UNDERGROUND CITY 21 :: Vienna                         04th - 10th October 2010

the fragmented city

a real-time simulation of the virtual Underground City 21

A jouney on a performative-installative course,

along the axis of the Parterstrasse in the 2nd district of Vienna creates an interactive theatre space and turns into a journey through the virtual underground city 21.

Cooperating venues:

 Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom    

  Open Space                                 

 f l u c                                             

see pictuers on Flickr

04. - 10. Oct.

Underground City 21 Vienna
a real-time simulation of the virtual Underground City 21

Performance/Festival/Installation
Mo. 04. to Su. 10. October 2010

various locations / Praterstraße Vienna
The Underground City 21 opens daily at 19:00
At Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom and at specific times in the LABfactory

Artistic Direction, Concept, Direction: Thomas J. Jelinek
Dramaturgy / Direction Discourse: Jan Deck
Production Manager: Marlies Pucher

A co-operation of NOMADtheatre and LABfactory Wien
together with Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom,
and: fluc, OpenSpace, Forum Diskurs Dramaturgie

 

International and local artists, theoreticians, scientists, experts of daily life and self-made- specialists create, together with the audience, within this 7-days-festival-like concentration of events, a simulation of an urban situation, of the city space of an individual counter-society. The process of these days is being recorded and will be fed as a digital sculptuer to a 3D structure in development, which is part of the EU-Project under the same name.

Guides, Connnaisseurs and informed persons lead you through the fragments, the course, the situations and the programme of the Underground City 21. You can meet them at different points of the network, get to know them, seek advice from them and be lead by them through the entangeld world of the Underground City and its programme. They are the persons to trust. They guarantee a safe journey through the Underground City 21.

Underground City 21

When there is no unoccupied, no regulated and inhabitable space left on the surface, the surviving, innovative, maybe also suspect forms of life will evade into the space under ground. When the subjective-virtual construction of physical cities are not sufficient anymore to provide a proper quality of life, the social networks and constructions into a digital urban space and start building the subversive and progressive underground of the public and society.

Underground City 21 Vienna is recording snapshots, utopias and potentials in real and imaginary networks and is manifesting their structures of thinking and activities and actions into installative and performative sculptures. The idea of public space, in all its socio-cultural and political dimensions, as well as the imaginative borderlines between upper and under ground will be discussed as part of a discursive process within the fields of art. Collaborative ideas and subjective creations, micronations as social circles, are, placed as fragments on various kinds of ´stages´.

By doing this, a contextual sphere is created in which a contemporary form of theatre can emerge, which at the same time is a real time-simulation of an Underground City in the 21st century. Taking up the parameters of the geographical, physical and historical threads of the real starting point of the project in the ex-coal-mine in Labin/Croatia, a temporary sculpture of UNDERGROUND CITY 21 will be created by all participating people, artists, theoreticians, spectators and supporters. Every participant will, at least for a short time, become an inhabitant of Underground City 21.

Taking the map of the mine in Labin as a structural model for the physical form and following the idea of transferring a far away region of similar size, consistent mainly in its social network and structures of communication and coding, the project is taking the Praterstrasse (in the 2nd district of Vienna) as the main axes opening and connecting a number of spaces to activities and art projects.
Beside the main venues of Theatre Nestroyhof Hamakom, the LABfactory, the music-venue fluc or the bar Lokativ and a number of the galleries, Bars and coffeehouses along Praterstrasse, we will follow several “side-tunnels” to associated venues like OpenSpace, the XI-Bar, the Cabaret Renz, but also to a number of private flats and hidden places in the urban structure of the 2nd district. The local history, traditions, contemporary movements, local structures and activists, hopes, fears and craziness, are meeting international but locally working artists, and a global discourse on living society and future, at the same time simulating an international sculpture.

Statements
"... Damit möchte ich neben dem virulenten thema des schwindens von öffentlichem raum mit dem auch das verschwinden eines untergrund-begriffs, (bzw. der widerständigkeit und gegenentwürfe) verbunden ist, auch einen anderen theaterbegriff positionieren, der weit über vorhandenes wie situationismus, aktivismus im öffentlichen raum oder stationentheater etc. hinausgeht und bewusst dem landläufigen aufsagen von auswendig gelerntem text in gebastelten kontexten in "sparten-kisten" gegenüber steht. ..."
(Thomas J. Jelinek)

"Wenn Theater politische Relevanz haben möchte, sollte es sich auch mit der Neoliberalisierung der Städte beschäftigen. Das könnte bedeuten, Privatisierung, Gentrifizierung und die Funktion von Sicherheitsdiskursen in den Blick zu nehmen und auf Gegendiskurse und Möglichkeitsräume jenseits herrschender Praxen zu verweisen. Aber es sollte nicht nur Stücke, sondern Situationen schaffen, die auf die Überproduktion von Sinn mit der Neuaufteilung des Sinnlichen reagieren: Das  Aufsuchen anderer Orte, die Thematisierung des Gehens im öffentlichen Raum, die Inklusion von Experten außerhalb des Theaters, das Schaffen von Gegenbildern und anderen Schauordnungen, die Intervention zur Unterbrechung politischer Logiken. Theater auf politische Weise zu machen könnte bedeuten, es als soziale Situation zu verstehen, die das Politische körperlich und sinnlich erfahrbar macht – egal ob im öffentlichen Raum oder in der „black box“. Dies will „Underground City 21 Vienna“
versuchen."
(Jan Deck)

 abstract

international

Underground City project 

UNDERGROUND CITY XXI

TRANSART 2010                 

UCXXI

09-09 to 10-10-2010

TRANSART Labin 

09-10 to 01-10

TRANSART Vienna

04-10 to 10-10

Erik Alalooga/ artist (EST), AIKO/Kazuko Kurosaki/ choreographer, performer (JP/A), Fahim Amir/ theoretician, cultural producer (AFG/A), artWERK (A), Sigi Aigner aka Musurunga (Fuckhead) (A), Daniel Aschwanden/ choreographer, artist (CH/A), Andreas Berger/GLIM/ musician, soundcreator (A), Didi Bruckmayr/ musician (A), Steve Buchanan/ musician, dancer, artist (USA), Libia Castro/ artist (NL), Chris Standfest/Theatercombinat/ dramaturg, performer (D/A), Stefano Cavagnetto/ media analyst, philosopher (I), Stephanie Cumming/ choreographer, dancer, performer (CAN), Esther Csapo/ radio moderator (A), Jan Deck/ dramaturg, theatre maker, curator (D), Verena Dürr/ artist, musician (A),Thomas Edlinger/ journalist, curator (A), FM-Einheit/ musician (D), Alexander Emanuely/ writer (A), Simone D. Fachel/ theatre-maker, photographer (D),peter fuxx/ artist (A), Vanja Fuchs/ artist, (SLO/A), Rino Gropuzzo/ photographer (HR), Barbara Husar/ visual and conceptual artist (A), Christina Hartl-Prager/ artist (A), Ana Hoffner/ artist (D), Mikko Hyvönen/ performer (FIN), Ivan Jakovcic/ President of the Region of Istria & Sanja Svrljuga/ artist (CRO), Robert Jelinek/Sabotage, artist (A), Thomas J.Jelinek/NOMAD/ curator, director, dramaturg (SWE/A), Harald Jokesch/ dramaturg, actor (A), David Kleinl/Tanz Baby!/ artist (A), Verena Kuni/ art-media theoretician (D), Joonas Lahtinen/ performer (FIN), Joke Lanz/Sudden Infant, music performer (CH/D), Magda Loitzenbauer/ performer (BRA/A), Michael Loizenbauer/ videoartist, photographer (A), Jörg Lukas Matthaei/ director, theatre maker (Berlin), Katharina Meves/ dancer, performer (D), MU Kristian Musser/Tanz Baby!/ musician, artist (A), Gini Müller/ director, theatre maker (A), Jaume Nualart/ media activist (CAT), Şener Özmen and Cengiz Tekin (TR), Ólafur Ólafsson/ artist (D), Fritz Ostermayer/ journalist, author, DJ, musician (A), Robert Pinzolitz/ artist, musician, producer (A), Regina Picker/ performer /artist (A), Paul Poet/ film maker, director, producer (A), Ulla Rauter/ artist, musician (D), Ropert/ bond-artist (A), Salka Ardal Rosengren/ performer (SWE), Benedikt Rubey/ media artist (A)/Jorge Sánchez-Chiong/ composer, turntablist (VEZ/A),  Anna Scheer/ performing media artist (A), Lars Schmidt/red park/ artist (A), Jutta Schwarz/ actress and performer (A), Deniz Sözen/ artist (TR/A/GB), Klaus Spiess/ medical scientist (A), Norbert Steiner/SPUTNIK/ architect (A), Julischka Stengele/performance artist (D), Lucie Strecker/artist (D), Jan Tabor/ urbanist, architectural critic (CZ/A), Yuka Takahashi/ performer (JP), Lisa Truttmann/ visual and media artist (A), Janek Turkowski/ curator, performer (PL), Lena Wicke-Aengenheyster/STAATSAFFAIRE/ artist (D/A), Brigitte Wilfing/ choreographer, performer (A), Katherina Zakravsky/ philosopher, performer (A), Dean Zahtila /President of L.A.E./artist (HR)/
and others...

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