CAGE with Katie Duck

CAGE is a solo by Katie Duck with an invitation for collaboration. INFLUX artist Nayana Keshava Bhat accepts this invitation, bringing her own Indian/Austrian cultural influence into the work. CAGE refers to the composer John Cage whose scores, among other things, introduced musicians to choice. CAGE also refers to how the institutionalisation of absolutely everything, the loss of love, the need to face the anatomic perfection of what the Vagina actually is and the use of death as a tactic for fear has suppressed our emotions and feelings forcing us all to live in a CAGE.

CAGE is played by one nomadic woman and an artist or artists from the culture where it is played. It is not played only by women artists. It has been played by several different gender combinations of artists. CAGE offers no solutions by way of equal rights using sports metaphors, winners or losers. Cage is about – total take over.

CAGE has been played in Italy, the USA, Hong Kong, Spain, Holland, Slovenia, Argentina, Canada, France and Mexico as a solo, as a duet and in some cases as a group piece with live musicians.

This version of the work is created in co-production with INFLUX – Network for Dance, Theatre and Performance and Toihaus Theater. It has been funded by Salzburg Stadt and Salzburg Land. It has been presented on March 4th, as the opening performance of Salzburg Improvisation Evenings 2020 Edition.