Mutual Aid Orchestra

Ausländer Solar-Punk Music Performance 

Solar-punk music performance brings composition interaction between humans and animals, communicating by reacting to each other's sounds and performing a concert for humans, animals, trees, plants, and all the living organisms residing in Schönbrunn Zoo. Considering sound and music as an interactive method of communication we observe relationships based on the idea of universal language. 

In the long-distance future when humanity comes to an end, a group of entities traveled back to 2021 to warn society about the upcoming fatal faith of the planet. Their mission was to inspire humans to change their lifestyles and to influence social circumstances according to the principles of the philosophy of mutualism. The system of self-organization using mutual aid was still yet to be recognized by humanity as a model of evolution. Appreciation of nature and resistance towards the ruling authority, which continues to destroy the planet till its near end. A group of rebels and de-centralized individuals united as humans, bacteria, sound, plants and animals under the code name “Ausländer” has traveled back in time when the global virus pandemic created new sanctioned regulations. In order to stop the global totalitarian regime, Ausländer has decided to intervene in the uncertain present reality.  

“Ausländer” is used as a deceitful term for a person who is not desirable and who doesn´t belong to the country or nation in which she, he or they resides. “Ausländer” is a dislocated individual who feels restricted socially, politically, and within their everyday life as strangers in their own home. By reappropriating the term, we aim to trigger a semantic change and re-signify the tone embedded in its socio-political context.