Social Muscle Club Vienna

brut
Performance / Party in German and English
imagetanz
{give & take} {community} {will swap haircut for hypnosis}

Everything in the Social Muscle Club on the imagetanz opening night at brut is about giving and taking. The club turns sharing into something exciting, promising a night full of communality.

“You need a new haircut and you offer hypnosis in return; you want to try stage diving and you’re good at tattooing; or you are looking for inspiration but have no trouble making a cake? The Social Muscle Club combines the too-much and the too-little, the game and the benefit, art and nature.” The audience is invited to submit desires and offers, which will complement each other over the course of the evening. Performance-shaped gifts from Vienna artists and the Social Muscle Club will allow for an atmosphere resembling the perfect mix between a Middle-Eastern wedding and a hectic Italian game show.

The Social Muscle Club started off in 2012 as a private happening in a living room in Berlin. It was inspired by a small workers’ club in Sheffield that declared “entertainment and mutual social support” its main purpose. On this basis, the Social Muscle Club has developed participatory events and new forms of gathering. It uses art and performance to connect people with each other, trigger dialogue and overcome social isolation. Following numerous stops in various European cities, this is the first Vienna edition realised with Vienna artists.

 

Credits

With
Sööt/Zeyringer, Anne Juren, Frans Poelstra, Nicholas Hoffman, Claudia Bühlmann, Jacopo Lanteri, Ewa Bankowska, Knut Berger, Amanda Piña, Nora Wenzler, Jesse Inman u. a.

Initiators
Jill Emerson, Jared Gradinger, Till Rothmund, Rahel Savoldelli

Dates & Tickets

March 2016

Thu. 03.03.2016, 20:00
brut 16 € / 12 € / 8 €

brut
Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien

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brut all over Vienna

brut nordwest

accessible

Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)
accessible

March 2025
Stina Fors
SPÖKA
March 2025
imagetanz Opening Party with anxxxious_t (Algoriddim Girls)
March 2025
Cleidy Acevedo & Helena Araújo
Quiet emotions? Free your mental load
March 2025
Theresa Scheinecker / Ray & Katharina Senk / Senki
Move to the Beat – Stay for the Pizza
March 2025
Angela Alves
Resting and quitting as a resistant practice
March 2025
Becoming Allies
March 2025
maria mercedes
shining rose
March 2025
maria mercedes
Touch tour for shining rose
April 2025
Hyeji Nam
MANSHIN
April 2025
Björn Säfsten
Lost Night
April 2025
imagetanz Closing Party with Bicha Boo Collective

studio brut

not accessible

Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Subway: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
not accessible

March 2025
Imani Rameses
First Person Plural
April 2025
Ariadne Randall (feat. McKenzie Wark)
Reverse Cowgirl II: Ride To The Top
April 2025
McKenzie Wark
Reverse Cowgirl

WUK performing arts

barrierefrei

Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna
Subway: U6 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), Tram: 40, 41, 42 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), 5, 33 (Spitalgasse), 37, 38, 40, 41, 42 (Spitalgasse / Währinger Straße)

March 2025
gergő d. farkas
mama

FLUCC Deck

accessible

Praterstern 5, 1020 Wien
U-Bahn: U1, U2 (Praterstern) Tram: O, 5 (Praterstern) Bus: 5B, 80A, 82A (Praterstern) S-Bahn: S2, S3, S4, S7 (Praterstern)
accessible

March 2025
DJ Ipek (female:pressure// Gayhane), zey, Seba Kayan, MALENCIAGA
Unbox the Equinox

Palais Rössl

not accessible

Rienößlgasse 12 / 21, 1040 Vienna
Tram: 1, 62, Badner Bahn (Mayerhofgasse)
not accessible

April 2025
Deborah Hunt
Imagine Masks