multitasking diaries is an audio-visual performance about too many impressions, feelings, reflections and demands. Inspired by the transfer of technical processes to human action and experience – the concept of multitasking from computer technology is exemplary of this – the performer is both an actor and a visual example of a media puzzle. In interaction with images, objects and songs, together with the musician and programmer Oliver Stotz and the light artist Sabine Wiesenbauer, a state of excessive demands is exposed and the social and individually reproduced pressure for self-optimization is demonstrated.
Quiet horror and ingenious humor pervade these multitasking diaries.
Helmut Ploebst The Standard
Credits
Video, space, text, performance Jan Machacek
Music, video programming Oliver Stotz
Lighting Sabine Wiesenbauer
Dramaturgical advice Sabine Marte
A co-production of am apparat and WUK performing arts with the support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs