SCHULE@Im_flieger 2025 – INTENSIVE LAB WEEK // Alix Eynaudi (FR/AT), Biba Bell (US), Oisín Ó Manacháin/Oisín Monaghan (IE/AT), Elizabeth Ward (US/AT)
Thu–Sun 15.–18.5.2025
Photo: Elizabeth Ward
Thu–Sun 15.–18.5.2025 // Thu & Fri 10.00–16.00, Sat & Sun 10.30–16.30
Intensive Lab Week
Thu 15.5. & Sun 18.5. at Im_flieger (Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna), Fri 16.5. & Sat 17.5. at Reallabor Fassfabrik (Lastenstraße 19, 1230 Vienna)
In English language // Fee: at your own discretion between 100 € and 200 € // max. 5 open spots // Attendance on all 4 days is preferred. // Registration via imflieger@gmail.com
SCHULE@Im_flieger 2025 – Artistic Research Through Slippery Time(s) is realized in cooperation with Reallabor Fassfabrik.
As part of SCHULE@Im_flieger 2025: Artistic Research Through Slippery Time(s) –Performativity and the openings, gaps, and crannies to be found through performance practices, a 4-day laboratory will take place, which is open to five additional participants. The aliveness of architectures, ideologies, cosmologies, and histories will accompany us in this research as we work between Im_flieger (1050 Vienna) and Reallabor Fassfabrik (1230 Vienna). Guest artists Alix Eynaudi, Biba Bell and Oisín Ó Manacháin/Oisín Monaghan will share their specific approaches and practices in workshops:
To slip/sleep into the field of expanded choreography as an unstable set of artistic practices // Alix Eynaudi
In this workshop, an extension of Alix’s research project Institute of Rest(s), a series of exercises is articulated around a library, exploring its interstices, hollows, remains, the margins, additions, annotations, the footnotes: a space to exercise rest in the arms of words and sentences and poems.
Epiphytes and (para)sites: an afternoon assembly // Biba Bell
Performance, walking tour, and listening practice, this event is an invitation to witness, map, and move through and amongst the phantom forest scene of a post-industrial space, proposing tree dancing as a practice of searching for former and future exoskeletons.
If they’d let me make each part of my body, I would have chosen the strength of trees. (Esthela Calderón)
Cymatic Body Research // Oisín Ó Manacháin/Oisín Monaghan
A guided exploration of sensorial movement through sounding fluid bodies.
Alix Eynaudi (FR/AT) is a French choreographer & dancer living in Vienna whose work is situated within the field of expanded choreography. Her projects explore different formats of making work public, such as publications, salons of collective studies and performances. She has worked as a dancer and performer for a number of companies and projects (AT de Keersmaeker, J. Lacey, A. Juren, B. Charmatz, E. Ward) and develops her own work since 2005. Her most recent works are Noa & Snow, BRUNO and Institute of Rest(s). Basking in dance as a space of study Alix dances, works, writes, between craft and chaos in a joyful mess of sorts. She doesn’t work alone; any event, research, invitation is an alibi to spend time with accomplices, a mesh of friendships scintillating under skins, a stirring of a full-of-wonder support. www.alixeynaudi.com
Biba Bell (US) is a dancer, choreographer, and writer based in Detroit. Her choreographic work, often set in unconventional venues, focuses on domesticity, labor, and architecture. Her current project investigates dance and arts activism as it intersects forest protection and conservation, through the lens of what she theorizes as epiphytic choreographies. Bell’s work has been presented at the Kitchen, Movement Research, Roulette Intermedium, Jack NY, Centre Pompidou, Garage for Contemporary Culture, Jack Hanley Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Insel Hombroich, Matéria Gallery, Galerie Camille, amongst others. She has recently performed in several Detroit Opera productions directed by Yuval Sharon, and internationally has performed with Maria Hassabi and Walter Dundervill. She continues to be influenced by her work as a founding member of the performance collective Modern Garage Movement (2005-2011, 2021). Bell earned her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University and is an Associate Professor of Dance at Wayne State University. Of her dancing the New York Times writes: “It’s invigorating to watch someone who borders on wild.” www.bibabell.com
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.
Oisín Monaghan (IE/AT) is a dance artist and visual performer/creator currently residing in Vienna. He began studying movement in NYC at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. Oisín has worked in collaboration with Xavier Le Roy, Maria Hassabi, Tere O’Connor, Christopher Williams, John-Mark Owen and Brendan Fernandes to name a few. Oisín has had the privilege to also work with fashion photographers Peter Lindbergh, Mario Testino, Terry Tsiolis, Ryan McGinley, Kenneth Willardt and John Rusnak. They have collaborated with other visual artists and presented work at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Deitch Projects and The Chelsea Hotel, The Tilles Centre and various public spaces.