Sat 25.10.2025 // 14.00–18.00
Collage: Tina Bauer
Sat 25.10.2025 // 14.00–18.00
Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna // Open Lab // pay as you wish // afternoon brunch
By and with: Anne Glassner (AT, visual artist, performer), Anita Kaya (AT, choreographer, performer), Agnes Schneidewind (AT, poet, performer)
Sound material: Marta Forsberg (SE/DE, musician, lighting artist)
Guest artists/theorists: Marietta Kesting (DE/AT, media, art, and cultural researcher), Doroteya Petrova (BG/AT, visual artist), Lisa Spalt (AT, author)
The Im_flieger Schlaflabor is a long-term artistic research project in which artists from various disciplines explore the phenomena of sleep and dreaming and investigate the special characteristics and inspirations of specific locations in their work. Marta Forsberg, Anne Glassner, Anita Kaya, and Agnes Schneidewind explore sleep from different perspectives as a moment in which we (re)experience the distant and recent past, (un)known worlds, memories, dreams, desires, and – above all – rest. In the sixth and final sleep laboratory, they (re)activate materials and practices from their collaboration and immerse themselves in the performative laboratory as a dream state itself. In their annual meetings, the artists sleepwalked with horses, in Ljubljana and old farms, family homes and sanatoriums, slept collectively and with stones, encountered each other and other beings, told of their (bad) dreams and repetitions of repetitions. New and returning guests join the laboratory: Doroteya Petrova has been embroidering Anne’s grandmother’s bedspread for three years, Marietta Kesting contextualizes the work in dream and sleep states and the various attempts to store and collectivize them, Lisa Spalt reads the continuation of a stranger’s dream.
During sleep, the body escapes social norms and obligations and transforms into an unproductive, vulnerable, irrational body. The sleeping body is present and absent at the same time, it is individual and collective, wild and gentle. Sleep is silent resistance against overproductivity and efficiency and, as such, must be defended against increasing optimization in the sense of neoliberal doctrines.
This collaboration is being realized within the framework of Im_flieger In_FORSCHUNG, which focuses on performative perspectives in artistic collaboration between different disciplines and promotes exchange between artists and theorists.
Agnes Schneidewind (AT) (*1986, she/her) is an artist, performer, and researcher in the field of somatic choreography and performative poetry. Based on dream practices, she works with dance, text, and drawing in site-specific and process-oriented contexts. She co-creates experimental formats and performances—such as “through which they have wandered” (2022, with Johanna Nielson and Zoumana Méïtè) and “eleven. each print in the mud fills with honey” (2021, with Johanna Nielson and Marina Poleukhina), both co-produced by brut Wien. She studied philosophy and further training in choreography, dance, and craniosacral bodywork. In 2017, Schneidewind completed the postgraduate artistic research program a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies) in Brussels. Her work has been supported by residencies and production grants from, among others, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture and the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna. She regularly works in dialogical constellations with artists such as Sabina Holzer, Iris Dittler, Jack Hauser, Robert Steijn, Elina Lautamäki, Marta Forsberg, and the considering network. For several years, she has been exploring physical experiences of darkness and the intertwining of inner and outer landscapes. From a three-week Arctic night in Longyearbyen, she developed the piece “I want to be delicious for the bear” (2024). She is currently artist in residence at the Kuffner Observatory in Vienna. https://sjnijdewindt.works
Anita Kaya (AT) born 1961, is a freelance choreographer, performer and curator living in Vienna. Under the label OYA-Produktion (1988-2005) she created dance productions, site-specific performances, performative installations and dance videos that were presented internationally. In 2000, she initiated the artists for artists initiative Im_flieger – research laboratory for dance, performance and transmedia art (Concept funding from the City of Vienna 2022-25). In artistic direction and in collaboration with numerous artists and theoreticians, she develops new concepts and structures of artistic cooperation and mentoring programmes: e. g. the European residency programme for young choreographers TERRAINS FERTILES 05 (Innovation Prize 2005 of IG-Kultur Vienna). She is engaged with the body as a reservoir of individual and collective memory, and its potential for communication with the environment, the human and more than human: e. g. Translocations / One-to-One Performance located at the intersection of history/trauma, archiving, installation and performance. 2023 she cooperates with Theatercombinat/ Claudia Bosse as performer/ choreographer in the production Bones & Stones. In 2019/20 she completed the university course “Curating in the Scenic Arts” at the University of Salzburg and Munich. She is co-editor and author of the publication VISCERAL FICTION – Im_flieger schreibt Geschichte/s – 20 Jahre Künstler:innen für Künstler:innen. 2021, monocrom. www.imflieger.net, www.stffwchsl.net
Anne Glassner (AT) is a Vienna-based visual and performance artist working primarily with interventions in public space, performance, installation, video and drawing. Inspired by everyday situations, her work is often process-based. Many works deal with sleep and consciousness, private and public, fake and reality and the borders of legal and illegal. She has been exploring the theme of sleep and dreams for several years. Anne Glassner studied art history at the University of Vienna, art and communication at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (graduated in 2008) and fine arts (painting) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she graduated in 2016. Numerous exhibitions, performances and workshops in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, Turkey, Latvia, the USA and South Korea. www.anneglassner.at
Doroteya Petrova (BG/AT) ist a visual artist. www.doroteyapetrova.com
Lisa Spalt (AT) works with language, images and objects. Member of the Institute for the Poetic Improvement of Everyday Life (IPA) and supervisor of the transformation form ‘Manisoft des Psittacismus’. Collaborative works, a.o. with the visual artist Otto Saxinger (most recently ‘Youtopia / Plan B’, 2022, video installation; ‘Peubel’, 2022, LENTOS/Linz) and music makers, especially the composer Clemens Gadenstätter (e.g. ‘Break Eden’, audio piece) and the band ‘Die Ex-Gewichtsheberin’/Sabine Marte and Oliver Stotz (e.g. ‘Auf der Welle von Frau Stöhr. Fiktives Hörspiel’, 2022). www.lisaspalt.at
Marietta Kesting (DE/AT) is a media, art, and cultural scholar, responsible for research at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry ICI Berlin and head of the FWF project “Don’t Wake Up! Future Dreaming in the Arts at the Intersections of Aesthetics, Technology, and Decolonization” at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. future-dreaming-project.cargo.site
Marta Forsberg (SE) is a Swedish composer, sound artist and violinist working in the field of installation art, drone music and free improvisation. Her work is dedicated to creating an immersive environment, expanding the sensory world through multichannel augmentation and through light sculptures – an acoustic visualisation. In 2012, Marta co-founded organisation “Konstmusiksystrar” with composer Lo Kristenson, working for gender equality in the contemporary music scene in Sweden. In 2016, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Electroacoustic Music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. www.martaforsberg.com, www.konstmusiksystrar.se