MMMQ – Contemporary Archaeology

In the performance MMMQ, a guide leads visitors through the MuseumsQuartier, but from the perspective of a distant future. He attempts to piece together the few enigmatic fragments into a picture of our present: fragmentary, contradictory and full of projections. The ruins of the MQ become the starting point for a speculative archaeology that opens up new perspectives on social habits, cultural values and technological achievements. What today seems self-evident or irrefutable suddenly reveals itself to be just one possibility among many.Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Thomas Geiger (born 1983, lives in Vienna) creates performative situations that interweave a wide variety of times, places and subjects, opening up new perspectives on history and social structures. He converses with statues (Bust Talks, since 2018), guides the audience through the subconscious of institutions (Being Kunsthalle Wien, 2022) or undertakes journeys through time into the future of the past (25 Years Too Late, 2025). In recent years, he has realised projects with, amongst others, the Kunstmuseum Bochum, the Salzburger Kunstverein, the Kunstverein Hannover, CAPC Bordeaux, the Belvedere, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Kunstverein Siegen, CAC Brétigny, the Wiener Festwochen and the steirischer herbst.

Duration: approx. 45 mins
In German
Meeting point: MQ boules court
Free to attend

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