In Mash Up, Roland Rauschmeier transfers the principles of the readymade and the objet trouvé from the visual arts into performance. The work does not bring found objects onto the stage. Instead, it takes existing choreographic works as its material and interweaves them in time, space and sound to create a new performance.

Developed in dialogue with Roland Rauschmeier, Vienna based choreographers and performers Milli Bitterli, Philipp Gehmacher, Anne Juren and Paul Wenninger each select one of their earlier works for this shared composition. The performance begins with the longest piece, while the other three gradually enter and unfold alongside it. As a result, Mash Up creates a dense and carefully structured encounter between distinct artistic languages, presences and temporalities.

Rather than presenting earlier works side by side, the piece explores what happens when choreographic material is displaced from its original context and set in relation to other forms, rhythms and bodies. Questions of authorship, memory, repetition and transformation move to the foreground. Existing works do not remain fixed. They shift, resonate and produce new meanings through their coexistence.

Presented in 2013, Mash Up positions itself between choreography, visual art and curatorial practice. Its lasting relevance lies in the way it understands performance as a living archive: not as a place where material is simply preserved, but as a space in which past work becomes active again and opens itself to new readings in the present.