Charlotte Gash: The Sound of Losers

Fri 21. & Sat 22.06., 19.30h, Performance, Premiere

Set in the present-day within the art academy in Vienna, the performance class is sick and tired of sex-obsessed party maniac GASH. GASH’s priorities are not in order, and after 25 years in the class, they’re ready to kick her out. As punishment, THE PROFESSOR OF THE PERFORMANCE CLASS sends GASH over to the painting class to take over the professorship after hearing about the vacant position from the painters’ landlord, 95-year-old FRAU SCHÖNE (an old friend from the 80s disco scene in Vienna). Since the painters’ professor was fired, the students are depressed and dishevelled. Their paintings have grown bland and dull. FRAU SCHÖNE has kept them disciplined with severe control and threatens to evict them from the studio if they don’t create good enough work that she can sell. But how will the painters get along with a performance artist as a professor…?

Charlotte Gash stages the existential crises of young artists as a DIY musical. With jazz hands, bad acting, tacky songs and a good sense of humour, "The Sound of Losers" brings you a story of expectations, dependencies, privilege and failure.

Artist Talk following the performance on Sat 22.06., TQW programme curator Carolina Nöbauer in conversation with Charlotte Gash. In English.