Alumni in Residence: Conny Frischauf

Conny Frischauf is a sound and visual artist based in Vienna, Austria. They studied transdisciplinary arts (TransArts) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, regularly perform, sound, conduct workshops and lectures, repair and build audio equipment, score films and performances, host, listen, write and walk. Since 2024, they have been running Sedimente, a platform that slowly inter-layers through text, sound, space, and more.

Conny Frischauf blends situated, sound, visual practice and research while focusing on spatial entanglements and related textures. Experimentally exploring exclusionary politics of language and narration, Conny is interested in decentralized forms of relationship, encounter, and resistance. Repeatedly and throughout different media such as sound, sculpture, text, installation, and video, they are interested in threshold areas, areas of transition, the invisible, and the unspeakable.

Their transdisciplinary work dwells between situated practice, research, archival, and artistic production, with a focus on sound and listening practices to understand complex conditions of place/space through non-linear approaches.

During their residency Conny will work on the long term work Dwin City which deals with the Danube river and its environments between Vienna and Bratislava. This work is about collective memory, heritage, and the spaces that are inhabited in between scientific or (art) historical narratives. Driven by the question of how to gain, produce, and share the notions of knowing, not knowing, being, and acknowledging, Conny presented a first sonic outcome in summer 2025 in Vienna. Within their residency at AIL, Conny will expand Dwin City into an installative-performative body of work by adding video and architectural elements.