OCTOPUS. About the deep sea, tentacles and what it means to be a community

Something glimmers there beneath the surface of the water, then an arm shoots out, then another, and another. The octopus looks at us with its curious eyes. With its tentacles, it has come to Vienna to get to know us and to clarify a few things. About its camouflage skills, its intelligence, its brain, which extends from its head into its arms. What can these eight tentacles tell us? What is it like to live as part of a whole? How can one learn to think about community together?

In OCTOPUS, the audience meets three performers and an octopus, which the collective Moradavaga has placed as a sculpture for public space in the MuseumsQuartier. Unlike in the theater space, which draws a clear boundary between art and spectators, in this interactive performance the audience directly encounters the fascinating sea creature, meets an angry starfish, and a street pigeon, which philosophizes about life and raises questions about coexistence and communication.

The performance cannot take place in the rain!