Jan Machacek
Jan Machacek is a media artist and performer. His pieces are intersections of space, body, video projection, sound and spoken word, focusing on matters of individual agency in a reality informed by audiovisual media and information. Machacek’s performances have been presented, among others, at the Wiener Festwochen, the Marstalltheater in Munich, Germany and Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City. His work has won multiple accolades, such as at the Graz Diagonale and the International Prize for Performance in Trento. Recent works at brut Wien include EX-HELENA with Ximena Escalante and Oliver Stotz and the set design and video art for JUSTITIA! Data Ghosts by Gin Müller, Laura Andreß and team. www.janmachacek.at
Works at brut
- every day display (with Angélica Castelló, 2025)
- EX-HELENA (2023, with Oliver Stotz / Ximena Escalante)
- Giotto's Corridor. Tanz in der Flucht (2021 with Georg Blaschke)
- 80s Forever (2021, with Oliver Stotz)
- ani_male (2020, with Georg Blaschke)
- Bodies and Accidents (2019, with Georg Blaschke)
- I don’t remember this body (2018, with Georg Blaschke)
- Fantomas Monster, Teil 2/Mexico (2017)
- Fantomas Monster, Teil 1/Iran (2016, with Gin Müller and Gorji Marzban)
2007 to 2015
- Normarena (2013)
- CLOSEUPLAND (2010)
- you delay (2009)
- erase remake (2009)
