Jonathan Ka vonSeiten

Jonathan Ka vonSeiten // Nightshifts und Momente am Rande der Nacht // Tresengedanken im Anblick des Morgengrauens. // Wiener Seele, Barfly Hearts. // Wir leben. Wir haben. Wir spülen es runter. [email protected] vonSeiten auf Facebook vonSeiten auf Instagram

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The Cosmic Dead

Live Drawing at Concert, Crayons and Sweat on A2 Cardboard, Flucc Vienna, 2026

Whenever the Cosmic Dead from Scotland come to town, it liquifies earth like the Ship Which Sails Over Land and Sea and as an Eternal Champion's fever dream. Jumping like humpbacks in their bow, crawling alongside like burying beetles, our molecules are shattered as soon as the wall of sound does its tsunamiesque arrival. We are stardust. Slowly dissolving in the darkness, only lit by dim, dying suns and the stroboscopic cascades of stage light's supernovae. We are cosmic. The trance captivates everyone, a whole room of moving bodies, bending, bowing, breaking apart. Don't forget to breathe. Don't stop. Don't stop! Bones are protesting, and eardrums are humming, but don't stop. That's the sound of eternity. That's what vibrates deep down in the fibers of the cosmos between nebulas and stars. This is the dark matter. The search is over, the results are in. We are dead.

Show by Dazed and Confused The Cosmic Dead - Space Rock from Scotland Date: 26. May 2026 Venue: FLUCC Support: Liquid Earth

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Vienna Nightlife Portraits - When the nighthawks emerge from their lairs and their songs are heard throughout the night, I spread my wings, join their flocks, and draw them in their natural habitat. Pencil ornithology.

It's so nice how it makes people happy to be surprised and get an artwork sticker handed over; it is my way to spread a smile. Here are some from @retropartyvienna in @theloftvienna, #CafeAnno, and from @chelsea_vienna - and if you are around next time, be invited to ask to get one! Find me at the bar. That's where I nest.

Graphite and Color Pencils on Stickers, Vienna, 2026

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The Dopelord

We all shouted willingly our chorus, and Dopelord summoned the legions of hell upon us. Demons, the crawling chaos, visions of lust, the princes of the nine realms riding on their hellish rabbits - all formed in the dense illuminated fog, blasted by an unholy smoke machine into a cellar closer to the heart of the Earth. Behold! Behold! The Dopelord! Escape, Escape! Sweat was our sacrifice, spilled beer and drinks on the pentacle of our own shadows, heads banging, feet twitching, until suddenly I realized, we are the sacrifice! We are the sweat, we are the fog, and the bubbling beer brewed deep in the abyss! But noooo, it was no peril! We became the Dopelord, part of a body of amorphous doom and just a brick in a stoner wall of sound. We praise, we praise, legions of hell. Possess what is there; do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law. Love under will.

Dopelord, Little Hole Filled, Kerbmaldarr | Painting with Acrylic Paint, Crayons, Watercolor, Beer, Spit, Cigarette Ash on A2 Cardboard, Escape Metalcorner Vienna, 2026 See it full on https://www.vonSeiten.com

On Stage also Little Hole Filled and Kerbmaldarr! - I carried that one around for a looong time until it, after layer and layer of paint and stuff, finally got finished today. Thanks to Cafe Anno for providing a place to paint all the time along.

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Artemis II

Three - Two - Artemis II started up into the sky some days ago, and mankind is returning to the Moon. In Metalab Vienna, people who care deeply for space, the universe, and have their brains extending into the cosmos with mental wires and beams, gathered to watch the live stream of the rocket launch along with some drinks and snacks. One - my drawing pencil moves frenetically with the growing excitement, and everyone was holding their bottles as if they were lifelines and talismans to appraise the fiery ghosts of the exhaust flames - And Lift Off! To the Moon!

NASA Live Stream Watchparty, Artemis II from Vienna's Metalab Hacker Space | Live Drawing with Beer, Watercolors, Acrylic Paint, a little Floor Dirt, and Pencil on A4 Cardboard

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Dance Dance Boom Boom

Some weekends from last year and this year condensed in one large A2 artwork, the Kramladen Techno crowd does dance dance and the beats go boom boom, and me in the corner scratching the Fridays' souls onto cardboard while spilling beer and shaking along in strobo laser light beams. That's entertainment. See ya there crazy beat lovers!

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Pencil, crayons, and spilled beer on A2 cardboard, Vienna 2025/26

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Red Moonshine Moving

Vollmondnacht Party Fledermaus Vienna | Live Drawing with Acrylic Paint, Strawberry Shots, Dirt from the Floor, and Pencil on A4 Cardboard | See it full on www.vonSeiten.com

Sometimes I become a bat and follow the full moon in the opposite direction downstairs, perhaps to avoid the light or simply because the underground of the Fledermaus club in Vienna opens its winged arms to hug you in loud music, bloody strawberry shots, and flashbacks.

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Dragged Into Bliss

Ingredients: Pencil, Red Wine, Cigarette Ash, and Acrylic Paint on Cardboard, A4

And there it was again - a full two days drag into some different state of mind, down the stairs two levels and a hall full of sound, psych, and paradise. And all shadows became snakes, faces melted into a common mass of like-mindedness, and I swam through the blissful dance-induced sweat and tears of joy. Jolly good, roger roger. Sail ho, and until next year, when we are again summoned.

Dragged Into Bliss is a yearly festival by dazed_and_confused_shows in viperroomvienna - carve it in your calendars around end of a year!

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Cafe Anno Ghost Hour | Live Drawing and Painting on A2 Cardboard at Cafe Anno Bar, Vienna | Crayons, Beer, Glow Makeup, Glitter, Watercolor, and Pencil on A2 Cardboard | See it in high resolution @ www.vonSeiten.com

This one started already in 2025 with drawing a moment in the old and wonderful Cafe Anno, a night bar in Vienna. People sitting, talking, and recharging on their drinking needs under gloomy lights while time flies through the ghost hour. Two of them standing in the center of the room, getting closer to each other slowly, sip by sip. I carried the rolled cardboard with me into the new year, through Silvester, and then back to the place, painting the new year in watercolor, but with beer instead of water. Meanwhile, a party glitter box exploded in my art bag, and a friendly girl gave me some special makeup pen to draw in. It's all effect. We are there.

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Into the Realm - Castle Rat at Arena, Vienna

Live Drawing A2 at Arena Wien Open Air Concert | Crayons, Some Spilled Blood, Red Wine, Beer, Cigarette Ash, Dirt from the Stage, and Pencil on A2 Cardboard - Full at https://www.vonseiten.com/drawings/2025/into-the-realm-castle-rat-at-arena-vienna-doom-metal

When there was still a sun in the sky, Castle Rat defended the Realm at the Arena, Vienna, and in the front row there was me as a rodent minion of the Rat Queen, nibbling down on every moment of that intercosmic journey. With the stakes getting higher and higher, it was time to chant and draw the pencil, holding it like a wand and doing my share to fight back against Lady Rat Death to end all suffering. And also Bum Shelter . And Heavy Lezzers The Cult of Heavy Metal Lesbians/DJ Team. What could a rat want more? Show by: Roadtrip To Outta Space About Castle Rat: "Castle Rat is led by the Rat Queen, who was anointed her powers after aiding the beast known as the Castle Rat. The Rat Queen is joined by the Count who, just inches from death, was brought back to life by the Plague Doctor whose exact origins are not quite known. The Plague Doctor has significant ties with the all-seeing Druid, who led these beings away from the darkness of the plague. By powers unbeknownst to mere mortals, these four characters were brought together for one purpose – to put an end to Death herself as they venture forth into the realm. All while delivering hard-hitting, enigmatic Doom Metal, of course." -Ghostcult Magazine

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We have been at this point. There is the Saturday time warp in the Loft in Vienna, and it takes you back to some past golden age when the world was only mad in a good way. And since @RetropartyVienna had its 22nd birthday a short while ago, I made a A2 big one this weekend. As a present for the past. See, it is all about time here.

Down the Retro Rabbit Hole | Live Drawing A2 at @theloftvienna & @retropartyvienna | Crayons, Red Wine, Jägermeister, Schnaps, Beer, Cigarette Ash, and Pencil on A2 Cardboard | www.vonSeiten.com

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Dimmu Bongir (Norway)

Live Painting at Arena, Vienna with Red Wine, Cigarette Ash, Acrylic Paint, some Schnaps and Beer, and Pencil on 20x20cm Canvas | See it full on www.vonSeiten.com

First there was our grandiose @bum_shelter playing. And then Dimmu Bongir from Norway took the stage, sharing their transylvanian munchies, pagan rips, and mindless headbanging to take all who were ready into the eternal darkness of grinning, ritual sacrifices, and great fun. I took the bait. The witch indeed was stoned, and I was her heavy-riff pleasure slave. I tortured my ears. And I would do it all again.

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Techno Green Man | Live Drawing at Kramladen Vienna with Crayons, Leftover Drinks, Beer, Cigarette Ash, and Pencil on A4 Cardboard | See it full on www.vonSeiten.com

Right after the Metal Dropdown in Cafe Carina, the Kramladen became the host of all the Metalheads, shaking their manes along the beats in the green light strobes and laser beams. Complimentary Coexistence. Shake bang rave on.

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The Masked Menagerie | Fledermaus Halloween

Party @cabaretfledermaus | Live Drawing with Crayons, Beer, Jägermeister, and Pencil on A4 Cardboard | See it full on https://www.vonSeiten.com

In between the pages of a drawing pad, this one hid well until now. On Halloween 2024, we dwelt into Cabaret Fledermaus in Vienna, and there a menagerie of creatures, mimes, and monsters waved their extremities to the sound of heavy rock music. Oh the scenery, all a carnival.

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Ghosts of Amnesia (Unknown Concert at some unknown Cellar) | Pencil and Crayons on A4 Sticker | Full on https://www.vonSeiten.com

I wish I would remember — it could be Goth Night in Down Under, or it could be another thing at Weberknecht… or something else. The memory has faded, and only Ghosts remain.

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Newroz! | UNBOX THE EQUINOX | Live Drawing, 21st March 2025 | Flucc, Vienna | Crayons, Red Wine, Acrylic Paint, and Pencil on A4 Cardboard | www.vonSeiten.com

"Unbox The Equinox kicks off the spring season in a celebration of effervescent encounters, deep reflection and visceral sonic catharsis. The hosts @sebakayan & @malikafankha, together with their guests @liminalz_ & @djipek will transform the dancefloor into a place that is at times euphoric, rebellious, hedonistic and phantasmic encouraging alternative corporealities, temporalities and frolic multilogues." - from the event description

I stumbled in after a concert in Wanne, and was taken away for the rest of the night. Light flashes, amazing people, and a circus of sounds all coming together to celebrate a New Day, fluctuating in hearts and minds. Newroz pîroz be!

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Of Kings and Villains | Live Concert @LoopWien | Pencil, Crayons, Beer, Cigarette Ash, Red Wine, Coffee, Vinegar, and Dirt on A4 Sticker | Loop, Vienna 2025 | See it full on www.vonSeiten.com

We praised all good and evil with the Kings and Villains in a reign of sound, crashing down like tidal waves, flooding the stage and everything was shaky shaky as if gods stomped on dog shit and slipped. Nightshifts lifestyle. Burst me like a puppet. Boom. Loop. Boom.

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1bm Volxlesung

Pencil, Crayons, Beer, Cigarette Ash, and spilled Wine on A4 Sticker | Kulturverein 1bm Einbaumöbel, Vienna 2025 | Full on www.vonSeiten.com In 1bm (aka Einbaumöbel) in Vienna, once a Month an event takes place called "Volxlesung". It is an open stage for all the wordy wizards, text jugglers and letter lovers, reading and presenting their texts or poetry. I was invited to draw it live, and so I did. https://1bm.at/volxlesung/