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19. – 21.
MAR
2026
MICHIKAZU MATSUNE
Soft Collapse (Insomnia for Beginners)
© Michikazu Matsune
Artist Michikazu Matsune is brilliant at sleeping badly. His new work, made with performers Camilla Schielin, Evandro Pedroni and Julia Zastava, invites the audience into a shared space of curiosity, knowledge and exploration within the world of sleeplessness and troubles associated with our nightly act of (un)resting.
Soft Collapse (Insomnia for Beginners) gently dissolves the boundaries between wakefulness and slumber, opening up a poetic encounter with the restless moments that haunt our nights. Laden with quiet humor and thoughtful observation, Matsune creates a reflective environment in which insomnia becomes a lens to consider our human condition. Evoking subtle tensions between rest and unrest, the performance encourages audiences to reconsider sleep not just as a biological necessity, but as a richly layered terrain of imagination, vulnerability, and collective experience.
Featured artworks by Elisabeth Molin, Ida
Kammerloch, Jannis Neumann, Karen Werner, Rosa Wiesauer, Julia Zastava, and
Michikazu Matsune.
Time
19:00–20:00
Location
TQW Studios
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 16/12
Additional Information
In English. No chairs; the audience will be seated on a carpet. If you need a fixed seat, please book in advance at tanzquartier@tqw.at, and we will be happy to accommodate your request.
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Artist Bio
Michikazu Matsune
Originally from the seaside town of Kobe and based in Vienna since the 1990s, Michikazu Matsune is an artist working at the crossroads between documentary and conceptual performance, where poetry, humor, the absurd, and criticism meet. Developing projects in various formats, ranging from stage performances to participatory projects and publications, his body of work explores the friction between cultural ascriptions and social identifications, individual experiences and collective histories, the public and the private. Matsune’s ongoing struggle with insomnia led him to initiate The Institute of Sleepless Nights (since 2022), a study group and practice-based research project devoted to the art of sleeplessness and to numerous issues related to the nightly act of (un)resting. He teaches performance art at the University of Arts Linz.
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Credits
Concept, artistic direction Michikazu Matsune Performance Camilla Schielin, Evandro Pedroni, Julia Zastava, Michikazu Matsune Featured artworks by Elisabeth Molin, Ida Kammerloch, Jannis Neumann, Karen Werner, Rosa Wiesauer, Julia Zastava, Michikazu Matsune Costume Julia Zastava Space Michikazu Matsune, Julia Zastava Light design Yasemin Duru Artistic & dramaturgical consultation Francesca Romana Audretsch Production management Franziska Zaida Schrammel
A production by Studio Matsune / Verein Violet Lake Co-produced by Tanzquartier Wien With kind support from the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Art, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS)
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Supporting Program
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MAR
2015:00 – 16:30
Michikazu Matsune
Workshop on Stage
Time
15:00 – 16:30
Location
TQW Studios
Duration
90 Min
Price
€ 15
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MAR
2114:00 – 18:00
Michikazu Matsune
Beyond Sleep
Time
14:00 – 18:00
Location
TQW Studios
Duration
240 Min
Price
Free admission
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Events
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MAR
19
19:00 – 20:00
Michikazu Matsune
Soft Collapse (Insomnia for Beginners)
Time
19:00 – 20:00
Location
TQW Studios
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 16/12
Additional Information
In English. No chairs; the audience will be seated on a carpet. If you need a fixed seat, please book in advance at tanzquartier@tqw.at, and we will be happy to accommodate your request.
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MAR
20
19:00 – 20:00
Michikazu Matsune
Soft Collapse (Insomnia for Beginners)
Time
19:00 – 20:00
Location
TQW Studios
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 16/12
Additional Information
In English. No chairs; the audience will be seated on a carpet. If you need a fixed seat, please book in advance at tanzquartier@tqw.at, and we will be happy to accommodate your request.
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MAR
21
19:00 – 20:00
Michikazu Matsune
Soft Collapse (Insomnia for Beginners)
Time
19:00 – 20:00
Location
TQW Studios
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 16/12
Additional Information
In English. No chairs; the audience will be seated on a carpet. If you need a fixed seat, please book in advance at tanzquartier@tqw.at, and we will be happy to accommodate your request.
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