Vicky Maier 

Welcome! My name is Vicky, I am an artist working in the fields of performance art, theatre, storytelling, film, puppetry, installations and and and... have a look around!

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Venice International Performance Art Week, Image by Lorenza Cini


The collaborative performance Becoming my non-binary body: roots extending invisibly together with Steef Kersbergen is an example for my body based performance art.





Uitnacht Festival - Theater a/d Rijn, Image by daz disley


The haptic sound installation Of Monsters & Bears invites you to cuddle with the huge teddy bear, listen to his stories and find yourself in in safe space to get in contact with your own fears.

Watch the trailer here.



Video still from "Wandel, silbergrün fließend"



The short film Wandel, silbergrün fließend is a poetic homage to the national park Donau-Auen in Lower Austria. Created together with Pascal Simon as part of the media scholarship of Nationalparks Austria 2024.



Drag Lab Vienna - Image by Farben Leer


Drag has become an important form of art for me. From the community aspect to it's political power. From camp to fun. From kinging to becoming a creature.



 

Raw Matters - Tender Steps Residency, Image by Mar Esteban


What if I like it?  is a performance and body-based research project together with Mar Esteban Martin. It is delving into the topic of fantasies(ing) and desire from a queer transfeminist, intersectional and critical approach. But also from ignorance, failure, shame, doubtfulness and clumsiness.


A performative memorial in Erlangen, Image by Iva Ellrodt


ERBEESSEN
A performative memorial for the victims of the Nazi murders in Erlangen's “Heil- und Pflegeanstalt”.

3 days, 42 hours. For everyone. www.erbeessen.de

 

 


Home of Performance Practices, Image by Fenia Kotsopoulou


Creature Chronicles is a storytelling and theatre show, working with elements of comedy, drag, puppetry and audience participation to challenge patriarchal and heteronormative structures in the field of comedy.

To see a short storytelling example at Mezrab, House of Stories in Amsterdam 2023 click here.



Performance Art Video, Image by Steef Kersbergen


Waiting with the Waters is a performance based film project on the topic of climate emergency. Together with Steef Kersbergen we explore the effects of the rising sea level in the Netherlands through Solastalgia and poetry. 

Still screening on PAV. To get to the video click here.



figuren.theater.festival, Image by Ben Toepel / Kartenhouse


The interactive screen duett #distance is designed to invite the audience to create their own understanding of distance. The dance film addresses the isolation we encountered during the covid pandemic. Dancers: Sophie Becker and Christian Franz Klein. Camera and editing: Alina Hartwig. Concept and directing: Vicky Maier. Produced for the figuren.theater.festival 2021.


KreativZeitRaum Residency, Image by Steef Kersbergen


A residency in an old monastery in rural Bavaria, Germany.
(In)Visibility of Queer Identities was a project with Steef Kersbergen, working with performance, film, photography, drag, storytelling and conversations to engage people in the area to get in touch with the topic of queerness.


Home of Performance Practives, Image by Fenia Kotsopoulou


The one-to-one performance Guilty Pleasure Island deals with the topic of transgression and getting in touch with one's own (unshared) desires. 

 




-- More detailed information about projects coming soon! --