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Colonial Cocktail

Performance

13.12.2022, 19.00
Weltmuseum Wien, Heldenplatz, 1010 Wien

 

Performance by Stefanie Sourial & Hyo Lee

Introducing her new stage series, Stefanie Sourial distils the essence out of the last four-hundred years of European colonial history and packs it into a fluent sixty-minute performance. Colonial Cocktail is a boomerang-like swing, tracking the origins of spirits and other currently trending alcoholic drinks and returning to the present, spicy on the tongue and bitter in the finish.

Every night, there is highly concentrated history flowing in Vienna’s bars, much of it originating in Europe’s colonial history. But who pays attention to their drink’s history while enjoying it? Using performance and narration, Stefanie Sourial reveals the colonial ties associated with spirit-based beverages and the effects they have on our current society. In doing so, she is accompanied by varying guests from different fields of art. How did today’s trending drinks come into existence? How do spirits influence our lives? Why is it political to drink uhudler wine?

https://www.weltmuseumwien.at/programm/event/colonial-cocktail/1670886000-1/

 

Tickets

Duration: 60 Min.
The performance is for free (valid museum ticket required)
Registration online (limited number of participants)
Meeting Point: WMW Forum

Artists

Stefanie Sourial works as a performance artist in Vienna, London and Bristol and teaches performance art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2007, she graduated from the International Jacques Lecoq School for performance and directing in Paris. She has been creating her own shows since 2009, some of which include FREAK (2015), was a performer in Katharina Daschner's art project CLUB BURLESQUE BRUTAL (2009–2015) and collaborates with the prize-winning London company Theatre Ad Infinitum as well as with artists in Vienna such as Barbis Ruder, Carola Dertnig, Denice Bourbon, Denise Kottlett, Gin Müller, Katrina Daschner, Katharina Mückstein, Michikazu Matsune, Mira Lu Kovacs, the Nesterval collective, Veza Fernández and Sophie Stockinger.
Hyo Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1983. She lives and works as a part-time artist and full-time bartender in Vienna. Lee studied photography and video installation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She has performed in Pfauenloch (2018), Pferdebusen (2017), Perlenmeere (2016), Powder Placenta (2015), Parole Rosette (2012), Flaming Flamingos (2011) by Katrina Daschner and Endlich wird die Arbeit knapp! as part of Wienwoche 2017 (performances at FLUC in 2017 und Urania in 2018).

Konzept und Performance Stefanie Sourial
Co-Kreation und Performance Hyo Lee
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