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Helena Araújo

is an enthusiastic femme maker and performer, lover of plot twists and a clown full of kitsch and bad jokes. She is originally from Rio de Janeiro and currently lives in Vienna. Helena, as a maker, is interested in leaving space for different artistic languages to coexist and blend together. Her works have been shown at the Radiant Nights Festival (Antwerp), Moving Futures Festival (Tilburg), FDS Festival (Lausanne) and the S_P_I_T_ Festival at TQW, among others. In 2024, she was a member of the TQW dance group PARASOL.

Kat Hawkins

(1988–2025) was a British artist-researcher with a focus on the body, decay, generative movement, and crip immanence. Their interdisciplinary and kinaesthetic work predominantly spanned film, dance, and writing. The crip experience was central in all they did, and they were a lifelong student and embodier of disability justice.

Denise Kottlett

(she/her) lives and works in Vienna. Kottlett studied visual arts at HBK Saarbrücken and contextual painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Ashley Hans Scheirl. She performs as a solo artist, in groups and collectives, in film and theatre productions, and is the organiser of events such as the Anti Valentines* Ball. Her work deals with body politics, feminist historiography, survival and its effects on one’s own physicality and health.

Crystal Wall

(they/them, she/her) explores the space between performance and singing, poetry and ritual, folk culture and queerness. They relate (alpine) folk customs to queerness and transform them through pleasurable processes into new performative rituals. Through polyphonic expression and collective storytelling, their work reveals fluid poetic soundings, mourning rituals, and luring chants.

Francesca Centonze

was born in Italy in 1990 and studied at the Free University of Bolzano as well as Transmedial Arts at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. She lives and works between Vienna, Bozen, Trieste, and Milan as a filmmaker and artist in the fields of video, animation, graphic design, and sculpture. Centonze has exhibited at numerous venues such as the Kiesler Foundation, MAK, and Deichtorhallen.

Lazy Life

(2017–2023) was a collectively organised, consumption-free space dedicated to queer-feminist art, culture and self-chosen forms of representation. It was created by Thomas Trabitsch, Niko Gsöllhofer, and Kenneth Constance Loe a. o. Under this name, they explored different modes and articulations of collaboration.