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.
Featured Category: Co_Lab #3
Natália Zajačiková
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.
Joanna Zoe
is interested in critical theory and graphic design / publishing practices, drawing ties to the Greek region of Evros and her diasporic second-generation perspective.
Laura Egger-Karlegger
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.
Ema Benčíková
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.
Alexandra Octavia Corodan
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.
Martina Lajczak
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.
Jasemin Khaleli
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.