ABOUT

Martin Schnabl is a London based musician, scenographer and performance artist. Works include scenography for theatre and performance, sound design and composition for theatre and performance as well as performance work based on original song and poetry material.

Current works include the ‘anti-musical’ DRUGS AND VINYL. The show is an interactive, colourful, cheery, dead serious, highly mediatised exposure of –  but also a celebration of – both rock myth, theatrical form, and contemporary modes of consumption.

At the core of it all lies one romantic dream: Having one’s portrait on a record cover. On an LP sleeve, not on a tiny CD, and not as a little thumbnail in someone’s iTunes library. The goal is to look at the artifact and say: This is me. This is how I felt at the time, who I was, what I cared about, what I cried over and perved at.

Martin Schnabl graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in Performance Design and Practice 2010 (post grad), as well as from London College of Communication in Media and Cultural Studies in 2009 (undergrad). His work has been shown at the XV Biennale de la Mediterranée Thessaloniki, at the Briggait as part of the HOST programme of the Market Gallery Glasgow, at Shunt, at Schaurauschen Berlin, at the Camden People’s Theatre and the Arcola Theatre in association with the Stoke Newington International Airport, at ACT ART, at the Dublin Fringe (scratch night), Speedie’s Retro and Kitsch, Laura and Lauren’s, the Royal Opera House in association with Tony Hornecker, and at other venues.

Feel free to get in touch via martin[dot]schnabl[at]yahoo[dot]de