Sara Lanner
WEAVING INFRASTRUCTURES
In WEAVING INFRASTRUCTURES, choreographer Sara Lanner examines the way spaces and infrastructures inform, empower, or restrict us. Based on their highly varying personal backgrounds, three female performers go out searching for answers to the question of where they have encountered infrastructures as spaces of support, protection, or power – and where they show in their personalities. They react to social and ecological crises of the present, and they shed light on matters of care and social equity.
There are so many different ways to make infrastructures. They facilitate or prevent interaction or access to resources. They regulate the lives of individuals, groups, milieus, and nations. They shape their rituals, standards, or laws, creating hierarchies and mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. In WEAVING INFRASTRUCTURES, three women of different backgrounds disrupt surfaces, transforming places, structures, and, by extension, their own stories into new spaces and emotional landscapes while dancing loudly or whispering quietly. The three performers look for social equity in public, personal, and commercial spaces. They make invisible processes visible, and the demonstrate how the power of infrastructures facilitates various environments and gets inscribed into bodies. What happens when personal infrastructure becomes political? When, as in Elon Musk’s Starlink project, satellites orbit Earth, visible on the starlit sky?
The three women take the audience back into their pasts, they travel even to the outer space of the future, to eventually ask how we can subvert social conventions and their power structures to create change? Infrastructure is always about resources and global economies. How do we shape our environment? Who or what profits from that? And how can we achieve the ideal world we have so far only dreamt about?
Sara Lanner is a choreographer and visual artist based in Vienna. In her works, she negotiates questions of cultural and (bodily) linguistic identity and explores spaces between trust and dependency. The ambivalences of interpersonal relationships and their points of contact as well as our material and ecological realities form the beginning of her artistic reflections. Her performances take place in exhibition spaces, on stages and in interdisciplinary and public places. Most recently, her dance performance Mining Minds (2021) was shown at brut Wien and ImPulsTanz festival. For her performance MINE (2021), Sara Lanner was awarded the H13 Niederösterreich Prize for Performance, and for her piece Mother Tongue (2019) at Leopold Museum in Vienna, she received the audience award of the 2020 Ö1-Talentebörse. Other venues to show her work include Tanzquartier Wien, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Galerie 5020 Salzburg, Stadtgalerie Salzburg, OPEN Festival China, MIPAF Macau, HART House Hongkong, Künstlerhaus Nuremberg, OK Offenes Kulturhaus Linz.
www.saralanner.com instagram.com/sara_lanner/
Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir born in Reykjavík, Iceland, is a dancer and choreographer living in Vienna. In both independent and collaborative constellations her works move along the borders of dance and performance, sometimes seeking formats beyond the stage. Her latest work CUMULUS in collaboration with artist Claudia Lomoschitz premiered at brut Wien in 2022 and has since toured in Austria, Iceland and will soon in Norway. Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir has collaborated with many Vienna based artists such as Doris Uhlich, Alix Eynaudi, Andrea Maurer, Veza Fernández a.o. She graduated with a diploma from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in 2014 with a major in choreography. Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir received the 2022 Stipendium für Tanz und Performance and in 2015 the “Start Stipendium” of the Ministry of Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport.
www.andreagunnlaugsdottir.com
Born in Seoul in 1993, Hyeji Nam is a Vienna-based artist and a musician. An interdisciplinary creator, Nam's work, exhibited/performed from LA to Australia to Iceland, intertwines digital and physical, exploring the mind-body dynamic in a digitalised age. Since the shift of focus to music, her sound performances and installations have been spotlighted at Vienna Art Week, Parallel Vienna, The Gym, ImpulsTanz, Hyperreality, Unsafe and Sound festival and in mumok in collaborations with VBKÖ and mirabella paidamwoyo* dziruni. 2023 marked the release of her first album miracles under Viennese independent record label Tender Matter. Each piece, whether performance art, music, or multimedia projects, reflects on themes of body, mind, and technology, offering a unique narrative of human experience.
www.hyejinam.org Instagram:@hyejinam
Credits
Artistic director Sara Lanner Choreography, performance Andrea Gunlaugsdóttir, Sara Lanner, Hyeji Nam Lighting design Sveta Schwin Sound Peter Plos Set, objects Larry Meyer, Sara Lanner Feedback Karin Reisinger, Chris Standfest Costume design Jo Sperl Press work Simon Hajós Production partner in crime, Julia Neuwirth
A co-production by Living Examples and brut Wien. With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
Thanks to Sebastiano Sing, Bears in the Park, HART Haus Hongkong, FLUCC – Center for Arts & Communities, ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival, ACAR – Austrian-Asian Centre for Innovation within Art and Research.
Dates & Tickets
An artist talk will take place after the performance on Monday, January 22 (Moderated by: Karin Reisinger).
January 2024
Choose your price category € 22/€ 16/€ 11
Choose your price category € 22/€ 16/€ 11
Choose your price category € 22/€ 16/€ 11 / *Followed by an artist talk (Moderated by: Karin Reisinger)
Choose your price category € 22/€ 16/€ 11
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