The adventure of Yoli Balulu and his gang of misfits or What’s your story? The premise The semi-famous Viennese experimental director Yoli Balulu decided to stop doing performance art. He is fad-up with the art scene, with its inability to find a large audience and affect a political change. Deep inside him, and please don’t …
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After the End and Before the Beginning A Video Installation Do you sometimes find yourself thinking, after watching a performance or a film, or after finishing a book, where does the story go from here? How does it continue after The End? What happens to the characters you just spent some time with? Did they …
Text by Georges Perec adapted to the stage by Yosi Wanunu The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his identity, and possibly his/her sanity, as he/she tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world, with its rigid hierarchies and hostility to …
The Deadpan Dynamites The Art of the Gag “I do not really think Charlie knows much more about politics, history, or economics than I do. Like myself, he was hit by a make-up towel almost before he was out of diapers.” Buster Keaton Two male performers, not so young, not so skinny, are on stage. …
Photos from The Bruno Kreisky Lookalike episodes 1-3 Working photos, filming the commercials The Bruno Kreisky Lookalike A Sitcom in 10 episodes The Kreisky look-alike theme song Here a man who needs no introduction His face so known and needs no reproduction The only one to bring the country together In rain …
DER WAL DER ÖSTERREICH VERSCHLUCKTE (The Whale that swallowed Austria) Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Moby Dick ride, the Austrian version. In the period just preceding the Second World War, the famous American film director John Huston created a masterpiece based on a book by the same name. One of the film’s stars was …
Limonov A Portrait of a Poet as a Rightwing Leader May 12 – 14 and May 16 – 18, 2018, TAG Theater, Vienna. A portrait of the punk, the Russian Forrest Gump, the poet, the professional revolutionary, the ultra-nationalist party leader. Limonov is the true story of the decline and fall of a man who once …
Moby Dick – The Quest for the Austrian Whale To mark the end of our work on the cycle ‘The New-Old,’ and to celebrate 20 years toxic dreams, we embarked on a large scale project, blending Herman Melville’s Moby Dick with what we termed, for a lack of a better name, the search for …
(photos:christine miess) Home of the not so brave Stories from apartment number 12 Home of the not so brave is the second instalment of our multi-year project, recounting the story of a single apartment. Before we get into a description of the second instalment, we would like to say some words …
Morton Feldman Says It is often thought that John Cage was the most significant composer to loose our Western ears from traditional modes of listening. However, it was Morton Feldman who, through pieces lasting anywhere between one and a half minutes and one and a half hours, first revealed a delight in the momentary presence …