Nora Jacobs
HOW DO YOU
What can a cowboy do when there are no more cows? In HOW DO YOU, a white woman plays a man – straight, white – in a cowboy costume having a go at being a drag queen. Cowboy Cowdy is a professional full-time idler, always busy doing nothing. He enters the stage with his two horses, but they both stand in his way just by also doing nothing. Can a revolution arise from doing nothing?
The Western man has always been a phenomenon of popular culture. In a way representing the United States, he has shaped America’s image in Western Europe. While Cowboy Cowdy in HOW DO YOU does stare into vast nothingness, he is not the type of hero that Hollywood and the entertainment industry like to portray. This cowboy is a professional full-time idler, always busy doing nothing. He enters the stage with his horses, Severin(e) and Alex. But the horses stand in his way just by also doing nothing. What is it that horses do? And what is it that Cowboy Cowdy doesn’t do? Cowboy Cowdy is a character that humorously fails. If doing nothing contains doing, what can this doing nothing achieve that the doing can’t? Can a revolution arise from doing nothing? And how many people are needed for it to work?
Nora Jacobs works with performance and video art in implementing large-scale installation artworks. She received her diploma with honours from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2017. Before, she acquired an acting degree at the Norwegian Theatre Academy (with some time abroad at the Zurich University of the Arts as part of the Erasmus Programme) and attended the Academy of Circus Arts. Various residencies took her to Rote Fabrik (Zurich), the ImPulsTanz festival, a cargo boat crossing the Baltic Sea, and the Sahara Desert. Nora Jacobs is a co-founder of queer-feminist group HEATHERS.
The performance on March 06th will be followed by an artist talk, moderated by Hyo Lee.
Info: There will be an ÖGS (Austrian Sign Language) translation at the showings of HOW DO YOU .
Credits
Created by and featuring Nora Jacobs Outside Eye Barbara Kraus Video Shooting Production Larissa Huber ÖGS Accompaniment Pam Eden
With the kind support of the the BMKÖS Performing Arts.
Links & Social
Filmarchiv Austria
Dates & Tickets
The performance on March 06th will be followed by an artist talk, moderated by Hyo Lee.
There will be an ÖGS (Austrian Sign Language) translation at the showings of HOW DO YOU .
March 2023
Choose your price €22 / €16 / €11
Choose your price €22 / €16 / €11 / *Following the performance on March 6th, an artist talk takes place.
Choose your price €22 / €16 / €11
brut at Metro Kinokulturhaus
Johannesgasse 4, 1010 Vienna
Downloads
imagetanz 2023 Programmfolder (PDF)
