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VORBRENNER is a contemporary art platform that promotes process-oriented work across all disciplines and genres. It offers short-term opportunities for collaboration for both collectives and individual artists in search of new insights and contemporary forms of expression that engage with an interdisziplinary concept of art and science. The focus is on a movement that is curious, experimental, researching, and developing, that welcomes the unfinished, the paradoxical, and the fragmentary. For exploratory trials of such nature, VORBRENNER provides the BRUX premises along with infrastructure and financial resources.

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Drahtseilakt (A tightrope act)

Nika Pfeifer, Milena Kipfmüller
01.-14.09.2019
BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck, schwarzer Raum
Performance
  • Fri 13.09.2019 20:00
  • Sat 14.09.2019 20:00

In a breathtaking balancing act in which time runs backward, this VORBRENNER experiment stages the prelude and turning point of an actual historical event from 1949: the tragic death of a famous tightrope walker and his daughter, who fell to their death while attempting to cross the Danube Canal in Vienna. By narrating the moment of the stunt both backward and forward, the event, which ended fatally, is reimagined – tentatively – as a successful act: The pivotal moment, then and now staged as an intentional breaking point, is now the live stream. The digital stream, which is not exaggerated but rather becomes the flow itself, takes on the role of interlocutor on stage. Through this, the events that unfold in real-time become an inquiry into the significance of a single moment, with the questions posed in the physical danger of the performance. This is then staged acoustically and performatively as a real-time stage installation.

Milena Kipfmüller and Nika Pfeifer perform a daring tightrope act that connects the past performance with the present. The periscope, once used during wartime to anticipate the dangers “lurking around the corner,” is used by the duo as an audio-visual layer to counter the text. They use the Periscope platform as a pool of images and sounds to counter the tightrope walkers. The text itself and the digital input become raw material for the musical composition—sentences, words, syllables—that are live-sampled by the performers and composed into a symphony of meaningful anticipation. This is then streamed live in a feedback loop and broadcast as a soundtrack radio play.

Nika Pfeifer
Milena Kipfmüller

Dates

  • Performance
    Nika Pfeifer, Milena Kipfmüller
    BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck,
    schwarzer Raum
  • Performance
    Nika Pfeifer, Milena Kipfmüller
    BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck,
    schwarzer Raum

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