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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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One Hour and a half in the life of Ztscrpt

Christian Egger, Christian Kosmas Mayer, Yves Mettler, Magda Tóthová, Ruth Weismann, Alexander Wolff
10.-14.09.2018
BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck, schwarzer Raum

        Since 2002, the artist collective—consisting of Christian Egger, Christian Kosmas Mayer, Yves Mettler, Magda Tóthová, Ruth Weismann, and Alexander Wolff—has been producing Ztscrpt, an independent, international publication focusing on contemporary art, theory, and society.

        The play “One Hour and a Half in the Life of Ztscrpt” once again portrays the protagonists as they descend deeper into self-referential blind spots, also addressing the growing pressure to perform in various aspects of social life. While claiming to tell the story of the characters’ personal lives, the piece strongly resembles Pollesch’s slow-motion plays, draws on familiar anecdotes from Andy Warhol’s Factory, and, at its worst, recalls a simplistic plot from an episode of “Friends.”

        As their interests diverge, one member of the editorial staff wants to integrate the magazine into a homeless newspaper where they now work, while another member insists on featuring only their own art projects, both in writing and visuals. The original spirit of communication that once united them has given way to frantic project talk, which some find increasingly difficult to engage in due to excessive drug and alcohol consumption.

        Christian Egger
        Christian Kosmas Mayer
        Yves Mettler
        Magda Tóthová
        Ruth Weismann
        Alexander Wolff

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