The three Theory curators bring different perspectives to the table: in addition to a choreographic-analytical approach, a pop-culture outlook critical of society and a queer/feminist perspective are increasingly taken into account as well. Some of the theory programme is thematically linked with TQW’s performance programme, but besides that it also investigates essential issues in the fields of choreography and performance, or, more generally, major concerns of our time. In addition, Tanzquartier Wien promotes a new way of engaging with the performances. Experts from various disciplines will write a text to accompany every work shown at TQW, which will provide both artists and visitors with additional material for analysis. The texts will be collected and published atour Newsblog and, moreover, as a print magazine once a year.
Katrina Daschner, born in Hamburg, is an artist and film-maker who has been living in Vienna for over twenty years. She taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 2005 to 2010. From 2009 to 2014, she hosted the queer CLUB BURLESQUE BRUTAL. In her projects, she primarily investigates sexuality, power structures and queer-feminist (body) politics as well as the transfer of theatrical acts and performances into the context of exhibitions and films. She presents her projects in exhibtions and at film festivals....mehrweniger
Thomas Edlinger, born in 1967 in Vienna, is a radio broadcaster, freelance arts and culture journalist, curator and author of books. Together with Fritz Ostermayer, Edlinger has been producing and presenting the FM4 radio show Im Sumpf since 1995. He held a post as curator at the O.K. Centre for Contemporary Art in Linz from 2002 to 2004 and at Lentos Art Museum Linz from 2004 to 2006. In 2015, he published the essay Der wunde Punkt. Vom Unbehagen an der Kritik. He has been artistic director of the donaufestival in Krems since 2017. Edlinger teaches in the Department of Art and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna....mehrweniger
Janez Janša, born in 1964 as Emil Hrvatin, is a Slovenian performance artist and theorist. He edited and published Maska, a bilingual (English/Slovenian) performative arts magazine, and was director of an institute of the same name for publication, production and education from 1999 to 2006. He has presented many performative and installative projects and given lectures in many parts of the world since the early 1990s....mehrweniger
Giulia Palladini’s lecture focuses on the idea of foreplay, a theoretical framework she has been developing in her...
Interdisciplinary, interuniversity post-grad forum on the subjects of choreography, performance, body, art and politics at TQW. In the...
Roberto Esposito faced me – interested in imagining a social configuration, which is neither collectivistic in a totalitarian...
Interdisciplinary, interuniversity post-grad forum on the subjects of choreography, performance, body, art and politics at TQW. In the...
With the resurgence of right-wing populism, the so-called “cultural left” has become the focus of criticism. It is...
The lab programme regularly held at the TQW Studios is dedicated to exploration and exchange between local as well as international artists and experts.
Unhampered by the customary pressure to produce and present, the participants can explore general topical, specific or utterly unusual aspects of contemporary choreography and performance. Some of the subjects addressed relate to the contemporaneous performance programme at Tanzquartier Wien to enable a closer examination.
However, the labs also provide those interested with a platform to inquire into urgent issues of our time, irrespective of TQW’s programme. Experts or artists curate and run the labs.
„Friendship in this sense is both a set-up for working and a dimension of production.“ — Céline Condorelli
“All we want is the impossible!”, Frans Poelstra and Alix Eynaudi postulate. Together with a group of artists they will indulge in an unreal time composition for two weeks and will share a performance with the audience at the end of the improvisation laboratory.
We are all experts in friendship. We all know how to dance. Friends in action: we will practice friendship as a form of solidarity, a way of committing ourselves with The Things — be it readings, dances, writings, smells, each other. During the second week of the lab we will take the chance to make The Things public, thus befriending the odd situation of dancing in front of people.
With Claire Lefèvre, Karine Blanche Emmanuelle Séror, Alex Bailey, Mzamo Nondlwana, Alix Eynaudi, Frans Poelstra, a. o.
“We shy away from enthusiasm.” — Frantz Fanon
Writing about dance is more than writing a review. In that sense, TQW’s Magazine initiative is not a journalistic counter-public but a reaction to the various expectations held by artists, authors, scholars and readers relating to dance coverage, which cannot be met by way of mere review journalism. The lab enquires into the politics of writing and the way in which we use criteria, viewing habits, prejudices, the failure to understand, power. Is non-coercive criticism possible and desirable? Which forms of writing do we enjoy reading? Which standpoints can we take in writing? Can these be changed? Are we aware of how we write? The lab takes the experiences gained in the first months of the present season into account. The participants Christoph Chwatal, Theresa Luise Gindlstrasser, Magdalena Hiller, Anna Kromer, Gianna Virginia Prein, Sara Schausberger, and Michael Franz Woels will work on texts of their own, discuss texts written by colleagues and ponder over future models of writing.
In Christine Gaigg’s lab on the Me & You theme, a group of artists from various fields and different generations meet to exchange views on their respective artistic approaches to intensities and sexuality. The idea is to explore one’s own way of living, sexuality and art in the context of contemporary society. Florentina Holzinger, Robert Jackson, Thomas Kasebacher, Florian Lenz, Roberta Lima and Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe will be taking part. The participants will decide in the course of the lab whether or not there will be a public presentation afterwards.
