Artistic Research Through Slippery Time(s) // SCHULE@Im_flieger 2025 Zine

Anita Kaya (AT) born 1961, is a freelance choreographer, performer and curator living in Vienna. Under the label OYA-Produktion (1988-2005) she created dance productions, site-specific performances, performative installations and dance videos that were presented internationally. In 2000, she initiated the artists for artists initiative Im_flieger – research laboratory for dance, performance and transmedia art (Concept funding from the City of Vienna 2022-25). In artistic direction and in collaboration with numerous artists and theoreticians, she develops new concepts and structures of artistic cooperation and mentoring programmes: e. g. the European residency programme for young choreographers TERRAINS FERTILES 05 (Innovation Prize 2005 of IG-Kultur Vienna). She is engaged with the body as a reservoir of individual and collective memory, and its potential for communication with the environment, the human and more than human: e. g. Translocations / One-to-One Performance located at the intersection of history/trauma, archiving, installation and performance. 2023 she cooperates with Theatercombinat/ Claudia Bosse as performer/ choreographer in the production Bones & Stones. In 2019/20 she completed the university course “Curating in the Scenic Arts” at the University of Salzburg and Munich. She is co-editor and author of the publication VISCERAL FICTION – Im_flieger schreibt Geschichte/s – 20 Jahre Künstler:innen für Künstler:innen. 2021, monocrom. www.imflieger.net, www.stffwchsl.net

Bita Bell (IR/US/AT) is a dance artist and composer with a BA in music composition and an MFA in dance. Born in Iran, she studied in Hong Kong, lived in the U.S. from 2012, and is currently based in Vienna. She recently completed an Artistic Research Fellowship at THIRD DAS Graduate School in Amsterdam, where she self-published a zine titled “containing multitudes, at times fragmented”. Bell is a recipient of the 2023 Startstipendium for Music and Performing Arts from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture and the 2024 danceWEB scholarship at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

Elizabeth Ward (US/AT) is a dancer, choreographer and occasional Outside Eye. She is interested in how individual and collective dance histories are shaped by geography and the movements of people and ideas. Her earliest performing experiences were dancing children’s roles with the Atlanta Ballet. Later she studied Post-Modern Dance in Vermont which eventually led her to New York City where she danced for downtown choreographers such as Cathy Weis, Yvonne Meier, DD Dorvillier, Rebecca Brooks, Miguel Gutierrez, Biba Bell, and Heather Kravas. In NYC, her work was shown at Danspace, Movement Research at Judson Church, AUNTS, the Chocolate Factory, and the Kitchen. Since moving to Vienna she has danced for Anne Juren, Philipp Gehmacher, Veza Fernández, and Samuel Feldhandler. Her work has been shown in Austria through brut, WUK, TQW, Wiener Festwochen, ImPulsTanz, and steirischer herbst.

Flóra Boros (HU/AT) is an independent performing artist and choreographer based in Vienna and Budapest. Her works have been presented at venues such as Kaaitheater, WUK, Muffathalle, Theater Akzent and Schwere Reiter as well as various festivals. With her first solo performance CINDY, she received the START scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Culture in 2022, as well as the ATLAS scholarship at ImPulsTanz festival. She completed her studies at the Music and Arts University of Vienna in 2021, with her thesis winning a scholarship from the City of Vienna, serving as theoretical research for CINDY. Her current artistic practice explores intimacy, liberation from a queer perspective, and the directing of the gaze to question how the body conveys embodied narratives beyond normative structures.

Kenneth Constance Loe (SG/AT) is an artist, writer, performer, and proofreader from Singapore, currently based in Vienna, Austria. They are a collaborator of holiday poets society, a Vienna-based poetry collective, together with Ari Ban and Claire Lefèvre. His practice revolves around material and sensorial fetishes of desire, poetics of hospitality, body memory, queer ecologies, and other tangential thoughts through a performative collocation of sculpture, video, movement, text, and olfactory objects. Their poetry manuscript “sun-dried air” was a finalist of the 2022 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. Their poetry has recently been published in “rivulet 10: sound barrier“ and the anthology “New Singapore Poetries” (Gaudy Boy, 2022). www.kennethloe.com

Luiza Furtado (BR/AT) was born in Florianopolis, Brazil in 1999. She lived in Rio de Janeiro where she received her Industrial Design BA from PUC in 2021. Furtado moved to Austria for her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her research on dance weaves painting, sculpture and audiovisual media together to address entanglements of fictional speculation and hybridism to reflect on possible ecological alternatives for contemporaneity.

Luiza Furtado (BR/AT) was born in Florianopolis, Brazil in 1999. She lived in Rio de Janeiro where she received her Industrial Design BA from PUC in 2021. Furtado moved to Austria for her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her research on dance weaves painting, sculpture and audiovisual media together to address entanglements of fictional speculation and hybridism to reflect on possible ecological alternatives for contemporaneity.

Paula Hernandez Mollison (EC/AT) (*1997, Guayaquil, Ecuador) lives and works between Austria, the Netherlands and Ecuador. She moved to Vienna to pursue a Diploma in Site Specific Art at the Angewandte, holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and a Foundation degree in Arts and Design from Central Saint Martins. Her attention lies in situations, actions or objects that embed social, personal and political contexts linked to displacement of people, goods and emotions. Influenced by Fluxus and the Situationists her practice is fed by everyday experiences, turning to mundane situations whilst mappings out her environment. She considers her work as a search for seeping into possible paths, rather from the ones we are accommodated to use our body, stemming from automatic ways of moving and relating.

Valentino Skarwan (AT/GT) is an artist and performer/choreographer. Living and working between Vienna and Guatemala City, their practice unfolds through an interdisciplinary approach, moving fluidly across performance, sculpture, and installation. They are drawn to forms that remain open and porous, preferring flexible formats that resist rigid definitions and invite viewers to actively engage. Valentino Skarwan’s work seeks to break traditional modes of spectatorship, transforming passive observation into embodied participation. For them, intimacy operates as an ecological concept – a way to understand our interdependence with both human and non-human entities. They have worked as a performer and dancer for different artists/choreographers.