Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler

MOTORA

This Day is not Promised

Near brut nordwest
Performance Vienna premiere no spoken words
{Car party} {Crash test} {Mechanophilia}

Due to bad weather conditions the performance on Fri, June 23 will be canceled! There will be an additonal show on Saturday 24 June, 8:30 pm. 

In MOTORA This Day Is Not Promised, Marta Navaridas interacts with a Volvo V60 in an attempt to achieve a true encounter between two bodies: one organic and one inorganic. Aware of her own frailty, the performer explores her emotions towards the mid-range estate wagon as she conducts a poetic ritual of fatalism meandering between erotic seduction, wishful thinking, pragmatic realism and tender anthropomorphisation.

, © Christine Miess

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised 

, © Christine Miess

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised 

, © Christine Miess

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised 

, © Christine Miess

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised 

, © Christine Miess

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised 

, © Christine Miess

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised 

, © Christine Miess

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised 

, © Christine Miess

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised 

, © Kati Göttfried

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised

, © Kati Göttfried

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised

, © Kati Göttfried

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised

, © Kati Göttfried

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised

, © Kati Göttfried

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised

, © Kati Göttfried

Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler – MOTORA. This Day is not Promised

In a way, not just our cars but all machines we build are mirrors of our desires and the way we think about ourselves and our relationship with the world. While we appear to make progress, the cars we build become safer, artificially more intelligent, more autonomous and more connected. But most importantly, like us humans, they exponentially grow in number. Motor vehicles are kind of the ultimate stereotypes of a capitalist promise – the promise of a dream come true, with the potential nightmare following directly behind.

Inspired, among other sources, by J.G. Ballards 1973 novel Crash, MOTORA draws on stereotypical dreams of death and desire and tropes such as drive-in cinemas, car sex, car parties, and car washes, mixing them with intimate reflections of a person who subjects their relationship with their car to a crash test.

Marta Navaridas and Alex Deutinger both studied translation, interpreting, and dance. Since 2009, they have developed mostly text-based choreographies. Their pieces, presented at numerous venues in Austria and abroad, include: Your Majesties, Speaking of Which, Queen of Hearts, Pontifex, Octopus, I Would Like to Be a Better Person. Since 2020, Navaridas & Deutinger have developed the performance series Emancipation of Wonder in co-operation with contemporary art museums. 

Manuel Riegler is at home in the full range of sounds. The sound artist, composer, and musician, who lives in Vienna, combines the organic with the digital, manipulates textures of field recordings with synthesis, and thereby creates mystical sound alliances. As a teenager, Riegler started with punk rock, his desire for musical renewal took him to collaborative projects in the fields of performance, dance, theatre, film, and game art.

Credits

Concept Alex Deutinger, Marta Navaridas, Manuel Riegler Director Alex Deutinger Performance Marta Navaridas Electronic live music, sound design Manuel Riegler Costume design Annemarie Arzberger Movement coaches Florencia Demestri, Sam Lefeuvre Outside eyes Frans Poelstra, Monika Klengel Production management, organisation mollusca productions

A production by Performanceinitiative 22. In cooperation with HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz and brut Wien. 

Supported by The City of Graz, the Provice of Styria, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, Club Hybrid Graz, Studio 8 Gries.

 

Dates & Tickets

Due to an approaching thunderstorm, the performance on June 21 unfortunately had to be interrupted. However, we have good news: There will be an additional date on Saturday (June 24) at 8:30pm! All premiere tickets remain valid and can be redeemed on June 24. Please register: tickets@brut-wien.at

Due to bad weather conditions the performance on Fri, June 23 will be canceled! There will be an additonal show on Saturday 24 June, 8:30 pm. All tickets for the show on Friday remain vaild, please register for the performance on Saturday: tickets@brut-wien.at 

June 2023

Wed. 21.06.2023, 20:30
Choose your price category €22 / €16 / €11

Thu. 22.06.2023, 20:30
Choose your price category €22 / €16 / €11

Fri. 23.06.2023, 20:30
Canceled!

Sat. 24.06.2023, 20:30
Choose your price category €22 / €16 / €11

Near brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8–10, 1200 Vienna

Downloads

Evening programme_MOTORA (PDF)

 

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