Anne Juren
born in Grenoble/France, is a choreographer, dancer and Feldenkrais Practitioner based in Vienna. Her choreographic works and artistic research have been extensively presented in international theatres, festivals, and different museums and art venues. In her work, Juren tries to expand the contextual boundaries of the term choreography in engaging the body in different states of physical, sensorial, corporeal and poetic experiences, reflecting on the possibilities of encounters. She was part of the artistic committee for the Master in Choreography at DOCH from 2014–2018. Recently, she finished her PhD in artistic research titled
Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies at SKH Stockholm University of the Arts under the supervision of André Lepecki and Sandra Noeth.
Barbara Kraus
lives and works as a performance artist in Vienna. A self-deprecating ‘shapeshifter’, Barbara Kraus stops where Johnny & Co begins and finds herself in snails, stones and a speck of dust. In her artistic universe, everything is in motion, and there is nothing that cannot become something else. A tactile, multi-voiced, seismographic ‘performance medium’, she likes to move with her eyes closed and go where it gets wild, contradictory, fragile and sometimes tender. Feeling her way along a longing for connection. Dreaming. Breathing. Writing. Walking. Preferably into the forest and over the mountains. From Vienna to Nice. Far away. Going further and never arriving.
barbarakraus.at
Claudia Heu
is a choreographer, martial artist and teacher. She lives in Vienna and works all over the world. Since 2016, she has been practising a form of walking together with Alexander Brom, which they call ‘Umherziehen’ (wandering about). To do this, they invite acquaintances, friends and strangers.
claudiaheu.com
Eva Seiler
studied scenography and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In her sculptures and spatial settings, she questions anthropocentrism and speculates on how the co-existence of human and non-human animals, nature and technology could be articulated in the future. She embraces hybrid modes of relationship in her practice, using both organic materials and industrially produced fabrics for her objects. For
TOGETHER THE PARTS, she has largely worked with and re-used elements that were previously part of other constellations. In such a way, she creates and activates material connections for the gathering that can then be transformed into new contexts.
Marta Popivoda
(Berlin/Belgrade) is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher. The main concerns in her work are the tensions between memory, history, and ideology, as well as the relations between collective and individual bodies. She approaches them from a feminist and queer perspective. Popivoda uses landscape dramaturgy, feminist storytelling, and radical slowness principles to produce ‘verbal-images’ or ‘scenes of (antifascist) memory’. Her film
Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, premiered at the 63rd Berlinale and is part of the film collection of MoMA New York. Popivoda’s work has been featured in major art galleries, such as Tate Modern London, MoMA New York, and MAXXI Rome. She received the prestigious Berlin Art Prize for the visual arts from the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Her latest film,
Landscapes of Resistance, premiered in the Tiger Competition of the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam and won more than ten awards worldwide.
Pete Prison IV
is a Viennese underground musician who plays in different music projects and formations, such as the hypnotic noise-jazz-punk duo Bosna and the solo dark-folk alter ego Vereter. Always rambling in the fields of music, performance, video, words and even sometimes dance. His works often engage with the void, subtle closeness, and humour arising from observations or personal experiences. Pete is the co-founder of Perilla, a self-organised zine and association that empowers the visibility and the voice of the Asian diaspora in Austria.
bosnanowa.com,
vereter.at
PLF
is drummer Lukas König, electronic musician Peter Kutin and vocalist Freya 'Fridge' Edmontes. POP LOST FAITH. In 2022, their debut album
EPDEMO was released on the British label Opal Tabes. PFL is an unorthodox band concept, which operates adeptly across the boundaries of post-punk, noise and free improvisation. PLAY FAKE LOGIC. Granular clouds branch out into rhythmic abysses, the voice beguiles, disturbs, a feedback and light instrument opens a hypnotic scenery. PLF concerts are a dynamic tour de force, the attentive interplay of three musicians who are out to seduce the audience as much as to challenge them. PEACE LITERALLY FAILED.
heartofnoise.com /
lukaskoenig.com /
kutin.xyz
Shaymaa Shoukry
is a Cairo-based multidisciplinary artist who thrives through a passion for choreographing, performing and creating video art. Always motivated and inspired by working collectively, she develops personal work in an organic build-up process, where each project paves the way for the next. Currently interested in the subject of resilience and the capacity of the human body to adapt to its environment, she engages with personal struggles, social pressure, violence, censorship and diverse political limitations to search for internal resilience and explore ways of solidarity and openness to a lighter frequency of being. Shaymaa studied Visual Arts and Theatre at the American University in Cairo, Dance at the Cairo Opera House School (Centre of Creativity) and Contemporary Dance at Studio Emad el Dien. She has had the pleasure to perform, share choreographic work and be hosted as a resident artist on a regional and international level.
shaymaashoukry.com
Sonia Leimer
lives and works in Vienna. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 2007 to 2012, she hosted the radio show titled
City and the Image. She taught at the Academy for Art and Photography with Martin Guttmann from 2012–2016. Leimer exhibits her work internationally at Leopold Museum, Vienna; Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich; Los Angeles Museum of Art; 5th Moscow Biennial; artothek, Cologne; Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bozen, Italy; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kunstverein Basis, Frankfurt; BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna; Salzburger Kunstverein; and Manifesta 7, Rovereto.
sonialeimer.net
Susanne Songi Griem
is a performance and visual artist from Germany. Her first work for stage
Fisch und Schwan in Negligé (Fish and Swan in Negligé) premiered in 2021 as a journey through a living anti-cabinet of curiosities and memories.
Spaziergang bei Nacht (Walk by Night) followed in 2022, an acoustic duet with Pete Prison IV that held the warm atmosphere of a village square in the distorted landscape of theatre lights. Susanne Songi works with the texture of different materials, objects, languages and performative states, bridging an act of writing and following scores with the fluidity inherent to moments of encounter. She has collaborated in different constellations for performative works in public space, among others, with Alexandra Pirici, Scarlet Yu and Xavier le Roy or in self-organised groups such as Gruppe Bussi and Perilla.
songyi.info
