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MQ Midsummer Night

Elisabeth von Samsonow. The Minor Goddesses' Collective Oracle Act

Group of people in white garments and headpieces holding staffs during an outdoor evening performance on a paved square.
MQ Midsummer Night Performance © MuseumsQuartier Wien, Photo: Simone Veres

21.06.2023

MQ Main Courtyard

Elisabeth von Samsonow with The Dissident Goddesses, Wotan-Klan, Gabriel Krausshar supported by Rhizomatic Circus Collective and friends

A cosmological theater for the summer solstice, a ritual staging, an earth drama, a flurry of sounds, atmospheres and lights. The rolling sphere projects itself onto the collective corpus that rolls the small earth through the MQ courtyard transformed into a celestial arena, escorted by the carpet beater ballet as a sublime human machine. It is about the fragile balance, the suggestive state, about information, arrival and future, about a question and answer game on and with the earth. The oracle sphere is in turn rolled around and circled, touched, danced to and sung about. An allegory of earthly existence in the form of a vehicle with vehicles.

Curated by Verena Kaspar-Eisert.

Children in white costumes carry props walking between two large white horse-shaped figures on wheels in the MQ mainyard at dusk.
© MuseumsQuartier Wien, Photo: Simon Veres
Three women in white dresses and headpieces each raise an arm holding a stick.
MQ Midsummer Night Performance © MuseumsQuartier Wien, Photo: Simone Veres
Several people wearing black fishnet tights and red clothing perform outdoors in front of an audience
MQ Midsummer Night Performance © MuseumsQuartier Wien, Photo: Simone Veres
Group of four women in white costumes and headpieces holding long sticks with net ends standing on a plaza.
© MuseumsQuartier Wien, Photo: Simon Veres

MQ Main Courtyard

3D model of a building complex with a marked point at Hof 1 (Main Courtyard).
© MuseumsQuartier Wien