Workshop on Music events
Date: January 23rd, 2025
Facilitator: Shilla Strelka
The EM GUIDE project hosts 14 internal workshops: 12 online and 2 in person. These workshops are meant to help the project staff, and occasionally other contributors of the network, to acquire, improve, and exchange skills and knowledge relevant to the participating magazines and/or the network itself.
About the workshop:
The final three workshops in the 12-part series, including this one, are conducted by the project staff with the aim of planning and implementing activities in collaboration with all magazines in the EM GUIDE network. This workshop, led by Shilla Strelka from Struma+Iodine, focused on music events in general, with a specific emphasis on the showcase festival organized collaboratively by the network in Vienna. Participants engaged in discussions on curating artist lineups, selecting suitable venues, and shaping the thematic direction of the event.
About the facilitator:
Shilla Strelka is a festival curator, concert organiser, lecturer and journalist, based in Vienna. She studied digital media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and graduated in theatre, film and media studies, philosophy, art history and German literature. Her curatorial practice focuses on sonic experiments and dissident musical languages. Her research approach revolves around concepts of post-fundamental (sonic) communities and a politics of aesthetics.
Strelka founded the concert series Struma+Iodine in 2012. Since 2015 she is the artistic director and organizer of Unsafe+Sounds Festival. She teaches at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg and irregularly as guest lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She is curating Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche and is part of the Elevate Festival's team of curators in Graz.
The cover picture is a still from the series Samurai Jack season 3 episode 2.