The Brick Bohemians: A Community

APL - Angewandte Performance Laboratory
Associated Performances

“The Brick Bohemians: A Community” is an ongoing time based performance project, a “domestic resurrection circus”, a laboratory, that in a continual attempt to find the ephemeral moments of poetic artistic transcendence through labor while wallowing in the deep morass of a world that ignores labor and vilifies the working class.

We are working “in between more and more history” to find the pivotal moments between work and religious experience, in the simulations light of the present neo-liberal era where the contradictory light of a celebrated “creative class” suffocates and degrades the work of the artist.. March of 2020 to March of 2021 has been a long matriculation in the “language of pain” and part of that language should compel us to see things as they are. Revealing, as Artaud says, “the lie, the slackness, baseness, and hypocrisy of our world.” Open questions have become part of the real and imagined work of our lab as a methodology to see through the morass of daily existence and lift the veil (even just slightly): when does repetition become ritual? When does traversal become a procession? Labor can become Passion, but should it? At what moment does performativity become performance, and accumulation becomes pageant? Can an object transcend its physical limitations and change states to become sacred?

On March 15th, MMXXI (12:00h-20:00h) the Brick Bohemians will move the bricks created through traversal and construction from Die Angewandte Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 Computer Lab 327 (3rd floor) to Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2 in the newly renovated Lichthof B Rot Gallery (1st floor). There they will stay on “exhibition” until April 1st.

Derrick Ryan Claude Mitchell and team cordially invite you to see the fruits of their labor.

The Brick Bohemians:
Derrick Ryan Claude Mitchell, Philipp Miksch, Susi Gutsche, Yen Nguyen, Daria Berezyuk, Laura Mann, Hannes Moser

Death as portrayed by Thomas Thalhammer

Emperor Franz Joseph as portrayed by: Mani Obeya, Emily Stewart, Lukas Koning, Benny Omerzell, Hannes Moser, Manuel Riegler, Caroline Cook, Daniel Partke

More info:
https://apl.uni-ak.ac.at/index.php/associated-performances/

15.03.2021 - 01.04.2021
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
Lichthof B - Ferstel Trakt
1010 - Wien