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Musical performance by Isabella Sedlak
In German
“Before you learn to play an instrument, you first have to learn how to play the algorithm!” Between TikTok, Rococo, viral videos, and chocolate balls. Austrian author and director Isabella Sedlak, in collaboration with the exceptional actress Vidina Popov, develops a stage character who transposes Mozart’s biography into the present-day life of a young woman: As an algorithm genius, she grows up in a Salzburg-based online dynasty, with Schwarzenegger as her prophet and life coach and a highly ambitious content creator as her father. Her early fame takes her from the Arctic through new and old fascist structures, to burnout at thirteen and a fresh start at a vegan burger joint, until she finally founds her very own protest movement against the sellout of art. Fast-paced, witty, and linguistically brilliant, Sedlak draws the audience close to this hedonistic character, who oscillates between nationalism, a cosmopolitan thirst for freedom, and megalomania. The Israeli-Brazilian musician Thomas Moked Blum provides the accompanying music. Using violin, guitar, and electronics, he brings Mozart’s melodies into resonance with Jewish musical traditions and rhythms from the Balkans. A dialogue emerges between acting and music, each driving the other forward and creating friction. Mozart’s melodies find expression in new languages—or with an accent. A grotesque and humorous, musically rich, and at the same time highly political exploration—and a declaration of love for Mozart as a transcultural artist in a state of perpetual remix.
Musical performance by Isabella Sedlak
In German
“Before you learn to play an instrument, you first have to learn how to play the algorithm!” Between TikTok, Rococo, viral videos, and chocolate balls. Austrian author and director Isabella Sedlak, in collaboration with the exceptional actress Vidina Popov, develops a stage character who transposes Mozart’s biography into the present-day life of a young woman: As an algorithm genius, she grows up in a Salzburg-based online dynasty, with Schwarzenegger as her prophet and life coach and a highly ambitious content creator as her father. Her early fame takes her from the Arctic through new and old fascist structures, to burnout at thirteen and a fresh start at a vegan burger joint, until she finally founds her very own protest movement against the sellout of art. Fast-paced, witty, and linguistically brilliant, Sedlak draws the audience close to this hedonistic character, who oscillates between nationalism, a cosmopolitan thirst for freedom, and megalomania. The Israeli-Brazilian musician Thomas Moked Blum provides the accompanying music. Using violin, guitar, and electronics, he brings Mozart’s melodies into resonance with Jewish musical traditions and rhythms from the Balkans. A dialogue emerges between acting and music, each driving the other forward and creating friction. Mozart’s melodies find expression in new languages—or with an accent. A grotesque and humorous, musically rich, and at the same time highly political exploration—and a declaration of love for Mozart as a transcultural artist in a state of perpetual remix.
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