To be released in 2020.
From the Iron Curtain to the European Union’s Schengen, how have borders and their removal affected a small village just across the Austrian border in the Czech Republic?
Love Thy Neighbour
When The World Comes To An End, Move To Vienna … – Because Everything Happens There 20 Years Later!
It is 1999 and London based DJ Eunikoro Rhensarai gets into her time machine intending to travel back to 1974. However something goes wrong and she ends up in an afro textured hair salon in Vienna instead. When The World Comes To An End, Move To Vienna …– Because Everything Happens There 20 Years Later! is an Afro-futuristic piece on racism and fear of the future.
London, 1999. DJ Eunikoro Rhensarai is not ready for the new millennium. The quality of metropolitan life has diminished and capitalism is on the rampage. This also affects Eunikoro, who has neither savings nor a steady income. Eunikoro therefore decides to board her time machine and travel back to 1974 and make the ‘right’ choices (with the benefit of hindsight). Something goes wrong, however and she remains in 1999, but is transported to Vienna.
In this new environment, Eunikoro is faced with her own identity as well as with her fears about the future. When The World Comes To An End, Move To Vienna … Because Everything Happens There 20 Years Later! is a tale of masks and migration, of talent and possibilities, true identities and those that are misconstrued. An entertaining science fiction drama with social commentary.
Production: WIENWOCHE http://archiv.wienwoche.org/en/447/when_the_world_comes_to_an_end,move_to_vienna…–_because_everything_happens_there_20_years_later!
Interview in the Wiener Zeitung
Interview for the promotion of the play “When The World Comes to an End, Move to Vienna… Because Everything Happens There 20 Years Later!” as part of the Wienwoche 2016 cultural festival.
Interview on Radio Orange in 2016 for World’s End play
I was very happy to be interviewed on Radio Orange by Helga for the promotion of my self authored and directed play “When The World Comes to an End, Move to Vienna… Because Everything Happens There 20 Years Later!”
English Box Of Tricks
English Box of Tricks is an entertaining, theatre in education company who hold fun English interactive plays and workshops for children aged 9 to 18.
Falter Interview
Interview with the cultural weekly newspaper with me about my pending play “When The World Comes to an End, Move to Vienna… Because Everything Happens There 20 Years Later!” You can read the article at the following link (German only). http://www.martinthomaspesl.com/blog/2016/9/14/eine-zeitmaschine-namens-wien-portrt-von-chilo-eribenne-im-falter-3716
Theatre of Destruction
Image from my solo show at So Weit die Zukunft, Vienna. Part of my “Self-Destructive Female Icons” series which shows Whitney Houston in “Charlie’s Angels”.
Interview with a Russian music magazine in 2016.
The Revolution Will be Televised and Broadcast on the Internet
In 2010, I sent a proposal for an exhibition to the IG Bildende Kunst in Vienna about the “pending” Arab Spring and how communication tools were being used among the activists. I wondered if such events could happen in the West or if we were simply contented with shopping and fucking. By the time the exhibition opened the following year, the Occupy Movement was in full swing. The ORF interviewed me for their cultural radio programme, which can be heard at the following link. https://oe1.orf.at/artikel/292612/Kuenstlerische-Revolution. Flyer designed by Dominik Hruza for the charity concert/finissage called “Voices for a Revolution” the following month at Ost Klub. More about the exhibition itself can be found here http://www.igbildendekunst.at/de/kunst/ausstellungen-2012/the-revolution-will-be-televised.htm
Die Presse mentions my graduation work
My graduation video, photo installation and performance of the fictional girl band “Chick Wings” was featured in Die Presse in 2004.
Der Standard
Featured image from my graduation exhibition at The Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 2004. It displays one image of six from my series “Chicks” in which I compare the process of making a girl band created on a television series with the process of creating chicken wings. The band is called Chick Wings.
Skug Music and Cultural Magazine
Interview in Austrian magazine about my burgeoning new project “Self-Destructive Female Icons” by Ursula Maria Probst.
Falter Magazine cover feature, 2001.
In 2001 The Audioroom (Michael Meinhart) invited me to give a solo performance at The Kunstlerhaus Passage Galerie. Through this, cultural magazine “Falter” put me on their cover to promote my show where I sang my original songs.
Wiener Magazine Feature, 2001
Wiener Magazine interviewed Viennese DJs for their summer issue.