Events
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY PETER KUTIN: PARA BELLUM
22 MAY 2026
As part of Vienna Digital Cultures 2026, composer Peter Kutin transformed the Tank Hall of the Museum of Military History into a haunting audiovisual experience. Watch the full performance, out now on YouTube.
With Para Bellum, precisely choreographed LED lights sweep across the hall's massive historic tanks, reducing them to flickering silhouettes—their shadows stretching and dissolving across the walls while ever-shifting soundscapes reshape the space around the visitor. The effect is disorienting and dreamlike: a shadowy noise ballet, an obscure marche funèbre.
But the work carries a deeper charge. For decades, war in Central Europe felt like something frozen in time, fit only for museum display—and yet Para Bellum quietly unsettles that assumption, using light and sound to challenge our perception of a future we thought we had already left behind.
Following recent works including Unstable Horizon / Warface (2024) and Skyfall (2026), as well as his score for the documentary Militantropos, which premiered at Cannes in 2025, the installation marks a renewed engagement by Kutin with the omnipresent topic of war.
Peter Kutin works at the intersection of sound, composition and expanded artistic practice. He studied composition and sound-related practices in Austria and has since developed a multidisciplinary oeuvre that spans experimental music, film, installation, kinetic sculpture and live performance. Kutin’s work explores the interdependence of auditory and visual perception, often unfolding in site-specific or performative contexts. He has received numerous international awards, including the Prix Ars Electronica (Golden Nica, 2019), and has been commissioned by institutions such as Wien Modern, WDR and the Black Page Orchestra. He is currently Artist in Residence at WIELS, Brussels (2026). His debut feature film Sound of Musick [sic!] is in development.