Food performance · cooking performance · Theater am Werk Vienna 2024

For T Fuckhead and Friends – 75 Hours of Performance, Luisa Franz Kleopatra and Michael Kalivoda developed four days of food performances and cooking performances centred around potatoes as part of the 75-hour performative environment.

4 days of (potato) food performances and cooking performances

at Theater am Werk, Petersplatz, Vienna 2024

with Luisa Franz Kleopatra, Fuckhead, Partner In Crime and many others

Inspired by and very (really very) loosely based on the worlds of Vladimir Sorokin’s books Telluria and The Red Pyramid, Fuckhead & Friends together with T create a 75-hour stream of unconsciousness at Theater am Werk at Petersplatz, unfolding as a meandering and intersecting programme throughout the entire venue: it is a journey through a Europe fragmented into small states that has socially, politically, economically and technologically regressed to the level of the early 19th century, while biotechnological inventions are widespread.

Morning fitness classes, cooking classes, lectures with experts on mushroom cultivation and cryptocurrencies, on ketamine in psychotherapy and sloths, dance competitions, noise meditations, strict chambers, fervent amateur choirs, voice cloning, listening in the dark, silence, fortune-telling, shell games and false statements.

And in prime time, the daily ritual trepanation, in which the cacophony of worlds overlaps and condenses into a single tone that, like a trepanation needle, drills a hole into the forehead and allows a light to dawn in the deepest corners of our consciousness.

“Those who will not listen must feel!……”

Food performance · cooking performance · Theater am Werk Vienna 2024

For T Fuckhead and Friends – 75 Hours of Performance, Luisa Franz Kleopatra and Michael Kalivoda developed four days of food performances and cooking performances centred around potatoes as part of the 75-hour performative environment.

4 days of (potato) food performances and cooking performances

at Theater am Werk, Petersplatz, Vienna 2024

with Luisa Franz Kleopatra, Fuckhead, Partner In Crime and many others

Inspired by and very (really very) loosely based on the worlds of Vladimir Sorokin’s books Telluria and The Red Pyramid, Fuckhead & Friends together with T create a 75-hour stream of unconsciousness at Theater am Werk at Petersplatz, unfolding as a meandering and intersecting programme throughout the entire venue: it is a journey through a Europe fragmented into small states that has socially, politically, economically and technologically regressed to the level of the early 19th century, while biotechnological inventions are widespread.

Morning fitness classes, cooking classes, lectures with experts on mushroom cultivation and cryptocurrencies, on ketamine in psychotherapy and sloths, dance competitions, noise meditations, strict chambers, fervent amateur choirs, voice cloning, listening in the dark, silence, fortune-telling, shell games and false statements.

And in prime time, the daily ritual trepanation, in which the cacophony of worlds overlaps and condenses into a single tone that, like a trepanation needle, drills a hole into the forehead and allows a light to dawn in the deepest corners of our consciousness.

“Those who will not listen must feel!……”