Januar 2025
Die Kolonialstaaten schafften es in der frühen Neuzeit mit Schiffen bis Amerika und zum West-Pazifik, erbeuteten Gold in Südamerika, Keramik aus Chin…
30. Januar 2025
Die Kunst der Selbstvermarktung
Warum sie oft scheitert – und die Karriere stagniert
26. Januar 2025
Neue Musik chinesischer Top-Komponisten im Wiener Konzerthaus
Dieses Event vom 20. Oktober 2024 wird in die Wiener Konzertgeschichte eingehen. Das Konzert „Chinas Klänge der Gegenwart hören“ mit Uraufführungen n…
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Dieses Event vom 20. Oktober 2024 wird in die Wiener Konzertgeschichte eingehen. Das Konzert „Chinas Klänge der Gegenwart hören“ mit Uraufführungen neuer Orchesterwerke von Kompositionslehrern des Central Conservatory of Music aus Peking unter der Leitung von YU Feng darf als historischer Meilenstein in der Rezeption chinesischer Musik in der Musikhauptstadt Wien gelten. Für alle an „Außereuropäischer Musik“ Interessierten und natürlich für die in Wien lebenden Chinesinnen und Chinesen war es ein „Pflichtkonzert“. Um reine Unterhaltung und bloß um einen „netten Abend“ ging es dabei allerdings nicht. Die sechs uraufgeführten Werke – sie entstanden alle heuer - waren hoch expressiv, sprich dissonant, und forderten gehörig das Publikum. JIA Guoping „Guan Canghai“ Das Konzert beginnt mit einem Paukenschlag der großen Trommel, der in eine stark dissonante Klangfläche aller Orchestergruppen übergeht. Die Symphonische Dichtung von JIA Guoping trägt den programmatischen Titel „Blick auf das Meer“.
11. Januar 2025
Classical Viennese queues
Classical Viennese queues Standing in a queue, you never know who is behind and in front of you. Each individual in itself is its own little univer…
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Classical Viennese queues Standing in a queue, you never know who is behind and in front of you. Each individual in itself is its own little universe to be explored. As I see it from a Cultural and Social Anthropologist‘s perspective, opposed to the individual we have the notion that some phenomena occur with a certain probability in our surroundings, which inscribe and repeat themselves in belief patterns, behavioral codes, institutions and other modes of daily life and life cycles. This might be the closest thing I can offer as a definition of the word „culture“, and I do that very carefully and very aware of the fact that this definition is unable to reflect its entirety. T his probability could also be described as an overall feeling, like the background radiation of space we know of, but never feel, as we see it as a given. Meaning, we take things for granted and expect a certain reaction from our opposites – we make a prognosis of anticipated behavior. Never before have I ever been so
6. Januar 2025
Visibility, perception and hypotheses
Visibility, perception and hypotheses Making assumptions based on the visibility of something is like searching for atoms with the naked eye. Do not…
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Visibility, perception and hypotheses Making assumptions based on the visibility of something is like searching for atoms with the naked eye. Do not misunderstand; there is a case to be made for people's need to be visible, particularly in the age of social media. Success or failure may depend on one's visibility. Being recognized both personally and socially is crucial. However, be perceived as what? We choose very carefully how we show ourselves to the outside world because we care about how we are seen. C. G. Jung, a famous scholar of Sigmund Freud, who founded the “school of analytical psychology” compared it with a mask we wear; we show a „persona“ to the world. According to the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, people adapt a certain „habitus“ - they behave and dress according to how they want to be perceived. So, what we see at first glance is just a starting point for making sense of the world. There is a difference between visibility, perception and the hypotheses we build.
6. Januar 2025
Resilience and starting fresh
Juli 2024 Resilience and starting fresh As someone whose family story predestined me to detest hierarchies, i encounter everyone as eqal and see the…
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Juli 2024 Resilience and starting fresh As someone whose family story predestined me to detest hierarchies, i encounter everyone as eqal and see the intrinsic value in every person regardless of their status . As someone who appreciates storie s, i am rich, as the people i meet in a professional setting as a Job Coach in a government-financed project, by chance unwrap the most precious gifts by telling me stories about their lives: How they came here, whom they miss, values with which they grew up and what goals they want to reach. I get tiny glimpses into the lives of people who have gone through drastic changes. Many people who are sent to our project have foreign citizenship and went through the Asylum procedure. In many cases, war caused them to leave their country of origin and sometimes a shift in career perspective makes them change their job-goals. Having some sort of obstacle in their way is nothing they are not accustomed to. I work on Cvs of people who have years of professional expe
6. Januar 2025