Sabine Marte

“Hotel Totale is a filmic machine in the form of a triple projection. Hotel Totale is a script that takes off, has an accident and continues travelling along a story with abstract figures. Hotel Totale is a property with a strange life of its own.” Sabine Marte

A group of travellers arrives in Hotel Totale after a turbulent journey. The hotel, somehow alive, receives the guests in a friendly way. An actress lives in the Hotel Totale as a permanent resident and has a strangely close relationship with the hotel. The guests turn out to be extremely precarious figures who move from one extreme situation to the next. The hotel increasingly enjoys them. In order to be able to keep them a little bit longer, one day it decides to continuously lower the room prices, thus increasing the time with its guests. And now the hotel suddenly starts to accept an endless number of guests. With this intermedial performance – in which the media used completely reflect the style of Sabine Marte’s work in the fields of video art, performance and music while developing extraordinary narration techniques – the author refers to Hilbert’s Hotel: a thought experiment by mathematician David Hilbert that attempts to illustrate the infinity of numbers. Have a pleasant stay in Hotel Totale!

Idea and Concept Sabine Marte Direction Sabine Marte, Andrea Salzmann Performance Sabine Marte, Susanne Schuda, Caroline Peters (on video) Text Sabine Marte, Rosemarie Poiarkov und die AbenteurerInnen Video Sabine Marte, Oliver Stotz Music and Composition Sabine Marte, Peter Szely, Markus Marte Klangregie and Livesound Peter Szely Dramaturgy Rosemarie Poiarkov Lighting Andrea Salzmann Costumes Markus Hausleitner Make-up Andreas Riegler Photography Hertha Hurnaus, Sabine Marte, Andrea Salzmann, Doris Deninger Video design (Greenbox) Georg Eckmayr Sound (Greenbox) Viktoria Kaser, Nikolaus Eckhard Video programming and -mastering Oliver Stotz Soundmastering Oliver Stotz Production management Nicole Schuchardt

A co-production of Bonanza/Sabine Marte, brut Wien and the donaufestival 2012. With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs and of the province of Vorarlberg.

€ 14/€ 8/€ 6* with the brutkarte