Paris, Barcelona, Lisbon, Vienna: hopping to a different city for the weekend has become part of a lifestyle. In addition to city breaks as an economic factor and contributing to international flair, conflicts in many cities are becoming increasingly apparent.

Insektengeflüster – Über das verborgene Leben auf sechs Beinen. Book presentation & talk with Dominique Zimmermann

In Milo Rau’s first opera treatment, Emperor Tito’s well-wishing commitment degenerates into a strategy of sheer self-preservation, an empty revolutionary platitude. Together with eighteen people who live in Vienna and have partly themselves experienced repressive regimes, the Camerata Salzburg and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Rau undertakes an actualisation of Mozart’s last opera.

In "MOTHER LOVES YOU", mother and son stop time and the role models become blurred. The play lovingly explores this relationship, which we all know in one form or another. Is it intimate, annoying, vital, secondary? Definitely complex!

MQ Artists-in-Residence present their work in their studios

How far can art go? How far does it have to go? Performance artist Pippa Bacca set out in a wedding gown to hitchhike from Milan to Jerusalem in 2008 in order to take a stand for peace and trust among people. Along the way, she was raped and murdered. The first part of "The Bride and Goodnight Cinderella" focusses on Bacca and other female artists who have used their own bodies as a means of protest and a target.