WUK
Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Vienna
Synesthetic Project
Club Mosaik: ARACHNE
Afterhour session
Viktoria Hofmacher
ARACHNE is a piece of musical theatre inspired by female bonding as well as traditions and rituals surrounding womanhood. The piece draws on motifs from Greek mythology and thematises femininity, equality, connection, rituals and tradition. Its thought processes interweave feminist theory with reflections on multiculturalism and link ancient narratives with personal experiences. Music, movement and text interact within a spider's web that spans both the audience and the performers.
The spider serves as the ultimate symbol of the creator of connections and as a female symbol that has inspired both ancient myths and contemporary artists. The meaning of the web changes over the course of the performance: it simultaneously stands for connection and security, but also for danger and restriction.
The structure of this interdisciplinary piece of music theatre is based on a ritual - an imaginary festival that revolves around the theme of femininity. It draws on various rituals from different cultures and historical periods, such as the Greek festival of Thesmophoria, as well as on the personal stories and experiences of the director's friends and family members.
Inspired by artists and thinkers such as Louise Bourgeois, Ursula K. Le Guin, Clarissa Pinkola Estés and Donna Haraway, the piece weaves a complex web as a metaphor for connection in everyday life and offers a hopeful fabric for the future.
ARACHNE is many stories in one - and none at the same time. It is a ritual, a celebration, a festival of solidarity, resistance and freedom.
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Club Mosaic
In freely accessible after-hours sessions, we invite you to Artists of the festival and the contemporarymusic scene in Vienna to discover new, surprisingor to play the unexpected. A good Opportunity for audience and artists of the MTTW to round off the festival day informally in the WUK project room. leave.
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Credits
Nika Bauman (flute, voice, performance, direction), Sarah Maria
Dragović (viola, voice, performance), Anna Bárbara Bonatto (dance,
performance, assistant director)
Music: Nika Bauman, Meredith Monk, improvisations based on pieces
by Margareta Ferek Petrić, Nava Hemyari and others.
Costume: SALICULA (Nika Vrbica)
Curated by Georg Steker
With friendly support
Bios
Nika Bauman (born 1992) is a Croatian musician and director based in Vienna, Austria. She received her classical training as a flautist at the Academy of Music in Zagreb and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She also completed a master's degree in Contemporary Arts Practice at the latter, specialising in transmedia performance. Bauman works in a variety of roles: as a musician and performer, dramaturge, director, curator and manager. Her artistic and curatorial work as well as her activities in the music industry are characterised above all by interdisciplinarity, cross-genre and innovative approaches.
formats and a strong interest in multiculturalism.
She is the artistic director of the Synesthetic Project ensemble and the multidisciplinary concert series organised by the TAKT cultural association in Vienna. She is also part of the artistic and organisational teams of the MilchxHonig Festival in Wiener Neustadt and the NAWA Festival in Vienna.
As a musician, she is active in the contemporary quartet Ensemble Illyrica, the concept jazz orchestra Mimika and the Croatian Improvisers Orchestra. She has staged ten multidisciplinary music theatre pieces and participated in many more, as well as directing seven music videos. She is also active in the field of young audiences and regularly works with organisations such as Jeunesse Musicales as a performer, director, producer and mentor.
She is the recipient of the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Scholarship, the START Scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Culture in the field of music and other grants from the Austrian and Croatian Ministries of Culture.
Synesthetic Project is a multidisciplinary ensemble under the direction of musician and director Nika Bauman and consists of musicians, dancers and visual artists. Based in Vienna, the ensemble is dedicated to exploring new forms of expression in music theatre through transdisciplinary storytelling. Under Bauman's dramaturgical direction, the ensemble pursues a collaborative creative process. Since its foundation in 2018, the Synesthetic Project has realised ten theatre pieces in various formations as well as seven video works. The ensemble has performed at festivals and on stages in Austria, Germany, Ireland and Croatia and has received funding and support from cultural institutions and ministries in Austria and Croatia.
Playing times
25 September 21:30
Venue
Languages
German