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07.10.
2026
CHRISTINE GAIGG / 2ND NATURE
Intimate Performativity
© eSeL/Lorenz Seidler
Based on the experiences with the experimental interactive format polymono (premiered at ImPulsTanz 2024) and the feedback received from the audience, the team of Christine Gaigg will continue to explore the choreographic principles of intimate performances in this lab. Manuela Deac, Samuel Feldhandler, Christine Gaigg, Anna Prokopová, and the visitors are concerned with proximity and distance, affectivity, engagement, and interactivity. Using all senses, the lab explores and reflects on strategies for navigating within a safe but also courageous framework, which is essential when dealing with topics such as intimacy and sexuality. Seeing and being seen, encountering, touching, and showing vulnerability become choreographic instruments. The research is being conducted in connection with the upcoming project entitled Jealousy, a performative installation. Christine Gaigg and her collaborators are looking forward to receiving input from visitors in this open lab.
Time
15:00–18:00
Location
TQW Studios
Duration
180 Min
Price
Free admission
Additional Information
Language: German, English
Visitor note: The event involves nudity.
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Dates
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TUE
07.10.
Christine Gaigg / 2nd nature
Intimate Performativity
15:00 – 18:00
TQW Studios
Additional Information
Language: German, English
Visitor note: The event involves nudity.
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Artist Bio
Christine Gaigg
studied philosophy in Vienna, as well as dance and choreography at SNDO in Amsterdam. Her choreographic work can be divided into three phases: structural choreography in collaboration with composers of New Music, performance essays in the field of documentary theater, and interactive encounter formats. In 2001, she opened the ImPulsTanz Festival with Sacre Material at the Museumsquartier and was part of the opening program of Tanzquartier Wien (music: Max Nagl). In 2010, the collective Gaigg/Lang/Harnoncourt/Ritsch opened the festival steirischer herbst with Maschinenhalle#1. Together with composer Bernhard Lang, she explored a loop grammar between sound and movement in the TRIKE series (2004–2012). Gaigg's performance essays deal with Pussy Riot and Vaslav Nijinsky in DeSacre! (2013), with the production of war images in untitled (look, look, come closer) (2015), and with the Orlando shooting in CLASH (2016). A separate series is devoted to socio-political questions about sexuality: Maybe the way you made love twenty years ago is the answer? (2014), Affair (2019), and Go for it let go (2021, about female ejaculation). With Meet (2018), the development of interactive formats began and was continued in polymono (2024). In addition to her artistic work, she teaches at the Institute for Theater, Film, and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, gives lectures, and publishes texts.