Cats rule the Internet. An endless stream of images and videos, memes, vines and gifs, create the most viewed content online. Through video, live camera and a hyper detailed movement language, Dagmar Dachauer and video artist Kilian Immervoll, sharing the stage, explore interactions between humans, cats and robotic pet equivalents – using the elusive Internet cat as a vantage point. They reflect on the changing relationship between the human and the non-human, the wild and the domestic, the natural and the technologized. Hovering between humor and the uncanny valley, they touch a hidden snare: the ongoing search for companionship and comfort.
Selected Aerowaves Twenty20
Foto: Kilian Immervoll, Graphics: Isabell Haas
Direction: Dagmar Dachauer Co-Creation and Performance: Dagmar Dachauer, Kilian Immervoll Video: Kilian Immervoll Sound Design: Manuel Riegler Dramaturgy: Edith Cassiers Light Design, Technical Solutions: Janko Oven, Georg Schober Costumes: Louise Hanquet Production: Dusana Baltic, Katja Somrak Produced by umfug Co-Production: C – TAKT, Plesni Teater Ljubljana, Büro für tanz I theater I produktionen
Residencies/Supported by Landestheater Linz – Musiktheater, Ars Electronica Future Lab, De Warande, SZENE Salzburg, D.ID, Dommelhof, GC De Kroon, Tanzfabrik RedSapata, A.I.R. residency@ART SPACE stift millstatt, K.A.K. Koekelbergse Alliantie van Knutselaars
Funding: Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, Land Oberösterreich, Stadt Linz, Stadt Klagenfurt
TOUR
AUSTRIA 5.9. Excerpt at Ars Electronica Festival, POSTCITY Linz 7.9. Landestheater Musiktheater Blackbox Lounge, 20:00 AUSTRIAN PREMIERE 8.9. Landestheater Musiktheater Blackbox Lounge, 15:00 8.9. Landestheater Musiktheater Blackbox Lounge, 20:00
BELGIUM 16.9. C-TAKT Festival, C-Mine Genk, BELGIAN PREMIERE 20.9. GC De Kroon Brussels
SLOVENIA 29.9. Plesni Teater Ljubljana, 20:00, SLOVENIAN PREMIERE 30.9. Plesni Teater Ljubljana, 20:00
