Landing in Ecocide? Staying with the cringe. // Kai Feldhammer (AT), Kilian Jörg (AT), Johanna Nielson (AT), Sabrina Rosina (DE/AT)
Sat 21.6.2025 // 18.00–21.00
Photo: Johanna Nielson
Sat 21.6.2025 // 18.00–21.00
Research sharing // Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna // free entry
Please register via johanna-nielson@gmx.at but don’t hesitate to pass by spontaneously.
LANDEN-Cluster: Kai Feldhammer, Kilian Jörg, Johanna Nielson, Sabrina Rosina
Mentor: Anita Kaya
With thanks to Gabi Berger.
Still ecocide. Still landing. A chronic condition without knowing where the runway will end – it is winding and uneven, leading through toxic fog and acidic seas. The research group Landen spent a week in a quarry intensively exploring questions of survival in precarious conditions. The gaping wounds blasted into the mountain embody this confrontation with the ability to endure, to learn to cultivate this violent background noise of our modern age. The group invites you to walk the slippery line between perpetrator and victim leading to a new common ground, to an appropriation of cringe, to being fellow critters instead of accomplices. Speaking of which: dogs, children, crows – all are welcome and cordially invited to this (partly participatory) lab presentation.
Photo: Landen
Johanna Nielson (AT) is (also) a dance and performance artist, who lives and works in Vienna. Her artistic practice involves dance, voice and improvisation with a focus on phenomena of the sensual and sense-able. In collaboration with Agnes Schneidewind she made a series of performative experiments (AH I SEE) dealing with mechanisms of translation and perception. Johanna explores the interplay of (experimental) music and dance with such artists as Tobias Leibetseder, Marina Poleukhina and Stefan Voglsinger. She performed with luxflux, Arne Mannott, Alexander Chernishkov/Error Theater, Evandro Pedroni, Oleg Soulimenko, and many more. www.johannanielson.com
Kai Feldhammer (AT) dances, writes and photographs – mostly in Vienna and mostly in their own projects, which remain unstable and open in their form. Kai aims to emphasise the connection between the poetic, the political and the personal by exploring how different types of environmental and industrial processes can be perceived, linked and (re)narrated through working with image, movement and text. With Butoh as the basis of Kai’s work, the current relevance and resonance of this form of dance and thought will be explored in a time of ecological collapse and social instability. www.kaifeldhammer.com
Kilian Jörg (AT) works both artistically and philosophically on the topic of ecological catastrophe and how its transformative forces can best be imagined and deployed. Previous publications have been on club culture, the political backlash from an ecological perspective, cultivating distance in catastrophic times and a speculative religion of waste. His current research topics are the car as a metaphor for our toxic entanglements with modern lifestyles (released in book form as “Das Auto und die ökologische Katastrophe” in September 2024), the socio-psychological effects of living with ecocide and radical activist strategies of reclaiming land like the ZAD in France. He is working with the Futurama.Lab at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is affiliated to the SFB Affective Societies at the FU Berlin. www.kilianj.org & www.kilianjoerg.blogspot.com
Sabrina Rosina Bühn (DE/AT) graduated from BOKU (university of natural resources and life sciences, Vienna) with a BSc in Landscape Planning and Landscape Architecture. Over the course of several projects in many nature-conservation and -preservation parks and programs in Europe she specialized in vegetation ecology. Her work colleagues are often invasive species, which she befriended over the years and from whom she is able to draw inspiration on matters of surviving and the counter-case. Thus, her artistic as well as scientific work deals often with New Ecology, wastelands and post-anthropocene speculation, expressed through performance, data studies and visualizations. www.sabrinarosina.com