In this new performance installation by the celebrated artist duo SIGNA, a mysterious organisation offers the audience a unique simulation: The Final Year, a six-hour individual journey through time to the end of one's own life.
You don't know how or when you got here. What do they want from you here?
You do not remember what you lost, but you know that it is huge.
You don't know what year it is, it was all so sudden. Your final year.
A mysterious organisation offers a unique simulation: The Final Year, a six-hour individual journey to the end of one's own life. Family members, staff and the dying are in a care home, on a sun-dappled meadow or outside of the gates of heaven, while the simulation proceeds, pauses, comes full circle. Lifelines blur. We become aware of wrong turns taken. Desires awaken into lived fantasies that are forgotten a moment later. The celebrated Danish-Austrian artist duo SIGNA is developing their new performance installation with forty performers specifically for the House of the Republic at Funkhaus.
Photos: Erich Goldmann
CREDITS
Concept, Book, Direction Signa Köstler Artistic lead producers Arthur Köstler, Lorenz Vetter Set design Lorenz Vetter & Signa Köstler with Tristan Kold Costumes Signa Köstler, Tristan Kold Audiovisual concept Arthur Köstler Multimedia, Sounddesign Denis Połeć Dramaturgy Mara Nitz With Anna Agnieszka Salamon Berenike Harnisch Evi Meinardus Betty / Putzkraft Leonie Wegner Frau Berndl Signa Köstler Cara Lotta Thoms Celena Melli Müller Claudine Hartenstein Anouschka Doinet Dagmar Herbst Judith Richter Dorit Ebensteiner Charlotta Ruth Dr. Cordian Landauer Philipp Rauch Dr. Ivana Feist Pia Düsterhus Dr. Konrad Huber Tilman Gunz Egon Hinteregger Andreas Schneiders Fiora Waldecker Benita Martins Mädchen Luna Worthmann Junge Lucie Rudolph Hans Tobias Ofenbauer Hector Klein Stanislaus Dick Hector Koch Denis Połeć Hector Pohl Benjamin Spindelberg Hector Preuss Mara Nitz Hector Schenk Victor Wewerke Hector Stahl Dominik Klingberg Hector Teodorescu jr. Tristan Kold Isidora Holzbauer Anina Doinet Jimmy Willy Mutzenpachner Jolande Bahrenfels Sabrina Strehl Jorinda Horn Annabel Grosse Karl Dreschler Arthur Köstler Kuno Bernhofer Mario Högemann Norberta Kaltenbach Saskia Kaufmann Norwin Stettenhof Hans-Günter Brünker Perdita Kastner Franziska Zauner Peter Joseph Lang Romilda Kirsch Timna Krenn Rosa Luisa Taraz Roswitha Gerst Helga Sieler Severina Glogauer Sonja Salkowitsch Eros Drosselmeyer Tom Korn Valeska Knappenberger Gabi Hift Wanda Katharina Mairinger Wendelin Gravenstein Marcel Jacqueline Gisdol Zelda Dorn Mareike Wenzel Zita Hahn Joelina Spieß
The performances in Vienna are supported by the Embassy & Permanent Mission of Denmark, Austria. Thank you to 48-er Tandler Margareten, Boutiquehotel Stadthalle, Clara Fey Campus Maria Regina, ehem. Sozialmedizinisches Zentrum – Baumgartner Höhe | Otto-Wagner-Spital (Klinik Penzing), FOQUS Ärzteheim Wohn- und Pflegezentrum, Heilsarmee Österreich – Wien, Hilfswerk Wien, Hotel Admiral, Hotel-Pension Baron am Schottentor, Hotel Stefanie, Hotel Viktoria, Imlauer Hotel Wien, Pension Erlaa, Pension Excellence, Urban Boutique Hotel, URBANAUTS Hospitality, Volkshilfe Wien and Kollektiv Plan B Crew GmbH, Dr. Alexandra Andorfer-Rameder, Andreas Dusatko, Andreas Ferner, Frau Savic und Miro, Alfred Köstler, Dorthe Arendt Elkjær