Tue 10.2., 14.4., 30.6.2026 // 10.00–13.00
Photo: Hanna Fasching
Tue 10.2., 14.4., 30.6.2026 // 10.00–13.00
Sharing Practice // Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna // free of charge // in English language // open to artists and cultural workers who are parents (to be) or are thinking about parenthood
Tue 10.2. with co-host Nina Sandino
In cooperation with HOOD for Artist Parents.
Children are warmly welcome – please bring them along if childcare isn’t available.
HOOD Dreaming is a restorative concept and practice that reimagines a supportive landscape for parents working within the arts as they navigate their dual responsibilities as artists and caregivers. For this series, Asher Ó Gormáin and Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir enter through the lens of radical kinship – an alternative form of relatedness that resists the habits of the nuclear family and structures of ownership: How might we build alternative social institutions that support our ways of loving, parenting, and making art?
Facilitated by HOOD for artist parents, the sessions weave together two practices – HOOD Dreaming and KinKin – opening a space for collective imagination, embodied inquiry, and a shared re-thinking of how care and creation can coexist.
HOOD Dreaming is an audio compositional practice in which we speak of the impossible, the needed, and the not-yet-real, imagining worlds in which parents and caregivers are fully supported.
KinKin is an embodied practice that explores the kinesphere – the space around the body. Borrowing from the playful resistance of playfighting, we test proximity, disrupt politeness, and discover how mischief, challenge, and shared effort can open new pathways into kinship and collective care.
The sessions are open to artists and cultural workers who are parents, parents-to-be, wanna-be-parents, fans of parents or those curious about care, kinship, and creative survival.
Drinks, snacks and cosy vibes included! Children are warmly welcome – please bring them along if childcare isn’t available.
HOOD for Artist Parents was founded by core researchers and artist parents Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir and Asher Ó Gormáin in 2021. The artistic practice HOOD Dreaming was developed as part of SCHULE@Im_flieger 2023 and has since been supported by Im_flieger as public field research.
Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir (IS/AT) born in Reykjavík, Iceland, is a dancer and choreographer living in Vienna. In both independent and collaborative constellations her works move along the intersection of dance and performance, sometimes seeking formats beyond the stage. Her latest work CUMULUS in collaboration with artist Claudia Lomoschitz recently toured in Austria and Iceland and will soon be traveling to Norway. Andrea has collaborated with many Vienna based artists such as Doris Uhlich, Alix Eynaudi, Andrea Maurer, Veza Fernandes a.o. Next she will be stepping on stage in brut Wien in the work of choreographer Sara Lanner. Andrea has juggled co-parenting of two kids alongside her artistic career from the start, gaining some experience in feeling a lot of FOMO.
Asher Ó Gormáin (IE/AT) is an Irish artist working across choreographic and visual art practices as a performance maker, embodied dramaturg, and lecturer based in Vienna, whose work engages closely with objects and materials to explore the tactile, sensuous, and existential dimensions of the “ordinary”, challenging anthropocentric perspectives. As an embodied dramaturg, she approaches collaboration as a world-building process — entering an artist’s ecology of ideas, bodies, histories, and desires through practices of dialogue, care, and critical attunement. Asher holds a BA (Hons) in Choreography from Dartington College of Arts, a Diploma from SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, and an MA in Visual Arts (TransArts) from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. www.asherogorman.com
Nina Sandino (NI/AT) (she/they) is a Nicaraguan architect and movement artivist. Their practice focuses on Afro indigenous queer futurism and the transmission of ancestral communal knowledge. Working for holistic resistance, where rest, pleasure and joy work as radical tools for personal and collective empowerment. www.ninasandino.com
Nina Sandino (NI/AT) (she/they) is a Nicaraguan architect and movement artivist. Their practice focuses on Afro indigenous queer futurism and the transmission of ancestral communal knowledge. Working for holistic resistance, where rest, pleasure and joy work as radical tools for personal and collective empowerment. www.ninasandino.com