WORKSHOP by TANIA FUCHS
Embodying Electro/Acoustic Improvisation
SATURDAY 15.11.25
10:30 - 13:00 @Raumschiff
In this workshop we’ll be working electronic and electroacoustic music devices with our bodies. With synthesizers, loopers, microphones and effects for voice or guitar and no previous musical or technical knowledge required, this is a direct hands on invitation to improvise with sound, discover musical toys as physical extensions, work with everyday objects to create sounds or use voice to collectively become hybrids.
Tania will bring a few sound devices and shape the workshop in response to the group’s backgrounds and creative directions. Want to bring your own instrument or sound device? Curious to explore your voice?
PLEASE NOTE:
Tania’s workshop is offered separately, due to a smaller number of participants.
Please let us know in advance about any technical or spatial needs, and drop a line about how you’ve been relating to sound or voice so far --> sophie@raumarbeiterinnen.org
Bio:
Vienna-based composer, DJ and performer Tania Fuchs (fka Abu Gabi) moves between electroacoustic noise, radical bass and fragmented dance electronics. Trained in composition, sound design, dance and media arts, they explore sound as confrontation and empowerment — using electronic devices as tools for research, expression and intensity.
Fotocredits: Patrick Wally
WORKSHOP by STELLA MYRAF
Reactions for Assaults - as a collective practice
SATURDAY 15.11.25
15:00 - 17:30 @University of Arts Linz
Many of us experience discrimination in everyday life, which may leave its mark as stress, insomnia or stomach aches. The project “Reactions for Assaults” elaborates a performative vocabulary as reactions to verbal discrimination, counteracting shock paralysis. In the workshop, after a short presentation and optional exchange of experiences, defense mechanisms are explored by shaking off what has been said and navigating between vulnerability, irritation and resistance.
Bio:
Stella Myraf, based in Vienna and Athens, is a performance artist working across performance, video, and multimedia. With a background in set and social design, they explore movement, choreography, and spatial practices within socio-political contexts. Recent works include Off Track, Where It Gets Turbid, Helden Verrenken, The Heat of Burden, and Molten Monuments.
WORKSHOP by VIVIEN TAUCHMANN
Self-As-Other-Trainings
SUNDAY 16.11.25
12:00 - 14:30 @University of Arts Linz
The workshop invites participants to experience their body as a tool of (un)learning through embodiment. “Self-As-Other-Trainings” create a space where choreographed routines address intersections of labor and make structures of power and exploitation tangible. Between action and reflection, participants can deepen empathy, question self-images, and reimagine solidarity.
Bio:
Vivien Tauchmann is an independent designer and movement artist. She works, teaches, and researches at the intersection of design, performing arts, and somatic-political pedagogy, aiming to uncover and subvert processes that shape dynamics of power and alienation. She collaborates internationally with civil society initiatives, cultural institutions, and universities.
Fotocredits: Cihan Çakmak
WORKSHOP by ARIATHNEY COYNE
Rest and Resistance // Ruhe und Resistenz
SUNDAY 16.11.25
16:00 - 18:30 @University of Arts Linz
This workshop is an invitation to explore the sensational spectrum between rest and resistance. We will begin by investigating where and how our bodies hold resistance. How does this protect or serve our bodies? What strategies can transform resistance into a restful state?
We will explore how weight, gravity, contact with solid surfaces and other bodies influence our physical relation to rest and resistance, and play with the movement qualities and sensations which emerge through this research.
Bio:
Ariathney Coyne is a transdisciplinarian moving fluidly between performance, dance, and audiovisual art. Originally a trained neuroscientist, she now works as a freelance artist, driven by curiosity and experimentation. Her works combine movement, visuals, sound, and language to convey abstract and/or humorous glimpses of our shared and individual realities.
Fotocredits: Justin Piperger
PERFORMANCE by VIVIEN TAUCHMANN
Self-As-Other-Training: Smartphone
SATURDAY 15.11.25
20:00 @Raumschiff
We warmly invite you to stay with us at Raumschiff after the first workshop day. In the evening, we’ll be joined by Vivien Tauchmann, who will perform for us and lead a workshop the following day.
The collective performative “training” invites participants to reflect critically on the relationship between consumers & production workers, the "here" & "there", the individual & the collective. The starting point are two similar gestures of opposite origins: browsing on one's smartphone and the monotony of the workers movements on the assembly line whose daily task is to check the functionality of smartphone screens. Through two distinct yet parallel exercises, this collective experience reveals not only a critical reflection of one’s own behaviour, but also the entanglement of labor and the people behind the objects that surround us.
