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VORBRENNER is a contemporary art platform that promotes process-oriented work across all disciplines and genres. It offers short-term opportunities for collaboration for both collectives and individual artists in search of new insights and contemporary forms of expression that engage with an interdisziplinary concept of art and science. The focus is on a movement that is curious, experimental, researching, and developing, that welcomes the unfinished, the paradoxical, and the fragmentary. For exploratory trials of such nature, VORBRENNER provides the BRUX premises along with infrastructure and financial resources.

"I am outside of it in the land of NOPE."
E. Jane

Calendar

  • Performance: Subvocal
    Aapo Nikkanen, Raudie McLeod
    BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck -> schwarzer Raum
  • Performance: Subvocal
    Aapo Nikkanen, Raudie McLeod
    BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck -> schwarzer Raum
  • Workshop Archival Cruising: The Radical Act of Spending Money
    Laura Nitsch
  • Opening: The Radical Act of Spending Money
    Laura Nitsch
  • Screening/Installation: The Radical Act of Spending Money
    Laura Nitsch
  • Workshop Archival Cruising: The Radical Act of Spending Money
    Laura Nitsch
  • Screening/Installation: The Radical Act of Spending Money
    Laura Nitsch
  • Screening/Installation: The Radical Act of Spending Money
    Laura Nitsch
  • Performance: MASCOTTE
    Julie Carrere, Brad Nath
  • Performance: MASCOTTE
    Julie Carrere, Brad Nath
  • Lecture-Performance: Photosensitives
    Drága Cardo
  • Installation: Photosensitives
    Drága Cardo
  • Play: Pos. 19 Relations II Lost Objects
    Hanna Kučera, Lusine Kagramanyan, Helen Clare Kinney, Monika Kučera
  • Play: Pos. 19 Relations II Lost Objects
    Hanna Kučera, Lusine Kagramanyan, Helen Clare Kinney, Monika Kučera

Archive

Photosensitives

Drága Cardo
07.09.-11.10.2026
Video-Installation
BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck
© Drága Cardo
© Drága Cardo
© Drága Cardo
© Drága Cardo

    Photosensitives focuses on the ecological development of Super 8 film with plants, departing from the intersections between environmentalism, image production and queerness. In their project, the duo Drága Cardo plans to focus on the vegetation in and surrounding Innsbruck in order to find plants which can be used as ecological developers for Super 8 film. They will shoot one black and white portrait-cartridge of each other with a plant from Innsbruck, which they might feel represented by and use this very plant for the processing of the cartridge. By working with their own queer bodies, the artists will explore the close conceptual link between the photosensitive surface of film, the photosynthetic quality of plants and the way how queer life moves between visibility/invisibility to articulate its own forms of self-representation. 

    Drága Cardo

    Drága Cardo is an artist duo based in Bilbao and Vienna and formed by Camil Téllez and Eszter Katalin in 2024, but collaborating in various projects since 2020. The two artists approach the topics of queer, non-binary and lesbian representation, fictional story-telling, intimacy, ecology and gaze politics in digital and analog media. So far their work has been presented in screenings and exhibitions in Spain, Austria and Argentina.

    Eszter Katalin

    Eszter Katalin is an artist and filmmaker living in Vienna. In her work, she develops an experimental documentary and essayistic practice from a queer-feminist and lesbian perspective. Her films have been shown internationally in exhibitions and at numerous festivals such as Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, etc. In 2019 she was awarded a residency at Tabakalera - International Centre for Contemporary Culture and in 2020 at BilbaoArte Foundation. During the latter residency she created the visual essay “Azkorri árnyéka alatt”, which won the Sunset Kino Award of the Salzburger Kunstverein for filmmakers under 35. In 2023 she developed with the feminist association Histeria the documentary QUEER (UN)BELONGINGS with LGBTQ+ migrant artists living in the Basque Country and received the same year the start-stipend for media-art, awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport. In 2024 together with Camil Téllez she was awarded a grant from the municipality of Irun to explore the possibilities of ecological development of Super 8 film with local plants growing in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country. 

    Camil Téllez

    Camil Téllez is a transdisciplinary artist based in Bilbao and Vienna. They studied Visual Arts in Chile and hold a Master in Scenic Practices and Visual Culture from MCARS, Madrid. Their artistic oeuvre is spanning over different media, circulating between performative, collaborative, textual and audiovisual practices. Over the years, they have developed an art practice strongly focused on collaboration with other artists from different disciplines and backgrounds in projects like “DAS. Thinking in refuge program for artists” (2022-) in collaboration with Joel Englund (Sweden) and Myriam Rzm (Basque Country); “Spring Transition” (2020-22) in collaboration with Eszter Katalin (Hungary-Austria); “News & Letters” (2019-20) and “Building. Methodology for an incipient architecture.” (2018) in collaboration with many local artists from the Basque Country. Recently they have been involved in an artistic research project about the figure of the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, unearthing their legacy from a non-binary perspective, which received a production grant for visual arts awarded annually by the Basque Government.

    Dates

    • Lecture-Performance
      Drága Cardo
    • Installation
      Drága Cardo

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