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Interview - Peter Paul Kainrath

P.P.Kainrath at Brunnenburg - AB

Now that transart04 is over, what is your evaluation of this edition? Will there be also 05? Are you already thinking of possible artists?

transart04 was a marvelous surprise for us; at the beginning we targeted spectacular sites and enjoyed the advantageous fact that we could introduce what is new, our contemporary in an unusual context, as industrial warehouses and garages are. At the 4^th edition the audience already knew the formula of transart, and if people arrived in such a great quantity, it means that they came to the appointments because they knew they would find new contents characterized by high quality.

We obviously hope we will be able to carry out our work also in the next years – the potential of transart is enormous, and regarding ideas, we have plenty. It is our wish that the competent assessors will grant us the possibility of counting on a triennial support. It would greatly ease our work besides allowing us for a further amelioration, seen that some projects need at least two or three years of preparation.

Among the many appointments, was there maybe one that surprised you? In the sense that you expected something different?

I was amazed in discovering how well pure contemporary music was greeted. We started out with a multimedia concept offering several “entrance doors” to contemporary music. This year we tried to offer also projects with only contemporary music - without any contamination, the chosen artists were Gubaidulina, Sciarrino and Globokar, and the response was excellent.

I have to remember the collaboration granted by the Merano Music Weeks who have actively taken part in the evening with Globokar. And this is a further evidence of how important a collaborative spirit is, among cultural organizers, local or not. I am thinking of the various memberships with MART, the Civic Gallery of Trento, and the Stadtkomitee in Brunico.

Which was for you the performance that best succeeded?

It is difficult to say, since the events cannot be compared one with the other. The opening of transart, which was also the debut of Windkraft Sudtirol, project aiming to continue the great tradition of the local wind instruments with projects of contemporary music at an international level, and the closing evening at the New Theater of Bolzano with the Prelojcaj Ballet together with Granular Synthesis showed how forceful, rich, and involving contemporary art can be.

I am asking you as an artistic director, a musician, and a composer, are there any particularly interesting artistic tendencies shared by the arts in general?

If I focalized in this moment on an artistic tendency, I am sure that already within this evening it would be overcome by another one in some part of the world. And by this I do not want to say that it is all relative – all is obviously relative, and the concept of an aim in a qualitative sense has lost some of its strength. I’d rather talk of positions, clearly formulated, not rigid, and open to a dialogue; this is what I see as development and cultural opening.