The Poster Workshop
feat. Christoph Bruckner

What happens when the execution of a performance lacks the threedimensional space? How do we inscribe choreography into a sheet of paper? What ist he effect of this reduction and shift into the twodimensional space?
The poster workshop continues the series of experiments "Watch! The Poster Show", initiated by Lisa Hinterreithner in the Winter of 2010/11, which invited the artists Anne Juren, Chris Standfest, Lisa Hinterreithner, Philipp Gehmacher and Amanda Piña.
In the poster workshop we will try it out all together and each for him/herself. Starting from the discussion about the content to the fromation of a blatant idea up to the visual implementation. After five days we will hang our performances and we will only need a vacant wall "and four strips" (as Julius Deutschbauer mentioned at corpusweb.net Febuary 12, 2011).

The "performance poster" is not a media trasfer of a live performance, not a documentation of it, nor a "commercial" for it. It is a performance on the poster – for the poster. A dance piece for a sheet of paper. All possible tools of plane arts are welcome (picture, text, graphic layout) under the terms of creating a print out of the performance.

The "performance poster" is not necessarily asking for choreographic and dance skills from the participants. We all choreograph posters. It would be of great help if you could bring your computer, video camera and digital camera. Everything helpful is welcome! The visual artist Christoph Bruckner, and performance artists, dramturge and choreographer Chris Standfest and Lisa Hinterreithner will lead this workshop together, will help thinking through the personal development and support the graphic implementation of the posters.

"The foyer of a theatre a wall in an office or an advertising pillar ... all fantastic performance spaces. For a performance. For a poster. For a fresh print out of a poster performance. For a very special audience: someone standing in front of a poster, as a performer/confidant – as a solo entertainer with an imagined performance in the head?" (Lisa Hinterreithner)

"Coming from a desire of something like 'the times should change' the 'Hidden Performer's Collective' was initiated. A partie imaginaire. A poster as a formulated privatism-manifestation with all the love for the public." (Chris Standfest, Febuary 1, 2011 at the Arts Association in Salzburg)

Christoph Bruckner is writer, art theorist and visual artist and lives in Vienna. He studied Journalism and Communication Science at the Danube University in Krems (AT) and the University of Vienna. After that he completed Arts studies at the Academy of visual arts in Vienna. He publishes literate and art theoretical writings for magazines, anthologies and catalogues (MUMOK and Secession in Vienna, Art Association Graz and the Kunstraum Niederösterreich).



Lisa Hinterreithner
Lisa Hinterreithner is a freelance artist. She created a choreographic format for plane art (presented at the Arts Association in Salzburg in Febuary 2011). In collaboration with Rotraud Kern and Nils Olger she created the piece "tree me tree" fort he Tanzquartier Vienna in 2010, a solo "wieder 1" (2009) and a performance installation "Autobiographie – Zur Performance des Ichs" together with Nicole Haitzinger (premiered at Sommerszene Salzburg 2009). In the last two years she worked as performer for Paul Wenninger, Julius Deutschbauer and Martina Ruhsam a.o.
Between 2005 and 2008 she headed the Training & Workshop programme at the Tanzquartier Vienna and is co-producer of the platform tanzbuero since 2009. Since April 2010 she also co-conceives of the platform nadaLokal in Vienna. She is a temporary teacher at the institute for dance arts in Salzburg.

Christine Standfest
Christine Standfest born in 1963 in Germany. After and during studies of literature, gender and cultural studies and education in Regensburg, Berlin and Lancashire she turned from political activism to theatre, performance and theory. Since 1997 she works mainly with theatercombinat and director Claudia Bosse in Vienna, Berlin, Geneva, Podgorica and other cities, i.e. in "Fatzer" by Bertolt Brecht, "Massakermykene", "Sieben", "Anatomy Sade/Wittgenstein", "madcc psukb", "Sleep against Düsseldorf", "Mauser" by Heiner Müller, "Firma Raumforschung", "Où est donc le tableau", "Palais Donaustadt"; from 2006-2009 she researched and performed in theatercombinat's theatrical series "Producers of Tragedy" with various stagings and concepts directed by Claudia Bosse of the texts "The Persians" by Aischylos in Vienna, Geneva and Brunswick, "Coriolanus/turn terror into sport" by Shakespeare (Vienna) and "bambiland" by Elfriede Jelinek (Vienna/Düsseldorf), ending the series with "desasterzone" in Vienna, October 2009. Besides, dramaturgy, teaching and writing activities, i.e. with Barbara Kraus ("fuck all that shit", ImPulsTanz 2005) or Peter Stamer ("sans papier", Dance Congress, Berlin).