X Wohnungen Vienna was a site-specific project produced by Brut Wien, that followed two unique tours through the „Stuwerviertel“ in Vienna. Each tour consisted of seven performances, events or installations that inhabited and responded to a series of private flats.
The audience embarked on a parcours, which led spectators from one venue to another. They traveled in pairs and stayed for 10 minutes in each flat, before leaving to the next. A variety of artists including performers, directors, dancers and architects collaborated with the occupants of each apartment, to examine the every-day life of the Stuwerviertel and piece together the narratives and biographies that can be found there.
The journey between the venues became part of the game, in which the audience’s perception of the architecture and their immediate urban environment is constantly shifting. Each 10-minute encounter introduced a new narrative to the journey that redefined an increasingly complex and personal relationship to the site. The boundaries between private and public, familiar and foreign, reality and production, are blurred.
X Wohnungen Vienna was based on a concept developed in 2003 by Matthias Lilienthal at the „Theater der Welt“ in Duisburg. It was re-staged for Berlin in 2004, 2005 and 2008 and has since taken place in a variety of locations, including Mannheim, Freiburg, Istanbul, Caracas, Warsaw and Sao Paulo.
A project report summarising our contribution to the event can be found here>>>
