What can be done? - Praktiken der Solidarität
© Anna Witt, Routineübung, Videostill, Traiskirchen, 2022
Anna Witt, Routineübung (Routine Exercise), Performance Traiskirchen, (c) Joanna Pianka
Anna Witt, Routineübung (Routine Exercise), Performance Traiskirchen, (c) Joanna Pianka
Anna Witt, Opening Traiskirchen, (c) Joanna Pianka
Anna Witt
Born 1982 in Wasserburg upon the Inn (Germany), lives in Vienna
Routineübung (Routine Exercise), 2022
Performative interventions and video
The Theater of the Oppressed is a political form of theater that was developed by the Brazilian director and theater theorist Augusto Boal in the 1970s. It is based on the idea that theater can be a political instrument of protest capable of showing social alternatives, while also turning hierarchal rules upside-down. It suggests methods of utilizing processes of development and change.
Together with Traiskirchen locals and refugees, Anna Witt has developed performative scenes based on Boal’s theater experiments that are grounded in actual situations that have been fleshed out and fictionalized. They imagine possible ways to act out of solidarity and moral courage. Like exercises that are done to prepare for emergencies, routine movements were developed that could be applied as playful exceptional situations in public places.
The interventions, which were documented with infrared cameras, can be seen in a control station that is similar to a surveillance room.
With support from InfraTec GmbH
Location: Arkadia (Video) and train station on Badner Bahn line (Performance), station: Traiskirchen Lokalbahn
For more information about the performance dates, visit: www.koernoe.at/www.traiskirchen.gv.at
Born 1982 in Wasserburg upon the Inn (Germany), lives in Vienna
Routineübung (Routine Exercise), 2022
Performative interventions and video
The Theater of the Oppressed is a political form of theater that was developed by the Brazilian director and theater theorist Augusto Boal in the 1970s. It is based on the idea that theater can be a political instrument of protest capable of showing social alternatives, while also turning hierarchal rules upside-down. It suggests methods of utilizing processes of development and change.
Together with Traiskirchen locals and refugees, Anna Witt has developed performative scenes based on Boal’s theater experiments that are grounded in actual situations that have been fleshed out and fictionalized. They imagine possible ways to act out of solidarity and moral courage. Like exercises that are done to prepare for emergencies, routine movements were developed that could be applied as playful exceptional situations in public places.
The interventions, which were documented with infrared cameras, can be seen in a control station that is similar to a surveillance room.
With support from InfraTec GmbH
Location: Arkadia (Video) and train station on Badner Bahn line (Performance), station: Traiskirchen Lokalbahn
For more information about the performance dates, visit: www.koernoe.at/www.traiskirchen.gv.at