Im_flieger SUPPORTS 2025

Upon request and subject to availability, Im_flieger provides selected artists with workspace – including technical equipment – free of charge or at a low cost as well as optional artistic, technical, and logistical coaching.

Fractured Time // Laureen Olivia Drexler (AT) & Vito Vidovič Bintchende (IT/AT)

Residency: 2 January until 2 February 2025 (3 weeks)
Fractured Time explores the fusion of contemporary dance and club culture and examines how a dance performance can be integrated into the atmosphere of a rave party. The work highlights the dual focus of performers and audience in this unique setting and questions how engagement changes in an energetic, immersive environment. The dancers experiment with the powerful rhythms of electronic music, shifting between fully embodying its beats and resisting them with slow, contrasting movements. The choreography emphasizes tempo and plays with the perception of time, thereby reflecting the timeless, habit-free nature of nights at techno parties. It seeks to capture the disorienting freedom and altered sense of time that raves evoke.

mirrors, a football and the back of my hand // Coralie Bernard (FR/AT), Marlene Aigner (AT), Bibi Bauer (DE/AT)

Residency: 3 March until 17 April 2025
Our research focuses on analyzing the various levels of experiences, influences, and societal expectations that shape the transition from adolescence to adulthood. How have we learned to interact with one another, what do we have in common despite growing up in different ways, and how do we want to relate to one another? Through dialogue, we aim to shed light on past dynamics and foster healthier relationships with ourselves and one another. At the same time, we examine how terminology influences this process, particularly in the context of the socialization as women*.

Diffractive Dialogues: Abstract Humor ^°? // BACKPULVER – Ewa Bańkowska (PL/AT), Frans Poelstra (NL/AT), Olivia Hild (AT)

Sharing practice: 24 to 26. March 2025
Diffractive Dialogues is a format designed to foster discussions around and through performative, somatic, and artistic practices, inviting both participants and facilitators to contribute actively and collaboratively. At each gathering the contributions of all professionals involved in the performative, somatic, and artistic fields are welcomed and valued.
With the question: Abstract Humor ^°? artists Ewa Bańkowska and Frans Poelstra will intersect and diffract each other’s practices and co-facilitate an artistic enquiry. To accompany Ewa, Frans and the group, artist Olivia Hild is invited to document the sessions artistically and hold a wrap-up moment at the end of the last day.
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Wind of a Distant // ABDOMINAL MARMALADE AGENCY {A.M.A.} – Karine Blanche (FR/AT) & Julia Zastava (RU/AT)

Residency: 28 June until 1 July 2025
Wind of a Distant is a continuation of their performative sound project featuring a prepared harp, a Nord keyboard, vocals, and a homemade instrument; it has already been presented in Vienna at venues such as Spektakel, Studio Matsune, and Bank Austria Studio, as well as at La Menagerie de Verre in Paris.

Wind of a Distant // ABDOMINAL MARMALADE AGENCY {A.M.A.} – Karine Blanche (FR/AT) & Julia Zastava (RU/AT)

Residency: 23 June until 4 July 2025 // Performance: 11 October 2025, DE/Ensemble in cooperation with Bears in the Park
giggidalessio is a NO-CONCEPT duo. Their concept? Fun, spontaneity, serious irony, and a steadfast refusal to have a concept at all. They blend performance, music, obsessive repetition, and new media. After years of dreaming about a music-performance duo, ANGST is their first project, through which they bring this vision to life.

F E M E N I N E // Eva Maria Schaller (AT)

Residency: 3 May 2025, Performance: 12 July 2025, Carinthia
Julius Eastman (1940–1990) was both a rising star and an underdog in the New York avant-garde music scene of the 1970s. Femenine (1974), his composition for ensemble, which was performed in 2022 by Eva Maria Schaller and dancers in various public spaces in Vienna in cooperation with ImPulsTanz and re-choreographed, is being adapted for a guest performance in Carinthia.

Between Gravities // Laura Vilar (ES/AT)

Residency: 3 weeks between January and September 2025 // Premiere: 17. & 18.10.2025, Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona)
Building on the solo performance Attempts to (des)appear (2022), which proposed a constellation of overlapping layers of elements with the intention of drawing attention to the relationships and spaces in between, Laura Vilar’s work Between Gravities explores a way of life – one without a specific center, yet with many forces and centers at the same time. It is an intimate and personal exploration that reflects the lived and working realities of many freelance artists: How can one lead a good life between gravities?

Der Schuh, der aus der Reihe tanzt // Claudia Auzinger (AT/ES)

Residency: 5 until 14 August 2025
The starting point and source of inspiration is Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Red Shoes.” Through a critical reflection from a contemporary perspective, the aim is to rethink, deconstruct, and reassemble this traditional fairy tale in order to uncover new interpretations and meanings. The themes of belonging, outsider status, and (non-)conformity are explored. In this examination, I develop a new interpretation that goes beyond the original moral, which is based on punishment and the suppression of desire. The project “Der Schuh, der aus der Reihe tanzt” challenges this discourse and suggests that “deviating” from the norm can be something positive and necessary, as an act of rebellion and self-assertion. The shoes are wild, sometimes unruly, dancers.

CARTE BLANCHE // Johanna Nielson (AT)

Residency: 2x2h/week from September until December 2025
Johanna Nielson returns to the rehearsal room. Taking inventory and reorienting herself.

DICTÉE: THE BITE // Francesca Ferrari (IT/AT)

Residency: 6 dates in December 2025
Dictée: THE BITE is a further development of the solo work “Betray your tongue”, which was presented in the spring of 2025 at Galerie Sehsaal in Vienna, as well as at the Academy of Arts Berlin (2023), ACUD MACHT NEU Berlin (2023), and Zentralwäscherei Zurich (2023). Choreographer and dancer Francesca Ferrari explores speechlessness as a social, political, and personal experience. In “Betray your tongue”, she examines how socially entrenched power structures can evoke emotions – particularly guilt – within us and silence us. How can we (re)grow wild tongues, free from (self-)censorship? The core of Ferraris research is the 1982 book Dictée by poet, performance, and video artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.