Fri 20.11.2026 // 19.30
In cooperation with nunart Barcelona
Photo: Martina Lajczak
Fri 20.11.2026 // 19.30
Work-in-progress showing
Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna // pay as you wish // drinks & food
CHANGING SPACES Vienna–Barcelona 2026
Im_flieger Vienna in cooperation with nunart Barcelona
Residency: 2.–30.9.2026
On 29.9.2026 Veza Fernandez shared the results of her residency at nunart Barcelona.
Concept and performance: Veza Fernandez
Violin and performance: Tony Wagner
Drums: Mursal Rashad-Meri
Stage and costume art: Sarah Sternat
Costume: Loki Omran
Production: Mollusca Production
Guest: Christina Lederhaas
Partner: brut Wien
Supported by City of Vienna Department of Culture (MA 7).
“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.” – Leonora Carrington
Veza Fernandez invites the audience to witness her live practice of staging her acoustic horns. Imaginary instruments that she is developing in dialogue with Leonora Carrington, her speech therapist, and the characters that resonate within her from the eardrum of the unintelligible. Acoustic horns or ear trumpets are strange tubes and conduits that grow from the deepest anatomies of communication. She seeks to capture, process and amplify that which we struggle to hear, teaching us to sustain the fragility of verbal connection. Fernandez proposes a morphological dance that articulates itself to give way to a voice that sings from its most remote limits, learning to narrate from beyond the voices that we dare to learn to listen to.
Veza Fernandez about her work: “I wish to study the staging of what imagines beyond. For that, I will span the membranes and listening conduits needed to exteriorise the process of listening into a stage event, by loosely drawing inspiration from the methods of creation and imaginary worlds of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, who drew, sculpted and wrote in order to see and listen. Using her craft as a listening tool, she let the appearing figures, creatures and characters in her paintings, sculptures and texts form themselves, reporting from the mysterious ‘beyond within’.”
Mursal Rashad-Mehri (AT) lives and works in Vienna. Their work is mainly centered in the field of sound through different practices and approaches, namely through performance arts, drumming (e.g. in the band Kampan), music production, djing and poetry. Through their innate curiosity in tracing back the fabrics and stories of the auditory, they are committed to an ongoing process of reflection and conversation with peers around accessibility in spaces, decoloniality in practice and affected communities in local ecosystems of producing spaces of consuming music and art, especially in clubcultural realms. Thinking through the body, her dance background in House and Hip Hop has shaped a language, that in recent years has been enrichened by performance practices, that are rooted in transdisciplinary ways of creating.
Tony Wagner (AT) (he/they) is a musician and artist working at the intersection of avant-garde composition, experimental sound and trans-disciplinary performance. His practice encompasses solo compositions under his own name, collaborative projects with the duo Snake Boots and the collective Transformative Narratives, as well as original scores for film, theatre, and performance. Tony Wagner’s compositions have been presented across various performance, theatre, and experimental music contexts. Beyond his artistic practice, he contributes to Vienna’s music scene as co-manager of the music platform Tender Matter.
Veza Fernandez (ES/AT) is a Vienna-based dance, voice, and performance artist. Her work explores the voice as a place of relation, imagination, and transformation, weaving singing, writing, dance, and speech into intense, polyphonic performances. Her pieces are sensitive and intense, casting polyphonically a convocation of voices and presences that yearn to move and to be moved. Her background stretches between Philology, Pedagogy, Theater, Music and Contemporary Dance. Fields that in one way or the other influence her artistic research and modus operandi within art making and art presenting. Fernandez’ work is strongly rooted locally, infiltrating from within the underground scene bigger dance and theater institutions. She holds a Masters in Choreography from DAS Graduate school (Amsterdam Academy for Theatre and Dance). Her work has been shown amongst other in brut Wien, Tanzquartier Vienna, Sophiensaele Berlin, Gesnerallee Zürich, de Singel Antwerp, La Casa Encendida Madrid. www.vezafernandez.com