hotel obscura austria
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A one-to-one Live Art project in Linz and ViennaTRANSCRIPT
in Vienna and Linz
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WELCOME TO HOTEL OBSCURA!
Welcome to Hotel Obscura
Austria in Hotel Wolfinger in
Linz (February 1, 2015) and
in magdas Hotel in Vienna
(October 9-10, 2015).
Visit our rooms and become
part of one-to-one performan-
ces, experience interventions,
and discover playful elements
of experimental theatre. What
all these endeavours have
in common is an intensive
reflection on the relationship
between audience and actors.
Hotel Obscura has given itself
the label of live art, meaning
processes and strategies that
enable interaction between
audience-members and actors
starting each time within a con-
crete space. This is more than
just a performance for a small
audience and also more than
mere interaction. A framework
is created each time, but the
outcome is not yet determined.
Book your visit to Hotel
Obscura early and let yourself
be surprised by the artists
according to the principles of
chance. You will be assigned
two appointments (15 minutes
each). Later you may be able
to “upgrade” to a third room,
depending on availability.
The Salon’s Master of Ceremo-
ny will introduce you to another
guest, thus giving you
the opportunity of a further
conversation one-to-one and
creating oral history by ex-
changing facts, impressions,
and emotions.
die FaBRiKanTen
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HOTEL OBSCURA was an
invitation to reality, to many
realities in fact, which is how
we are, more and more, invited
to live our lives. Reality as a co-
construction. With one-to-one,
ideally, both have sway, the
(nominal) artist and the (nomi-
nal) audience-member. What
is used, – images, divides, ins-
talled devices, mise-en-scene,
situation, each re-predicated
on the basis of a hotel-room or
a shelter, – matters less than
complicity, and the art is to
achieve that complicity.
Invitation may be enough, hints
and prompts may also, instruc-
tions and signs and signals and
signifiers, but the moment is
achieved, if only for a second,
when the burden of it is held
more or less equally, by both
parties. (…)
Two sounds – one real and actu-
al, one psychological. The knock
on the door, from this project
onwards ever to be freighted for
me with promise and a frisson
of anxiety. It was performance
anxiety made corporeal. And
the knowledge that the sound
was being echoed all over the
building, at many doors, and
would be followed by a diversity
of parallel actions, together
constituting a small universe of
a particular kind of art.
That knowledge was supplemen-
ted by images of what would be
transpiring, since we had expe-
rienced most of each others’
work as surrogates or voyeurs
the day before.
To be part of Hotel Obscura
was to be part of an organism.
We, in the end, knew more than
the average audience member
who only encountered a few of
the Hotel’s delights. We were
intimate with the idea and the
intention.
– Mandy RoMeRo –
RogeR HiLL
AN INVITATION TO REALITY
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I can only recommend this
hotel. The rooms are very
diverse and being booked
along with experiences. Some
are funny, some sad, some
puzzling, but I was never bored.
It is exciting when you do not
know what is going to happen.
Besides, you are invited to
join, although as a spectator
I prefered to be an observer.
However, others favour to get
involved, especially nowadays,
when all the communication
happens via computer or
smartphone and you never
really get to see anybody face
to face. In Hotel Obscura you
were part of it live. That’s
why this is called “Live Art“
I suppose, isn’t it?
When you find yourself in an
unpredictable situation taking
place at a specified time in
a specified location, you can
only improve your preparation.
Everything else you simply
have to let it happen.
I personally do not understand
why you would rehearse for
Live Art. If you rehearse, it is
not really live anymore. But
actually it doesn’t matter,
these are just terms. In Hotel
Obscura you find everything:
theater, dance, performance,
live and not live – even on
the screen, and there were
unmanned rooms too, which
I enjoyed a lot. Sometimes I
thought I was in a real dream
or in a David Lynch movie.
All of a sudden, things start
happening, someone enters,
someone leaves – you don’t
know the links, but you play
along and somewhere all the
threads convene at one point.
– youR cousin Pia –
KaTRin WöLgeR
LIKE IN A DAVID LYNCH MOVIE
Katharina Wawrik (AT) FReMde/ouTLand
Now, who are you? An experiment
on a basic experience.
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Vienna
club Real (DE) eRica
Come to us, in the immediate
future, and join the biotechno-
logical do-it-yourself movement
named ERICA.www.clubrealblog.com
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alix denambride (FR) googLe TRansLaTe saVed My LiFe
Maybe the stranger is a friend
and I just don’t know it yet. www.compagniesousx.com
deborah Hazler (AT) FRagen des VeRTRauens/QuesTions oF TRusT
What do we want to trust in: in
humanity or in not being afraid
of one another? www.deborahhazler.org
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Patrik Huber (AT) VeRdicHTung/ condensaTion
Enter into a universe of a
poetic lack of home and
experience a moving, narrative
escalation. www.facebook.com/patrik huber.338
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Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy (AU)TRauMWeRK/ dReaMWoRK
It is easier to look at one’s un-
conscious desires dressed in a
silk kimono. www.triageliveartcollective.com
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Martha Laschkolnig & Markus zett (AT) HeRR und FRau Meise seTzen ÜBeR/MR. and MRs. Meise ”FeRRy acRoss“
A car like an old barge. Herr & Frau
Meise dream of a poetic towing
existence. www.marthalabil.com, www.markuszett.com
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Brian Lobel (GB)you HaVe To FoRgiVe Me
About wearing the wrong
shoes, Sex and the City, binge
television watching and about
how we see our lives in relation
to fictional characters. www.blobelwarming.com
Veronika Merklein (AT) eRdBeeRMiLcH/sTRaWBeRRy MiLK
14 hours of whipped strawberry
milk, a glazed plant, a sunken pil-
low, bare clothing, introspective
helium balloons, and much more. www.veronikamerklein.com
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Mandy Romero (GB)gesPinsT/FaBRicaTions
Every form of interaction with
Mandy Romero is a pure inven-
tion, a fabrication. And this is
why you are beholden to exag-
gerate and lie! The 15-minute
encounter is about the truth
about human relationships. www.rogerhill.net
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Mario sinnhofer (AT)unTiTLed
The encounter in this room
involves people on the outside,
punitive spaces and experien-
ces of being marginalized.
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chris swoon (AT)20102020 – soLo MiT diR/soLo WiTH you
Swoon seeks a common
moment with the visitors,
the moment of inseparability.
A journey through time.
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silk Fluegge (AT) i WiLL dance you TiLL THe end oF ...
Can you see yourself in the
other? And does this projection
enable a certain empathy for
yourself?www.silk.at/fluegge
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elise Terranova (AU) LasT RiTes
An invitation to deal with death
in an intimate way and ritually
adorn oneself.www.eliseterranova.com
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Time's up (AT) Lucid PeninsuLa
Entering the room, you are invi-
ted to share a moment of rege-
neration and relaxation and to
breathe with the machines ...www.timesup.org
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your cousin Pia (AT)sHeLTeR
PIA extends an invitation to a visit in her shelter. Wheter a museum director or an asylum seeker: she is related to everyone. www.katrinwoelger.com
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Rea zekkou (GR) JusT anoTHeR BRain dRain
At a certain point in our lives
we must all slip into the skin of
another.
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chris swoon (AT) PLus d’un soLo
„Worte haben es der Haut
voraus, übergroße Distanzen
berühren zu können.“
deborah Hazler (AT)sHeePsKin
Deborah Hazler gives her full
attention to being a woman.
She opens herself equally to
feelings of lust and security,
and shares these with the
audience, not giving them the
possibility of staying in the
position of voyeurs. www.deborahhazler.org
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elise Terranova (AU) LasT RiTes
This work was developed as a
response to Catacomb Saints,
two of which are still displayed
at St Ursula’s Church in Linz.
The work is an exchange bet-
ween two parties, sharing death
custom, intimacy in touching
and arranging the body of
another, thoughts on death and
funerary and finally an image of
the decorated body.www.eliseterranova.com
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eirini alexiou (GR) euRydice
“Eurydice” monster ghost queen asks her visitor if he/she ever have had a love that was lost. The visitor usually responds by saying his/her own past experience and “Eurydice” asks the permis-sion to dance the story that she has just heard.
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Mario sinnhofer (AT) unTiTLed
The encounter in this room
involves people on the outside,
punitive spaces and experien-
ces of being marginalized.
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Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy (AU)TRauMWeRK/ dReaMWoRK
“So touching! I came out of the room with a big smile“ (a guest)www.triageliveartcollective.com
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Martha Labil (AT) HoTeL oBscuRa escoRT
I am delighted to escort you to the „embedded artists“ ANDAKWA. Sit down, have a drink and relax.
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andaKaWa (AT) Katharina Wawrik & angelika daphne KatzingeraBgeHen/coMing Loose
Two embedded artists. A stran-
ger and her cat, fifty ways to
leave your lover, my grandmother
and her apple strudel or how do I
know when it‘s over?
Katrin Wölger (AT) THe aWKWaRdness oF eXPecTaTion
A performance on demand as embedded artist. A search for collective memory, myths, and desires.www.katrinwoelger.com
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THe saLon: oRaL HisToRy
The Salon’s Master of Ceremony
introduces in the Hotel Obscura
salon one to another guest, thus
giving the opportunity of a further
conversation one-to-one and crea-
ting oral history to learn about the
other rooms by exchanging facts,
impressions, and emotions.
salon
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The Movie
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A 18 minutes documentary by Anatol
Bogendorfer on www.fabrikanten.at/hotelobscura
„It‘s fascinating to see where people are willing to go.“
„My heart was pounding for 15 minutes.“
„From that point anything could really effectively happen.“
in cooperation with supported by
HoTeL oBscuRa at magdas HotelVienna 9.-10.10.2015
in athens, Linz, Tours, Melbourne
and Vienna
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An Australian-European cooperation project. Initiated by Triage (AU) and Die Fabrikanten (AT), as well as Mezzanine Spectacles, La Transplanisphère, La Folie Kilo mètre & GK (FR), Ohi Pezoume (GR).
www.hotelobscura.org
Photos: Magdalena Blaszczuk (cover, pages 2-24), Andreea Sasaran, Anatol Bogendorfer, Michael Rusam Realisation: Gerald Harringer, Wolfgang Preisinger, Leonie Reese, Andreea Sasaran. PR: Martin Lengauer Thanks to: participating artists, Sebastiaan De-Vos, Ariane-Theresa Gollia (magdas Hotel), Fam. Dangl (Hotel Wolfinger), Holger Jagersberger: Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz
HoTeL oBscuRa at Hotel WolfingerLinz 1.2.2015
HOTEL OBSCURA MAP
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With live art projects such as “EXCHANGE RADICAL MOMENTS!
Live Art Festival”, or the “Zimmermusikfestival Heimsuchung”
(Living-room-music-festival Visitation), or even very recently with
the book “Rezepte der Gastfreundschaft” (Recipes for hospi-
tality), the artists and curators of the Fabrikanten have always
looked for a very direct contact with their audiences.
Spittelwiese 8, 4020 Linz
Website www.fabrikanten.at
Facebook www.facebook.com/fabrikanten
CULTURE gROWS THROUgH ExCHANgE.