For two days and two nights, the young Asian art and music scene from Indonesia, China, Russia, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Germany and Austria will occupy the creative quarter around the Semper Depot (the studio building of the Academy of Fine Arts) with electronic music, advanced pop and visual arts. Top Kino, Café phil, IG Bildende Kunst, Das Möbel and the Asian restaurant Ramien will open their doors to showcase new products of a vibrant and lively Asian art scene. For 48 hours, Gumpendorfer Strasse will become an imaginary Asian neighbourhood where – precisely as in Asia – lots of things will be happening outside, in the street. In addition to stages, galleries, street hairdressers and improvised massage parlours, etc., street food from many regions of Asia can also be sampled. More

Thusday, 21 May / starting 4.30 pm
FILMS BY SHUJI TERAYAMA
3.30 pm / Introduction: Constanze Ruhm, artist (Vienna)
3.45 pm / Lecture: „Shuji Terayama - Ikonoklast und Visionär“, Roland Domenig, Japanese specialist, Vienna
4.30 - 6.40 pm / Den-en ni shisu (Cache-Cache Pastoral: To Die in the Country) Shuji Terayama, Japan 1974, 101 min.
7 - 9.30 pm / Sho-o suteyo, machi-e deyo (Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets) Shuji Terayama, Japan 1971, 138 min
10 – 11.30 pm / Tomato Kecchappu Kôtei (Emperor Tomato Ketchup) Shuji Terayama, Japan 1971, 90 min
Starting 11.30 pm / DJ Constanze Ruhm plays music associated with Shuji Terayama:  A-Musik, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Carmen Maki, Kan Mikami, Akahiro Maruyama, Tenjo Sajiki, J.A. Seazer, Asobi Seksu, Kiyohiko Senba, Toru Takemitsu, Tokyo Kid Brothers, Kazuki Tomokawa, Jun Togawa, Tokyo Kid Brothers and others

For two days and two nights, the young Asian art and music scene from Russia, China, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Germany and Austria will occupy the creative quarter around the Semperdepot (the studio building of the Academy of Fine Arts) with electronic music, advanced pop and visual arts. Top Kino, phil, IG Bildende Kunst, Das Möbel and the Asian restaurants Ramien, ShanghaiTan and Hanil will open their doors to showcase new products of a vibrant and lively Asian art scene. For 48 hours, Gumpendorfer Strasse will become an imaginary Asian neighbourhood with stages, galleries, street food vendors, street hairdressers and 1,000 Chinese lanterns.

“Contemporary Asian history begins with the destruction of colonial spaces”, Berlin-based film curator Shaheen Merali writes. For a young generation of artists, a consequence of this recapturing of cultural spaces is that the struggle against tradition is no longer necessary. “As a result of the experience of neo- and post-colonial transformations, Asian culture – contrary to Western concepts of the present – is a constantly negotiated and renegotiated reality.” The event programme was not developed from the viewpoint of Western curating practice but evolved out of encounters made by Austrian artist and DJ Susanne Rogenhofer aka Sweetsusie on her journeys and complemented by Central Asian experiences of Viennese sound artist Franz Pomassl.