Veza Fernández is a dance, voice and performance artist based in Vienna. Her work travels between the poles of poetry and politics of vocal forms of expression as places of affiliation, imagination and transformation. She combines song, writing, dance and speech practices as physical forms of study, experimentation and performance. Her sensitive and intense pieces unfold a polyphonous range of voices and presence, eager to move and be moved. Her background involves philology, education, theatre, music and contemporary dance – fields that influence her artistic research and way of working. Her work has a strong local anchor and is found both in the underground scene and larger dance and theatre institutions. Veza Fernández holds a master’s degree in choreography from DAS Graduate School (Amsterdam Academy for Theatre and Dance). Her pieces have been presented, among others, at brut Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, Sophiensæle Berlin, Gessnerallee in Zurich, de Singel in Antwerp and La Casa Encendida in Madrid.
Zosia Hołubowska is a Vienna-based sound artist, queer music activist and producer. Their work explores the queering of archives, curing and interspecific intimacy through performance, sound installations and compositions. As a member of the feminist Oramics collective and founder of Sounds Queer?, they combine electronic music with queer activism. Their solo project Mala Herba mixes Slavic traditions, magic and demonic disco music with EBM. In 2023, they published Singing Warmia, an album melodising personal locations in and around Olsztyn. Zosia Hołubowska performed at locations such as the mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and the Guggenheim Bilbao. Their project Community of Grieving was presented at festivals such as Unsound, Elevate and Dark Mofo.
Luis Javier Murillo Zuñiga is a performance and drag artist as well as a student at the Vienna Academy of Fine Art. Originally born in Costa Rica, they now live in Vienna. Their artistic practice tackles migration, theatre and performance and is heavily coined by their background in opera singing. Apart from creating their own pieces, Luis Javier Murillo Zuñiga has collaborated with Mario Barrantes, Veza Fernández and Myassa Kraitt. Their own performances combine physical presence, vocal expression and drag as an artistic instrument for negotiating questions of identity, belonging and transformation.
Mariya Vasilyeva is a video and performance artist and a resident of Austria and Germany. She studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and at the Vienna University of Applied Art. Her work ranges from live performances to digital collages to video installations and tackles power structures, feminism and body politics. As an immigrant from Ukraine, Mariya Vasilyeva deals with topics of identity and the vulnerability of the female body. She uses digital manipulations to interrogate power structures in society, in particular with regard to sexuality and religion. Her pieces have been exhibited internationally and are also part of the Republic of Austria's state collection.
Claire Lefèvre is a femme choreographer, insomniac writer, and reality TV enthusiast currently based in Vienna, Austria. She likes to think of herself as a hostess, welcoming collaborators and audience members into kitsch landscapes where politics and poetics are gently interwoven. Currently she is exploring the archetype and working methods of a performance doula, a role imagined making care work in the context of performance making visible. Her last stage work LOIE (is a fire that cannot be extinguished) dealt with somatic archives and systematic erasures within dance history. Claire Lefèvre's work with text spans from poetry to grant applications, at times flirting with performance criticism, stand-up comedy or queer feminist theory. Occasionally she works as a ghost writer, but mostly because of the spectral appeal of the job title.
Nerea González is an artist and philosopher based in Vienna. They mainly work with sound and performance in examining visceral sensualities, intimacies, excess and the liminality of queer bodies. As a philosopher, Nerea González has, in more recent works, tackled the slimy and the viscous as types of material that, from a queer perspective, challenge hegemonically solid, stable ideas of body, identity and gender. As a musician, they work within the techno punk/emotional rave project Mousse de Pus and are part of the Sounds Queer? Collective.
Sarah Sternat is a visual artist, costume and set designer based in Vienna. In 2022/23, she attended a contemporary dance training with teacher Andrea Nagl. Before that, in 2015, she finished her studies in painting, needlepoint and film animation at the Vienna University of Applied Art, with Christian Ludwig Attersee and Judith Eisler as her teachers. Even earlier, in 2014, she founded the CLUB FORTUNA performance collective. She had a teaching position at the Linz Art University in 2020. Her pieces were shown,among others, at brut Wien, Kunsthaus Graz and the Basement Gallery inOlomouc.
Leticia Skrycky is a Uruguayan artist and lighting designer currently based in Lisbon. Her work focuses on the intersection of dance and performance and explores practices of co-creation as well as the relational forces arising on stage between human and non-human elements. She is mostly known for her collaborative projects with a plurality of international artists as well as her research on the hidden possibilities in the opacity of emotions in a performance context.
Jonay P. Matos, visual artist and researcher based between Gran Canaria and Barcelona. His practice is situated at the intersection of writing, image, and technology, exploring fiction as a critical methodology, the book and the archive as devices for thought, and artificial intelligence as an ideological and poetic territory. Since 2010, he has developed an artistic practice linked to contemporary image-making, the archive, and editorial experimentation. In 2025, he develops Algo en Blanco, a research project funded by the Government of the Canary Islands, and undertakes residencies at Camera Austria (Graz) and Matos em Festa (Ovar, Portugal). He has participated in artistic residencies at Can Timoner (Mallorca, 2022), Espacio Bardo (Lisbon, 2021), and Lagos (Mexico City, 2019). His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions since 2011 in Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Mexico City, Madrid and Brussels, among others.
