24 July, in the event of bad weather 25 July, Butzensee/Lech

Art of our Times begins this year with an excursion: we're going up into the mountains! A hike amid the breath-taking alpine scenery of Vorarlberg will lead to a concert in the great outdoors. The performance marks the start of the major landscape art project "Horizon Field" by sculptor Antony Gormley, which has been developed in collaboration with the Kunsthaus Bregenz and will be on view in the Vorarlberg mountains from summer 2010 to autumn 2011.

Jorge E. López's work Traumzeit und Traumdeutung ("Dream Time and Dream Interpretation") was conceived as an open-air event in a mountain setting. The venue for this performance will be the shore of the alpine lake Butzensee above the winter sports resort of Lech am Arlberg. There, at an altitude of over 2,000 metres, the participants will hear sounds that seem to be made by nature herself, played by the Zurich-based ensemble Collegium Novum. In his music, López explores the strange and inexhaustible power of nature – an invisible and occasionally threatening force. "My aim has always been to create sound colours and sensory impressions which are not audible in the concert hall," as López has written about the work, which received its premiere in 1997.

The composer was born in Havanna (Cuba) and grew up in the USA but has lived in Austria since 1991. An eternally recurring motif in his oeuvre is his experience of "wild nature". López is an artist who is willing to work in genuinely colossal dimensions and to go to the limits.

Ticket prices and details can be found in the brochure Art of our Times, which will be published in the spring.