Opening imagetanz Festival 2023
With La notte è il mio giorno preferito by Annamaria Ajmone, imagetanz Festival 2023 opened on March 2. Until March 25 brut shows news on choreography and performance. Christine Miess captured the impressions of the evening for us in atmospheric pictures.
Ballroom meets brut
For the opening of this year's imagetanz festival, Kiki House of Dive invited for the first time to a Kiki Ball at brut.
Artwork imagetanz 2023 – we show you what you can't see
This year's artwork for imagetanz by Charlie Engman tease out visual possibilities, opening up new spaces between reality and fiction. His playful images deal with transformations and the sculptural potential of actions. The images were created by Engman using AI.
Artwork Season 2022/23
Our current subjects by photographer AnaHell depict creatures that transcend the purely human and reveal the absurdity of the ordinary.
CALL FOR PROFESSIONAL DANCERS | AUDITION-WORKSHOP
For the installative dance production "now" varukt | Verein für zeitgenössische Choreographie und Tanz under the artistic direction of Inge Gappmaier is looking for four professional dancers to work together. Application deadline: March 29th, 2023
RENNWEG & SEESTADT STUDIOS for the independent scene
To strengthen the continuously growing independent dance and performance scene in Vienna, new rehearsal studios are available for artists in the performing arts field from 20 February 2023: the spacious premises of the former dancearts studios in the 3rd district and the former KulturQuartier in Seestadt. The studios offer sufficient space, also upwards, and professional equipment at a low rent. They are ideal for rehearsals, residencies and the realisation of individual artistic projects.
Behind the scenes – brut Artwork 2022/23
For our current artwork, photographer AnaHell came to Vienna to shoot new photos on the area of brut nordwest. AnaHell often uses the human body as fluid material that can transform into beings that transcend the purely human. Her images reveal the absurdity of the ordinary, creating a parallel reality where the real and the surreal collide.
Here we show some impressions from the photo shoot in autumn.
OPEN CALL: In the Field 2023 – A Wiener Festwochen scholarship programme in co-operation with brut Wien
In the Field is a scholarship programme aimed at aspiring artists and cultural workers. 15 scholarship recipients from Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic are set to reconvene once again in Vienna in 2023 as part of the Wiener Festwochen. Concurrently with the festival programme, they will take a closer look together at aesthetic and structural issues pertaining to contemporary art production and, over a period of ten days, explore both the international scene and the local context. In the Field focuses on transregional networking and knowledge transfer, bringing together young people from a 300 km radius around Vienna for exchanges with one another and the city itself.
Application Deadline 12th February 2023
OPEN CALL: WIENWOCHE 2023 „It’s getting cold in here!”
From September 15th to 24th, 2023, the twelfth edition of the activist cultural festival Wienwoche will take place. Under the title "It's getting cold in here!" WIENWOCHE 2023 asks about social and political implications of the climate crisis. Application deadline: January 31st
Dance till you drop: Teenage brut celebrates it's 15th birthday with Powerjam & A party called JACK
15 years of performance, dance and theater! Artists, audience, friends and companions from 15 years were invited to celebrate brut! According to the teenage years, the party was accompanied by the roller skate community Powerjam. For the roller disco, the concrete floor of brut nordwest was transformed into a dance floor for dancing on eight wheels. Also off the roller skate rink, people celebrated to the sound of the artists' collective A party called JACK. Christine Miess captured the atmosphere for us in these pictures.
Open Call Springback Academy 2023
Aspiring dance writers wanted!
Springback Academy is offering once again aspiring dance writers the chance to be mentored in the fundamentals of quality dance criticism in the action-packed environment of Spring Forward, Aerowaves’ annual festival.
Apply before 24:00 (GMT) Monday 9 January 2023
Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly – ARCHITECTURES OF HOSPITALITY
Hospitality – with all its seeming generosity – is a complex concept: Who is invited into our societies, our assemblies? What are the relationships between guests and hosts? Is unconditional hospitality possible? The architecture of public space, the infrastructures of coming together, the borders and thresholds around them inform how we come together, what is prevented from happening, what is possible.
OPEN CALL – HUGGY BEARS MENTORING PROGRAM 2023
Bears in the Park is looking for innovative Vienna-based artists and collectives who want to join the next round of the Huggy Bears Mentoring Program. The program is designed for upcoming artists who are either already working in the performance art scene and/or dance or are motivated to enlarge their previous practice with performance art. This way a special transdisciplinary learning atmosphere is created which enables a shared knowledge transfer. Application: November 6th 2022
Nestroy-nominated group toxic dreams comes to brut nordwest with new project starting October 21st
The Viennese group toxic dreams and the set designer Paul Horn are nominated for the Nestroy Award for Best Set Design with the production "The Art of Asking your Boss for a Raise". The co-production of toxic dreams and brut premiered in October 2021 at brut nordwest. The next co-production of toxic dreams with brut will premiere again at brut on October 21, 2022 – this time in collaboration with the Rabtaldirndln.
OPEN CALL Residency imagetanz 2023
With Handle with care selected by BEATE two artists or groups receive the opportunity to complete a 2-week residency during the festival imagetanz in March 2023 at brut and will open their working process in a presentation to the public at the end of the residency. Application deadline: October 2nd 2022
You can be BEATE, too
BEATE is short for BRUT’S ENGAGED AUDIENCE as THEATRE EXPERTS – might sound complicated, but is actually pretty simple: BEATE joins rehearsals and creation processes of projects, opens a dialogue with artists and takes part in brut’s season programming. Please register until September 18th
Karin Pauer & Aldo Giannotti – THE SCORE
NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: Dance meets visual art in THE SCORE. Projected onto the floor, the minimalist black-and-white drawings by artist Aldo Giannotti create a choreographic score and movement guide. Karin Pauer, known among other things from her work in the performance company Liquid Loft, designs an artistic and social field for experimentation between art and choreography, joined by dancers Lau Lukkarila and Arttu Palmio. (VIDEO)
Casting for Feature Film
Catsing Call for feature length film. The shoot will take place in February 2023 in Vienna and will be carried out by a very small team (consisting mostly of FLINTA* persons). No acting experience is required. The team is not looking for a specific profile or kind of person.
They rather want to continue developing the characters of this film in close collaboration with the performers, taking their own backgrounds and experiences into account.
Casting Call Wiener Festwochen project 2023
The Wiener Festwochen is looking for candidates to be part of the performing team for the opera production Lulu directed by Marlene Monteiro Freitas, applications until: September 23rd
Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly IX – REASSEMBLING INSTITUTIONS (Ahmed Al-Nawas, Nora Sternfeld, Sarah Waterfeld / Staub zu Glitzer & Florian Malzacher)
Can institutions be driving forces of change? Or are they doomed to be bastions of the status quo, capable of slow reforms at best? Arguments about institutions, instituting and institutionalizing are at the core of many progressive movements. But what would it actually mean to imagine institutions in a radical democratic way? How can we understand museums, theatres, galleries, festivals, biennales as assemblies – not only symbolically but by consequently re-negotiating their organizational structures?
Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly – Shifting Power: When Grassroot Movements Win Elections (With Athena Athanasiou (Zoom), Teodor Celakoski, Marcelo Expósito & Florian Malzacher
In this edition of The Art of Assembly in cooperation with cultural worker and activist Teodor Celakoski (HR), Artist, activist and former member of the Spanish parliament Marcelo Expósito (ES) and philosopher Athena Athanasiou (GR) give insides in movements in their countries.
Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly – Parliaments of Things and Beings (with Alexander Karschnia / andcompany&Co., Eva von Redecker & Florian Malzacher)
In this episode of The Art of Assembly, which took place in April 2022 at brut nordwest, the theatre group andcompany&Co. praises the intelligence of insects and considers renaming itself ANTCOMPANY, while philosopher Eva von Redecker proposes a “revolution for life” in order to escape the prison of capitalism and find new forms of solidarity: Care instead of domination, regeneration instead of utilization, participation instead of exploitation.
Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly – AUDIENCE AS ALLIES, WITNESSES, AND ENEMIES With Claire Bishop, Tania Bruguera & Ann Liv Young Hosted by Florian Malzacher
In cooperation with Goethe Institute New York, this edition of The Art of Assembly l looks at radical approaches to audiences, turning them from spectators into participants, witnesses, collaborators, and enemies.
Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly X – THE POLITICS OF MULTITUDE: ASSEMBLY AS STRATEGY (Anna Clara Basilicò / Rise Up For Climate Justice, Antonio Negri & Marco Baravalle)
In Cooperation with Münchner Kammerspiele, this edition of The Art of Assembly looks at how architecture shapes decision-making – and at what alternatives there might be.
Aerowaves Twenty23 Open Call
Apply now to become an Aerowaves Artist! Aerowaves is a hub for dance discovery in Europe with a network of partners in 33 countries. The network is looking for the next Twenty talented emerging choreographers based in Europe. You can now apply to become a Twenty23 artist with the opportunity to have your work presented at the Spring Forward festival next year in Dublin (Ireland), and also by many of our Aerowaves partners around Europe.
Katharina Senk & Tanja Erhart – j_e_n_g_a. The Movie
j_e_n_g_a – The Movie is a multi-lingual dance-film in which Tanja Erhart, her two crutches and Katharina Senk explore the juicyness of pleasure, interdependence and intersectional feminism in multi-sensorial perspectives. The film contains interactive parts in which the viewers have options to choose from and to guide the film while diving into their very own pleasure feelings.
Interview with Stina Fors: Experimental vocal techniques
The performance artist Stina Fors transforms her mouth into a theatre. In the interview you can learn more about her understanding of communication, her needs for a rehearsal process and the power of imagination.
Rough Translation – Grob gesagt: Krieg Edition 3 with Kateryna Kalytko (Recording in Ukrainian & German)
Readings & talks with Ukrainian poets. A cooperation of the Institute of Sprachkunst in cooperation with brut and the Literaturhaus Vienna. Kateryna Kalytko was the guestof the third edition.
Rough Translation – Grob gesagt: Krieg Edition 2 with Iryna Tsilyk (Recording in Ukrainian & German)
Readings & talks with Ukrainian poets. A cooperation of the Institute of Sprachkunst in cooperation with brut and the Literaturhaus Vienna. Iryna Tsilyk was the guestof the second edition.
Alex Franz Zehetbauer – AyH
NEW ART ON...LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: Beginning with an interest in spirals, AyH is a sonic experiment guided by the work and methods of the painter and mystic Hilma af Klint. It is a concert of acoustic paintings composed by several non-human musicians in collaboration with Alex Franz Zehetbauer and Christian Schröder. (VIDEO)
imagetanz 2022 Opening
The imagetanz festival 2022 opened with SHE LEGEND by Rykena/Jüngst on March 4th and at brut nordwest and all over Vienna the motto until March 26th is: Feed the Dance! Christine Miess captured the impressions in beautiful pictures for us.
Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly XII. PITFALLS OF REPRESENTATION: ASSEMBLIES IN THEATRE
The 12th edition of The Art of Assembly looks at the often productive, often ambivalent relationship between art and activism. Guets: Milo Rau, School of Resistance & The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
Art Work imagetanz 2022 – recipes that move your body
This year's imagetanz subjects by Maisie Cousins combine the beautiful with the grotesque.
Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir – AIRY MATTERS
“By using up the air for telling, without ever telling of air itself”– Luce Irigary, "The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger"
brut Artwork Season 2021/22
Our current subjects by photographer Chase Middleton re-enact stories from life.
Save the date – brut season starts from October 1st
with toxic dreams, Sara Lanner, Lau Lukkarila, Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir, Gin Müller & Denice Bourbon, Oleg Soulimenko, Doris Uhlich, Simon Mayer, Willi Dorner, Potpourri, Georg Blaschke & Jan Machacek, Florian Malzacher & The Art of Assembly, and many more
Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly VII: Agonistic Gatherings (Didier Eribon, Chantal Mouffe & Florian Malzacher)
Chantal Mouffe and Didier Eribon were guests in the seventh edition of "The Art of Assembly". The podcast is now available. The episode was created in cooperation with the Wiener Festwochen.
Oleg Soulimenko & Jasmin Hoffer – BEAUTY OF MESS TRASH AND UNKNOWN DESIRES
NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: Today, in the Anthropocene, there seems to be nothing left untouched by humans. Dwindling species, thawing permafrost, landscapes of toxic trash: human impact appears all-encompassing. But the reverse is also true: nothing we get in touch with leaves us unchanged. (VIDEO)
Agnes Schneidewind, Johanna Nielson & Marina Poleukhina – eleven. each print in the mud fills with honey
NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: Three female artists jump from a (sur)face and delve into the exciting worlds of Tarot: In eleven. each print in the mud fills with honey, Agnes Schneidewind, Johanna Nielson and Marina Poleukhina draw inspiration from one of the trump cards, reading into it with all their senses and sentiments, including the subconscious and irrational ones. They dance, they draw, and they interact with a number of different objects in permanent circulation. (VIDEO)
Costas Kekis – Bounce
NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: "Bounce" is a performative ritual of personal and collective repair. The group of five performers work through shared sensorial physical practices of emotional resilience, driven by the need to care, cure, withstand and thrive.
Frans Poelstra – this body of stories. the lockdown version
NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: In this video, Frans Poelstra tells the story of how he became a performer and dancer. For those who couldn't attend our last Sunday Screening, his entertaining story is now available online.
Jan Machacek & Oliver Stotz – EWIGE 80er
NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG EWIGE 80er is a performative video that targets a time when fear of a nuclear catastrophe grew and in which a conservative backlash formed after the optimistic mood of the 1960s and 70s in the capitalist West. Jan Machacek and Oliver Stotz bring that time to life and ask what connects the spirit of the 80s with our society today.
New Art on Air – Episode 4 feat. Gerhild Steinbuch
The Austrian author and dramaturge heads the Institute for Language Arts (Creative Writing) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and is co-founder of the Freundliche Mitte and Nazis & Goldmund / Hydra collective. She talks to brut's artistic director Kira Kirsch about writing for the stage, the challenge of running a university institute, working in a collective and Austrian trash tv.
imagetanz 2021 Julia Müllner – gathering bacteria in my carrier bag
NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: Julia Müllner’s performance is centred around the process of fermentation, a way of microbial transformation and preservation. While microbes negotiate their symbiotic long-term relationships, tentacular dances of a romancing mite become intertwined with costume textures and pulsate performatively while squinting to the rhythm created by sound artist Christa Wall. (VIDEO)
New Art on Air – Episode 3 feat. Christophe Slagmuylder
What is it like to create an international theater festival during a global pandemic? Kira Kirsch and Christophe Slagmuylder talk about his career, transformative experiences and his definition of a good theater festival. The conversation revolves around contemporary performing arts in Brussels in the 80ies and how to take care of oneself in a stressful job by hiking in the wild nature.
Malika Fankha – AWOL. LAVA
The third music video in the series "AWOL" by Malika Fankha is online!
THIS PLACE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK: Art in public space by Frida Robles and Lasse Mouritzen
On May 10th, the installation "THIS PLACE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK" by the artists Frida Robles and Lasse Mouritzen opened at the back of brut nordwest. The urban space with the new artwork can be visited until May 2022.
FREISCHWIMMEN – Platform for performance and theatre
FREISCHWIMMEN is an international exchange and production platform for young groups and artists* from theatre and performance. It is supported by brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf, Gessnerallee Zürich, HochX München, LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig, Schwankhalle Bremen, Sophiensæle Berlin, and Theater Rampe Stuttgart.
Malika Fankha – AWOL. ODE
The new music video "AWOL. ODE" by Malika Fankha is out now!
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)
March - April 2023
Verein Lebendiges Tanzarchiv Wien
Bliss. A Thing of the Past? An appropriation
April 2023
Stefanie Sourial, Faris Cuchi Gezahegn, Hyo Lee, Patu, Janine Jembere, Sunanda Mesquita
NEW ENDINGS
April 2023
Ulduz Ahmadzadeh | ATASH عطش contemporary dance company
Ancestors’ Banquet
May 2023
Sööt/Zeyringer
Other Mother
May - June 2023
Calixto Neto
Feijoada
June 2023
Mikheil Charkviani
Exodus
brut at Zukunftshof
not accessible
Rosiwalgasse 41–43, 1100 Vienna
Subway: U1 (Alaudagasse), U6 (Am Schöpfwerk) / Suburban train: S60 (Blumental) / Bus: 16A (Indigoweg)
May 2023
Jasmin Hoffer
She does Dough, Dough does Her
Around brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8–10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)
May - June 2023
Nesterval
Die Namenlosen
June 2023
Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler
MOTORA
Meeting point brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8–10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)
June 2023
irreality.tv
Bike tour
Different venues around brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8–10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)
May - June 2023
irreality.tv & Simon Oberhammer feat. Otmar Wagner
ping pong split screen
brut at WUK Projektraum
not accessible
Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna
U-Bahn: U6 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), Tram: 40, 41, 42 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), 5, 33 (Spitalgasse), 37, 38, 40, 41, 42 (Spitalgasse / Währinger Straße)
studio brut, Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Vienna
not accessible
Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Subway: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
March - April 2023
FRANZ Pop Collective
WUMAN ON A SOFA
April 2023
Mirjam Sögner
PURPLE SPHERES
brut nordwest – rehearsal space
not accessible
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna