Eat me Cosmos
| EAT ME COSMOS |
September 23 + 24 20.00 Reaktor Wien TICKETS REAKTOR 23rd or 24th Swallowing space and time, this durational performance swings dangerously close to its surround in simultaneously evoking theatrical perception and uneventful meditative drama. In it, object, sound, light and motion churn in and spit out a single performer’s sustained effort to maintain the center of everything all at once at Reaktor’s grand hall. Melanie Maar and Christian Schröder create a field of attention for performer and audience alike, conjuring a continuum between hard-earned individual agency and a pleasurable surrender to collectively being eaten alive. credits: creative direction, performance : Melanie Maar, Christian Schröder light design : Samuel Schaab costume : Hanna Hollmann stage manager, organizer : Kim Böhm The project’s first audience encounter will be an OUTDOOR ESSENCE for two performers, Katharina Senk and Melanie Maar, on September 14 + 15 18.00 at Prater Arenawiese, Vienna maps pin drop future updates on insta: school_of_dying and melaniemaar Eat me Cosmos in cooperation with Reaktor, is produced by Schule des Sterbens and kindly supported by the City of Vienna – Department of Cultural Affairs and Bears in the Park. ‘Melanie Maar and Christian Schröder have been working together for over a decade. Though one of these artists generally works with sound and the other with bodily movement, neither subscribes to categorization, staying in one’s lane, or conventional roles and boundaries in the realms of music, performance and art.’ full MICA interview Bios: Melanie Maar woks in the fields of dance, performance and process guidance. She is based in her home town Vienna after living in New York City for nearly three decades. There she received the artist award from the NY Foundation for Contemporary Art. Her last project GENERATIONS with light artist Lindsay Packer premiered at ImpulsTanz 2024. Currently her work also appears as hosting Discos for dancers with disabilities, sense based philosophy in action workshops at Tanz Quartier Wien, leading a study group -process as guide- at Raw Matters this fall, individual somatic integration sessions and coaching her mother’s Ballet students. www.melaniemaar.com Christian Schröder studied fine arts, media art, and music in Vienna, Weimar, and Moscow. In his artistic practice, he explores and expands the possibilities of sound and composition across various media. Since 2010, he has worked as a sound artist in the visual arts and as a composer and musician in the performing arts. Alongside solo performances, which often incorporate algorithmic composition and improvisation, he frequently collaborates with artists from diverse disciplines. www.ckonrad.net image collage by Christian Schröder and Melanie Maar |