For the performance and theatre group “zweite liga für kunst und kultur”: “Das Wetter ist schön”, “stand by, your man”, 2016 – flyer; “der letzte kuss des schweinehunds”, 2017 – poster.
For IG Kultur: “Matryoshka Effect”, 2016 – poster
DAS WAS BLEIBT
THAT WHAT REMAINS
Performance at Haus Steiermark, Bruxelles, on December 1, 2016.
Based on protocols, drawn and written at 3 theatre plays by “zweite liga für kunst und kultur” (description below).
Triple projection and spoken text, performed by Iris Kasper, Elli Saubach and Edda Strobl.
PROTOKOLLE PRODUZIEREN – PRODUCING PROTOCOLS
Drawing during three theatre plays by “zweite liga of kunst und kultur“
In 2012, I was invited to draw at a three-days-staging/happening “Tagung der Kommune” (something like “Conference of the Commune”), in the function of a recorder of events. The happening was about writing a play in the moment of acting, which meant discussing the ideals of a community, political action and “the true (right) life in the wrong film” – and recording this. Every participant, every visitor and passer-by was instantly part of the play. It took place at Forum Stadtpark, Graz.
In summer 2013, I recorded by drawing all of the performances of the play “chronik der vorbeilaufenden ereignisse” (chronicle of events passing by). On the one hand, the setting was on a street, the Annenstrasse in Graz, on the other hand in a store, where the audience sat and a second layer of the play happened. Aspects of “passing by”, literally and in the sense of extinction, was the essence of the play.
In autumn 2013, the play “der druckauftrag” (the print job) was performed at the Volkshaus, Graz. It was about the difficulties of an office staff writing an e-mail together with the concern “It is over” and with the content of closing down the office. Topics like refusal and self-empowerment were treated.
REDUCE – ESCAPE – FORGET
Contribution to the exhibition “Ohne Start kein Ziel” (Without Start No Goal) at kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag, 2016, curated by Sabina Hörtner. The exhibition dealt with different aspects of travelling.
“Reduce – Escape – Forget” is an 8-page comic, on sheets of 70 x 100 cm, about crossing the border from Mexico to Guatemala in 1991. Civil war was going on in Guatemala, but the protagonists had other problems …
Within the exhibition I did the workshop “The box and a secret” with gifted young people from the region.
more about the exhibition (in german): kunsthaus muerz
DEPRESSION 1930
A WALL FOR MARIA
A dance-performance by Veza Maria Fernandez Ramos und Christina Maria Lederhaas (Sámaheydi Sisters), shown at the Kunsthaus Graz in January 2016.
Costumes by Karin Heide and Edda Strobl.
Fotos of the performance by Gudrun Becker
Fotos at Schrottwolf by Clemens Nestroy
Poster/Flyer/… #2
JOHNNY, CHERRIES, THE SNAKE
Episode #3, is part of an ongoing story collection about being on the road. Published as Kabinett-Heft #32, 2015, in collaboration with Helmut Kaplan.
The episode is some sort of a love story against the environmental background of rural labor.
Book presentation and exhibition (2 paintings and a small b/w print in red light related to the story) at the KabinettPASSAGE, MQ21, Vienna on a cold evening in October, 2015.
DAS SCHÖNSTE BLUMENDORF
“The village with the most beautiful flowers”, an installation for the exhibition “Topping out ceremony” at “Schaumbad – freies Atelierhaus Graz”, 2014.
At a certain time while building studio rooms into the big hall at Schaumbad¹, the construction looked like a street in a village.
In rural areas of Austria, a competition – which village is most beautifully decorated with flowers – is fought in summertime. This custom was the triggering point …
The installation consisted of 8 à 80 cm long cases full of flowers arranged along the corridor, measuring the 40 m exit path to the new emergency door. The perspective decrease in size made the length of 40m imaginable.
¹ here you find a foto how the hall looked when it was empty.
CRESCENDO IN DER KADENZ
A collage of drawings, created at the play “KRAMER AGAINST KRAMER stand-up-comedy-für-den-kommenden-aufstand” (stand-up-comedy-for-the-coming-revolt/rebellion) by the theatre- and performance group “zweite liga für kunst und kultur”, 2014. A play about staying lying down or standing up for action.
Published in the magazine “Malmö”, Vienna.
ALLE MEINE TIERE
“All my Animals” was an installation in the exhibition “Am Südrand” (At The Southern Edge), Schaumbad – freies Atelierhaus for steirischer herbst, 2014.
The Schaumbad is located in the industrial area of southern Graz, the exhibition was about reasearching the area.
The installation ” All my Animals” was about wildlife in the exhibition space (a 1100m2 huge hall where a bottling plant once was situated). With the help of sausages and sensor cameras the nightlife of mice could be depicted.