Miasma : The Eel House presents: THE-MERZ-WORLD-NEW-CONSTRUCTION part II: Black Sea Washing Machine (metamorphosis) April 27, 2013

MIASMA is a project on the intersections of performing arts, film and experimental media technologies. The project first caught public attention with their large-scale theatrical vision “Call for Reduction! (in effigie)”, staged in summer 2012 at the former Ankerbrotfabrik in Vienna/Austria. The story of Marie Müller and her attempts of self-assertion against the constraints of a psychotic society manifested as an intermedial happening with more than 70 participating artists from very diverse genres. A stunning installation provided the framework for the theatrical aspect of the performance and its realisation with various media. A number of HD cameras and the latest streaming technologies were employed to edit the images live and broadcast them online in real time. Now, Marie Müller’s battle for a new world forges ahead at donaufestival and in the World Wide Web! It all starts out during the Crimean War, with the beginnings of the bourgeoisie and modernism, and ends with dementia and the new construction of the world from its own debris. The performance can be experienced either in the form of a bourgeois soirée at Stadtsaal, as an actionist open-air event at a still to be disclosed location, or else via www.donaufestival.at! In all cases, neither the performers nor the organisers assume liability for any damages to the visitors’ clothes, psyche, or body!

OPEN/FREE LIVE STREAM AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE: www.miasma.is

Production, Artistic Director: Bastian Wilplinger
Concept, Film Production, and Aesthetic Videography: Artistic Bokeh
Camera systems and research: Max Gurresch, Matthias Tarasiewicz (www.artisticbokeh.com)
Executive Producer: Bernhard Werschnak
Dramaturgy and Production Coordination: Siglind Güttler
Music: Daniel Benedek; Glutamat: Thesa Tödlich, MP Kopflos, Peter Palme,
Ronald von den Sternen, King Augenring, Susi von Hannover
Second Unit Director: Erol Nowak
Choreography: Rotraud Kern
Sound (Internet & Recording): Werner Weitschacher
Live Film Editor: Florentina Woschitz
Camera: Markus Riedl, Julia Staudach, Max Gurresch
Actors & Actresses: Aleksandra Cwen, Rose Press, Erol Nowak, Lauri Vuorela, Andreas Scherer
Artists: Coelestine Engels, Renfah, Stylianos Schicho, Matthias Buch, Anna Mitterer, Begi Piralishvili, Katherina Olschbauer, Ludwig Kittinger, Fernando Mesquita
Set Photographer: Johann Sifkovits

A production by MIASMA MMXIIV and donaufestival
Miasma would like to thank ETAS High Tech Hardware Systems, Riviera Blumen from Maria
Hofferer, and Café Espresso for their kind support and assistance.

Official Website: http://miasma.is