The Live Art Development Agency (LADA) present a special screening of Hotel Obscura as part of their LADA Screens programme. Hotel Obscura is a documentary about a series of one-to-one performances that took place in a hotel in Vienna, Austria, produced by Die Fabrikanten. For the launch event we are very pleased to be joined by Wolfgang Preisinger and Anatol Bogendorfer from Die Fabrikanten, Brian Lobel, a participating artist in Hotel Obscura and co-creator of the Documenting Intimacy project in collaboration with LADA, and Mandy Romero curator of the Tranny Hotel, a project which took place at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool in 2011 and was part of Die Fabrikanten’s Exchange Radical Moments Live Art Festival. They will be talking about one-to-one performance and creating work in hotels. Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum
About Hotel Obscura: The setting for the event was the Magdas hotel in Vienna, a hotel run by refugees where guests meet different artists in one-to-one settings. The event asked participants to what extent is someone willing to open themselves up to a stranger and enter into an encounter? Die Fabrikanten have been working as artists and curators for 27 years and are based in Linz, Austria.
Director: Anatol Bogendorfer
18 minutes
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The artists involved in Hotel Obscura Austria were:
Katharina Wawrik (AT): Outland
Club Real (DE): Erica
Alix Denambride (FR) Google Translate
Deborah Hazler (AT): Questions of Trust
Patrik Huber (AT) Condensation
Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy / Triage (AU) Dreamwork
Martha Laschkolnig & Markus Zett (AT) Mr. and Mrs. Meise ”ferry across“
Brian Lobel (GB): You Have to Forgive Me
Veronika Merklein (AT) Strawberry Milk
Mandy Romero aka Roger Hill (GB) Fabrications
Mario Sinnhofer (AT) Untitled
Chris Swoon (AT): 20102020 – Solo With You
Silk Fluegge (AT) I Will Dance You Till The End Of...
Elise Terranova (AU): Last Rites
Time's Up (AT): Lucid Peninsula
Your Cousin Pia (AT) Shelter
Rea Zekkou (GR) Just Another Brain Drain
Hotel Obscura is part of a wider project that culminated in hotel-based performance projects in four cities: Athens, Melbourne, Tours and Vienna. Hotel Obscura is an international cooperation project with European and Australian partners. It is currently being developed and produced by Triage, Erin Milne & Arts House (AUS); Die Fabrikanten (AT), Mezzanine Spectacles, GK Theater, La Folie Kilomètre & La Transplanisphère (FR) & Ohi Pezoume (GR) in Europe. The aim of the project is to develop a rich program of intercultural and artistic exchanges that investigate live art and interdisciplinary performance art and to form and long-term artistic collaborations and networks for all partners and cities involved.
