Smashed to Pieces
Reading & Performance
Verena Dürr
Text, voice, keyboard, computer
David Hoffmann
Lyrics, voice, guitar
Jakob Kraner
Lyrics, voice, bass, computer
Evelyn Bubich
Curation and moderation
Smashed To Pieces
have named themselves after a lettering by conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner and take a political and poetic stance with their lo-fi arrangements. Ingeborg Bachmann is quoted on their website: "The carnage takes place within the bounds of what is permitted and moral." Sound and text meet here just as radically as poetry and punk.
Verena Dürr is
Author,
writes prose, essays, radio plays and is involved in numerous artistic co-operations. She is a member of the
CLA
and from
AUFCulture
.
David Hoffmann is
Author and performer. He writes prose, essays, poetry and radio plays, translated from Hungarian. His debut book is a volume of poetry:
practising extinction
(
edition exile
2025)
Jakob Kraner writes poetry, prose, essays, translates, sets poems to music and gives literary performances with the duo
Vieider/Kraner
. His book debut was published in 2022 in
Matthes&Seitz
-Imprint
Raw material
, it has the title
Cosmology
.
Salon R. is an artistic format at the interface of literature and music, text and sound, voice and image. "R." is a medium of transmission; in his/her salon, associative spaces are created that make literature accessible in many ways and can be experienced in many layers. The Kleine Ehrbar Saal is an ideal venue for R.
Organised by Podium Wien in co-operation with Ehrbar Hall by C. Bechstein, unterstützt vom Österreichischen Schriftsteller/innenverband and hochroth Wien.
