Michael Turinsky | Work Body

In the organizer's words:

Body, labor, capital - who and what is sacrificed when usability determines our value? A multi-layered, tender, loud answer and challenge to thwart capitalist logic.

"Work Body" shows a working body - building, singing, speaking and dancing, the award-winning Viennese choreographer Michael Turinsky breaks through the logic of capitalist production, abolishes the separation of physical and mental work and makes invisible work visible - all in its own rhythm. The piece is inspired by Pasolini's poem "Le ceneri di Gramsci", a sensual homage to the disabled communist thinker Antonio Gramsci. Turinsky creates resonances between the disabled and the working body - and at the same time reacts to the increasing success of right-wing politics in working-class milieus. "Work Body" is a boundary-breaking work between choreographic intervention, concert and political agitation.

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Inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini's poem "Le ceneri di Gramsci", a sensual homage to the disabled Communist thinker Antonio Gramsci, the piece explores resonances between the disabled and the working body while responding to the increasing success of right-wing politics in working-class milieus. "Work Body" shatters boundaries between choreographic intervention, concert, and political agitation.