Korzo Zaal
FOOD
| Maker | Michael Zandl |
| Duration | 60 min |
| Part of | Cirque Mania |
Hungry for FOOD?
This humorous spectacle isn’t your ordinary feast. FOOD invites you into an amusing and, at times, bizarre world of consumption. Fueled by our very own appetite for more...
What begins as a simple act of eating gradually transforms into a maniacal, almost mechanical ritual. We watch as the boundaries between desire and necessity blur, giving rise to something grotesque, surprising, and disturbingly hypnotic. Through acrobatics and object manipulation, these witty circus performers create a vivid physical language. One that questions not just their own, but perhaps even our collective consumption habits – habits shaped under the quiet pressure of commercial persuasion.
Michael Zandl (1989) is an Austrian circus artist and since 2020 housemaker at Korzo. Michael is interested in exceeding common circus references. He likes to work with ‘real’ objects that are not commonly associated with circus. At his shows technical intricacies and special effects are at a rendezvous. Putting circus technique into fresh context is difficult, so by using objects as points of departure to explore vocabularies, Michael manipulates them in order to tell a story. He works by creating specific scenes and developing a language through these very objects.
Storytelling in the art of circus is less seen nowaday, and by working with illusions and live, non-recreatable experiences, he seeks to bring the audience into another world. Michael likes to work with the absurd in combination with abstraction and subtle humor. He finds these tools a powerful source of expression.
Korzo Zaal