irreality.tv & Simon Oberhammer feat. Otmar Wagner
ping pong split screen
Brace yourselves for some soapification! ping pong split screen, the new participatory series by irreality.tv and Simon Oberhammer, will take place in the public space around brut nordwest. A mobile architecture made of bike trailers will unfold like ping-pong tables, where performer Otmar Wagner will invite you to play. But there is so much more that could happen here. The tabletop can become a film set, a dining table, a venue for half-fictional, half-real stories developed and staged on camera with the people in the neighbourhood. And as usual with irreality.tv, whoever wants to join can join.
Performance artist Otmar Wagner is fed up with art. Instead, he shows up around brut nordwest with some mobile architecture that can be a table tennis board among many other things and challenges people to play ping-pong with him. This is the setting for the new series by irreality.tv & Simon Oberhammer. As usual with irreality.tv, whoever wants to be part of the whole thing is happy to join. And, say, build table-tennis paddles based on famous artworks. Or turn the board into a dining table. Or fall in love while playing ping-pong. What happens exactly will depend on what the participants want. The ping-pong table may turn into a film set, a shooting location for stories that are half-fictional, half-real. At the same time, ping pong split screen is an intervention in the urban space and a fictional series, documenting and cinematically mapping a process, the venues, and not least the protagonists’ hopes and desires. Two shooting periods in May and June will be followed by the series’ gala premiere at brut nordwest in October, needless to say with a red carpet and the whole shebang.
irreality.tv is a platform for site-specific, amateur TV projects. Its series are created in collaboration with people on location; everybody is welcome to join and work on the plot with irreality.tv. Projects are centred around the question: What should or could happen if life was a TV show? And sometimes it is – while filming, that is: a method described by irreality.tv as soapification.
Simon Oberhammer is an architect and sometimes set designer. For the irreality.tv series NIGHTWATCH he designed a secret sleeping architecture, for EXIT GHOST a congress centre populated by ghosts.
Otmar Wagner is a performance artist and amateur table tennis player, who has played important roles in former irreality.tv series, such as a resident of a guerrilla camp, the manager of Café Sandmann or a priest of paranormal phenomena.
1st film shooting: 13th to 21st May
Mon, May 15th, 3:00–7:00 pm
ping pong split screen at Wallensteinplatz, 1200 Vienna
Admission free, no registration necessary
Tue, May 16th, 3:00–7:00 pmping pong split screen at Volkertplatz, 1020 Vienna
Cancelled due to bad weather!
Wed, May 17th, 3:00–7:00 pmping pong split screen at Wallensteinplatz, 1200 Vienna
Cancelled due to bad weather!
Thu, May 18th, Volkertplatz, 1020 Vienna
3:00–7:00 pm ping pong split screen
4:00–6:00 pm TABLE TENNIS WORKSHOP with Bundesliga player SOPHIE SCHUSTER
Admission free, no registration necessary
Fri, May 19th, 3:00–7:00 pm, Volkertplatz, 1020 Vienna
TABLE TENNIS RACKET MAKING freely based on artistic models
Workshop led by Otmar Wagner
Admission free, no registration necessary
Sat, May 20th, 3:00–7:00 pm
ping pong split screen at Volkertplatz, 1020 Vienna
Admission free, no registration necessary
2nd filmshooting: June 17th to 25th
Exact dates, times, locations and info will be added on an ongoing basis.
Additional programme
Sat, June 24th, 4:30 pm ping pong turnament
Credits
irreality.tv Daniel Ladnar, Lars Moritz, Esther Pilkington, Jörg Thums Set design/architecture Simon Oberhammer & Anna Orbanić Performance Otmar Wagner
A project by SET – Verein für Performance und Architektur als Intervention. Funded by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs .
Dates & Tickets
1st film shooting: 13th to 21st May
Mon, May 15th, 3:00–7:00 pm
ping pong split screen at Wallensteinplatz, 1200 Vienna
Admission free, no registration necessary.
Tue, May 16th, 3:00–7:00 pm
ping pong split screen at Volkertplatz, 1020 ViennaAdmission free, no registration necessary.
Cancelled due to bad weather!
Wed, May 17th, 3:00–7:00 pmping pong split screen at Wallensteinplatz, 1200 Vienna
Cancelled due to bad weather!
Thu, May 18th, Volkertplatz, 1020 Vienna
3:00–7:00 pm ping pong split screen
4:00–6:00 pm TABLE TENNIS WORKSHOP with Bundesliga player SOPHIE SCHUSTER
Admission free, no registration necessary
Fri, May 19th, 3:00–7:00 pm, Volkertplatz, 1020 Vienna
TABLE TENNIS RACKET MAKING freely based on artistic models
Workshop led by Otmar Wagner
Admission free, no registration necessary
Sat, May 20th, 3:00–7:00 pm
ping pong split screen at Volkertplatz, 1020 Vienna
Admission free, no registration necessary
2nd filmshooting: June 17th to 25th
Exact dates, times, locations and info will be added on an ongoing basis.
Additional programme
Sat, June 24th, 4:30 pm ping pong turnament
May 2023
TABLE TENNIS RACKET MAKING at Volkertplatz, 1020 Vienna. / Cancelled due to bad weather
ping pong split screen at Wallensteinplatz 1200 Vienna. Admission free, no registration necessary.
ping pong split screen at Volkertplatz, 1020 Wien. Admission free, no registration necessary.
TABLE TENNIS RACKET MAKING at Volkertplatz, 1020 Vienna. Admission free, no registration necessary.
ping pong split screen at Volkertplatz, 1020 Wien. Admission free, no registration necessary.
June 2023
Free admission / *Exact Dates, times, locations and info will be announced soon
Different venues around brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8–10, 1200 Vienna
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Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)
Near brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8–10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)
Meeting point brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8–10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)
Different venues around brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8–10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)