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18.11. –
22.11. 2025
22.11. 2025
IAN KALER
You are song, to me
Ian Kaler, You are song, to me, Videostill
Ian Kaler’s video installation explores trans male experiences and examines the voice after a voice break caused by testosterone treatment. The presentation features artist and performer Romeo Roxman Gatt – on screen and in a live performance.
In his artistic practice, Ian Kaler develops interdisciplinary stage and video works. His films are influenced by choreography, and his choreographies by film. The video piece You are song, to me, co-produced by TQW, marks the beginning of a new series that centers on storytelling of trans-male experience and collaboration. Together with artist, poet, and performer Romeo Roxman Gatt, Kaler explores states of suspension through movement underwater and working with the voice after a testosterone-induced voice break. In an intimate email exchange between the two protagonists, the film blurs the lines between text, moving images, and music. Cinematography emphasizes the gaze and examines the staging and embodiment of intimacy and belonging beyond fetishization and exposure.
The TQW presents the work in a site-specific video installation and with performative activations by Ian Kaler and Romeo Roxman Gatt at the opening and closing events.
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TQW Studios
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Price
Free admission
Additional Information
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Dates
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TUE
18.11.
19:00 – 21:30
Ian Kaler
You are song, to me
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WED
19.11.
08:00 – 21:30
Ian Kaler
You are song, to me
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THU
20.11.
08:00 – 21:30
Ian Kaler
You are song, to me
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FRI
21.11.
08:00 – 21:30
Ian Kaler
You are song, to me
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SAT
22.11.
08:00 – 21:30
Ian Kaler
You are song, to me
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Supporting Program
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TUE
18.11.19:00
Ian Kaler
Opening, Activation (Live Performance)
Time
19:00
Location
TQW Studios
Duration
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Price
Free admission
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SAT
22.11.19:00
Ian Kaler with Romeo Roxman Gatt
Activation (Live Performance)
Time
19:00
Location
TQW Studios
Duration
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Price
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Artist Bio
Ian Kaler
is a choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, and performer. He studied Transmedial Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Brigitte Kowanz and graduated from the BA pilot program Contemporary Dance, Context, Choreography at the HZT in Berlin. Kaler has an MA in Film Making (Directing Fiction) from Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2010, he has developed his physical and creative practice in choreographic series in exchange with various artists through different (visual) media. Some of the core themes his work addresses are embodiment and coming of age through a trans-masculine lens, the figurative composition of the still and moving body, the relationship between bodies and the space/s they inhabit, horses and other sentient beings, and encounters with them.
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Credits
Artistic direction Ian Kaler Performance, text Romeo Roxman Gatt, Ian Kaler Piano score Romeo Roxman Gatt Installation setting Stephanie Rauch Videodesign, editing Dafne Narvaez Berlfein Soundtrack rRoxymore Cinematography Eli Börnicke Diving instructor Jessica Schäfer Vocal coaching Aled Pedrick Technical support Marko Tölzer Support audio set-up Andreas Hamza Production management das Schaufenster
Production Ian Kaler Coproduction Tanzquartier Wien, PACT Zollverein Supported by the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS)
You are song, to me takes place in dialogue with OIL, a spatial experiment by Isabel Lewis & Dirk Bell.