Toter Salon

So behold this house, and behold the beauty of its concrete, and of its boards, and of its foundation, which shall bear thee up, as no dirt, nor field, nor meadow, nor wheel out there, shall ever be able to bear thee up. The Volksbühne declares: I am the good shelter, I know my people, and my people know me.

So if thine ears be deaf, and thine eyes blind, go unto this house. For this house makes the deaf hear, the blind sow see; it makes good what the common art that is not art has done to thee for many a year. This house can restore health to you.

The Vienna-based author Lydia Haider will stage an expulsion – or rather an exorcism. Starting off from the steps in front of the Volksbühne, the procession will proceed to Roter Salon, home to Toter Salon, an event that has been taking place for two seasons now, reinventing itself. With the prelude EXODUS, episode 0, Haider and her accomplices will lay the foundation for the coming season, in which Toter Salon is dedicated to the ten plagues in five episodes: Blood! Dregs! Pestilence! Hail/Eclipse! Death to all firstborn!

Toter Salon is a liturgy, a mass taking place every second month on the last Friday, confronting new vicissitudes, issues and guests.

Toter Salon is an invitation to all the arts and art forms to push and challenge boundaries, bury past experiences and reinvent themselves.