Media/performance artist Jan Machacek creates audiovisual narrations using projections, sounds and objects, intimately questioning his own identity in a dialogue with the outside world. In every day display, he describes the tensions and challenges brought about by a life with children. From a very personal perspective, he talks about the contrasts of productive and reproductive work, about care work and self-determination, homemaking and the great outdoors. Jan Machacek draws attention to the necessity of change in traditional gender roles and also points out the tenacity with which they reproduce. What has in fact changed about stereotypical gender constructs? What kind of progress are we about to lose? What is the significance of (gender-)sensitive education in the face of a dystopian present involving militarisation, the Alt-Right movement and the Manosphere?

every day display juxtaposes societal debates and creates a space for reflection.

Each performance will be enriched by the music of Angélica Castelló. The composer will create a new live soundtrack every evening – a musique cinématique full of electroacoustic soundscapes. Castelló and Machacek will activate and play lo-fi and hi-fi machinery alike.

Passages of Heinz Helle’s text Wellen (‘waves’) will serve as spoken commentary. In this diary-like collage, the author describes the ups and downs in his own daily life as a father and his efforts to conduct a fair and equitable relationship in a society still ruled by outdated ideals and gender inequality.

The performance is scheduled to take place on twelve days at 19:30. At free admission, registration for the performances is kindly requested at everydaydisplay@gmail.com. Before and after the show, the street-level bar is open for guests to sit and talk.

Jan Machacek is a media artist and performer. His pieces are intersections of space, body, video projection, sound and spoken word, focusing on matters of individual agency in a reality informed by audiovisual media and information. Machacek’s performances have been presented, among others, at the Wiener Festwochen, the Marstalltheater in Munich, Germany and Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City. His work has won multiple accolades, such as at the Graz Diagonale and the International Prize for Performance in Trento. Recent works at brut Wien include EX-HELENA with Ximena Escalante and Oliver Stotz and the set design and video art for JUSTITIA! Data Ghosts by Gin Müller, Laura Andreß and team. www.janmachacek.at

Angélica Castelló is a Mexican-Austrian composer, flautist, improviser, sound artist – and magnetic tape weaver, an occupation that encapsules her whole oeuvre both metaphorically and literally. Her work combines pieces of life into electroacoustic spells – memories, death, comfort, trauma, resilience, the dreamlike, the subconscious – and invokes both the beauty and the challenges of life. Angélica Castelló studied music in Mexico City, Montréal, Amsterdam and Vienna, where she has lived since 1999. She holds a master’s degree in composition, is a three-time recipient of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art and Culture’s scholarship (in 2011, 2016 and 2021) and was awarded the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office’s Outstanding Artist Award in 2014 and with the Ernst-Krenek-Preis in 2025. castello.klingt.org