tea & poetry #5: Collective Text Performance Traces in oneself – Situations // Benedikt Steiner (CH/AT)

Thu 18.5.2023 // from 16.00
Collective performances 17.00 & 18.30

Image: Benedikt Steiner

Thu 18.5.2023 // from 16.00
Collective performances 17.00 & 18.30

Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna / pay as you wish_can / tea & cake

In a performative montage, poems from Benedikt Steiner’s book spuren in einem are arranged in space and collectively cross-read. This opens up unimagined spaces of meaning, from poetic dialogues until vibrant cacophony. Gradually, the boundaries between production and consumption of artistic work blur, and the common creation of significance thus becomes a performative act – always fragile, but all the more vivid.

Here you can listen to a short audio recording of the text performance:

Photos: Felix Kaya

Benedikt Steiner (CH/AT) born 1990 in Basel, is a poet and visual artist. Bachelor of Arts in Experimental Design in Lucerne and studies of Language Arts in Vienna. Writes poetry, makes books and paintings, initiates exhibitions, workshops and performances. Most recently: spuren in einem. poems(TEXT/RAHMEN, 2023) www.benedikt-steiner.ch