… for our upcoming Vienna premiere!
save these dates: March 9th, 10th, 11th, 2020
imagetanz Festival @brut Wien
December 20th at MATERIAL ZÜRICH
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singing songs and telling stories about elves and cyborgs.
what to expect: melodrama, esoteric tripping and 21st century trivia. come!!!
entrance = free!
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18:00 Scratch Your Face Away! curated by Anissa Nussbaumer
19:00 Performative Reading/Concert by Malika Fankha/Dark Euphoria
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© Franzi Kreis
Oxy Moron goes San Francisco
Nov 9th, 2019
© Maureen Kaegi
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We are very excited to be part of Beyond The Body – an interdisciplinary event organized by Swissnex San Francisco, November 9th, 2019 6:30 – 10:00 pm
Come around if you are somewhere in the bay. Free ticket code: liveforever
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En résidence…
LMFAO
© Malika Fankha
A new FANKS production is in the making and will enter its first work phase during a residency at Studio Thor in Brussels in October 2019.
∆ ∆ ∆ Public showings of LMFAO coming up ∆ ∆ ∆
18-10-19 Studio Thor Brussels
19-12-19 Material, Zurich
30-03-20 zurich moves
12-04-20 BUDA Kortrijk
new creation 2019:
“OXY MORON – A CYBORG UTOPIA”
“Resistance is no longer sufficient. We need to turn things upside down, create new contradictions and illegibility.“ – Ch. Schlingensief
Oxy Moron is a play of multiple selves and their constant, seamless shape-shift between fiction and reality, magic and science, present and future. Using the modern day cyborg as a metaphorical narrative that unites both human appearance and machine-like behaviour, the work juggles with stereotypes and challenges different concepts of a perceived norm. Identities, corporealities and social status pass through a precarious transformation between self-empowerment, self-enhancement, self-optimization and self-deformation questioning the significance of the physical and the human in a digital age.
SHOWS
30.03.2019 Showing at Im_flieger with imagetanz
05.06.2019 Tanzhaus Zürich (Premiere)
06.-07.06.2019 Tanzhaus Zürich
09.11.2019 Swissnex San Francisco
03.2020 imagetanz Festival brut, Vienna
CREDITS
Artistic direction, performance: Malika Fankha
Makeup/Costume/Stage: Valérie Reding
Technical Direction/Lights: David Baumgartner
Sound: Dark Euphoria feat. AC/BOY
Outside Eyes: Anna Mendelssohn & Simone Aughterlony
Photo: Valérie Reding
Production: FANKS, Sophie Schmeiser, Eva Holzinger
Coproduction: Tanzhaus Zürich, Brut Wien imagetanz Festival
Residency partners: Workspacebrussels/Kaaitheater (BE), Campo Ghent (BE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), im_flieger Vienna (A), Counterpulse San Francisco (USA)
Oxy Moron is supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Stadt Wien Kultur MA 7, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, Nestlé Fondation pour l’Art and the Swiss Embassy in Vienna
Sept 21st, 2018
Oxy Moron is taking shape…
New season, new production! Stoked to announce the upcoming collaboration with performer & makeup artist Valérie Reding and an unbeatable team at Tanzhaus Zürich and WUK performing arts Vienna. Here is a tiny sneak peek from our first session…
Also, we would like to thank our residency partners for supporting us throughout the process: im_flieger, Vienna, Tanzhaus Zürich, Campo Ghent, Counterpulse San Francisco, Workspace Brussels & Kaaitheater Brussels, Sibiu Casa do Pombal, Portugal
© Valérie Reding (styling, video)
Oxy Moron
New creation in the making: Upcoming residencies at Sibiu Casa Do Pombal (April 22nd to 30th, 2018) and Kaaitheater Brussels (May 6th to 31st) hosted by workspacebrussels. Stay tuned.
© Malika Fankha
“Ours is indeed an age of extremity. For we live under continual threat of two equally fearful destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror.” Susan Sontag, The Imagination Of Disaster
Using the modern day cyborg (“A Cyborg Manifesto”, Donna Haraway) as a metaphorical narrative, the work evolves around different notions of human/humanoid/superhuman existence in an age of rapid technological advancement and corporate capitalism. What does it mean to be a physical body in a digital age? Does our mortality just make us vulnerable or does it evoke a precarious optimism in us because it opens up room for ultimate failure? Is our addictive behavior eventually going to lead to our own species’ extinction?
SAUNA
New show coming up! SAUNA premieres
Jan 12th and 13th, 2018
at WUK
Get your tickets, let’s sweat!
#spokenword #dance #performingarts #music
“SAUNA” is a meta-fictional reflection about identity, cohabitation and survival stragegies. Told from the perspective of an unborn child inside a womb it questions the reliability of narration, juggles with knowledge and facts that are largely obscure and thus suggests a new metaphorical Virtual Reality. The obsessive personality of the prenatal storyteller is driven by an unconditional claim for self-determination while at the same time being tied to this other body via the umbilical cord, a symbol of pure dependence and connection. Contemplating dystopian future scenarios, witnessing the trivia of everyday conversations or indulging in excentric navel-gazing, the tale evolves around the contradictions and promiscuity that shape our lifestyle: the either radically intimate or radically superficial.
C R E D I T S
Artistic Direction/Performance: Malika Fankha
Artistic Advice: Maureen Kaegi
Sound: Dark Euphoria feat. Alexander Kasses & Bernd Ammann
Stage: Noushin Redjaian & Jakob Neulinger
Costume: Goran Bugaric
Hair & Makeup: Cosmo Cleverson
Production Support: Superamas, Huggy Bears
Photo: Maria Ritsch
Residency Partners: ImPulsTanz Festival, Cullberg Ballet Stockholm (SE), Life Long Burning, CAMPO Ghent (BE), Dampfzentrale Bern (CH).
SAUNA
© Maria Ritsch, 2017
HOT NEWS FOR THE COLD SEASON: The new solo “SAUNA” (supported by Huggy Bears, Superamas) is in the making and will premiere on January 12th, 2018 at WUK Vienna. We are happy to announce the following residency partners: ImPulsTanz Wien, CAMPO Ghent, Life Long Burning hosted by Cullberg Ballet Stockholm, Dampfzentrale Bern.
“SAUNA” is a meta-fictional reflection about identity, cohabitation and survival stragegies. Told from the perspective of an unborn child inside a womb it questions the reliability of narration, juggles with knowledge and facts that are largely obscure and thus suggests a new metaphorical Virtual Reality. The obsessive personality of the prenatal storyteller is driven by an unconditional claim for self-determination while at the same time being tied to this other body via the umbilical cord, a symbol of pure dependence and connection. Contemplating dystopian future scenarios, witnessing the trivia of everyday conversations or indulging in excentric navel-gazing, the tale evolves around the contradictions and promiscuity that shape our lifestyle: the either radically intimate or radically superficial.