"None for all, none for everyone, many and others, everyone alone...". This is the conclusion of the chorus of shock in the contemporary singspiel by Beate Engl, Leonie Felle and Franka Kaßner. The neologism PREKÄROTOPIA, derived from "precarious", "rotation" and "utopia", questions the fundamental definition of the solidarity of a community and the individual.
In the PREKÄROTOPIA system, the three protagonists Speaker, Poupée and Trickster fluctuate between being torn and driven, triumph and failure, euphoria and despair. They yearn for emancipation and participation in solidarity and fail at the same time. In this way, PREKÄROTOPIA dramaturgically reflects the challenge of solidarity and attitude in global societies, which consist of countless parallel worlds. PREKÄROTOPIA can be seen as a manifesto of the plot, which even formulates the failure and resignation of Speaker, Poupée and Trickster at the end of the play as an active attitude. The artists want to break down hierarchies and initiate a discourse on political action and responsibility.
PREKÄROTOPIA is a Gesamtkunstwerk developed collectively that combines sculpture, text, film, music and performance. In addition to the live performances of the Singspiel, an essential, analytical and discursive exhibition full of visual experiences will manifest itself. For PREKÄROTOPIA at the A.K.T; the artists create an installative parcours universe of sculptures, instruments, costumes, songs and videos, in which they use the objects as props for the modern performance of the Singspiel with 13 self-composed punk, chanson and agit-pop interludes.
PREKÄROTOPIA premiered in 2019 in the Kunstbau of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich and was awarded the Art Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.

Curated by Janusz Czech

In addition, a co-operation with agora42, the philosophical business magazine, was established in the course of the conception of "Prekärotopia".
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Flyer for download

Programme booklet for download

All music videos for PREKÄROTOPIA
Film: Adrian Campean, Hagen Keller, Felix Pflieger, Felix Press // concept and cut: Beate Engl, Leonie Felle, Franka Kaßner Digital 35, 16:9, total 41 min.

Sing PREKÄROTOPIA with your friends! 10 songs from PREKÄROTOPIA with lyrics

Beate Engl (*1973, Regen) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich under Prof Olaf Metzel, at the School of the Arts Institute Chicago and at the Bauhaus University Weimar. She has been an artist in residence in the USA, India, South Korea and Uganda. She was awarded the City of Munich's Visual Arts Prize in 2009, the Bavarian State Prize in 2012 and a working grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn in 2014. Engl works interdisciplinary in public and institutional spaces, her sculptural approach is mostly site-specific. She is involved in various committees in the field of art and building, currently in the commission of the BBK Munich and Upper Bavaria.
http://www.beateengl.de/

Leonie Felle (*1979, Lindenberg im Allgäu) lives and works in Munich. She studied at the Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign München and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. The artist uses photography, installation, text and sound to develop narrative structures and create a productive tension between the individual elements. Felle has shown her works in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus / Kunstbau and Haus der Kunst in Munich, Halle 14 in Leipzig, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and the Fei Contemporary Art Centre, Shanghai. Felle has also been performing with Jakob Egenrieder (bass), Hagen Keller (guitar and accordion) and Sascha Schwegeler (drums) under the name "Leonie sings" since 2009.
https://www.leonie-felle.de/

Franka Kaßner (*1976 in Oschatz) is a German sculptor who lives and works in Leipzig and Munich. Kaßner completed an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor in Berchtesgaden. She then studied sculpture with Olaf Metzel at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (master student), combining painting, moving images, music, text, installation and performance to create sculpture. One focus of her artistic work is the critical reflection of our collective memory as an arena and place of negotiation of private and public ideas of identity and the social construction of identity. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in numerous exhibitions, such as at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Dommuseum in Salzburg, the Kunsthalle Bremen and the German Theatre in Timişoara, Romania. She has received the Amerika Stipendium from the Free State of Bavaria, a working scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds and the Lothar Späth Prize, among others.
https://www.galeriechristinemayer.de/artists/franka-kassner/

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Issue 4/2020: Solidarity in Prekärotopia

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