Miki Malör

Miki Malör (2007)

Miki Malör (born August 29, 1957 in Vienna ) is an Austrian theater maker, director and performer .

Life

Miki Malör studied music at the conservatory and the music academy in Vienna ( Mag. Art. 1981). In addition, she completed the following training over the years: massage diploma (1994), diving instructor ( PADI -Instructor 1995) and cave diver (NACD Full Cave 1997).

After starting out as a pianist and stage musician in cabaret and theater events and as a clownish singer with the rock theater group Hallucination Company (1982/83), twelve years of solo tours through Europe followed. Characteristic of this period is the term Komisches Theater for her work and the rejection of the label as a cabaret artist . In 1986 she received the sponsorship award of the city of Mainz for the German Cabaret Prize .

Since 1995 turning away from cabaret and radicalizing work. As a result, performances, installations and post-dramatic theater are created . In addition to working on her own pieces, she also regularly directs off-theater productions. Miki Malör produces regularly in Vienna.

Works

Miki Malör's works evade one-sided classifications: they are inspired by the avant-garde of the 20th century, postmodern , deconstructivist , subversive , alternative, experimental, postdramatic, feminist, rhizomatic , sensual, absurd, highly comical, intimate, transgressing taboos, excessive, etc. v. m. Her work is not based on dramas, no meta-narrations and there are no actors who impersonate roles. She only realizes her own pieces, preferring to work with performers, dancers and amateurs. Another characteristic is their special use of music; her handling of objects indicates a close relationship with the visual arts.

The range of her subjects is extensive: an underwater piece (“Vampyroteuthis Infernalis”), two Schubert cycles (“Transit”, “Booty”), “Veiling. A parlor game "," Hysteria "," nationalHYMNS "(together with the group monochrom ) and the cult film - remake " The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman ".

Many of her pieces focus on female desire (such as “Desire as a will to trap” and the ongoing performance cycle “ Anima ”). Cross-genre cinematic works ("Interior Design") are increasingly emerging.

Miki Malör's theater feeds on philosophical and depth psychological theories, which recently resulted in some works on Deleuze / Guattari on the subject of dream machines (“The woman who ate a hundred cakes”, “Tigerbalsam”, “100 Objects to Represent Theater”). This work can be read as an attempt to interpret the unconscious as a model of uninterrupted and unlimited productivity. This creates “machines”, structures, tableaux of desire, bachelorette machines of subversion, in which Miki Malör's analytical background is embedded in passion, risk and touch. Instead of representation on the stage, there is action, pure productivity, which replaces the psychological game with a radical visual language that is free for associations.

Miki Malör has been working with director Miguel Ángel Gaspar for years.

Theater / performance (selection)

• Anima (cycle 1996-)
  • Honey (1996)
  • Standing up (1997)
  • Decompression break (1997)
  • Titi Ikoli (1998)
• Transit (after Schubert's " Winterreise " 1998/99)
• Vampyroteuthis infernalis (a piece under water 1999)
• Gretchen's Zopf (continuous performance 1999/2000)
• Booty (based on Schubert's " Die Schöne Müllerin " 2000)
• »Us« (60-day performance series 2001)
• VEILING . A parlor game (a theatrical installation on intimacy in public 2001)
• Desire as the will to trap (two pieces, one book 2003/04)
• HYSTERY ! A subversive practice (six people in six rotating chambers in 2004)
• nationalHYMNEN (a piece for a performer, achoir, a Viennese electronic DJ and two pop theorists; in collaboration withmonochrom, 2005)
• The Woman Who Ate a Hundred Cakes (a duo in two territories 2006)
• The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (a guided tour of the remake of the 2007 cult classic from 2007)
• MATILDA (a one-to-one performance 2008)
• TIGERBALSAM (A silent movie live on stage 2008)
• 100 Objects to Represent Theater (2009)
• Swarming beings I - The love of maggots (cleaning, moulting, dialogue. 2010)

Movie

• Currency (R: Emre Tunçer 2004)
• Interior Design (with Michael Strohmann and Yosi Wanunu 2007)

Web links

• Official website
• Literature about Miki Malör in the catalog of the Austrian National Library
• Miki Malör in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Weidinger: Miki Malör, the actor. In: Wiener Zeitung . September 4, 1998 [1]
2. ↑ Angelika Zach: The staging of being. Portrait of the freelance theater maker Miki Malör . In: STICHWORT Newsletter . No. 17, Vienna 2004, pp. 4–8
3. ↑ Helmut Ploebst: I am considering veil compulsion . In: FALTER . No. 8, Vienna 1998, p. 60
4. ↑ Brigitte Suchan: I have several lives. In: Wiener Zeitung . September 7, 2007 WZ archive ( Memento from May 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Katharina Pewny: The body of hysteria . In: ON . No. 140 , June 2008, ISSN  1810-0244 , p. 6-9 .
6. ↑ Ulrike Moschen: City of women. In: SIMsKultur.net . No. 3, Vienna 2007, pp. 17-18
7. ^ Daniela Fohn: Malör radical . In: an.schlag . Vienna November 2004, No. 11/2004, pp. 34–35
8. ↑ Angela Heide : What I know about you, what I hear from you. Night talk with Miki Malör and Claudia Bosse (PDF) In. poison. magazine for free theater , Vienna. Pp. 15-21. October / November 2007. Retrieved February 28, 2009.