Miki Malör

Miki Malör ( born August 29, 1957 in Vienna) is an Austrian theater maker, director and performer.

Life

Miki Malör studied music at the Conservatory and the Academy of Music in Vienna ( Mag. , 1981). In addition, she completed over the years following training: Massage Diploma (1994 ), Diving Instructor ( PADI Instructor 1995) and Höhlentaucherin ( NACD Full Cave 1997).

After starting out as a pianist and stage musician in cabaret and theater events and clownish as a singer with the rock theater group Hallucination Company (1982 /83) followed twelve years solo tours through Europe. Characteristic of this period is the term comic theater for their work and the rejection of labeling as a cabaret artist. In 1986 she was awarded the Prize of the City of Mainz to German cabaret prize.

Since 1995, turning away from the cabaret and radicalization of the work. Subsequently arise performances, installations and post-dramatic theater. Besides working on his own songs, she also leads time and again directed fringe theater productions. Miki Malör produced regularly in Vienna.

Works

Miki Malörs works elude unilateral assignments: they are inspired by the avant-gardes of the 20th century, postmodern, deconstructivist, subversive, alternative, experimental, post- dramatic, feminist, rhizomatic, sensual, absurd, highly comical, intimate, taboo -border, excessive and v. m. Your works are no dramas based on no metanarratives and there are no actors, the roles embody. They realized only his own pieces, and they preferably works with performers, dancers and amateurs. Characteristic is also their specific use of music; their handling of objects points to a close relationship to the visual arts.

The range of subject matter is varied: an underwater piece ( " Vampyroteuthis Infernalis " ), two Schubert cycles ( "transit ", " prey "), " concealment. A board game "," Hysteria ", " national anthems "and the cult film remake of " The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. "

Focus of many of her pieces is female desire (such as " The desire as desire for the event ," as well as the continuous performance cycle "Anima "). Genre Across arise from increasingly cinematic works ( "Interior Design ").

Miki Malörs theater nourished by deep philosophical and psychological theories, from which last some work to Deleuze / Guattari to the topic came desiring machines ( " The Woman Who hundred eating cake ", " Tiger Balm ," " 100 Objects to Represent Theatre" ). This work can be read as an attempt to interpret the unconscious as a model of continuous and unlimited productivity. This "machine ", microstructure, tableaux of desire, Junggesellinnenmaschinen of subversion in which Miki Malörs analytical background is embedded in passion, risk, and touch occur. Instead of representation, the representation on the stage, the pure productivity, which replaces the psychological game through a radical and associations for free imagery occurs doing that.

Miki Malör has been working with director Miguel Ángel Gaspar.

Theater / performance (selection)

• Anima (Cycle 1996 - ) Honey (1996 )
• In Standing (1997)
• Decompression stop (1997)
• Titi Ikoli (1998)

Film

• Currency ( R: Emre Tunçer 2004)
• Interior Design ( with Michael straw man and Yosi Wanunu 2007)