secret agency

The Bank of Burning Money, the Alibi Agency, the Casino of Tricks, the Assembly of Real and Other Pirates, the Black Bank, Women of the Seven Seas – secret agency produces situations and institutions that appear to be fictional but then nonetheless withstand the test of reality. The performances of secret agency create another reality rather than confirming the old world in critical gestures. They open escape routes from austerity and take you on a trip with the improbability drive. secret agency creates forums for unheard voices and explores the pleasures of future togetherness. secret agency is working anonymously, transdisciplinarily and internationally. It was founded to use artistic means and resources beyond the accumulation of individual fame. secret agency is an independent label, an open collective and a practical exercise in the „art of being many“.

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Call and Response, 2015

In his Essay upon Projects from 1697, Daniel Defoe proclaims the Projecting Age: The future suddenly seems open and shapeable, everyone engages in projects so big that they have to be expected to fail, and in the stock exchanges and coffee houses bets are made about the results of these projects. The project itself is a bet.

Together with brut Wien and Kunsthalle Exnergasse, secret agency realized the two-part project Call & Response, which started as a lecture performance and installation in the exhibition „A Proposal to Call“ at Kunsthalle Exnergasse on day one and ended as a betting shop performance in the bar of brut on day 2. At the end of day 1, the audience was challenged to bets that had to be decided in the following 24 hours. The following evening, results were declared, winnings were payed out and drinks constantly re-filled.

27/28 November 2015