claudia bosse / theatercombinat

21.03.2025 launch and presentation of the publication ‘HAUNTED LANDSCAPE on an unseen wasteland’ by claudia bosse, published with the support of KÖR kunst im öffentlichen raum and stadt wien kultur.  

claudia bosse - HAUNTED LANDSCAPE on an unseen wasteland

this publication is a newspaper with 24 pages, numerous photographs as well as thoughts, methods, performative scores and speculations on the project HAUNTED LANDSCAPE on an unseen wasteland: from the end of august to mid-september 2024, a series of interventions took place on a 2500m2 leftover space behind vienna's main railway station. the unnoticed area became an urban laboratory and was gradually transformed with visual, performative and acoustic interventions. together with participants of the public performance school PPS_extended 2024, 3 interventions with various visual materials and live sounds by musician katharina ernst were created. the publication contains documents, species lists, experiences, notations and scores in the artistic handling of an urban wasteland and the attempt at its sustainable artistic activation. 

»This space in between, seemingly ignored by all city users, simply demanded artistic transformation/attention. I wondered if I could use the terrain and if I could combine two artistic strands there to learn more about the place and draw attention to it. (...) 

the public space in the “haunted landscape/s” series is a laboratory for the physical learning of possible freedom and its structural, social, ecological and architectural boundaries and territories. I propose performative art in public space as an urban experimental arrangement and as a school of consciousness (for oneself, others and the space). 

This opens up a grammar of subversion of normative spatial structures. Moving organisms are tested, for a different ‘ecology of art’, of knowledge and existing resources: artistic or choreographically performative organisms as relational poems that train connections and speculative powers, as imaginations, insights and, above all, physical practices that make it possible to think otherwise. (...) 

as part of HAUNTED LANDSCAPE on an unseen wasteland, the public performance school PPS, as a ‘performative choral corpus’, explores relational conditions and forms of those organisations in which a single element has an influence on the entire system and at the same time on all other elements. It offers a set of conditions that is dependent on and sensitive to each other and only develops its potential in or towards each other. Because every step happens on uneven ground, which is also a habitat for more than just humans. 

This series of interventions is like a drawing exercise in space, leaving traces on the ground and in the memory of those who were part of it or witnessed it.«  

Claudia Bosse 

publication by claudia bosse
with texts by claudia bosse and lucia mauri, magdalena knor, ines rössl, marilies jagsch, eva louisa ostermaier, lou liska, christa zuna-kratk
with photos by eva würdinger, markus gradwohl, claudia bosse
editing magdalena knor
graphic design by 101  

the publication HAUNTED LANDSCAPE on an unseen wasteland was supported by KÖR kunst im öffentlichen raum and stadt wien as part of theatercombinat’s 2022-2025 concept funding programme by stadt wien kultur. 

HAUNTED LADSCAPE on an unseen wasteland - publication launch 

with insects, movement and sounds, we invited visitors to the presentation of our beautiful publication HAUNTED LANDSCAPE on an unseen wasteland on march 21, 2025 at 5:30 pm on the wasteland behind vienna's main railway station. 

as part of the publication presentation, su huber, carla rihl, claudia bosse and lucia mauri gave first insights into the ongoing work on site during a spring ritual, accompanied by music from noid haberl. in addition, dr. thomas zuna-kratky invited to join a speculative insect-tour, which, like the spring ritual, served as an outlook on the upcoming months.

photo: esel.at - Lorenz Seidler