The Danube Streaming Show intents to make an artistic contribution to the revival of communication and exchange along the Danube. Therefore, a team of women artists is travelling by ship from Vienna to the Black Sea, exploring which ways of transport, are still possible.

But even more important, W.A.S. wants to connect with artists in all these countries, to learn about their work, and their points of view regarding their own homeland:
We invite all artists along the Danube to participate and produce a „souvenir“ - some small art work expressing their own feelings about their country. This works will be part of an exhibition and catalogue.
Therefore we ask all artists along the Danube to send us small art works to the following address: Kunstverein W.A.S., Ludwig Benedekgasse 19, A-8054 Graz, Austria.

Performance on Tour

Historical background is the story of „Frederic Mistral“, a historic steam ship, which was used by emperor Franz Joseph incognito for his private Danube-trips. During the Second World War it served as swimming commando-center for the partisan leader and later chief Tito. The actual owner Franz Scheriau discovered the ship some years ago in Romania, and brought it back from there to Vienna with the tug „Josef“.
As first step of the „Danube Streaming Show“, W.A.S. invited the audience to roundtrips on the Danube. The ship „Josef“ manoeuvred on the Danube channel for 1 day. The passengers moved in the electronic stream-ship as consumers as well as actors. The ship, symbolizing the connecting link between the countries along the Danube, the connection between the old and the new, history and present time was electronically „measured“: pick ups and microphones recorded the sounds of the ship and its passengers. The collected sounds were the acoustic basis, the „ground beat“ of the streaming along the Danube at night. The ship served as instrument and stage at the same time. This was the starting point of the real Danube trip of the 3 womyn artists.

Partner along the Danube:

"TASTE 0-20", Kunstprojekt am Strassenstück Praterstrasse, Gertrude Moser-Wagner.
Performance, Soundfischen und Radiosendung: W.A.S. und W.A.S. Support Team - cym, Cloed Baumgartner, Anita Hofer, Reni Hofmüller, reas, mit Dank an Kapitän Franz Scheriau.
Soundstreaming mit Buryzone Bratislava (nada.sk), ParaRadio Budapest (Peter Notari, Andras Szonyi, Gaspar Benedek). Live in ORF Kunstradio und Radio Helsinki.
Bratislava: Buryzone - Maria Riskova und Ana Filip (www.buryzone.sk)
Budapest: Folyamat Galeria - Adele Eisenstein, Edit Szilvasy
Novi Sad: „Prostor“, in Kollaboration mit „Saint Danube Magazine for literature and culture along the Danube“ - Daniela Stojkovich.
Beograd: University of Arts - Marijana Cvetkovic, Stevan Vukovic
Vidin: Art Gallery Vidin - Bogdan Aleksandrov
Russe: Art Gallery Russe - Elena Stepanovna Velikova, Univ. Veliko Tirnovo, Intern. Elias Canetti Gesellsch., BRIE - Penka Angelova

Sponsored by: Kulturamt der Stadt Graz, KulturKontakt Austria, BKA Kunst, Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest and Beograd, Frauenreferat der Stadt Graz, DDSG, mur.at, ORF Kunstradio, Radio Helsinki. Thanks to Mirjana Peitler and Stevan Vukovic.