Vanished

10-11-12 October 2024, WUK Vienna, Austria

Vanished brings together an ensemble of eight young non-professional performers, aged 16 to 21, in a landscape that is continuously built, dismantled, and rebuilt. Using large blocks, the performers construct and reconfigure the stage space in real time—shaping temporary architectures that are never fixed, only provisional.

Placing adolescence at its centre, the work does not treat age as a theme to be illustrated, but as a condition: a state of becoming in which forms, relations, and identities remain unstable. The performers move between moments of inward withdrawal and collective labour, oscillating between the solitude of an inner world and the necessity of acting together.

Vanished unfolds in a space suspended between what has already fallen away and what has not yet taken shape. Through simple gestures, sustained presence, and shared effort, the performance invites a pause—a moment of listening—where meaning emerges not through narration, but through the careful negotiation of space, material, and togetherness.

Concept and artistic direction: Mirko Guido and Alberto Franceschini

Created with and performed by: Sebastian Schmidt, Tina Saumwald, Srdjan Ivanovic, Zoe Wagner, Magdalena Schütz, Nahuel Hanak-Hammerl, Mira Keindl, Elsa Marth

Sound design: Zen Jefferson

Lighting design and technical direction: Leo Kuraite

Artistic producer and dramaturgical consultant: Amélie Haller

Consultant for visual arts and design: Márton Zalka

Production: Momentum Kunst- und Kultur Vereins

Co-production: WUK Performing Arts

Supported by: Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA 7), Culture Moves Europe

Other partners: Italian Institute of Culture Vienna, Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna