vienna short: Performed As Given How Realities Are Staged, Repeated and Undone

Attention shifts from content to construction, where realities are re-enacted, circulated and kept in play. How do archives, art, science and film sustain what passes as given? In this program, the performance does not quite hold. Echoes of colonial image-making resurface – gestures repeat, roles shift, meaning slips. Moving through spectacle and storytelling, these films stage myth until it starts to crumble. What appears as given reveals itself as constructed. Attention: the frame shows!

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