Spike Art Magazine

Florian Malzacher

Florian Malzacher is a curator, writer, and dramaturg, as well as the host of the lecture series “The Art of Assembly.” His most recent book is The Art of Assembly. Political Theater Today (2023). He lives in Berlin.

Performance

Liberation Theology: Florentina Holzinger’s “SANCTA”

By Florian Malzacher

In coitus and nuns’ veils, cabaret and liturgy, roller skates and torrents of blood, Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger’s debut opera is living feminist utopia now.

Interview

“My Leadership Model Is Permanent Revolution”: Milo Rau

By Florian Malzacher

Can a theater be a total democracy? Wiener Festwochen’s new artistic director unpacks Vienna’s relationship with being provoked and making grotesque demands onstage.