feminist insights into Austrian dance & performance of the 80s & 90s
Fri 25. & Sat 26. 3.22 // 15.00 – 20.00 // OPEN LAB
Photo: Anita Kaya
Laboratory: 23. – 26.11.2020, 15. & 17.12.2020, 29. – 11.12.2021
Fri 25. & Sat 26. 3.22 // 15.00 – 20.00 // OPEN LAB
Im_flieger@Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Wien
Come and stay as you wish // pay as you wish // 3G
The spatial installation created in the lab will be activated by the performers and guests – with scores, participatory moments and conversations.
with Anita Kaya (AT), Sara Lanner (AT), Johanna Nielson (AT), Agnes Schneidewind (AT)
Coordinator: Anita Kaya
Special thanks to: Sabina Holzer and Eva-Maria Schaller
Thanks to: Akemi Takeya, Andrea Bold, Astrid Bayer, Aurelia Staub, Edith Wolf Perez, Inge Kaindlstorfer and Silvia Both
G_HOSTING
feminist insights into Austrian dance & performance of the 80s & 90s
In the absence of systematic archiving, there is hardly any publicly accessible information about the emergence, structural developments and artistic works of Austrian contemporary dance and performance art of the 1980s and 1990s. The documentation of the dance awakening years at the end of the last millennium is mainly collected in private archives.
G_HOSTING searches for traces, deals with materials from these archives and interviews some protagonists of the free dance and performance landscape of the 1980s and 90s – and this is only a beginning!
What social, political, economic, cultural, aesthetic, … developments were at work during this period? Who and what influenced the dancers/choreographers/performers? What movement languages did they develop? What moved them? What were their working conditions? What were their difficulties and what was their rebellion?
Thus, G_HOSTING is inspired by how we – starting from our own artistic interests and practices – can encounter these voices, dances and materials from the past.
Im_flieger LIVING ARCHIVE works on visibility of the genesis of the Austrian dance and performance scene and investigates the developments of independent dance practitioners and the dance field – historically, artistically, structurally, cultural-politically – by different means and without claiming to be exhaustive. It feeds on the archive stored in the heads and bodies, cartons and hard drives of individual protagonists. It establishes references to the current situation through actual encounters and practical-theoretical collaboration, as well as through specific interrogations of the life stories of the participating artists. Im_flieger LIVING ARCHIVE positions itself at the intersection of documentation, oral history/historical research, archiving, installation, art/cultural mediation, and performance.
Fotos von Franzi Kreis
Agnes Schneidewind (AT) works from dream and somatic practices as well as craniosacral therapy with dance, text and visual media. She questions drawing and writing as performative instruments, seeks (collective) work processes, bodies and the unconscious as poetic (and responding) landscapes. She co-creates experimental formats and performances, including “eleven. each print in the mud fills with honey”(2021) and “through which they have wandered” (2022), co-produced with brut Wien. www.asjnijdewindt.wordpress.com
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
Johanna Nielson (AT) is (also) a dance and performance artist, who lives and works in Vienna. Her artistic practice involves dance, voice and improvisation with a focus on phenomena of the sensual and sense-able. In collaboration with Agnes Schneidewind she made a series of performative experiments (AH I SEE) dealing with mechanisms of translation and perception. Johanna explores the interplay of (experimental) music and dance with such artists as Tobias Leibetseder, Marina Poleukhina and Stefan Voglsinger. She performed with luxflux, Arne Mannott, Alexander Chernishkov/Error Theater, Evandro Pedroni, Oleg Soulimenko, and many more. www.johannanielson.com
Sara Lanner (AT) arbeitet als Tänzerin, Choreografin und performative Künstlerin im Bereich der bildenden sowie darstellenden Kunst. In ihren Arbeiten thematisiert sie den Körper und dessen Erscheinungsform als soziale Choreografie und Skulptur. Ihre Performances finden in Galerien, auf Bühnen sowie an interdisziplinären und öffentlichen Orten statt. Ihr Interesse ist es dabei, performative und choreografische Zugänge zu verbinden und dadurch die bildende Kunst und den zeitgenössischen Tanz gleichermaßen zu erweitern. www.saralanner.com