Naturhistorische Museum [ENA] The special exhibition “Caution, High Voltage! Electrical Accidents – A Class of Their Own” at Naturhistorisches Museum Wien’s Narrenturm offers a striking and unusually focused exploration of one of the more unsettling by-products of modern electrification: the electrical accident. Rather than treating electricity as a triumphant story of progress alone, the exhibition turns the spotlight on risk and vulnerability.   [Full story...]

Volksoper [ENA] “KaiserRequiem” at the Volksoper Wien is a work of rare conceptual coherence and emotional force: a music theatrical ritual that confronts twentieth century catastrophe without either aestheticising or simplifying it. Conceived by Omer Meir Wellber and choreographed and staged by Andreas Heise, the evening fuses Viktor Ullmann’s chamber opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder Die Tod Verweigerung.   [Full story...]