25/11 & 26/11/2026, 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm,
27/11/2026, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm,
28/11 & 29/11/2026, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm & 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm, brut understage
Gootopian Treatment
One-to-One Performance

With Gootopian Treatment, Doris Uhlich expands her artistic exploration of slime into a sensual and open experimental setting. Building on the performances Gootopia (Tanzquartier Wien, 2021) and Gootopia – The Treatment (brut Wien, 2023), audiences are invited not as a group but through individual encounters: 99 time slots, 99 participants, each in a one-to-one meeting with Doris Uhlich. At the centre of the work is physical contact with slime, a material that resists clear definition: neither solid nor liquid, neither entirely familiar nor entirely foreign. Slime can provoke a wide range of reactions. It may evoke disgust, spark curiosity, awaken a desire for touch, or trigger memories connected to one’s own body. In Gootopian Treatment, slime becomes counterpart, medium, and co-performer in a quiet and focused encounter. Humans and slime come into contact; bodily boundaries become tangible while simultaneously turning permeable. An ambivalent space emerges between intimacy and otherness, where the body is no longer understood as a closed entity but as a living organism in relation to other bodies, materials, forces, and forms of life.