Lulu Obermayer
Agoraphobia (2023)
Performance
Lulu Obermayer, Agoraphobia (2023), performance, photo: steirischer herbst / Johanna Lamprecht
Lulu Obermayer, Agoraphobia (2023), performance, photo: steirischer herbst / Johanna Lamprecht
Lulu Obermayer, Agoraphobia (2023), performance, photo: steirischer herbst / Johanna Lamprecht
Lulu Obermayer, Agoraphobia (2023), performance (rehearsal), photo: steirischer herbst / Mathias Völzke
Photo: Stefan Burger
Lulu Obermayer’s performance for the opening of steirischer herbst addresses the masculinity that underwrites much of the opera tradition. The gendering of opera is Obermayer’s long-time concern, but never before has she worked with male singers and their voices, as she does in this performance. It confronts a haunting monument from the interwar period by Wilhelm Gösser, which celebrates the anniversary of a by-then defunct infantry regiment that fought in Galicia and Italy during World War I.
Lulu Obermayer (1989, Munich, Germany) is an artist whose practice is situated between opera, theater, performance art, and dance. She uses the European canon as a point of friction to uncover hidden potential in female characters, transform dominant narrative threads, and excavate perspectives that have been rendered invisible. A particular focus of her performances is the role of gender in classical opera. Her work has been presented at O. Festival, Rotterdam; Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow; Theater Neumarkt, Zurich; DeSingel, Antwerp; Sophiensäle and HAU2, Berlin; steirischer herbst ’20; and elsewhere.
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23
In cooperation with Oper Graz
With the kind support of the German Embassy in Vienna and Gessnerallee Zürich
Lulu Obermayer at Artist Talks
22.9., 14:30–15:30
3.10., 11:00–16:00
Ich bin der Welt abhandengekommen
(I Am Lost to the World)
Artist workshop
21.9., 17:00
Uhrturm, Schloßberg
8010 Graz
Freely accessible
Duration: 30 min.
Performers: Ivan Oreščanin, Wilfried Zelinka, Lulu Obermayer
Choir: Kapellknaben Graz
Hair, makeup, styling: Marlena Fink
Garments: Nicholas x Daniel Hanson
Sound design: Çağdaş Onaran
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23
In cooperation with Oper Graz
With the kind support of the German Embassy in Vienna and Gessnerallee Zürich
Lulu Obermayer at Artist Talks
22.9., 14:30–15:30
3.10., 11:00–16:00
Ich bin der Welt abhandengekommen
(I Am Lost to the World)
Artist workshop
