In Liquid Loft’s Imploding Portraits Inevitable series of performances, today’s media-guided self-optimization is confronted with its innermost historical avatar.

The radically private, the making public of which still constituted a subversive act during Warhol’s time, is tediously ubiquitous these days: It has become mainstream, the main flow of images of a society which permanently presents itself online, constantly in a terrific good mood and fundamental exhibited without rules or guidance.

The search for the ideal I within the self-produced moving- or still image, the constant audiovisual sounding of the ego is the final utopia of a society of the amusement-spectacle which has run painfully dry of ideas. In all this one never gets close enough to (one’s own) celebrity: the high-definition, constantly re-sharpened depictions of increasingly deeper penetration of the partial bodies and body parts become a Fantastic voyage – much like a well-known 1966 movie of exploration of bodily worlds of the same title – into the precious microcosms of our superstars: gastroscopy as the most advanced form of pornography.

False Colored Eyes follows this insisting gaze of the Screen-tests and the never blinking eye of Warhol’s camera, which was exclusively aiming at celebrating the comeliness of stretched-out moments of inactivity (on faces, bodies, architecture).

CREDITS

Dance, Choreography: Luke Baio, Stephanie Cumming, Katharina Meves, Anna Maria Nowak, Arttu Palmio, Karin Pauer
Artistic Direction, Choreography: Chris Haring
Composition, Sound: Andreas Berger
Light Design, Scenography: Thomas Jelinek
Costume: Julia Cepp
Theory, Text: Stefan Grissemann
Video Live on Stage: by the performers 
Stage Management: Roman Harrer
Light Design Assistance: Sveta Schwin
Documentation & Photos: Michael Loizenbauer
Distribution: Line Rousseau & Marion Gauvent, A PROPIC
Production Management: Marlies Pucher

A co-production of Tanzquartier Wien & Liquid Loft

Duration: 65min.

Premier: 29 April 2015, Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna AT

Liquid Loft is supported by: MA7 Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien (Cultural Department of the City of Vienna) and BKA Bundeskanzleramt Kunst & Kultur (Austrian Federal Chancellery Arts & Culture)

AGENDA
under construction

2018

3 May 2018 Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, FR

4 May 2018 Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, FR

5 May 2018 Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, FR

 

2016

28 August 2016 Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, NL

27 August 2016 Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, NL

11 June 2016 TANZ IST Internationales Tanz und Performance Festival, Dornbirn AT

18 March 2016 Via 2016, Maubeuge, FR

28 January 2016  Tanzbiennale Heidelberg, DE

 

2015

12 May 2015 – 13 May 2015 Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna AT

05 May 2015 – 09 May 2015 Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna AT

30 April 2015 Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna AT

29 April 2015 première / Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna AT