Annina Machaz
Zämerisse! (Pull Yourself Together!, 2024)
Photo: Mayra Wallraff
Horror, hope, and humor form a common thread in Annina Machaz’s show, which transforms Forum Stadtpark’s basement into a dungeon. Creepy figures haunt us in this chamber and wrap us around their fingers. Machaz’s characters wear homemade hats and papier-mâché masks and bring along poems and texts from their homeland, their Heimat. Poetry and slapstick shake hands, while, from afar, you can hear the artist playing a farewell on the alpenhorn. On this evening, fantasy is also autobiographical.
Annina Machaz (1985, Zurich, Switzerland) is an actress and theater-maker who creates her own stage sets, papier-mâché characters, and absurd texts. As a performer, she has worked and toured with Ivo Dimchev, Ann Liv Young, and Florentina Holzinger, among others. Her works have been shown at Theater Neumarkt and Theater HORA, Zurich, among others. In addition to her theater work, Machaz has also participated in several film productions and organized two exhibitions of her own artworks (paintings and sculptures). She lives in Zurich.
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’24
With the kind support of the Swiss Embassy in Austria
11.10., 12.10., 20:00
Double bill with
Alex Franz Zehetbauer
Forum Stadtpark (basement)
Stadtpark 1
8010 Graz ♿
18/14 euros
In English and German
Dramaturgy: Mira Kandathil
Musical direction: Stefan Schneider
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’24
With the kind support of the Swiss Embassy in Austria