European Spectators Festival

European Spectators Day will take place on November 21st! The sixth edition of the festival is a digital and community-based event, that involves and connects the local groups of active spectators participating in the co-programming activities developed in the framework of the European project Be SpectACTive!.
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Raquel André – Collection of Spectators

, © Afonso Sousa

Raquel André – Collection of Spectators

, © Afonso Sousa

Raquel André – Collection of Spectators

, © Afonso Sousa

Raquel André – Collection of Spectators

, © Afonso Sousa

Raquel André – Collection of Spectators 

About the festival 

This year, the project Collection of Spectators by the artist Raquel André is the focus of the European Spectators Festival. Raquel's work focuses on the relationship between artistic works and the audience. The artist encourages the participants to reflect on the influence of artistic work on their identity and body:

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"Which scene from a film or a play, which paragraph in a book, which work in an exhibition has transformed and touched you? What did you keep in your body from this artistic moment?"

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Save the Date: November 21st, 5 pm

At the European Spectators Festival, 15 spectators from 15 different countries will share with the whole world how a work or art experience has shaped and changed them. Our active spectators from BEATE are also involved in the project. Everyone can participate and share their own experiences and feelings during the entire event via chat function. The online festival will be broadcast on all platforms of collectionofspectators.com and here on brut-wien.at

 

 

Live-Archive

The project includes the creation of a participatory bilingual website that builds up an archive of spectators and their experiences with art. The project has the experience of the spectators at the center, giving voice to their narratives and artistic contributions. From the 26th of October 2020 it’s possible to participate, answering to the instructions launched by Raquel. Everyone is invited to participate, feeding this way a website that becomes a live archive in progress. Here are the instructions. In our magazine articles you will find the individual tasks to participate.

 

Be SpectACTive! is an extensive European cooperation project, co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, and is active in the field of performing arts in the form of artistic productions and participatory practices, with the aim of including citizens and viewers in creative and organizational processes. Members are European festivals, theaters, cultural organizations, universities and a research center. www.bespectactive.eu

Events

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Collection of Spectators

In preparation for the European Spectators Day, the artist Raquel André will give you various tasks until November 21st. The focus lies on the relationship between audiences and artistic works. Raquel André studied at the Theater and Film School in Lisbon and got her Masters degree in Performing Arts in Rio de Janeiro. She develops cross-genre projects in the fields of theater, dance, film and television. Her passion for collecting is expressed in her artistic projects.
be spectACTive!

European Spectators Festival

European Spectators Day will take place on November 21st! The sixth edition of the festival is a digital and community-based event, that involves and connects the local groups of active spectators participating in the co-programming activities developed in the framework of the European project Be SpectACTive!.
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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)
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Karin Pauer
LOW
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Matteo Haitzmann
Im Styx baden
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Veza Fernández
Chantal, the body is a text longing for perspective
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Aperitivo
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Elena Lach & Ema Benčíková
Spacing in: Relaxed Performance Lab
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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche)
[EOL]. End of Life
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Drag Show with the Dragsau Collective
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Touch tour
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Alex Franz Zehetbauer
An Evening with

studio brut

not accessible

Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Subway: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
not accessible

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Lens Kühleitner & Olivia Hild
trace my layers, thrust your guts
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Aperitivo
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François-Eloi Lavignac
Fifth position
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Laureen Drexler & Giorgia Scisciola
PIERRE

Breitenseer Lichtspiele

not accessible

Breitenseer Straße 21, 1140 Vienna
U-Bahn: U3 (Hütteldorfer Straße) Tram: 10 (Laurentius Platz), 49 (Hütteldorfer Straße)

October 2025
Alex Franz Zehetbauer
An Evening with

Shop in the 4th district (Theresianumgasse 35)

not accessible

Theresianumgasse 35, 1040 Vienna
U-Bahn: U1 (Taubstummengasse) Bus: 13A (Belvederegasse)

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Jan Machacek & Angélica Castelló
every day display

WUK performing arts

barrierefrei

Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna
Subway: U6 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), Tram: 40, 41, 42 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), 5, 33 (Spitalgasse), 37, 38, 40, 41, 42 (Spitalgasse / Währinger Straße)

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Maria Mam & Flora Renhardt
sk8r grrrl
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Simone Lorenzo Benini & Miriam Budzáková
Sandpit