5 layers of thrust // Olivia Hild (AT) & Lens Kühleitner (AT)

NEW DATE: Fri 11.10.2024 // 19.30

Photo: Lens Kühleitner, Olivia Hild

Fri 14.6.2024 // 19.30

NEW DATE: Fri 11.10.2024 // 19.30

Work-in-progress showing // Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna // pay as you wish // bar & food

Performance and concept: Olivia Hild and Lens Kühleitner
Outside Eye: Oneka von Schrader
Thanks to the Im_flieger team!

In their RESIDENCY@Im_flieger Olivia Hild and Lens Kühleitner research various processes of “thrusting”, which is a push that moves matter – a term borrowed from geology.

The work-in-progress investigates such thrusting within emotional and geological layers through movement and sound, following vibrations as their common source. The artists warmly invite to an open showing of their emerging choreographic sound performance duo.

Photos: Franzi Kreis/Im_flieger



Lens Kühleitner (AT) is a musician and performer working with sound, video and movement. Works are created in spontaneity and growing choirs. As Lan Rex, they have released two EPs (Tender Matter), a commissioned work by Hyperreality Festival and concerts at Popfest Vienna, ImPulsTanz Festival and brut Wien, among others. Recent works include performances with Claire Lefévre (YUP Osnabrück), Veza Fernández (STERRRN Festival), Shabnam Chamani/Lisa U. Tschanz (TdK Zurich), Sunggu Hong/Soyoung Park (Kultursommer), Negin Rezaie (WIENWOCHE) as well as sound design and music for Olivia Hild (WUK Vienna), Lau Lukkarila/Luca Bonamore (ImPulsTanz Festival) and Mzamo Nondlwana (brut Vienna). Lens is part of the coordination team of Pink Noise and was part of PARASOL Dance Company of Tanzquartier Wien in 2023.

Olivia Hild (AT) is a Vienna-based artist working in contemporary choreography, installation, performance and teaching. She creates in the field of performing and visual arts. Her works revolve around physical states that she weaves into space. These are shown in theatres and museums, e.g. WUK performing arts Vienna, Theater Odeon/Im Spitzer, MQ Vienna, This Human World Festival, Israel Museum Jerusalem, Diver Festival, BRUX Innsbruck. She has been choreographically and performatively involved in works at Theater am Werk Vienna, Kosmos Theatre Vienna, Werk-X Petersplatz, Ars Electronica, Angewandte Innovation Lab, ARGE Salzburg, Tel Aviv Museum, amongst others. Hild studied Contemporary Dance Education and Fine Arts in Vienna and Jerusalem.