UPCOMING:
08 October 2025, 15:00
SHAKEN GROUNDS, TREMBLING BODIES at TQW, Vienna
The new artistic directors of Tanzquartier Wien, Isabel Lewis and Rio Rutzinger, are celebrating their debut with an Open House. For an entire week, the whole Tanzquartier will be activated across all its spaces with a variety of formats — everything is freely accessible, and everyone can try everything out! From October 6–11, a full program with free admission — featuring local artists, theorists, and musicians, with performances, labs, workshops, and concerts. Part of this event is Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies – a short film traversing volatile terrains of Campi Flegrei, Mount Vesuvius, Vulcano Island in Italy, and the retreating Pasterze glacier in Austria. Interwoven with studio scenes and reflective questions, the film explores how tremors and shifts in the environment resonate within the body and psyche. The focus is on seismic zones, where tectonic instability is increasingly shaped by human activity: climate change, groundwater extraction, mining, and waste. The film offers a poetic journey through landscapes at once ancient and contemporary, asking where—and how—we find ground when the crust beneath us is trembling. Following our presentation & impulse lecture we invite the public for a talk, somatic practice & collective drawing of a seismographic line.

08 – 10 October 2025
SENSING FUNGI. INVISIBLE AGENCIES AND THE UNDERGROUND
Fungi are everywhere. They colonize our bodies and environments, enrich food and medicine, provide sustainable materials, and some even withstand the most extreme conditions. With their refined perceptual capacities, fungi are masters of adaptation and collaboration, engaging in myriad forms of symbiosis. Through their wood-wide webs, mycelial networks supply forests with vital resources and infrastructure while sequestering large amounts of carbon. They can divide into multiple individuals and persist for millennia—challenging prevailing notions of identity and terminality.
From shamans and witches to lucky New Year’s fly agarics and the psychedelic movement, fungi have always been woven into human culture. Yet as mediators between organic and inorganic matter, feared for their toxicity, and resisting categorization as well as cultivation, they have long been sidelined by academia—relegated to the underworld, dark spaces, and a secret knowledge embodying the unconscious »other« of an enlightened, rationalized view of nature and culture. Given today’s socio-ecological challenges, fungi offer a generative ground for rethinking ecological practice and more-than-human coexistence from below. Concept by Co.Lab Mycelial Space / Sarah Kolb & Jutta Strohmaier (Linz)
Participants: Ilka Becker (Mainz), Magdalena Breitwieser (Linz), Roberto Dell’Orco (Paris), Jitka Effenberger (Linz), Johanna Ficht (Berlin), Nikolaus Gansterer (Linz), Erik Göngrich (Berlin), Karin Harrasser (Linz/Wien), Julia Ihls (Karlsruhe), Charlotte Janis (Paris), Maria Kobylenko (Berlin), Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (New York), Fabricio Lamoncha (Linz), Flavia Matei (Linz), Peter McCoy (Portland, OR), Maja-Lisa Müller (Bielefeld), Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez (Mexico City), Alison Pouliot (Victoria/Biel), Nora Wilhelm (Berlin), Feifei Zhou (New York, NY). An interdisciplinary symposium at ifk Arkade (International Research Center for Cultural Studies of the University of Art and Design Linz) at Reichsratsstraße 17, Vienna in cooperation with Wiener Pilzfestspiele.

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