herbst cabaret
Piotr Urbaniec
Guest production
Glaskörper / Vitreous Body (2024)
Piotr Urbaniec searches for connections between our visual perception and the weather. He finds them in the aqueous, in what flows out of our eyes or floats through our field of vision. The show begins with a studio visit during which the artist demonstrates prototypes and experiments. The audience is involved in an eye examination that gets out of hand and leads into a surreal and absurd space. The evening then takes an allegorical turn and tells of the eternal (futile) efforts to control the weather and nature while being subject to their whims.
In German and English.
Double bill with Bernadette Laimbauer.
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Piotr Urbaniec (1992, Kraków, Poland) is an artist who makes art from almost nothing and works with ephemeral media and materials such as performance and weather. He had a first solo exhibition at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2016), and has participated in the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2018), the Yixian International Photo Festival (2017), and the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (2018), among others. Urbaniec’s performances have been shown at the Frascati Theater, Amsterdam, and Komuna Warszawa. He lives in Amsterdam.
For the third year in a row, steirischer herbst turns to cabaret and its capacity for gritty, gutsy social criticism. Six performances present a mix of burlesque, street chanson, stand-up, and macabre poetry in the intimate setting of Forum Stadtpark’s basement.
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ24. With the kind support of Dom Utopii – International Empathy Centre, Kraków, and the Polish Institute in Vienna.
