What could be healthier than claiming to be part of a Dada movement at a time when the meaning of things is being turned upside down? Many people realise that they no longer recognise themselves in different currents of thought. So what are we left with but a madness or a disjunction of reality to reinvent a dreamlike world that calms on aesthetics and poetry through the absurd.
May this sweet madness be our therapy and our medicine against nonsense."
Gilles Mussard
The intention of the URBION urban development project by architects Tillner & Willinger was and is to upgrade the Gürtel Mitte zone as a central public space and to create an inviting place that reconnects the districts separated by the busy city motorway. This was achieved by URBION but more than 20 years have passed since the project was completed and the middle zone is in urgent need of refreshment. The paths and green spaces around the project area are to be activated and revitalised by DADA Jukebox - the project idea is thus to be recalled in order to bring about a continuation.
Dada street opera: Kubus EXPORT, Hernalser Gürtel, Josefstädter Straße/Uhlplatz, 1080 Vienna
Workshop: rhiz, Lerchenfelder Gürtel, 1080 Vienna
Bele Marx * 1968 Salzburg (AT), lives and works in Vienna (AT)
Gilles Mussard * 1956 Paris (FR), lives and works in Vienna (AT)
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In collaboration with the architects Tillner & Willinger, in cooperation with rhiz.
Assistance: Maximilian Foit, Mathias Asamer
Performers: Angelo (Gilles Mussard), Geo Popoff, Slizzer and Eon (Beatbox), Matthias Adensamer (1st violin)
Video and Technical Design; Stream: Claudia Virginia Dimoiu
Sound engineering: John Norman, Richard Kerz
Camera: Juli Eder
Camera and Sound Assistance: Martin Kadlez
Photography: Franziska Safranek, Larry Williams, Bele Marx
Costume design: Patrick Ugo, Julien Verjat, Cécile Disle, (as part of a fashion project with students from the Lycée Français de Vienne) and Leonie Brodar.
Catering: Angela Essel
Media support: Susanna Wouk
Production: couscous & cookies, verein für elastische poesie in cooperation with Architekten Tillner & Willinger
November 19, 2021
In cooperation with Stadt Wien Kultur and the districts of Josefstadt and Ottakring.