Due to the limited capacity, tickets will be issued at the box office in the Funkhaus from 9pm.
Every Sunday evening, when the sun begins to set, the garden of the House of the Republic turns into a very special place: gathering around a campfire, artists present their shaman Campfire performances that blend rituals, love and debate. Shamanism – one of the oldest problem-solving and healing traditions in the world – mediates between the worlds of humans and of spirits. Communal experiences that illuminate our world from different angles emerge by the campfire with music, dance and language, invigorating that world with new, utopian life.
Laurie Anderson Ghost Stories Sun, 18 May
In the glow of the campfire, the audience gathers around musician, storyteller, and icon Laurie Anderson. Accompanied by her violin, she tells Ghost Stories with her unmistakable voice and subtle humor. In doing so, she takes the audience on a journey between worlds. Memories, sounds, and fleeting apparitions weave together into a haunting tapestry of intimacy and transience.
Concept, Performance: Laurie Anderson
Live Electronics: Doug WieselmanKatharina Kummer Under the blankets – Red Edition Sun, 25 May
Come with us under the blankets and dream…
of a sex*work*future as we‘d like it.
Be as fantastic as you wish.
Imagine…
us as whores, customers, guests, creators of intimacy. Imagine an exchange of values. How does it taste if it‘s tasty?
But wait - in a utopian world - would there be sexwork at all? What is it?
How would a society look like where every-body is rich in terms of connection, intimacy and expression of desire?
DON‘T ANSWER! DREAM…
We’re under the blankets. This is a world of wonder.A pretended Research-Space*performance-Lab by „RED EDITION - Migrant Sex Worker’s Group Vienna“
Concept / Script / Mis en Scène: Katharina Kummer
Performed by and created in collaboration with Rian X., Damien Thorn, Djuna Chimera & Michelle Stripes
Objects/Costumes: Alma Bektas
Masks: Hagen Tilp, Animals: straight out of heaven
Red Edition is a sex worker-led community organisation that works to improve the working and living conditions of all sex workers through community mobilisation, empowerment and political advocacy - in solidarity with all workers and marginalised groups. Red Edition was founded in August 2015, when a number of migrant sex workers in Vienna came together informally to talk about their experiences and challenges in everyday sex work - especially as migrants.Stina Fors Pissing in the river Sun, 1 June
Around the bonfire, Stina Fors spits out a monologue without end. She walks and walks and talks, turning the hour into an erosive landscape. Her voice perpetually shifts and multiplies as the text unfolds in layers: personal, borrowed, stolen. We start to wonder: What is the function of the text? Is it a confession? A testimony? A strategy to shock? A seductive tool to get laid? A fantasy? A therapeutic process? A manipulative game?
Please note:
This performance includes depictions of sexual violence and explicit sexual content.
The text can at times provoke fantasies of incestious relationships.Hengameh Yaghoobifarah & Ulla Heinrich (Missy Magazine) Fuck You! – Sex, Body, Feminism Sun, 8 June
Fickt Euch! – Sex, Körper, Feminismus (Fuck You! – Sex, Body, Feminism) was published in September 2024 by the Hamburg publisher Edition Nautilus. The anthology of Missy Magazine sex columns aims to entertain as well as to highlight marginalised questions all about sex, to educate and to cut through taboos. It is queer, sensuous, provoking and free of shame. Is it okay for a Lesbian to be turned on by uninspired hetero porn? How impossible is anal sex with haemorrhoids? How does bondage mix with disability? How randy is conception sex? And: good sexting – how does that work? At the fourth campfire, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah and Ulla Heinrich from Missy Magazine read their favourite texts from the book and give some insight into how it came to be.
Lady Bitch Ray Yalla, Yalla, Maşallah! - Kommt Herzen, lasst uns eins werden! Sun, 15 June
As part of a lecture and spoken word performance, Dr. Bitch Ray talks about Alevi shamanism and how intersectional-feminist rituals can liberate shamanism, religion, and ideology from patriarchal structures in general.
Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe Jeanne Dark and the prophecy of the double Sun, 22 June
Jeanne Dark is neither a shaman nor a witch. She could be a mythical figure, but she is not. What she has is a way of being in the world that always places her on the margins, at the edge of the visible world. She is called a woman, for lack of a better term, but she does not belong to any defined category. She moves through crowds without blending in, meets gazes without ever fully surrendering to them. She is the shadow of a certainty that does not exist.
Concept and performance ; Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe
Music composition : Ursula Winteraurer
Video setting : David Pujadas Bosch
With the kind contribution of the students of APL-Angewandte Performance Lab Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien Artur Sechernthaner-Lourdesamy, Zhou Yuri, Sekritt Unzog, Aleksandar Gabrovski, Arina Nekliudova
