is an illustrator, writer and garderobier, currently studying Sprachkunst at Die Angewandte. His main focus lies on researching queer history, particularly through studying biographies and collecting intimate details within them. This shift of attention towards the relational is Ari’s foundation for his work with drawing and text. He is part of the “holiday poets society” with Claire Lefèvre and Kenneth Constance Loe since 2022.

is a visual artist working predominantly with moving image and text. Her works revolve around portraits of people and places, and her interest lies in how personal stories depict a socio-political context and history. She is a co-founder of the Brussels-based, artist-run production and distribution platform elephy, contributor to the online film criticism platform Sabzian, and a PhD in the Arts candidate at KASK & Conservatorium/School of Arts Ghent, where she teaches in the visual arts department and lectures on art and feminist theory.

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is a researcher, literary translator, and artist based in Austin, Texas. Drawing on personal histories and the broader archive of queer culture, his artistic practice explores forms of queer intimacy and relationality across multiple media and genres: free-standing prints, drawings, artists’ books, and collaborative chapbooks. His scholarly work examines counter-memorial and archival practices in postsocialist literary and visual culture, with a focus on former Yugoslavia. He teaches at the Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas in Austin

is a Dutch-born, Berlin-based artist working with moving image. She explores current social issues, addressing them with her keen sense of aesthetic to create thought-provoking work. Using moving image, she engages with social and political topics to reframe these matters in new ways and seeks to examine structures of representation through a transnational perspective while staying in constant dialog with the context from which the work is derived.

is an artist, amateur archeologist, and film worker. He is a member of the collective Antes Muerto Cine. He has a degree in Audiovisual Arts from the UNA (Universidad Nacional del Arte). Since 2014, he has coordinated a tutorial workshop for documentary and experimental projects. He participated in 2019 in Berlinale Talents BA and in 2022 in Berlinale Talents Berlin as Editor. He builds and destroys sounds and images in every possible way. Self-manager since always, he writes, assists, produces, edits, and is also a musician and sound designer.

is an art historian and works as an independent curator, author, and editor. She is a senior scientist at the Department of Site-Specific Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and formerly held curatorial positions at the Generali Foundation in Vienna and Kunsthalle Wien. She is on the board of the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna (WUK). Her interests focus on artistic and curatorial gestures that question and deconstruct hegemonic narratives by means of “parafictional” and speculative strategies. She is engaged in critical artistic practice with archives and leads “Anonymity and Absence: Archival Sites of Speculation,” an interdisciplinary research project at the University of Applied Arts.

is a filmmaker based between Brussels and Paris. He was born and raised in the context of the Guyanese and Antillean diaspora in France to a French mother and a Guyanese father. His interest as an artist is to dig inside the complexity of Western colonial history by detecting the survival of traumas from the past in the present. His audiovisual and performance work is focused on archives and forms of reenactment as a perspective to conceive a vivid and embodied memory.

operates in the field of innovative and interdisciplinary artistic and curatorial practices, with the focus on queer perspectives. He also acts as a coordinator and artistic researcher of the collective queerANarchive, through which he has realised a number of artistic researches. His work experience includes curatorial programs such as qEXHIBITIONS for queerANarchive and NMG@PRAKTIKA for the association Mavena, as well as curatorial work for HULU Split. He is the manager of the qWORKSHOP, qFEST and qPRODUCTIONS/RESIDENCIES programs for the queerANarchive collective.

is a writer, curator, and researcher with an extensive interdisciplinary practice. Her work spans a broad range of collaborative artistic practices, such as curating and zine-making, aimed at exploring subversive forms, transcultural representation, and aesthetics that challenge dominant historical narratives and normativity. She co-founded the queer feminist art zine “MultipleSpirits” with Mai Endo in 2018 and has been a board member of VBKÖ since 2020. She holds a master’s degree from Yokohama National University and is in a doctoral program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

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has recently completed graduate studies in New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. His practice includes 3D animation, new media and visual art, text, and performance. In his graduate work, he deals with the creation of the “Nominis” alter ego and its materialization in objects and digital space through video, installation, and drag performance.

is a Brazilian filmmaker, born in Rio de Janeiro, with multiple works between cinema, television, photography, and advertisement. “I Know Everything is Memory” is her debut as a film director. With “Projeto Mulheres Poderosas” [Powerful Women Project], a portrait-series published online from 2016 until 2021, she started her research mixing memory and feminism by telling stories of women with the goal of preserving their memories and value their lives.

is a Croatia-based visual artist with a background in animation and film. She is currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she pursues a BA in Animation and New Media. In her practice, she explores combining digital media with analogue practices, e.g. digital animation and embroidery. While her focus has long been animated music videos, she is increasingly interested in artistic research pertaining to public and private archives.

is a freelance theatre maker, political education worker, cultural scientist and transmedia artist. Currently completing her master’s thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna’s Critical Studies, she is also a project collaborator at the institution’s Platform Diversity project. She is a co-founder of the association “Vielmehr für Alle!” and the project “PROSA-Projekt Schule für Alle!” In 2014–2017, she worked at Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin as assistant director, dramaturg, co-director and head of the akademie der autodidakten, among other positions. More recently, she worked as a project coordinator of “Akademie geht in die Schule” at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as a curator and art mediator for “INVENTOUR” by Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich.

is a Croatian-based artist and researcher who uses objects from archives, photography, printmaking, and design in his research- and artistic-based processes. He is interested in shaping memories and the idea of storytelling through artistic narratives. He holds an MFA in Animation and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.

Often containing performance and proposal simultaneously, Seth Weiner’s work employs a wide range of media in which he explores the gaps between architectural fiction and social convention to create both actual and imagined spatial environments. Weiner has worked process-based and collaboratively with Untitled Collective (co-founded in Los Angeles, 2010-2012), Gruppe Uno Wien, and from 2012-2018 served as the Co-Artistic Director of Berlin-based Care Of Editions, a conceptual business model in the form of a record label. Since 2018, Weiner has been the Artistic Director of Palais des Beaux Arts Wien, a nonprofit museum-like entity that serves as a mobile place of remembrance and projection for what was lost during National Socialism. During his time as director, Weiner has focused on commissioning artworks that deal with the history of Atelier Bachwitz, a publishing house that was once located at the Palais des Beaux Arts building in Vienna before it was Aryanized. Being Jewish, Weiner’s work on the Palais functions as an ongoing act of reclamation and a way to explore what that identity means in contemporary Austria.

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has been studying New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Zagreb since 2020. He has exhibited at group exhibitions in Zadar and Zagreb, and participated in 2022 in the “Garden of Eden” residency in Bale and “What’s Masc?” residency in Berlin. In his artistic practice, he explores the relationship between the digital and the physical, between queer identity, spaces, and experiments in sound, text, and video.

is a grassroots artivist initiative from Split, Croatia, led by Tonči Kranjčević Batalić, an art historian, curator, cultural worker, and video artist. Their agenda includes contributing to the development of the local queer art scene by doing artistic research with queer archives, which consists in tracing and reimagining, through artistic practices, the past and present cruising practices in Split. Rafał Morusiewicz, one of the project’s core researchers, was invited in 2019 to conduct a film-based workshop and curate an exhibition in the context of queerANarchive’s ongoing cultural program. We bring them into our project for the purpose of bringing an outer perspective to our Vienna-oriented project and, at the same time, of engaging with an artivist initiative that performs research as art.

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is an artist, researcher,  community organizer and vinyl collector born in 1989, who lives and works between the outskirts of Paris in France and Vienna in Austria. Through a transdisciplinary practice, Soñ Gweha works with music, poetry, video, performance, installation, sculpture to deconstruct the mechanisms of survival, mindfulness and healing. Navigating through contemporary creation, research and collective practices for transformative justice, they uses analog Djaying, sounds and their voice as an instrument (under the name SOÑXSEED), moving images, poetic writings, archival conversations, , body gestures, textiles and fruit & plant matter, in order to explore intimacy, love, tribulation and joy from a afrofeminist and queer perspective.

began dancing to pop music in his family’s living room and later continued this work on stage as a performer and choreographer. His works were shown among others at the Ostertanztage Salzburg, at the Altera Pars Theater in Athens, at the 100 Grad Festival Berlin and in Vienna at brut, Raw Matters, Tanzquartier, WUK and ImPulsTanz. In addition to his work as a dancer and choreographer, Costas Kekis also works as a dramaturge and choreographic consultant with numerous other artists.

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. Between 2019 and 2022 she researched the concept of radical softness as choreographic strategy, embracing hypersensitivity as a method, a topic, and a portal through which to imagine two works: Peachfuzz and Full Melt Down. Her last stage work LOIE (is a fire that cannot be extinguished) dealt with somatic archives and systematic erasures within dance history. Behind the scenes, she is exploring the archetype and working methods of a performance doula, a role imagined to disinvisibilize care work in the context of performance making.

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Pol Merchan is an artist, filmmaker, and curator for the Xposed Queer Film Festival Berlin and for the Panorama section at Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and a master’s degree from the Art in Context program at Universität der Künste Berlin. He was nominated for the Lichter Art Award with his film Pirate Boys and the Golden Key at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival with The Garden of the Fauns.

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is a Vienna based curator, theatre director and care worker. In their artistic research they focus on critical phenomenology of non-normative embodiment through methods of institutional constructivism and somatic infrastructural analysis with particular attention on mutual aid between trans and crip communities.

is an art historian, author and artist based in Vienna. Her scholarly research is focused on the intersection between body, technology and media in Neo-Avantgarde performance art. Her artistic practice includes essays, text-based collages, and dramaturgy with a focus on authorial critique, the formal potential of vulgarism, and an interest in marginal genres such as pornography, slasher, pulp, and fan-fiction.

works in the art collection at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she is involved in organising exhibitions and publications. She is a member of the collective Salon Animation, which publishes the zine Anytime. Recurring themes in her independent artistic practice include cinematic landscapes, as well as an examination of stereotypical forms of representation, particularly in relation to gender, the body and film genres. Another area of interest is film and film theory, with a focus on experimental and classical narrative forms – and everything in between.

With a background in ethnomusicology and critical studies, Jasemin Khaleli engages in critical knowledge production, decolonial fieldwork methodologies, and artistic research. She is currently employed at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences within a collaborative project, “Applied/Experimental Sound Research Lab,” and is leading a City of Vienna-funded research project investigating the archive’s institutional history during the Nazi era. Her practice also extends into sculpture and performance, and she is an active member of the Vienna Schmusechor.

is a Vienna-based photographer and visual artist with Polish roots. She holds a Magister degree (Diploma programme) in Photography and Time-Based Media from the University of Applied Arts Vienna and a BA in Mass Media and Communication Science from the University of Vienna. Through the juxtaposition of analog, lens-based, and generative techniques, her work addresses migration, diasporic subjectivity, and the politics of labor and discrimination.

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lives, studies and works in Vienna. Their artistic research can often be found (in)between spaces and sometimes through the lenses of a second generation migrant. In their process they observe, collect materials and (co)respond to the site.

is a new media artist, photographer, and noise-maker, currently pursuing a Master’s in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work focuses on the production and circulation of knowledge, the role of digital technologies, and the intersections of theory and practice. While engaging with both digital and analogue media, her projects explore archives, memory, and AI- generated processes.

is interested in critical theory and graphic design / publishing practices, drawing ties to the Greek region of Evros and her diasporic second-generation perspective.

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