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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

The Radical Act of Spending Money

Laura Nitsch
01.-30.06.2026
Screening, archival cruising
© Unterguggenberger_Institut
© Unterguggenberger Institut
© Unterguggenberger_Institut
© Unterguggenberger Institut

    The Radical Act of Spending Money (AT) is a speculative documentary and artistic research project exploring money as both a material and affective structure of social life. Departing from the Schwundgeld experiment in Wörgl (1932/33), it examines the political imagination of value, circulation, and decay—and asks how time operates within economic systems: what does it mean when money moves, stagnates, or disappears?
    Through archival research, filmic sketches, and participatory “archival cruisings,” the project unfolds as an open process of thinking and making. It combines documentary fragments, speculative reenactments, and sonic experiments to trace the fragile boundaries between memory, economy, and collective possibility. 
         Situated between historical research and future speculation, The Radical Act of Spending Money envisions money as a social relation—an invitation to reimagine economic participation, mutual care, and shared forms of wealth.

    Laura Nitsch

    Laura Nitsch is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work operates at the intersection of artistic research, film, and theory, investigating the entanglements of desire and economy, labour and friendship, property and education, class struggle and collectivity. She works with queer modes of production, working-class archives, and marginalized and resistant narratives, employing strategies of critical fabulation (Saidiya Hartman) to question the limits of official archives and historical narratives.
    Her films and installations have been presented at Diagonale Graz, mumok kino Vienna, nGbK Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Xhibit Vienna, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, and Blickle Kino Belvedere 21, among others. She is a recipient of the Theodor Körner Prize, participated in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, and has received numerous further grants and awards. Her works are part of the City of Vienna Art Collection. Nitsch has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the Zurich University of the Arts. She lives in Berlin and Vienna.

    lauranitsch.net

    Dates

    • Workshop Archival Cruising
      Laura Nitsch
    • Opening
      Laura Nitsch
    • Screening/Installation
      Laura Nitsch
    • Workshop Archival Cruising
      Laura Nitsch
    • Screening/Installation
      Laura Nitsch
    • Screening/Installation
      Laura Nitsch

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