Fri–Sun 30.5.–1.6.2025 // 14.00–18.00
as part of Independent Space Index Festival 2025
Fri–Sun 30.5.–1.6.2025 // 14.00–18.00
Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna // pay as you wish // snacks & drinks
As part of Independent Space Index Festival 2025.
With Bita Bell, Carolina Fink & Christine Gruber, Elizabeth Ward (SCHULE@Im_flieger 2025), Flóra Boros, Franzi Kreis & Lukas Beck, Johanna Nielson & Marina Poleukhina, Kenneth Constance Loe, Luigi Guerrieri, Luiza Furtado, Malika Fankha, Paula Hernandez, Sunggu Hong, Valentino Skarwan, Verena Herterich.
We celebrate the cathartic power of cursing and swearing, beyond the stereotypes of aggression and violence. We make a radical attempt to find silence. We share moments outside the logic of linearity. We throw back looks, let eyes linger, roll (on) and wander. We force thought to forget us. We hate “the thing” because we feel disgust – or do we feel disgust because we hate “the thing”? We address the silence and acknowledge abusive power dynamics as a societal issue and collective responsibility. We let the body move on its own terms. We redeploy the potency of tactical language and movement to the realm of poetics. We come together – in absurdity, in failure, in joy and in amazement.
Artists and team members of Im_flieger of the year 2025 got invited to share their artistic practices, performances, and other formats. 17 artists replied with different contributions. This 3-day program is inviting visitors to participate in or witness a variety of body-based practices and workshops, and to experience performances, installations and hybrid formats.
Detailed program:
Fri 30.5. – Sun 1.6.2025
14.00-18.00 // DEINE MUTTER! // Luigi Guerrieri (IT/AT) // Short film by Kreis/Beck production (AT), 2019, 14‘ (Loop)
DEINE MUTTER! is a choreography of insults. It is an insulting choreography about my mother and yours! It is the celebration of the cathartic power of cursing and swearing, beyond the stereotypes of aggression and violence. How can I talk about my mum while insulting yours? How many times do I have to repeat “son of a bitch” till it loses its linguistic and cultural meaning? Till your and my private patriarchal system will crash? This performance is a collective liberating moment. I curse for you and for me, at the rhythm of my high heels. FUUUUUCK!
The performance DEINE MUTTER (Your Mother) was created as part of Im_flieger CHANGING SPACES Vienna-Vorarlberg 2019 in cooperation with netzwerkTanz Vorarlberg.
14.00-18.00 // RADICAL SEILENCE // Carolina Fink (AT) & Christine Gruber (AT) // Short film, camera & editing: Franzi Kreis (AT), Im_flieger Production, 2021, 10‘ (Loop)
In RADICAL SEILENCE two women engage in a quest for silence. It is a radical attempt to find silence in a cultural system overloaded with information, sounds and noise. The rope plays an essential role, it accompanies the performer hanging, searching, resting and captivating. Maybe we need to constrain our body to be able to feel it and experience that silence can also come from and through it. Maybe we need to trust another person to let us sink into silence without regret. Silence is another way of doing, perceiving, receiving and thinking.
The short film RADICAL SEILENCE was created as part of Im_flieger CHANGING SPACES Vienna-Vorarlberg 2021 in cooperation with netzwerkTanz Vorarlberg.
Friday 30.5. / DAY 1
As Part of SCHULE@Im_flieger 2025 – Artistic Research Through Slippery Time(s), the participating artists are sharing their practices:
14.30-15.00 // What if a gaze could linger without devouring? // Flóra Boros (HU/AT) // Shared practice, 30’
We’ll explore how we look and are being looked at through a desexualised gaze, using movement and embodied perception. Instead of rejecting se(ns)/(x)uality, we’ll redefine it – letting the body move on its own terms.
15.15-15.45 // Papa, Romeo, Oscar, November, Echo // Kenneth Constance Loe (SG/AT) // Workshop sketch, 30’
Papa, Romeo, Oscar, November, Echo proposes an exploration of tactical language and movement and its interface with the quotidian in an attempt to destabilize meaning and redeploy its potency to the realm of poetics.
16.00-16.30 // containing multitudes, at times fragmented // Bita Bell (IR/AT) // writing practice, 30’
Bita Bell will share embodied writing practices and excerpts from her self-published zine containing multitudes, at times fragmented.
17.00-18.00 // SCHULE@Im_flieger 2025 – The Schulerinas are going to schule you! (Act 1) // Bita Bell (IR/AT), Elizabeth Ward (US/AT), Flóra Boros (HU/AT), Kenneth Constance Loe (SG/AT), Luiza Furtado (BR/AT), Paula Hernandez (EC/AT), Valentino Skarwan (AT/GT) // Shared Practice, 60‘
This is an experience for the amateurs and experts, for the drop outs and for the ones with masters in arts who are still struggling. Each Schulerina may or may not share moments from their artistic projects outside the logic of linearity. This is it. Period, class dismissed.
*Triggered by eco-anxiety
Saturday 31.5. / DAY 2
14.30-15.00 // glossy eyes rolling // Flóra Boros (HU/AT) & Verena Herterich (DE/AT) // Performance, 20’
glossy eyes rolling is the first collaboration between Flóra Boros and Verena Herterich. They bring together their choreographic practices of deconstructing the sexualised gaze and the objectification of their female-read bodies. They throw back looks, letting eyes linger, roll (on) and wander – while moving and tearing along (fine) lines between poses, socially constructed movement patterns, and hypersexualised dances. Their bodies talk back, while becoming a strategy, a joyous emancipation.
15.30-16.00 // Obligo, a que te olvide el pensamiento. // Paula Hernandez (EC/AT) // Intervention, 20’
Force thought to forget you. What is the use of this body which alienates what it desires? The skin opposite of airtight, leaking everywhere, dripping. Beads everywhere, the sound of rain. As Part of SCHULE@Im_flieger 2025.
16.30-17.00 // Texture of Disgust // Sunggu Hong (KR/AT) // Performance, 30’
“I don’t really like yogurt, cause I hate the texture of the thing.” I would like to tell “our story” about hatred. Some questions that will come up during the performance are: Do we hate “the thing” because we feel disgust? Or do we feel disgust because we hate “the thing”? Why do we need to hate “the thing”? Do “the things” that we hate really exist? The subtle, complex interwoven threads between hatred, disgust and fear will contribute to question further: How should we hate “the things” that live with us?
17.30-17.45 // No Place Like Home // Malika Fankha (CH/AT) // Storytelling, Song, Spoken Word, 15’
„Ver en calma un crimen es cometerlo.“ (To calmly observe a crime is to commit it) – Ana Mendieta No Place Like Home addresses the silence and compliance around child sexual abuse within a family system and aims to destigmatize survivors by acknowledging abusive power dynamics as a societal issue and collective responsibility. This performance is a first excerpt of Malika Fankha’s current research for the co-production with brut Wien which premieres in February 2026.
Sunday 2.6.
14.30-15.00 // And Now // Johanna Nielson (AT) & Marina Poleukhina (AT) // Performance, 20’
And Now is a poetic music and dance performance, a space for the unplanned and the magic of togetherness – here and now. The two artists transform the stage into a playground for the encounter of voices and movements and celebrate the lightness of failure and the fragility of moments that nevertheless create powerful, touching experiences. And Now is a continuous exploration of sound, movement and interaction in real time, in which the performers and the audience come together – in absurdity, in failure, in joy and in amazement.
15.30-16.00 // Texture of Disgust // Sunggu Hong (KR/AT) // Performance, 30’
“I don’t really like yogurt, cause I hate the texture of the thing.” I would like to tell “our story” about hatred. Some questions that will come up during the performance are: Do we hate “the thing” because we feel disgust? Or do we feel disgust because we hate “the thing”? Why do we need to hate “the thing”? Do “the things” that we hate really exist? The subtle, complex interwoven threads between hatred, disgust and fear will contribute to question further: How should we hate “the things” that live with us?
16.30-16.45 // No Place Like Home // Malika Fankha (CH/AT) // Storytelling, Song, Spoken Word, 15’
„Ver en calma un crimen es cometerlo.“ (To calmly observe a crime is to commit it) – Ana Mendieta
No Place Like Home addresses the silence and compliance around child sexual abuse within a family system and aims to destigmatize survivors by acknowledging abusive power dynamics as a societal issue and collective responsibility. This performance is a first excerpt of Malika Fankha’s current research for the co-production with brut Wien which premieres in February 2026.
17.00-18.00 // SCHULE@Im_flieger 2025 – The Schulerinas are going to schule you! (Act 2) // Bita Bell (IR/AT), Elizabeth Ward (US/AT), Flóra Boros (HU/AT), Luiza Furtado (BR/AT), Valentino Skarwan (AT/GT) // Shared Practice, 60‘
This is an experience for the amateurs and experts, for the drop outs and for the ones with masters in arts who are still struggling. Each Schulerina may or may not share moments from their artistic projects outside the logic of linearity. This is it. Period, class dismissed. As Part of SCHULE@Im_flieger 2025 – Artistic Research Through Slippery Time(s).
*Triggered by eco-anxiety
Subject to change