puppet theater
KARAPET SHOW BY GAGIK ARSHÁK
Thursday, 13/06/2024, 4 pm
Venue: in the public space at Volkertmarkt, next to the youth center
Thursday, 04/07/2024, 4 pm
Venue: in the public space atVenediger Au, next to the playground and kindergarten
Gagik Arshàk, Karapet, 2024, photo: Toqa Eissa
Gagik Arshák will install his mobile puppet theatre in the public space at Volkertmarkt. The Armenian folk figure Karapet becomes the main character in this interpretation of traditional theatre and pursues the desire to convey messages and values without indoctrination.
In this play for adults and children, Karapet gets his dream stolen by Death and will find a way to bring it back to take it to the Traumspeisekammer and preserve it forever.
The puppet theater performances in public space are realized in the framework of the project Traumspeisekammer, a collaborative exhibition by Anne Glassner and Gagik Arshák.
artist
(*1992 in post-Soviet Armenia) is a theatre and film artist with bases in Washington DC, Yerevan and Vienna. A descendent of architects, artists, and philologues, Gagik Arshák has spent his life distilling both his inherited and learned art into its essential function. Uninterested in form, with a particular distaste in the invisible yet powerful line between the audience and the stage, his latest project, founded in Vienna, “The Karapet Theater Tradition” is his particular interpretation of ancient and contemporary theatre. After a long sleep of decades, if not centuries, the ancient Armenian folk figure Karapet has once again found the need to convey messages, common sense, principles; utopist or realistic, avoiding indoctrinations, ideologies, flags, dogmatism, and modern establishment semiotics as it has only to deal with the human being and all its positive potential.
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