Festival 
TOGETHER THE PARTS Day 4

Anne Juren/Sonia Leimer, Claudia Heu/Barbara Kraus, Shaymaa Shoukry, Michael Turinsky, Thomas Hörl/Peter Kozek

An artistic-performative gathering
Anne Juren,

born in Grenoble/France, is a choreographer, dancer and Feldenkrais Practitioner based in Vienna. Her choreographic works and artistic research have been extensively presented in international theatres, festivals, and different museums and art venues. In her work, Juren tries to expand the contextual boundaries of the term choreography in engaging the body in different states of physical, sensorial, corporeal and poetic experiences, reflecting on the possibilities of encounters. She was part of the artistic committee for the Master in Choreography at DOCH from 2014–2018. Recently, she finished her PhD in artistic research titled Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies at SKH Stockholm University of the Arts under the supervision of André Lepecki and Sandra Noeth.

Barbara Kraus

lives and works as a performance artist in Vienna. A self-deprecating ‘shapeshifter’, Barbara Kraus stops where Johnny & Co begins and finds herself in snails, stones and a speck of dust. In her artistic universe, everything is in motion, and there is nothing that cannot become something else. A tactile, multi-voiced, seismographic ‘performance medium’, she likes to move with her eyes closed and go where it gets wild, contradictory, fragile and sometimes tender. Feeling her way along a longing for connection. Dreaming. Breathing. Writing. Walking. Preferably into the forest and over the mountains. From Vienna to Nice. Far away. Going further and never arriving. barbarakraus.at

Claudia Heu

is a choreographer, martial artist and teacher. She lives in Vienna and works all over the world. Since 2016, she has been practising a form of walking together with Alexander Brom, which they call ‘Umherziehen’ (wandering about). To do this, they invite acquaintances, friends and strangers. claudiaheu.com

Eva Seiler

studied scenography and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In her sculptures and spatial settings, she questions anthropocentrism and speculates on how the co-existence of human and non-human animals, nature and technology could be articulated in the future. She embraces hybrid modes of relationship in her practice, using both organic materials and industrially produced fabrics for her objects. For TOGETHER THE PARTS, she has largely worked with and re-used elements that were previously part of other constellations. In such a way, she creates and activates material connections for the gathering that can then be transformed into new contexts.

Michael Turinsky

lives and works as a choreographer, performer and theoretician in Vienna. He is interested in an extensive engagement with the specific phenomenology of the body labelled as ‘disabled’, its specific being-in-the-world, its relationship to temporality and rhythm, affect and affect production, gender and sexuality, visibility and invisibility; and on the other hand in a rigorous engagement with discourses around the productive tension between politics and aesthetics. From 1998 to 2005, he studied philosophy at the University of Vienna. His choreographic works include heteronomous male (2012), My body, your pleasure (2014), Second Skin – Turn the beat around (2016), Second Skin – Master of Ceremony (2016), and REVERBERATIONS (2018). His latest solo Precarious Moves was awarded the 2022 Nestroy Prize. michaelturinsky.org

Shaymaa Shoukry

is a Cairo-based multidisciplinary artist who thrives through a passion for choreographing, performing and creating video art. Always motivated and inspired by working collectively, she develops personal work in an organic build-up process, where each project paves the way for the next. Currently interested in the subject of resilience and the capacity of the human body to adapt to its environment, she engages with personal struggles, social pressure, violence, censorship and diverse political limitations to search for internal resilience and explore ways of solidarity and openness to a lighter frequency of being. Shaymaa studied Visual Arts and Theatre at the American University in Cairo, Dance at the Cairo Opera House School (Centre of Creativity) and Contemporary Dance at Studio Emad el Dien. She has had the pleasure to perform, share choreographic work and be hosted as a resident artist on a regional and international level. shaymaashoukry.com

Sonia Leimer

lives and works in Vienna. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 2007 to 2012, she hosted the radio show titled City and the Image. She taught at the Academy for Art and Photography with Martin Guttmann from 2012–2016. Leimer exhibits her work internationally at Leopold Museum, Vienna; Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich; Los Angeles Museum of Art; 5th Moscow Biennial; artothek, Cologne; Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bozen, Italy; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kunstverein Basis, Frankfurt; BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna; Salzburger Kunstverein; and Manifesta 7, Rovereto. sonialeimer.net

Thomas Hörl and Peter Kozek

have been working together as an artist duo since 2003. Since then, they have realised numerous performances, spatial installations and exhibitions locally and internationally, both together and solo. Artistic research, performance, creating objects and filmmaking are interwoven in their work. Motifs and choreographies from local customs are released from their musealised rigidity, appropriated, transformed and integrated into the artists’ own aesthetic cosmos, taking on a contemporary life of their own. Thomas Hörl and Peter Kozek often collaborate with other artists and collectives, such as Alexander Martinz, Sodom Vienna, Victor Jaschke, and currently with the composer Peter Jakober as part of Wien Modern. kozek-hoerlonski.com

Credits

The Resilience of the Body
Choreography, performance Shaymaa Shoukry Sound Open source Music Mohamed Shafik

Kompositum V / Stubenspiel
Performance
Andrew Champlin, Thomas Hörl, Peter Kozek, Grayson Ruple Music Marco Döttlinger

Anne Juren/Sonia Leimer, Claudia Heu/Barbara Kraus, Shaymaa Shoukry, Michael Turinsky, Thomas Hörl/Peter Kozek

An artistic-performative gathering

17.00 (ongoing)
Anne Juren/Sonia Leimer
Sensorial Transference Objects
(sensorial tent)

18.00
Claudia Heu/Barbara Kraus
Gehen – Tracing the Songlines of Halle G
(tournée/practice-in-motion)
In German

19.00
Shaymaa Shoukry
The Resilience of the Body
(circle dance)

20.00
Michael Turinsky
Crip Choreography
(listening circle)

21.00
Thomas Hörl/Peter Kozek
Kompositum V / Stubenspiel
(procession)

Anne Juren and visual artist Sonia Leimer open the gathering with Sensorial Transference Objects, an ongoing practice in the ‘sensorial tent’. They propose ways of treating and receiving treatment – using notions of the proxy body, co-regulation and diffracted attention – while searching for answers to how one can sense across objects, within objects, in proximity to objects, always questioning the boundaries between object/subject.
Claudia Heu and Barbara Kraus draw on their respective practices of walking – through urban space and natural landscapes – to trace the songlines of Halle G in their ‘tournée’. What awaits us around the corner? What spurs us to move forward? We take our time, letting our curiosity guide us.
Akin to Anna Halprin’s planetary dance, the Cairo-based artist and choreographer Shaymaa Shoukry runs in a circle, uttering demands of both political and personal nature. Her ‘circle dance’ takes an embodied approach to resilience, perseverance, and solidarity, inviting us to consider what it takes to create and sustain a movement collectively.
Michael Turinsky reflects on crip time and the political potential of lingering, asking how we can mobilise – bring a collectivity into motion – to different rhythms and beats. Interested in sonic-somatic practices, resonance and the temporality of resistance, Michael draws on both his theoretical work and his artistic practice for the ‘listening circle’.
Queer aesthetics meet local tradition and folklore in the work of Thomas Hörl and Peter Kozek, who close the day with a procession of magical archaic figures and invite us to a final collective act, a gesture towards a ‘coming community’.

Anne Juren,

born in Grenoble/France, is a choreographer, dancer and Feldenkrais Practitioner based in Vienna. Her choreographic works and artistic research have been extensively presented in international theatres, festivals, and different museums and art venues. In her work, Juren tries to expand the contextual boundaries of the term choreography in engaging the body in different states of physical, sensorial, corporeal and poetic experiences, reflecting on the possibilities of encounters. She was part of the artistic committee for the Master in Choreography at DOCH from 2014–2018. Recently, she finished her PhD in artistic research titled Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies at SKH Stockholm University of the Arts under the supervision of André Lepecki and Sandra Noeth.

Barbara Kraus

lives and works as a performance artist in Vienna. A self-deprecating ‘shapeshifter’, Barbara Kraus stops where Johnny & Co begins and finds herself in snails, stones and a speck of dust. In her artistic universe, everything is in motion, and there is nothing that cannot become something else. A tactile, multi-voiced, seismographic ‘performance medium’, she likes to move with her eyes closed and go where it gets wild, contradictory, fragile and sometimes tender. Feeling her way along a longing for connection. Dreaming. Breathing. Writing. Walking. Preferably into the forest and over the mountains. From Vienna to Nice. Far away. Going further and never arriving. barbarakraus.at

Claudia Heu

is a choreographer, martial artist and teacher. She lives in Vienna and works all over the world. Since 2016, she has been practising a form of walking together with Alexander Brom, which they call ‘Umherziehen’ (wandering about). To do this, they invite acquaintances, friends and strangers. claudiaheu.com

Eva Seiler

studied scenography and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In her sculptures and spatial settings, she questions anthropocentrism and speculates on how the co-existence of human and non-human animals, nature and technology could be articulated in the future. She embraces hybrid modes of relationship in her practice, using both organic materials and industrially produced fabrics for her objects. For TOGETHER THE PARTS, she has largely worked with and re-used elements that were previously part of other constellations. In such a way, she creates and activates material connections for the gathering that can then be transformed into new contexts.

Michael Turinsky

lives and works as a choreographer, performer and theoretician in Vienna. He is interested in an extensive engagement with the specific phenomenology of the body labelled as ‘disabled’, its specific being-in-the-world, its relationship to temporality and rhythm, affect and affect production, gender and sexuality, visibility and invisibility; and on the other hand in a rigorous engagement with discourses around the productive tension between politics and aesthetics. From 1998 to 2005, he studied philosophy at the University of Vienna. His choreographic works include heteronomous male (2012), My body, your pleasure (2014), Second Skin – Turn the beat around (2016), Second Skin – Master of Ceremony (2016), and REVERBERATIONS (2018). His latest solo Precarious Moves was awarded the 2022 Nestroy Prize. michaelturinsky.org

Shaymaa Shoukry

is a Cairo-based multidisciplinary artist who thrives through a passion for choreographing, performing and creating video art. Always motivated and inspired by working collectively, she develops personal work in an organic build-up process, where each project paves the way for the next. Currently interested in the subject of resilience and the capacity of the human body to adapt to its environment, she engages with personal struggles, social pressure, violence, censorship and diverse political limitations to search for internal resilience and explore ways of solidarity and openness to a lighter frequency of being. Shaymaa studied Visual Arts and Theatre at the American University in Cairo, Dance at the Cairo Opera House School (Centre of Creativity) and Contemporary Dance at Studio Emad el Dien. She has had the pleasure to perform, share choreographic work and be hosted as a resident artist on a regional and international level. shaymaashoukry.com

Sonia Leimer

lives and works in Vienna. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 2007 to 2012, she hosted the radio show titled City and the Image. She taught at the Academy for Art and Photography with Martin Guttmann from 2012–2016. Leimer exhibits her work internationally at Leopold Museum, Vienna; Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich; Los Angeles Museum of Art; 5th Moscow Biennial; artothek, Cologne; Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bozen, Italy; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kunstverein Basis, Frankfurt; BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna; Salzburger Kunstverein; and Manifesta 7, Rovereto. sonialeimer.net

Thomas Hörl and Peter Kozek

have been working together as an artist duo since 2003. Since then, they have realised numerous performances, spatial installations and exhibitions locally and internationally, both together and solo. Artistic research, performance, creating objects and filmmaking are interwoven in their work. Motifs and choreographies from local customs are released from their musealised rigidity, appropriated, transformed and integrated into the artists’ own aesthetic cosmos, taking on a contemporary life of their own. Thomas Hörl and Peter Kozek often collaborate with other artists and collectives, such as Alexander Martinz, Sodom Vienna, Victor Jaschke, and currently with the composer Peter Jakober as part of Wien Modern. kozek-hoerlonski.com

Credits

The Resilience of the Body
Choreography, performance Shaymaa Shoukry Sound Open source Music Mohamed Shafik

Kompositum V / Stubenspiel
Performance
Andrew Champlin, Thomas Hörl, Peter Kozek, Grayson Ruple Music Marco Döttlinger

18.11.
Fri
17.00–22.00
18.11.
Fri
17.00–22.00
TQW Halle G

Day ticket: € 25/20/10
Weekend ticket* (3 days): € 60/42/21
Festival pass* (6 days): € 90/60/42

* available exclusively at the box office

 
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