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The Real Underground

Forty people make on the 07/10/2010, singing on the way through the city. It is the Vienna Choir complaint - a project by Oliver Hangl . At the beginning of this year, the musician turned Sir Tralala complaints in music and Stefan Foidl , founder of the Jazz Choir Vienna a very mixed bunch of Suderanten in a choir. The chorus has been stuck in a few months regularly in the city - either as an unsolicited intervention, where it is now necessary, or at the invitation of friends inside and College / inside - mostly from the art scene.

We - I am a member of the choir - here are completely different people over in different situations. Today were:

• astonished passers along the Revue the Esterhazypark
• in the U1 between Taubstummengasse and Nestroyplatz
• before station Praterstern
• and before Theater Nestroyhof

Especially the latter two stations are worth a few lines. To the following, even with the organizers of the festival in the theater Nestroyplatz coordinated and timely manner to begin presentation can, was the Aufritt on Praterstern little time. We sang there a short version of the complaint song, in rapid-up before the station - just between drunken, homeless and working people have homecoming. The effect was spectacular: it has been paused, listened , mitgegröllt and wonder / looked interested. An intervention in real life.

so completely different from the performance 15 minutes later before the audience of the festival Underground City 21 . Here we expected a friendly and open-minded opposite , So the disappointment was great. A visibly from many "Underground " somewhat saturated small group (15 people), managed just once to the central part of our already very short performance. We went back to the theater.

A multidimensional withdrawal we seems to me. 1) The public has been confirmed in its role: it consumed. 2) the traditional setting of the performance has been updated: The choir performs on stage - the audience does not interact (in this specific case by appreciation or articulate opposition), and 3) the organization provided falls short of their claims. Or shall we

Thomas J. Jelinek , in his statement to the organizer / innenhompepage already the blueprint for a near disappearance of the right "of the so-called underground?

... Now I would like next to the virulent topic of disappearance of public space with which even the disappearance of a underground - term , (or resistiveness and against drafts) which is also another theater conceptual position that goes beyond existing as Situationism , activism in the public space station or theater, etc. goes and deliberately from the popular to recite memorized text in homemade contexts in "savings-boxes 'faces. ... (Thomas J. Jelinek )

closed the curtain, leaves many questions!