Archipelago

The Ritual Season

14.2 - 23.3.2024, Wed - Sat 2-7 pm, Vogelweidplatz 13, 1150 Vienna

With The Ritual Season, Gottfarb and his collaborators invite their audience to experience the creation of a secular ritual. This immersive experience transforms Der Betrieb into a space for reflection and contemplation.

Based on established practices rooted in repetition and transformation, the artists perform a formalized ceremony open to a multitude of individual dedications and associations. 

In this setting, performers and audience members alike have the freedom to shape the purpose of their actions. For the audience, it's an opportunity to explore personal associations, while the performers let their dedications shape the work. From shattering object fetishization to sacrificing time, confronting energy consumption, and participating in rituals of forgiveness, the variations are as varied as the people engaged.

What rituals are lacking in our lives? Can we revive old traditions, forge alternative pathways and gently guide existing rituals toward a meaningful future?

In a performance spanning five hours daily, four days a week over six weeks, the audience enjoys the freedom to come and go as they please, and establish a reoccurring individual encounter with a ritual.

Artistic direction: Alexander Gottfarb

Choreography and Dance: Alexander Gottfarb, Raul Maia, Anna Maria Nowak and Lena Schattenberg

Live Drawings: Hanna Hollmann 

Musical Composition:  Stephan Sperlich

Food Performance: Thomas Kasebacher

Musical contribution: Raul Maia, Tini Trampler

Costume: Hanna Hollmann

Technical Support: Roman Harrer

Production and management: mollusca productions

Graphic Design: Katarina Schildgen

Photo: Victoria Nazarova

 

Produced by Archipelago and co-produced by Tanzquartier Wien.

With kind support of the City of Vienna (MA7) and the bmkös - Federal Ministry Republic of Austria - Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport Department and Arbeitsplatz Wien