Tanzquartier Wien

Spectator On Your Self is a dance film by Kat Hawkins exploring disabled autonomy, joy, fear and connection. It is a look at ableism as a panopticon. Can we ever escape it? The answer remains unclear, yet it is accompanied by hopeful whispers of ‘yes’. The film screening invites the audience to reflect on the queer crip experience and how, alongside isolation, there is the potential for deep connection and kinship.

‘Contaminare or To Touch Together is a lover, as Earth is a lover’: In their first collaboration, artists Denise Kottlett, Crystal Wall and Francesca Centonze deal with soil and compost structures. Contaminare or To Touch Together celebrates love stories between different species, offering unruly sensory experiences and embodied perspectives on the shared lives of microbes and compost. The performance gleefully explores how multispecies’ pleasure and community can resist anthropocentric and extractive narratives about nature.

As part of the S_P_I_T_ festival, Lazy Life will temporarily open an outdoor break room, providing a space for visitors to relax and socialise together. Lazy Life aims to redefine laziness as a form of resistance. durational timeout invites everyone to connect, chill out and celebrate idleness

Daily schedule:

From 18.30
Get-together served with care by Lazy Life

20.00
Festival opening hosted by Helena Araújo

20.45
Film screening Kat Hawkins

21.30
Installation & performance by Denise Kottlett, Crystal Wall, Francesca Centonze

Sewing together their practices of dance, sound, costume and performance, Iris Omari Ansong and Isabelle Edi amplify in when broken glass glitters the in-between, the hidden and the unseen. Between surfaces and the darkest bottoms of the oceans, they search for the aesthetics of Afro-diasporic memories. Immersing in new images, in layers of hope and grief, pleasure and pain, the feeling of submerging in the Black Atlantic sets in – an invisible yet ever-present web of legacies and routes tied to the African diaspora. Seeking a channel to respond to dystopian and genocidal times, the artists dive into contradictions of existing, glitching open portals.

As part of the S_P_I_T_ festival, Lazy Life will temporarily open an outdoor break room, providing a space for visitors to relax and socialise together. Lazy Life aims to redefine laziness as a form of resistance. durational timeout invites everyone to connect, chill out and celebrate idleness

Daily schedule: 

From 18.30
Get-together served with care by Lazy Life

19.30
Artist talk hosted by Hyo Lee

20.30
Performance Luara Raio

21.30
Performance Iris Omari Ansong & Isabelle Edi

Monsters are often seen as terrifying and larger than life. However, they also challenge the boundaries assigned to us, questioning the beauty standards and dictates our society defines. I dream of you my friend by BORA in collaboration with Eloise Canavesio is a multimorphic experience, taking you on an immersive and intimate journey into a universe where creatures, monsters, and angels coexist.

Lost Encounters, They Cling by Valentino Skarwan draws from Guatemalan myths, where human and non-human worlds intertwine. Syncretism is evident in every word, alive in the blending, the bending, the enduring power of what refuses to disappear. The performance seeks to uncover what lingers: gestures that shift shape, symbols that hide ancestral meanings, and bodies that carry more than they were meant to. Valentino Skarwan creates space for the in-between, for what doesn’t conform, for hybrid bodies that bend instead of break.

As part of the S_P_I_T_ festival, Lazy Life will temporarily open an outdoor break room, providing a space for visitors to relax and socialise together. Lazy Life aims to redefine laziness as a form of resistance. durational timeout invites everyone to connect, chill out and celebrate idleness

Daily schedule:

From 18.30
Get-together served with care by Lazy Life

19.30
Artist talk hosted by Hyo Lee

20.30
Performance BORA

21.30
Performance Valentino Skarwan