MMMQ – Contemporary Archaeology
A performance by Thomas Geiger
To celebrate MQ’s 25th anniversary, artist Thomas Geiger invites you to a performance that seeks to view our present through the lens of the future. Experience a guided tour of the MQ like no other!
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: incomplete, 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 seems self-evident or irrefutable today suddenly reveals itself as just one possibility among many.
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.
Information
- Duration: approx. 45 mins
- In German
- Meeting point: MQ boules court
- Free to attend
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MQ Boules Court
