Meg Stuart
Shelf Life (2023)
Circuit Bending (2023)
Courtesy of the artist
In her new video works, choreographer Meg Stuart explores the Vorklinik, a soon-to-be demolished building erected in 1971–76 for the University of Graz’s medical faculty, today considered too dysfunctional for further use. Stuart and her collaborators attempt to mark the removal of the building through a sensorial processing of its vast, empty spaces. Like the modernist project, the attempt to fit their bodies into the architecture of the Vorklinik is slated to fail.
Meg Stuart (1965, New Orleans, United States) is a choreographer, director, and dancer. With her company, Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, ranging from solos and duets to large-scale choreographies, video works, site-specific creations, and improvisation projects. Stuart’s work moves freely between dance, theater, and visual arts. Through fictions and shifting narrative layers, she explores dance as a source of healing and a way to transform the social fabric. She has received, among others, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2018. Stuart is based in Berlin and Brussels.
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23
With the kind support of the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft
Meg Stuart at Artist Talks
23.9., 13:30–14:30
Shelf Life
Video, 24 min.
Circuit Bending
Video, 3:38 min.
Church of Ruined Modernity
Group exhibition
Shelf Life
Directed by Meg Stuart
With: Jayson Batut, Philipp Gehmacher, Meg Stuart
Music: Hahn Rowe
Costume design: Aino Laberenz
Camera and DOP: Stephane Leonard
Editing: Stephane Leonard, Meg Stuart
Drone: Stefan Schmid (AV Baby)
Thanks to Damaged Goods, Paul Freeman, Zach Hart, and Isabelle Pauwelyn
Circuit Bending
Directed by Meg Stuart
Camera and DOP: Stephane Leonard
Costume design: Aino Laberenz
Location: Vorklinik, Graz
In dialogue with: Jayson Batut, Philipp Gehmacher
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23
With the kind support of the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft
Meg Stuart at Artist Talks
23.9., 13:30–14:30