Tanzquartier Wien

offers former homeless people a space to meet and connect with each other. Regular meetings form the basis of a diverse set of special interest groups and projects. Participants with diverse backgrounds share similar experiences of living on the streets or being homeless at one point in their lives. With SWEDED TV, Forum Obdach Wien and TQW realise their third joint project.

is Vienna’s street newspaper. Selling Augustin is an occupation and generates income for people who have been excluded from the job market and live in poverty. The face of poverty is just as diverse as the people selling Augustin on the streets of Vienna. What all vendors have in common is an individual history and a creativity when it comes to finding a solution for their current situation. This project by Forum Obdach Wien in cooperation with Tanzquartier Wien gives some of the newspaper vendors the opportunity to leave behind their daily lives and take on a different role. The act of creating something together intensifies the creative process, exploring all that is possible.

artistic practice focuses on collaborative creative processes, the deconstruction of conventional narratives and experimental forms of music and radio art. She is cofounder of Vegetable Orchestra and has been on tour with this grassroots ensemble internationally since 1998. She is part of the Vienna editorial division of radia on Radio Orange since 2007. radia is an international radio art network comprising 25 different radio stations from Europe, Australia and the US. In 2003, Barbara Kaiser, Ingrid Schlögl and Tamara Wilhelm founded the collective z.b.: … Since 2008, Kaiser and Wilhelm have continued as a duo and their focus has shifted from pop stage shows to performances, installations and experimental music. Between 2001 and 2012, Barbara Kaiser was head of animated film and sound workshops at Zoom Trickfilmstudio until she accepted the same position at MuseumsQuartier.

works question the construction of identities and desires across different genres, material dimensions and disciplines. She creates ambiguous multimedia installations, “spaces of desire”, which oscillate between humour and sensuality. In recent years, Knebl has mostly worked on projects for public spaces and has taken part in many international exhibitions. Most recently, her works have been shown at Georg Kargl Fine Arts and LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz. She will take charge of the Austrian Pavilion at next year’s Venice Biennale together with Ashley Hans Scheirl. Works presented at TQW include the recent performative installation Wir sind Henkel. Starting October 2021, Jakob Lena Knebl will be Professor of Transmedial Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

is a filmmaker, writer and performer. His work focuses on hierarchies of the body and their deconstruction and is based on a radical analysis of systemic violence. His work has been shown at Tanzquartier Wien, Porn Film Festival Berlin and Diagonale Graz, among others. He studied Fashion & Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Creative Writing at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He currently teaches at the department of Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.