Tag: allgemein
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Arbeit, Wert und wer den Preis zahlt
„Alles in Arbeit“ im Dom Museum Wien (Scroll down for the English text.) Es gibt Ausstellungen, die einem gefallen. Und es gibt Ausstellungen, die einen ein bisschen aus dem Gleichgewicht bringen. „Alles in Arbeit“ im Dom Museum Wien gehört eindeutig zur zweiten Kategorie. Ich habe die Ausstellung letzte Woche im Rahmen einer Führung mit IGersAustria…
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Turbulence in the Air: Boeing! Boeing!
Some plays just lodge themselves in your system early and never really leave. Boeing! Boeing! is one of mine. I first fell for it as a kid watching the film version with Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis on TV. Now Art for Charity is bringing it back to Vienna, and on stage it’s even funnier.…
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Der Markt der Meister
Wie der Kunstmarkt die Kunstgeschichte formte (Scroll down for the English text.) Mittwoch, später Nachmittag im Gartenpalais Liechtenstein. Barocke Stuckdecken, schwere Türen, diese stille aristokratische Ruhe, die die Wier Palais so an sich haben. Und mitten in diesem Ambiente eine Ausstellung über etwas, das Museen lange lieber verschwiegen haben: Geld. Die Ausstellung „Noble Begierden“ der…
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My Old Lady: More Than an Apartment Problem
Tonight, Theater Drachengasse premieres My Old Lady in the smaller, cozier of its two performance spaces, Bar & Co. And yes, “cozy” is the polite word for “you’re so close to the actors you can feel the air shift when a scene turns.” I photographed a rehearsal, and it was one of those rare afternoons…
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Whyte: The Choreography of Otherness
(GERMAN TEXT BELOW) I photographed the dress rehearsal of Whyte, a performance piece conceived and directed by Ahmed Al Taai, which will be presented over the next three days at Theater Spektakel in Vienna. Although the work unfolds entirely without spoken language, it became clear within minutes that nothing on this stage requires explanation. The…
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TVMORDIA – Und ewig stirbt das Opfer
Die weibliche Leiche im Medienkosmos/The Female Body in the Media Spotlight In her solo performance TVMORDIA, Austrian actress and performer Anna Rot explores how media representations of violence against women—especially the recurring image of the female corpse—shape our cultural imagination. Drawing from interviews with female artists and using her own body as a canvas, Rot…
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Magical Journey: “Ab in die Box” at the Kosmos Theater
Magische Reise: Ab in die Box im Kosmos Theater Premiering on 4 December at Vienna´s Kosmos Theater visitors to “Ab in die Box” will be enchanted by a magical evening of great acting and interesting thought experiments on solving problems through magic, or on truth vs. lie. In this co-production with the MOG Ensemble, magic…
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If houses could talk
What if your house could speak to you? Especially, if it could express its feelings about your plans to leave it behind? Jacqueline Kornmüller (author) and Kat Menschik (illustrator) have come up with a delightful little book, Das Haus verlassen (leaving the house), where the story of the author´s charming if a bit unusual old…
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