(UTTERLY) EMBURROUGHSING ARCHIVES

In her live performance, Nika Pfeifer brings ghosts, photos, and objects as protagonists on the stage to guide us through a part of her family’s story between Tanger and Vienna and share her relation to William S. Burroughs, which happens to be a very loose and very personal one at the same time. A yellow car - the old Lada of Vera Kreisky, Bruno Kreisky‘s wife, the former Austrian chancellor - , photos by Pfeifer's late grandmother and her cousins, summer memories of endless ice cream pleasures tell the story of a great love and of loss. The performance is based on the artist's family archive, and includes photos, drawings, personal notes, and poems.

© 2025 Nika Pfeifer

Nika Pfeifer

(UTTERLY) EMBURROUGHSING ARCHIVES, 2018

Performance Lecture

European Best Studies Network, eawcp, Vienna Poetry School,  and Alte Schmiede Vienna, 2018