PW LIVE: In Living Daylight
A day of performance curated by PW-Magazine

The summer solstice on 21 June marks not only the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but also the longest – and therefore brightest – day of the year. Throughout PW LIVE: In Living Daylight, a programme of performances lasting several hours, curated by PW-Magazine, will unfold as the light changes. From morning until early evening, gestures, texts and sounds by Vienna-based artists of different generations will take shape between Karlsplatz and the Museumsquartier.

At the heart of the event lies the question of what it means to move through time together – on a day when attention wanders, intensifies and then disperses once more. In Living Daylight refers to life itself – the totality of what a body perceives, absorbs and carries: sound, movement, language, silence. The programme conceives of the day as a shared space of experience that can be entered and traversed.

11:00 Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz

The programme opens with a series of compositions by the artist Paul Ebhart, created as part of an ongoing collaboration with Viennese performance artists. This is followed by a dialogue between choreography and selected piano works, in which Alix Eynaudi and Han-Gyeol Lie transform the Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz into a resonant space, exploring a poetics of defiance. Subsequently, Frank Wasser presents a new performance that employs methods of method acting to question the construction of national identity, whilst critically engaging with stereotypes of Irish culture and his own entanglement within them.

• 11:00 Paul Ebhart
• 12:00 Alix Eynaudi & Han-Gyeol Lie
• 13:00 Frank Wasser

17:00 Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier 

The afternoon begins with a concert by the painter and musician Evelyn Plaschg whose soundscapes are woven from voice, flute, synthesisers and field recordings. The duo Maria Mercedes (Julia Müllner & Camilla Schielin) offers a glimpse into new material, with their pop-culture-inspired choreographies playfully navigating between extravagant gestures and abstraction. Bryony Dawson’s five-person performance Reader explores the reading body as a site of contradictory desires, where diverse texts converge and notions of the individual self dissolve. Finally, the artist Sainkho Namtchylak will perform vocal improvisations across the spaces of Kunsthalle Wien’s Museumsquartier building. In her Tuvan throat singing, she weaves this traditional technique with experimental artistic practices, thus bringing the PW LIVE: In Living Daylight programme to a close.

• 17:00 Evelyn Plaschg
• 18:00 Maria Mercedes (Julia Müllner & Camilla Schielin)
• 19:00 Bryony Dawson
• 20:00 Sainkho Namtchylak

Curated by Luca Büchler, Lewon Heublein, Paula Thomaka (PW-Magazine)

The performances are free with a valid exhibition ticket (€ 14 / reduced € 11). Limited capacity.

Artists

• Bryony Dawson
• Paul Ebhart
• Alix Eynaudi
• Han-Gyeol Lie
• Maria Mercedes (Julia Müllner & Camilla Schielin)
• Sainkho Namtchylak
• Evelyn Plaschg
• Frank Wasser

Bryony Dawson

Bryony Dawson is a writer, curator and sometimes-artist based in Vienna. She admits that the various readings, screenings and events she organises are essentially a ploy to get people she loves and admires to gather in one place at a time of her choosing. Her creative and critical writing has been featured in PW Magazine, Plus Magazine, Frieze, émergent magazine, Motor Dance Journal, Corridor8 and on Montez Press Radio. 

Paul Ebhart

Paul Ebhart is an artist, DJ and sound technician based in Vienna. He studied electroacoustic and experimental music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Active as a DJ since his teens, he works across performance, sculpture, live concerts and media production. His practice explores sound as archived, transformative and performative material, ranging from noise performances and ambient productions to party organizing and immersive spatial sound environments. As a sound technician he focuses on the social and spatial dimensions of listening.

Alix Eynaudi

Alix Eynaudi is a choreographer, performer, researcher and educator based in Vienna. Trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet School and P.A.R.T.S. Brussels, she performed with Rosas before developing an independent practice in expanded choreography – at the intersections of movement, writing, rest and language. Her work – presented at Tanzquartier Wien, Kaaitheater, Tate Modern, Kampnagel, Festival d'Automne and the Biennale of Sydney – spans choreographic works, publications and collective study formats. She initiates the research platform Institute of Rest(s) and was PI of the FWF PEEK project Noa & Snow.

Han-Gyeol Lie

Han-Gyeol Lie is a pianist based in Vienna and senior lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Her repertoire focuses on the late works of Schubert and Chopin. She has collaborated with institutions and festivals including the Austrian Film Museum, Wien Modern, Tanzquartier Wien, Grazer Kunstverein, the Vienna Folk Song Society and the Baltic Triennial. Rooted in musical practice and Adorno’s aesthetics, her work engages music, art and critical theory. Together with philosopher Gabriele Geml, she founded akut – Association for Aesthetics and Applied Cultural Theory and is co-editor of JAS – Journal of Adorno Studies. Her recent project turf + surf, with sound artist Paul Kotal, centres on collective authorship and new forms of musical reproduction.

Maria Mercedes (Julia Müllner & Camilla Schielin)

Maria Mercedes are a duo around Julia Maria Müllner and Camilla Mercedes Schielin. They are both living and working in Vienna. In their work, they encounter pop-culture-inspired choreographies and transpose them into bizarre settings. Their interest lies in fluctuating encounters between audience and performance at various locations (roofs, corridors, in gardens or on stages). Their works have been shown at Tanzquartier Wien, brut Wien, WUK, COCOTO Gallery Kyoto, Impulstanz, Kunstverein Kevin and Haus.Wien, since autumn 2020.

Sainkho Namtchylak

Sainkho Namtchylak is a groundbreaking vocalist, composer and poet from Tuva (Southern Siberia), renowned for her exceptional 4-7 octave vocal range and mastery of traditional overtone singing combined with avant-garde and free jazz improvisation. With a career spanning over four decades, she has developed a unique artistic language that bridges Siberian roots with contemporary global music. She is a prolific recording artist, collaborator and performer across Europe and Asia, also active as a vocal coach, writer and visual artist.

Evelyn Plaschg

Evelyn Plaschg is a fine artist and musician based in Vienna. She creates immersive sound performances that blend tenor recorder, voice and electronic synths with field recordings. Rhythms might begin to run, one meets another, then strikes beside. Not to pin down what was composed, as performer, she watches herself or waits for her cue: voice shifts between layered melodies and spoken inserts. Sound draws from industrial textures, baroque canon, folk, ambient, noise and psychedelic. Plaschg did performances at Emily Harvey Foundation NYC; Hyperreality Festival (both 2025); Lo+Behold, Tanzquartier Wien (2024); Unsafe+Sounds Festival (2023); Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (2021); Belvedere 21 (2019); Salzburger Kunstverein (2018), amongst others. 

Frank Wasser

Frank Wasser is an Irish artist and writer whose work engages with infrastructural critique, working class labour, identity and the unstated conventions of contemporary art. Wasser lectures in Fine Art and Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and completed a DPhil in Fine Art at the University of Oxford in 2025. His work has been exhibited at Tate Britain (London) and Salzburger Kunstverein, and is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. In April 2026 he was awarded the Archivorum Publication Prize at Miart (Milan). Wasser has upcoming projects at the Grazer Kunstverein and Askeaton Contemporary Arts.