Fri 27.3.2026 // 19.30
Image: So Young Park
Fri 27.3.2026// 19.30
Work-in-progress showing
Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Wien // pay as you wish/can // drinks & food
Concept & performance: Sunggu Hong
Live sound performance: Lens Kühleitner
3D-printed installation: So Young Park
Coaching: Asher Ó Gormáin
Music: Korean music that emerged during the Japanese colonial era
Support / thanks to: Im_flieger & YI-UM Collective
»Slough-ing off; Orbit of Otherness« explores the themes of fear and otherness, approached from a decolonial perspective. We may not find the snake – the “other” we fear – but only its discarded skin, the traces, the orbits of otherness.
When fear is understood as a foundational condition of relationality rather than an individual emotion, fear of the other is constantly reshaped through relationships. This opens up the possibility of looking at the other in a new way by asking: What and where, then, is the other that we fear?
“As everyone has pointed out, alterity for the black man is not the black but the white man.” (Frantz Fanon. Black Skin, White Masks. 1953)
The nature of colonization encourages us to surveil, discriminate against, and oppress the “other”. Drawing on the decolonial perspective of Frantz Fanon, the project understands otherness as something that is produced by power structures and systemic relationships and does not originate from the others themselves.
“Intersubjectivity does not mean ‘equality’, a literally deadly game in dogland; but it does mean paying attention to the conjoined dance of face-to-face significant otherness.” (Donna Haraway. The Companion Species Manifesto. 2003)
Donna Haraway’s concept of significant otherness acknowledges the entanglement of human and non-human, re-examining otherness as multiple, shifting, and relational. Interpreting fear as a structurally generated otherness – rather than something that originates from others – and emphasizing our entanglement with them, the project ultimately asks: How should we live with the fear of the other – with otherness – together with others?
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
Lens Kühleitner (AT) is a Vienna-based musician, performer, and composer working at the intersection of sound, movement, and performance. Their practice unfolds across theatre, dance, and performance contexts, with a focus on collaborative and performative approaches to music. Lens Kühleitner has collaborated with artists including Olivia Hild, Mzamo Nondlwana, Oneka von Schrader, Lau Lukkarila & Luca Bonamore, Claire Lefèvre, Veza Fernández, Shabnam Chamani, and Sunggu Hong & So Young Park. Their work has been presented at venues such as Tanzquartier Wien, brut Wien, Kosmos Theater, Schauspielhaus Wien, Slovak National Theatre, Köttinspektionen Dans, and TdK Zurich. Recent own works include the performance “trace my layers, thrust your gut” (with Olivia Hild, brut Wien, 2025).
Sunggu Hong (KR/AT) is a Vienna-based, Korean artist. Sunggu works with simple questions and his curiosity which comes up in daily life. The questions seem simple, childish, sometimes nonsense at first, but they are metaphorically related to our life and social issues. ‘Relation’ is a main word which he uses for his perspective-tool to keep reacting to his questions.