharina Kubatta, harp; Roberto Gander, clarinets and Michael Cede, flutes.

Each of the speakers chooses a picture from the exhibition and discusses it with the artist before an audience. An open dialogue between various perspectives, with music and inspired by the exhibition.
Jam session for a photojournalist, a visual studies specialist, an estate manager, and a guitarist. Come early for a tour through the exhibition from 6 to 6:30.

Helena Lea Manhartsberger

©Manhartsberger

She is a Vienna-based freelance photographer and multimedia journalist who works internationally. Born in Innsbruck, she studied International Development in Vienna and photography in Aarhus and Yogyakarta. In her work she deals mainly with social issues such as sexuality and identity, migration, armed conflicts, and social movements. She has published in Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, GEO, the British Journal of Photography, and the Financial Times, among others.

Petra Missomelius

©Petra Missomelius

She is a media scholar who researches and teaches in the Department of Media, Society and Communication at the University of Innsbruck. The emphasis of her work is on media theory, image culture and media practices, body and technology theories, media culture, and science/education.

Kurt Kaindl

©Kurt Kaindl

He is a co-founder of FOTOHOF Salzburg, whose archive houses Gerti Deutsch’s estate. As a lecturer he has taught the history and theory of press photography at the University of Salzburg, the University of Munich, and Georgia State University in Atlanta, to name just a few. He curates exhibitions and has published numerous works about the history of photography in Austria, e.g. on Inge Morath, Gerti Deutsch, or Edith Tudor-Hart. A comprehensive body of art-photographic work with publications, some in collaboration with the writer Karl-Markus Gauß.

Manuel de Roo, guitar

©Manuel de Roo

In the INN SITU dialogue he responds to the exchange of the experts. Manuel de Roo is a composer and guitarist, who studied in Innsbruck and at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Since 1997, he has been regularly asked to play with various ensembles, including the Tyrolean State Theater, the Salzburg State Theater, and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Concert tours have included such events as the Salzburg Festival or most recently, along with his chamber music partner Angela Isidora Leal Rojas, the DiabelliSommer festival in Mattsee.