falling in love with the idea of some*body (series: Net_Works)
Sample from "falling in love with the idea of some*body" (2025), video, 28:03, color, sound, with English subtitles © Maggessi/Morusiewicz, Isabelle Edi, Soñ Gweha, Costas Kekis, Claire Lefèvre, Pol Merchan.
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Last edited on: August 11, 2026
Introduction
“falling in love with the idea of some*body” was developed in collaboration with Isabelle Edi. Following the conclusion of our second thematic cluster, titled Queer/Embodied Archives, we gave Edi the recordings of conversations we had with artists Soñ Gweha, Costas Kekis, Costas Kekis, Claire Lefèvre, and Pol Merchan following a 3-day workshop at Angewandte’s Performance Lab.
Isabelle Edi remixed the content of these conversations together with sound stemming from works by the artists, thus creating a layered, mixtape-like track, weaving together themes, thoughts, and samples from the practice and documentation of the invited artists’ works.
We reacted to this track by mixing and visually contaminating video works and performance documentation videos from the artists. This resulted in the video you will find below.
Maggessi/Morusiewicz & Isabelle Edi, "falling in love with the idea of some*body" (2025), video, 28:03, color, sound, with English subtitles © Maggessi/Morusiewicz, Isabelle Edi, Soñ Gweha, Costas Kekis, Claire Lefèvre, Pol Merchan.
Credits
This video was produced in collaboration with Isabelle Edi in the context of our project W/ri/gh/ting Archives through Artistic Research (PEEK | AR716).
The video uses with footage and documentation from works by Soñ Gweha, Costas Kekis, Costas Kekis, Claire Lefèvre, and Pol Merchan, who participated in our project’s second thematic cluster, titled “Queer/Embodied Archives.”
The sound was designed by Isabelle Edi and features recordings from our conversations with the artists, as well as snippets of audio stemming from their single works. The conversations took place in the weeks after a 3-day workshop hosted at the Angewandte Performance Lab (APL).
For the title and credits of this video we used the font BBB Readme, designed by Eugénie Bidaut, Ludi Loiseau, and Clara Sambot distributed by the collective Bye Bye Binary. You can find more information here.
Participants
Soñ Gweha
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.
Costas Kekis
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.
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. 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.
Pol Merchan
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.