Schluss mit kunst / Enough of Art
Currently,
various global crises superimpose themselves upon each other, making each other
worse. Climate change, financial crisis, litter pollution, extinction,
starvation here and excess there – catchwords that everybody knows, words that
overwhelm us. Reality overwhelms us. Everybody’s in the know, but what should
be done? What can we do?
The
alternatives are resignation or insurrection. Closing our ears or standing up.
Now. Immediately. We no longer have time for indirect messages. The party is
over.
And
where is there still room for art?
Time is
running out. We can no longer send artistically cryptic, prettied-up or
outlandish messages that will tire out the audience as it puzzles over them.
Maybe art is unnecessary ballast in the resistance against inevitable doom.
Will
“Enough of art! – Stop beating around the bush!” be our battle cry?
Or can
we use art as a way to empower, to gain a new outlook, to experience the
unthinkable and, through surprises and unexpected twists and approaches, train
our brains to think and feel differently and thereby maybe (maybe!) develop the
creative abilities we need to make survival possible?
The performers
clear the stage and make room for plaintext from the Internet, for political
analysis and rousing speeches. They feel with body, heart and soul the
narratives, arguments and demands, let themselves fall into the paradox of
making art in view of global catastrophe and plumb with desperate lust the
deepest corners of political art in its broadest sense. (Editta
Braun Company)
Direction and choreography: Editta
Braun Co-choreography: Juan Dante Murillo
Bobadilla Performers: Tomaž Simatović,
Špela Vodeb, Manel Salas Composition: Thierry
Zaboitzeff Dramaturgy: Gerda
Poschmann-Reichenau Light Design: Thomas
Hinterberger Texts by: Kurt Palm,
Bernhard Jenny, Christian Felber Visuals: explosive
egg, Editta Braun
Organisation: City
of Women; In collaboration with: Dance Theatre Ljubljana.
Supported by: Austrian Cultural Forum, EU Culture.
Price: €7, €5 (students and pensioners upon submission of an identity
card, and self-employed in culture), unemployed free entry.
