BIOS

Lena Fankhauser is a violist of Trinidadian-Swiss heritage born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She started playing the violin at the age of 4. She has received both her Bachelor and Master’s degree from the Julliard School of Music in New York City on a full scholarship. Fankhauser has toured worldwide, across numerous genres, and played in many halls including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and the Royal Albert Hall in London. As a passionate chamber musician, Lena Fankhauser founded a Chamber Music Festival in Bad Ischl and (CH)AMBER, an association for new chamber music. She is a founding member, contractor and manager of the film orchestra, Big Island Orchestra Vienna and a founding member and musical curator of Salon Souterrain.

https://www.lena-fankhauser.com

Like Hamburg, Germany itself, Timor Litzenberger is a well-kept secret. He has been DJing, composing music and producing for around 35 years, he’s played at world-reknowned festivals and even scored some of your favorite films but still, most don’t know his name. This is not an oversight, rather his own design. While Timor loves playing in the spotlight, he has no desire to live there. He chooses instead a quiet life in Hamburg with his partner and 5 children.

So if you’re at the party and nobody knows who the DJ is and you just want to dance and dance til you throw up?

It’s probably Timor

https://www.timor.audio

Jahson The Scientist is a “wordsman” has been described as a Spoken Word Artist, eMCee and anything in-between. Raised in both London and Montserrat (Caribbean), The Caribbean introduced him to freestyling and writing rhymes and London deepened his connection to music by crate digging for vinyl, becoming a DJ and being part of MC and DJ collectives.

Today as a lyricist his music is centred in Hip Hop with influences of Afro-beat, Jazz and Soul. The Scientistoften gives the listener a view through the keyhole on “black” matters, the riddle of Adam from atoms, culture, science and spirit. As a versatile performer who is found on stage as part of the band Sketches on Duality, a clarinet quartet,16 piece band, solo or otherwise. A true live artist who lives every moment onstage, The Scientist is known for his ability to create songs in the moment, his use of word-play and ability to inspire.  Audiences from London to Den Hague, Marseilles to Taiwan have witnessed his performances which combine live instrumentation with samples/beats or just the naked word.

From his first taste the stage in school days, he graduated to festivals like DonauInselfest, Reeperbahn, Popfest, Bevridigungsfestival, Impulstanz, Soundframe, Soundcity Liverpool, and Waves. Other performances include FM4’s Session alongside The Ruff Pack,  Oe1 with Sketches and support for The Roots, Inner Circle and GZA amongst others. Jahson was named Star of The Week for his No Doubt EP, rounded up in the Best of 2016   with his trio Scattah Brain, and in 2021 Sketches found themselves No.1 for 3 weeks on Austria’s Indie Charts. His first release was with Psychic Phenomena on their Slipstream EP, which won 2 UK Hip Hop Awards, and more recently on FM4’s Tribe Vibes Exclusives Album (Sony Music Austria), SK Invitational’s Golden Crown (Kopfhörer/Groove Attack). In 2022 Jahson released his new song Dutty Water- Plush Vessel.

https://www.jahsonthescientist.one/music

Bi Zia Alain Irie aka ALAINGO is a specialist in combining Coupé Décalé movements (Ivorian dance style) with hiphop and various Afrobeats. Alaingo has appeared in various Ivorian television shows and performed with the famous singers Debordeaux Leekunfa and Fally Ippupa. He regularly gives workshops in France and is also anchored in the urban dance scene in Paris. Since 2016, he has been a member of the dance and theatre group LA FLEUR and in the cast of director Monika Gintersdorfers play „Nana ou est-ce que tu connais le bara“.

Mzamo Nondlwana is a queer non-binary performing artist originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. Their work focuses on marginalized bodies and an attempt to subvert colonial fantasy. In 2006 they completed their dance education at MID (South Africa) and in 2014 SEAD (Austria). They worked with Michikazu Matsume, Doris Uhlich, Magdalena Chowaniec, Needcompany, and MichaelTurinsky. They are also one-half of a dj collective Bicha Boo which is an audio-visual performative collective since 2017.

Evandro Pedroni is a brazilian performer and choreographer based in Vienna. After concluding his studies in the Performance Major Program at SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (2013) he was a scholarship holder at TanzQuartier Wien (2013/2014). He developed his solo work “In The Eye of The Beholder” as part of Werkstück in TQW (2016) and he has received the START scholarship from the Austrian Federal Chancellery (2016). In 2017 he premiered “S/M – Stage/Made” in collaboration with Claire Lefèvre supported by Huggy Bears Arts Place, Wien Kultur and Brut Wien. He is featured in productions by Martin Nachbar, Oleg Soulimenko, Hubert Lepka, Stella Zannou, Milan Kozanek, Edan Gorlicki, SETanzTheater, Akemi Takeya, Elisabeth Tambwe, Cie. Willi Dorner, La_Trottrier Dance Collective and others. In 2020 he premiered his work “everything blue” in collaboration the Canadian choreographer Jasmine Ellis, fully funded by the City of Munich. Evandro’s work or collaborations have been showcased in several festivals such as Imagetanz (AT), Freier Tanz Delta VI (DE), PAD – Performance Art Depot (DE), FAKI 18 (HR) and has been supported by Tanzzentrale Nuremberg, Wien Kultur, WUK, Brut Wien, Huggy Bears Arts Place/Wien, Theater Felina-Areal (DE), HochX Theater und Live Art (Munich) and EinTanzHaus (Mannheim).

Nora Aaron Scherer (they/them) is an artist, activist, body worker and social worker from Germany. Now living in Vienna and studying at the Academy of Fine Arts aarons interactive, immersive and durational performance works create situations that allow them to explore social dynamics, contemporary forms of communication and intimacy. As a performer for various international artists like SIGNA, they developed the necessary stamina and refinement to question borders of human relation. Through video, sculpture, sound their current practice examines identity as fluid tool beyond fixed representation and deals with the alienation of the body.

die Kitchen – state of reconstruction –
we are changing, failing, morphing, but always tending towards developing a collective practice which doesn’t neglect economy. right now, February 2017 we try to establish a new economical base for our artistic and activistic struggle. You might, if you live in Vienna, visit our new project : http://diekitchen.vip

BOEM* is in a phase of transformation, and we’ll keen to reflect our first twelve years of activism and art.
We believe in order to contribute in the attempt to establish a different artistic and political practice, one which doesn’t sugarcoat or whitewash social conflicts, which is able rather to listen, than to lecture, a practice that avoids the trap of just pacifying conflicts – a different approach is necessary. We figure, that we have as well to change.
boem.postism.org

Born in Kinshasa (DRC), Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe grew up in France and pursued artistic studies. In 1998, she obtained the “Diplôme National d’Expression Plastique”, for her work of sculpture, at the School of Fine Arts in Tourcoing, France. She has since developed a reflection on the transformation of spaces, time, bodies on stage and in exhibition spaces in the form of performance / installation / sculpture.
In response to the rise of European populist parties, Elisabeth creates in 2017 a multidisciplinary Art Space: Château Rouge. In 2018 she sets up the concept of “Salon Souterrain”, a platform for discussions mixing different forms and artistic gestures.
More informations here

Indra Jäger born in Frankfurt/Main has been living in Vienna since 2000. After studying journalism and communication sciences she co-initiated and directed the art and culture association IM ERSTEN (2012-16). In her role as artistic director, she has conceived, accompanied and implemented over 100 projects at the interface of visual and performing arts. Through collaboration with artists from various disciplines, follow-up projects have developed in which she works as a freelance curator, dramaturge, production and cooperation partner.

Lena Fankhauser is a violist of Trinidadian-Swiss heritage born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She started playing the violin at the age of 4. She has received both her Bachelor and Master’s degree from the Julliard School of Music in New York City on a full scholarship.
Fankhauser has toured worldwide, across numerous genres, and played in many halls including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and the Royal Albert Hall in London. As a passionate chamber musician, Lena Fankhauser founded a Chamber Music Festival in Bad Ischl and (CH)AMBER, an association for new chamber music. She is a founding member, contractor and manager of the film orchestra, Big Island Orchestra Vienna and a founding member and musical curator of Salon Souterrain.
https://www.lena-fankhauser.com

Abiona Esther Ojo (Hellmonsödt, Austria) studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (graduating in 2020) in Sculpture and Spatial Strategies with Monica Bonvicini, Stefanie Seibold and Iman Issa. While her practice manifests through and in various media such as photography and textile art, Esther’s inspiration is often autobiographical: by looking at her own embodied history, she connects her personal experiences to broader, socially relevant issues. Esther won the Kunsthalle Wien Prize with her thesis „The Magic is in Every Strand“, a series of sculptures that invites people to rethink ideas about connection, intimacy and the individual

David Pujadas Bosch was born in Barcelona and has lived in Vienna since 2000. 2000-2013 worked at IBM Austria in various areas (Announcement Support Advisor, Quality Coordinator, Country Focal Point, etc.) 2003-2013 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Monica Bonvicini (sculpture and performative art) and Harun Farocki (film and art). Since 2013 in the film class with Thomas Heise. Works mainly with video and film but also engages in photography, drawing, writing and making performances and sound installations. From 2009 to 2016, regularly illustrated, wrote and kept accounts for Paradigmata – Zeitschrift für Menschen und Diskurse – alongside other editorial work such as layout, editing and distribution.

https://davidpujadasbosch.wordpress.com