Open Call: In the Field

A festival excursion with brut Wien and the Wiener Festwochen

22.02.2019 - 31.03.2019

Wiener Festwochen

In the Field is a format that is directed primarily at students and artists starting out in their profession and invites them to experience a theatre festival at first hand.

In the immediate run-up to the Wiener Festwochen and during the five-week run, participants will get behind-the-scenes insight into the festival and have the opportunity to visit performances and rehearsals, talk to artists and experts and discuss their impressions with the other members of the group.

© Wiener Festwochen

The Wiener Festwochen open a space for multidisciplinary creation – international while anchored in the city. brut Wien is an important institution for co-productions in the independent local scene and places particular emphasis on site-specific projects. Together these two cultural institutions will take a small group of interested people on a festival excursion. The goal is to get to know production processes, to interact with artistic projects and to establish interconnections between international and local positions. To this end, in addition to the team of brut Wien and the Wiener Festwochen, Viennese artists will join the regular meetings.

Those artistic projects in the programme of the Wiener Festwochen that take place outside conventional theatre spaces, that are site-specific or participatory, provide a focus and a point of departure for joint reflection. Which strategies and performative practices do contemporary productions use to overcome the divide between the stage and the auditorium, to activate the audience, to explore new spaces or find new perspectives for the old ones?

Dates:

Approx. 15 dates in May and June 2019
(thereof approx. 7 visits of performances)

Application:     

  • In principle, anyone can apply; the open call is mainly directed at students from different disciplines and artists starting out in their profession.
  • A short bio and letter of motivation (approx. 2,000 characters) about why you are interested in this format and in what way In the Field would be relevant to your own research, education or practice and enrich it.
  • Send your application to inthefield@festwochen.at by 31 March 2019.

Participation is free of charge and includes tickets to the selected performances.

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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

February 2026
Malika Fankha
No Place Like Home
February 2026
How to festival?
March 2026
LIFT Tanzkollektiv (Liv Schellander, Irene Giró, Fia/Sophia Neises, Tanja Erhart)
BIOFUCK
March 2026
Taking the time
March 2026
marhaba مرحبا at brut with IZRAA and Bisan Dabke
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 1 & 2
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