Malika Fankha
Oxy Moron
A Cyborg Utopia
Malika Fankha’s performance Oxy Moron evolves around the cyborg, a character who evades binary categorisation by uniting humanoid appearance and robotic behaviour. What is real and what is fake? What is male, what is female? What is fiction and what is reality?
INFO: The show on March 10th is followed by an artist talk.
“Resistance is no longer sufficient. We need to turn things upside down, create new contradictions and illegibility.“ – Ch. Schlingensief
Oxy Moron is a play of multiple selves and their constant, seamless shape-shift between fiction and reality, magic and science, present and future. Using the modern day cyborg as a metaphorical narrative that unites both human appearance and machine-like behaviour, the work juggles with stereotypes and challenges different concepts of a perceived norm. Identities, corporealities and social status pass through a precarious transformation between self-empowerment, self-enhancement, self-optimization and self-deformation questioning the significance of the physical and the human in a digital age.
Malika Fankha is a dancer, choreographer, sound poet and DJ. She has collaborated with such artists as Superamas, Tino Sehgal, Maureen Kaegi and Anna Mendelssohn. To devise and present her pieces, she has worked, for example, at brut, Tanzquartier Wien, WUK, the Vienna Dance Festival as well as Tanzhaus Zürich, Art Basel, the Kaaitheater in Brussels and the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm.
Credits
Artistic lead and performance Malika Fankha Make-up, costume and set design Valérie Reding Postgalactical Boots Sabine Aberle, LIEBESD!ENST Music Dark Euphoria feat. AC/BOY Technical direction, Light design David Baumgartner Outside eyes Anna Mendelssohn, Simone Aughterlony, Denice Bourbon Voice training Alex Franz Zehetbauer Movement and acting coaching Asher O’Gorman, Raphael Nicholas Production management mollusca productions
Residency partners Workspacebrussels/Kaaitheater, Campo Gent, Tanzhaus Zürich, Im_flieger Wien, Counterpulse San Francisco.
A co-production by FANKS Productions/Malika Fankha, Tanzhaus Zürich and imagetanz/brut Wien.
With the kind support of the City of Zurich’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Art and Culture Department of the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office, the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Im_flieger Wien, Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art, the Swiss Embassy in Austria, Pro Helvetia, Swissnex San Francisco.
Dates & Tickets
March 2020
Remaining tickets at the box office
Ausverkauft
Ausverkauft
studio brut
Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Info
INFO: The show on March 10th is followed by an artist talk.
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brut nordwest
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Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)
Meeting point: Gasthaus Hansy at Praterstern
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Heinestraße 42 , 1020 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern) / S-Bahn: S1, S2, S3, S4, S7 (Praterstern) / Tram: 5 (Praterstern)
brut at Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien
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Freyung 8, 1010 Vienna
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Rote Bar at Volkstheater
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Arthur-Schnitzler-Platz 1, 1070 Vienna
Subway: U3 (Volkstheater) / Tram: 49 (Volkstheater) / Bus: 48A (Volkstheater)
brut at Sportplatz 1210
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Jedlersdorfer Platz 25, 1210 Vienna
Subway U6 (Florisdorf) / S-Bahn: S1, S2, S3, S4, S7 (Floridsdorf) / Tram: 30, 31 (Brünner Straße / Hanreitergasse) / Bus: 30A, 32A (Toni Fritsch Weg)
studio brut
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Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Subway: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
brut nordwest – rehearsal space
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Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna