TRANSGRESS and TRANSFER

Urban Dramaturgies, Curatorial Practicas, Extended Spaces

Schauspielhaus Wien / brut nordwest
Conference
{all over …} {crossing borders} {de-centralised}

How can we develop artistic and curatorial strategies involving (urban) society in novel ways? What new practices can open mono-artistically oriented institutions to the process of transgressing genre lines and institutional fixation? How can they move into and with the city? How can decision-making and responsibilities be divided in new and different ways? How and where are forms of collaboration practiced that encompass the arts as well as other fields of knowledge and concerns of urban societies? How can urban cultural institutions and self-constituted spaces as well as initiatives outside of urban centres find new objectives and forms of collaboration by communicating with agents concerned? To start the discussion on all the above questions, this conference gathers contributions by artists, theorists, curators, dramaturges, and artistic directors.

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Conception and organisation Barbara Büscher (Hochschule für Musik and Theater Leipzig) and Lucie Ortmann (Schauspielhaus Wien) with Elke Krasny (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) 

Featuring Athena Athanasiou (Panteion Universität für Sozial- and Politikwissenschaften Athen), Regina Bittner (Akademie der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau), Giovanna Bolliger, Tomas Schweigen & Stephan Weber (Schauspielhaus Wien), Naomi Bueno de Mesquita (performing arts researcher), Barbara Büscher (Hochschule für Musik and Theater Leipzig), Iris Dressler (Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart), Olivia Ebert & Martin Valdés-Stauber (Münchner Kammerspiele), Katalin Erdődi, (curator & dramaturge, Vienna), Isabel Maria Finkenberger (STUDIO if+. Büro für Stadtentwicklung and räumliche Transformation, Cologne), Ludwig Haugk & Christine Leyerle (OSTEN – Festival in Bitterfeld), Kira Kirsch (brut Wien), Megha Kono-Patel (Schauspiel Dortmund), Elke Krasny (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Britta Peters (Urbane Künste Ruhr, Bochum), Sarah Reimann (Hebbel am Ufer/HAU 4, Berlin), Julia Schäfer (Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig), Kathrin Tiedemann (FFT [Forum Freies Theater], Düsseldorf), Margarita Tsomou (Hochschule Osnabrück), Françoise Vergès (political scientist, feminist decolonial activist), Noa Winter (Making a Difference/Sophiensæle Berlin).

 

Thursday, November 18th (Schauspielhaus Wien & via Zoom)

  

  • 4 pm Entry at Schauspielhaus Hotel
    The Schauspielhaus Wien has been radically changed (inside) architecturally and the entire building is used differently. For five months it is a new artistic meeting place, a theater, a hostel, a hotel. More precisely: Not a hotel. Something in between.
       
  • 5.30 pm Opening of the conference part 2
        
  • 6 pm - 7 pm
    Françoise Vergès (political theorist, feminist decolonial activist): Decolonizing the Western public space is an antiracist and decolonial feminist act
     
  • 7 pm - 8 pm
    Athena Athanasiou (Panteion Athens University of Social and Political Sciences): Counterpublic performativity for critical presents 
      
  • Followed by: Schauspielhaus Hotel (Performances, exhibitions, work-in-progress) and the USUS restaurant will be open until around 10 p.m.

  

Friday, November 19th (Schauspielhaus Wien & via Zoom)
  

  • 10 am  Entry
     
  • 10.15 am Greeting and intro
      
  • 10:30-11:15 Uhr
    Olivia Ebert & Martín Valdés-Stauber (Dramaturges Münchner Kammerspiele): City theater between art laboratory and parliament
      
  • 11.30 am - 12.15 pm
    Megha Kono-Patel (City dramaturge Theater Dortmund): Imaginations of a city
       
  • 12.15 pm - 14.00 pm Lunch break
       
  • 2 pm- 2.45 pm
    Margarita Tsomou (HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Hochschule Osnabrück): Gatherings in the planetary crisis
     
  • 3 pm - 3.45 pm
    Naomi Bueno de Mesquita (researcher in performing arts): Multiple Performative Mapping
      
  • 4.15 pm - 5 pm
    »In Company« – Workout with Olivia Hyunsin Kim
      
  • 5.15 - 6 pm
    Tour through Schauspielhaus Hotel with Tomas Schweigen (Artistic direvtor) and designer team Giovanna Bolliger & Stephan Weber
      
  • From 6 pm - ca. 10 pm
    Program in the Schauspielhaus Hotel (among others by and with Miroslava Svolikova, The Smallest Theater in the World, Hotel Radio by Tomas Schweigen & Ensemble, Uprising in the kitchen and artistic research laboratory on resources and care in the art practice of students at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna )

 

Saturday, November 20th (via Zoom) 
  

  • 10.30-11.00 am: EXCAVATIONS OF LOST MEMORIES. Künstlerische Ausgrabungsarbeiten am Wiener Nordwestbahnhof – Virtual tour on tactics of space appropriation with Michael Hieslmair and Michael Zinganel (Tracing Spaces)
  • 11:00-12.30 Uhr: Temporäre Orte, neue Räume und andere Akteur*innen? – Panel with Kira Kirsch (brut Wien), Sarah Reimann (HAU Hebbel am Ufer/HAU4, Berlin) and Kathrin Tiedemann (FFT (Forum Freies Theater)), Düsseldorf
  • 12:45-13:30 Uhr: Schwellen, Zwischenräume und Verbindungswege... Orte der Kunst und Kultur in Transformation. Beobachtungen aus einem Forschungsprojekt – Lecture by Barbara Büscher (University of Music and Theater Leipzig)

Saturday, November 20th (brut nordwest & via livestream) 

 

  • 19:00 Uhr Programmhinweis (brut nordwest and online)»Architectures of hospitality«.
    Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly XI with: Merve BedirBenjamin Foerster-Baldenius/ raumlabor berlin & Marina Otero Verzier
    Hosted by: Florian Malzacher 

    Info about the event

 

Covid-19 info of Schauspielhaus Wien
    
INFO: The conference part on Saturday, November 20th will only take place online via Zoom. You will receive the login data and further information by email after you have registered. The events on Thursday, November 18th and Friday, November 19th will continue to take place live in front of an audience at the Schauspielhaus Wien and via Zoom.

Credits

 

A co-operation of Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig, brut Wien and Schauspielhaus Wien that is part of the DFG-supported project ‘Architektur und Raum für die Aufführungskünste: Entwicklungen seit den 1960er Jahren’ (‘Architecture and Space for the Performing Arts: Developments since the 1960s’)

Dates & Tickets

 

September 2021

Fri. 24.09.2021, 15:30 - 19:30
INFO FOR THE LEIPZIG DATES: Free admission - participation in the event also possible via zoom! Registration - (if possible) by 19.9. at verena-elisabet.eitel@hmt-leipzig.de. You will then receive an invitation link.

Sat. 25.09.2021, 10:00 - 19:00
INFO FOR THE LEIPZIG DATES: Free admission - participation in the event also possible via zoom! Registration - (if possible) by 19.9. at verena-elisabet.eitel@hmt-leipzig.de. You will then receive an invitation link.

November 2021

Thu. 18.11.2021, 16:00
Free admission. Please register via ticket-button. Takes place at Schauspielhaus Wien and via zoom.

Fri. 19.11.2021, 10:00
Free admission. Please register via ticket-button. Takes place at Schauspielhaus Wien and via zoom.

Sat. 20.11.2021, 11:00
Free admission. Please register via ticket-button. Takes place only via zoom.

Schauspielhaus Wien / brut nordwest
Porzellangasse 19, 1090 Vienna / Nordwestbahnstraße 8 – 10, 1200 Vienna

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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)
accessible

March 2026
marhaba مرحبا at brut with IZRAA, Noura Hashem, Anahita Neghabat & Khashajar Hani
March 2026
Touch Tour
March 2026
tanz.sucht.theater
BUZZ
March 2026
BUZZING around
March 2026
gergo d. farkas
rascal
March 2026
imagetanz Closing Party with a DJ set by Yinna
April 2026
cARE (core Artistic Research Ensemble)
Philosophy on Stage #6: Notebook of the Heart
April - May 2026
DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche)
Auflösung
May - June 2026
Nesterval
Nestervals Nibelungen: Donaugold
June 2026
Karin Pauer & Aldo Giannotti
FOR NOW
June 2026
Queereeoké
Unmute yourself!
June 2026
BRUT HARD SOFT KISSEN After Pride Edition with KISSEN, GATAFIERA (live) & DJ Sets by anxxxious_t, aua&angst, yves, Dia, Shepperd, nas.delphine

studio brut

not accessible

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

March 2026
Cat Jimenez
ruins of a shell
March 2026
Carolina Cappelli
B-MOVIES
April 2026
Frans Poelstra
THIS MOMENT WITH YOU

Bears in the Park Art Place

not accessible

Eyzinggasse 12, 1110 Vienna
U-Bahn: U3 (Gasometer) Bus: 72A (Gasometer), 76A, 76B (Simoningplatz)
not accessible

March 2026
Handle with care feat. Huggy Bears Part 3 & 4
March 2026
10 Years of Huggy Bears

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)

March 2026
Viktor Szeri
unseen
March 2026
Closing Cocktail

Der Betrieb

accessible

Vogelweidplatz 13, 1150 Wien
Subway: U6 (Burggasse-Stadthalle) / Bus: 48A (Moeringgasse) / Tram: 9 (Camillo Sitte Gasse)

April - May 2026
Der Betrieb / Alexander Gottfarb
The Season of Narratives