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.

2^nd film shooting 

Sun, June 18^th, 3:00–7:00 pm
ping pong split screen at Volkertplatz, 1020 Vienna
Admission free, no registration necessary

Mon, June 19^th, 3:00–7:00 pm
ping pong split screen at Wallensteinplatz, 1200 Vienna
Admission free, no registration necessary

Tue, June 20^th, 3:00–7:00 pm
ping pong split screen at Volkertplatz, 1020 Vienna
Admission free, no registration necessary

Wed, June 21^st, 5:00–8:00 pm
ping pong split screen at Volkertplatz, 1020 Vienna
Admission free, no registration necessary

Thu, June 22^nd, 5:00–8:00 pm (Food from 7:00 pm)
ping pong split screen at Wallensteinplatz, 1200 Vienna
Admission free, no registration necessary

Fri, June 23^rd, 3:00–7:00 pm
ping pong split screen at Wallensteinplatz, 1200 Vienna
Admission free, no registration necessary

Additional programme

Sat, June 24^th, 4:30 pm ping pong tournament

1^st film shooting: 13^th to 21^st May

Mon, May 15^th, 3:00–7:00 pm
ping pong split screen at Wallensteinplatz, 1200 Vienna
Admission free, no registration necessary

Thu, May 18^th, 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 19^th, 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 

Save the date gala premiere October 14^th, 8:00 pm at brut nordwest