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Starting today, performances will be taking place in the former Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) under the title “Homesickness”. The crimes committed once morest children and young people in Austrian children’s homes from the 1950s to the 1980s are dealt with.
A “historical catastrophe of incomprehensible proportions” was the conclusion of the commission of historians set up by the City of Vienna in 2012. The structural crimes that were committed to more than 100,000 children and young people in church and municipal homes in Austria from the 1950s to 1980s while society looked the other way and remained silent are being processed in a new performative installation.
The audience, limited to 30 people, moves through a complex of different rooms and is thus led on the traces of Austria’s past.
In the third and last act of the play, the texts by the young authors Thomas Arzt, Emre Akal, Hannah K Bründl and James Stanson celebrate their world premiere.
Questions regarding stolen childhood
Under the leadership of the director team Victoria Halper and Kai Krösche, the young ensemble of children between eight and twelve years is to create an intimate, (night) dreamlike resonance space. Questions of stolen childhood, homelessness and violence are addressed. The basis is formed by interviews with those affected, experts and intensive research.
Event notice:
November 29 to December 18, 7:30 p.m., WEST, Alte WU, Althanstraße Augasse 2–6, 1090 Vienna
Collectively develops new formats
The lead time for the piece dates back to autumn 2019 and is the third production by the collective DARUM in co-production with WUK. It was founded in 2018 and wants to create formats at the intersection of performance, film, video, sound and installation art. In search of new and immediately tangible forms of aesthetic expression, DARUM consciously pushes the boundaries of the documentary and the fictitious.
The works preferably take place outside of common cultural spaces and thus link the search for universal contemporary themes with the (local) peculiarities of a city. All projects are always preceded by the big question of “why?”.