Hotel Obscura Austria

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IN VIENNA AND LINZ

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A one-to-one Live Art project in Linz and Vienna

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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

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Katharina Wawrik (AT) FReMde/ouTLand

Now, who are you? An experiment

on a basic experience.

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Vienna

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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

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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

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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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Linz

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chris swoon (AT) PLus d’un soLo

„Worte haben es der Haut

voraus, übergroße Distanzen

berühren zu können.“

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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?

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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.“

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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.