Frida Robles and maria mercedes
Handle with care featuring HUGGY BEARS Part 2
with contributions by Frida Robles and maria mercedes
Two times Two makes four completely different positions: A cross-section of Vienna’s young performance scene is presented in two parts at the Huggy Bears Art Place in context of imagetanz 2021. In Part 2 of this special edition of the brut series Handle with care, the audience gets exclusive insights into two projects in their respective development phases. Frida Robles is searching for healing with the help of a live psychoanalysis in Sessions with Frida. and maria mercedes embody emotions in Ballade.
INFO: The event will take place online via zoom. Please register using the ticket button below.
Frida Robles – Sessions with Frida. A performance on the possibilities of healing
in English
In order to understand the trembling movement of the world, it is imperative to do it from where one stands. I am a Mexican woman living in Austria. I, as everyone else, am an island connected in an archipelagic manner to the trembling ocean that is the world. The quest of this performance leans towards pain, towards understanding suffering as a complex combination of personal, historical and social pain. The performance will be elaborated around a real live psychoanalysis session on stage and other healing practices such as songs, prayers and encantations.
Frida Robles is a conceptual artist and curator. With the support of the FONCA Young Creators she wrote the book All love letters are ghost stories as an outcome of an open research on love for which she performed as a public scrivener in the Santo Domingo square in Mexico City. She is currently a PhD in Philosophy candidate at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with support from the JUMEX Contemporary Art Foundation.
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maria mercedes – Ballade
Ballade is an encounter with emotions. Ballade explores how these economies affect the way bodies form. Ballade collides, turns, sticks, circulates and organizes itself. Ballade curls up into a tear, hidden under a mountain of hair.
The term ballade originally stood for a dance song and later also referred to a poem form with dramatic elements whose narrative form maria mercedes access.
maria mercedes is a performance collective consisting of Julia Maria Müllner and Camilla Mercedes Schielin. In their work they encounter choreographies inspired by pop culture and shift them into bizarre settings. Julia and Camilla both work as freelance dancers and are friends and colleagues.
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HUGGY BEARS is a support plattform by artists for artists founded by Superamas. It provides mentoring in various fields for emerging artists to help professionalize their work. The selected upcoming artists recieve a yearlong support that offers studio space as often as needed, workshops, artistic and administrative support, networking, public showing, sharing and eventually presenting under professional conditions. As part of the brut series Handle with care the currently supported artists give the audience a sample of their works eventually premiering in WUK in Autumn 2021 under professional conditions.
The Handle with Care series grants sneak peeks into processes of artistic creation, experimenting with new formats and creating spaces for talking and the exchanging of views. Artists get the chance to try out parts of their work in front of a small audience, to receive feedback and to turn spectators into accomplices.
Credits
A co-operation by Huggy Bears and imagetanz/brut Wien.
Frida Robles – Sessions with Frida. A performance on the possibilities of healing
Concept and Performance Frida Robles Psychoanalyst on stage Markus Zoechmeister Video and Editing Ujjwal Utkarsh
maria mercedes – Ballade
Concept and Performance maria mercedes
Dates & Tickets
INFO: The event will take place online via zoom. Please register using the ticket button below.
March 2021
Free admission. Please register using the ticket button.
Online via zoom
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