Social Muscle Club Vienna

brut
Performance / Party in German and English
imagetanz
{give & take} {community} {will swap haircut for hypnosis}

Everything in the Social Muscle Club on the imagetanz opening night at brut is about giving and taking. The club turns sharing into something exciting, promising a night full of communality.

“You need a new haircut and you offer hypnosis in return; you want to try stage diving and you’re good at tattooing; or you are looking for inspiration but have no trouble making a cake? The Social Muscle Club combines the too-much and the too-little, the game and the benefit, art and nature.” The audience is invited to submit desires and offers, which will complement each other over the course of the evening. Performance-shaped gifts from Vienna artists and the Social Muscle Club will allow for an atmosphere resembling the perfect mix between a Middle-Eastern wedding and a hectic Italian game show.

The Social Muscle Club started off in 2012 as a private happening in a living room in Berlin. It was inspired by a small workers’ club in Sheffield that declared “entertainment and mutual social support” its main purpose. On this basis, the Social Muscle Club has developed participatory events and new forms of gathering. It uses art and performance to connect people with each other, trigger dialogue and overcome social isolation. Following numerous stops in various European cities, this is the first Vienna edition realised with Vienna artists.

 

Credits

With
Sööt/Zeyringer, Anne Juren, Frans Poelstra, Nicholas Hoffman, Claudia Bühlmann, Jacopo Lanteri, Ewa Bankowska, Knut Berger, Amanda Piña, Nora Wenzler, Jesse Inman u. a.

Initiators
Jill Emerson, Jared Gradinger, Till Rothmund, Rahel Savoldelli

Dates & Tickets

March 2016

Thu. 03.03.2016, 20:00
brut 16 € / 12 € / 8 €

brut
Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien

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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

studio brut

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Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Subway: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
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