Kultursommer: The Flying Dictators

The Flying Dictators

In their last cooperation “Rickey Mouse Fun House” Mäkelä and Rauschmeier, amongst others, stemmed a comical, satirical and crazy evening with a man-size burnt-out entertainer mouse and his gnawer colleagues to bring the audience a political entertainment Rallye for “Maow the cat”. This time the two entertainers, left alone by most of their followers, are focusing on two other significant celebrities of the communist era. Stalin & Lenin.
Caught up in their uncompromising ideas, the two are doomed to find the key to paradise in a joint act. It is hidden in a Box that, against all expectations, refuses to reveal its secret to its buyers. Hard work meets political ideology in a milieu of self-doubt and worthless utopias. Watch the two celebrities in their social experiment of self-empowerment that ultimately leads to satisfying confusion and refreshing Salsa beats.
The Flying Dictators is juggling with political correctness, beyond the boundaries of good taste and revitalizing the ancient art of the Underground. A shallow firework of subtle jokes.

Pasi Mäkelä (b. 1975) is a Finnish conceptual artist, performer, choreographer, and musician living partly in Prague. His performance work is largely based on butoh, Japanese avantgarde dance phenomena that emerged in early 1960 ́s. Butoh is known for extreme physical approach to dance performance. Pasi has developed Finnish version of butoh. During past years he was been working actively on various performance and music projects in Finland, Czech Republic, Germany and Austria.

Born in Augsburg in 1974, Roland Rauschmeier, studied philosophy in Munich, Berlin and Vienna. He attended Renée Green’s conceptual art class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and graduated in 2004. His artistic practice can be classified as part of the Post-Internet art movement, which deals with the effects, aesthetics and socio-cultural implications of the Internet. Rausschmeier’s formal works range from performance, sculpture, painting to digital media. He collaborates with German filmmaker and video artist Ulu Braun under the pseudonym BitteBitteJaJa.

Tomáš Vtípil is Czech composer, performer and producer. His attention moved from alternative rock to performance art/poetry (as Czech Poetry Slam champion), electronic, improvised and contemporary music. His last works combine this experience with somewhat more accessible forms of hip-hop and club music.

Elia Moretti (*1986 in Milano, Italy) is a performer, composer, percussion player and researcher with a focus on cultural anthropology through an ecological perception of sound. He is specifically interested in the way sound might contribute to alter the experience of the performance and he is concerned with the ways in which artistic practices participate in the context (social grounds) they emerge from or respond to. He’s investigating those sonic phenomena which are foundational of performative and theatrical practice. He plays in different ensemble units, nevertheless he privileges radical and experimental chamber music. He regularly collaborates with dancers, theatre companies and visual artists.