The Sound of Losers
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.
combines a critique of the everyday with her own experiences of the art world, creating narratives and counter-narratives that open up discussions around working as a contemporary artist with a feminist perspective. Always using humour and satire (and cardboard), her works take the form of video, sculpture, text and performance, with script writing as a key ingredient. She translates these scenarios through the imitation of popular culture, whether it be through the style of a TV show, mockumentary or a play, often featuring a recurring auto-fictional character and her sidekicks. Charlotte Gash (b. 1994 in the UK) studied Sculpture at Wimbledon College of Arts, London and Performative Kunst at Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna. She lives and works in Vienna. Recently, she presented her works in the group exhibitions Über das Neue at Belvedere 21, Unfreezing the Scene. Prize of the Kunsthalle Wien and in the solo exhibition GASH STATION at Neuer Kunstverein Wien.
Credits
Performers Charlotte Gash, Charlotta Öberg, Danielle Pamp, Jojo Ahlkvist, Hilma Bäckstrom Concept, text, set design, props Charlotte Gash Costumes Charlotte Gash, Charlotta Öberg
In English