Sööt/Zeyringer
I thought I had an original idea
Accompanying Programme for Invisible Collection
This short intervention looks at how artistic ideas repeat and reappear across history. Tiina Sööt and Dorothea Zeyringer examine the fluid boundaries of authorship and ask when the exchange of ideas turns into stealing?
About Invisible Collection by Sööt/Zeyringer
The interactive audio performance Invisible Collection uncovers artworks by women artists that have been misattributed to men in the course of history either mistakenly, accidentally or willingly. With wit, warmth and sharp eye for injustice, Sööt/Zeyringer guide you through a collection of invisible artworks that begin to slowly take shape in the listener’s imagination. Between past and present stories, fact and fiction, Tiina Sööt and Dorothea Zeyringer raise the question of how much stealing in art is okay? They gossip about personal experiences and encourage visitors to think about ways in which we ourselves want to shape history.
Tiina Sööt and Dorothea Zeyringer presented their first performance together in 2012, when they were both studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since then, they have as the duo Sööt/Zeyringer devised performance pieces for exhibition spaces, stages and the public realm. At the intersection of visual art, choreography and theatre, their performances poetically and humorously tackle personally and socially relevant themes. For their most recent pieces, they did research on mothers that deviate from the norm of motherhood, analysed female rage and documented forgotten heroines of slapstick.
Sööt/Zeyringer’s work has been shown at, among other places, brut Wien, mumok, Kunsthalle Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, the Wiener Festwochen, Sophiensæle Berlin and Schwankhalle Bremen. Sööt/Zeyringer received the ImPulsTanz TURBO Research Residency and the Performing Arts Award issued by what was then the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office. In 2019, they were part of the FREISCHWIMMEN producing platform; in 2024, they received the ‘Förderungspreis’ Fine Arts of the City of Vienna. www.sootzeyringer.com
Credits
Concept & research Sööt/Zeyringer Text & voice performance Tiina Sööt, Dorothea Zeyringer Recording, editing & sound design Matthias Peyker Outside eye & voice consulting Nora Jacobs Visual artistic consulting & graphic design Daniela Grabosch Assistant dramaturgy Claudia Lomoschitz Production assistance Alisa Beck
A co-production by Sööt/Zeyringer with brut Wien and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Funded by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs (MA 7) and by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
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Dates & Tickets
February 2025
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