Archeology of Whispers

Whispers can come out as blurry sets of words, that may not be clearly heard. Listening is an activity sustained on a simple “will to”. Openess to absorb, reflect, and perhaps be emotionally & intellectualy stimulated by ones desire to connect.

Within a collective experience, reactions rise through multiple means of comunication. Verbal or gestural, information is abundantly fed in a spastic cycle of mutual nurturing. The process of art making flames as a tool to amplify tacit background knowledge.

Through a queer and transfeminist perspective, the artists stage existential themes such as care, community, belongingness, loss, corporeality, working class and migrant issues. They will present multimedia works as well as site-specific and research-based performances, complemented by a series of interactive workshops during the opening and finissage.

Duality between the space and concept brought playfullness in scene. While silent libraries where originally created to preserve the words within an academic canon. The works presented value from knowledge that nests in the gut, heart and all layers of flesh compounding our complex bodily structures.

“So I’ve been thinking about whispering in general and how we listen and how sure we are of what we hear.” – Dani.
You. Have you played the Telephone game as a child?

Tabea Briggs was born in Essen, Germany, in 1994. She studied (a little) philosophy, art, and herbology. Her work focuses on questions and methods of healing. With an interdisciplinary approach she tries to create spaces to experience contraction and expansion.

Luiza Furtado, born in Florianopolis, Brazil. Lives and works between Rio de Janeiro and Vienna. BA in industrial design by PUC-Rio. She studies Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the studio of Contextual Painting. To evoke imaginary rituals, Luiza combines painting, sewing, and audio-visual. She researches intuitive dance and costume creation as empowerment practices. Her performative work is based on prosthetic experimentations with upcycled textile craft.

Ziliia Kanchurina, born in 1992, lives in Ufa and Vienna. Ziliia studies Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the studio of Contextual Painting. Native to Bashkortostan, Ziliia reimagines images of the warrior shield for her community, situating herself in the postcolonial condition while deriving her own handcraft practice from other techniques synthesized from across Central Eurasia.

André Rachadel, born in Blumenau, Brazil, in 1988, is currently living in Vienna where he studies Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Inspired by the chaotic aesthetics of murals and graffiti in Brazil, he started to produce personal collages that reflect on his life growing up in a working class family in the global south.

Daniel Sea is a trans actor, musician, and artist working and living between Berkeley, California and Vienna, Austria. They are studying Fine Arts in the studio of Contextual Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Sea works through interdisciplinary memoir working with processes such as research based performance, writing, music, drawing, video and photography. Sea came of age as an artist as a part of the queer punk art and activist scene of San Francisco, California in the 1990’s. He transverses the spectrums of pop culture, performing in mainstream television, intervening and infecting mainstream culture with queer and magical agendas.

Seul A Shin was born in Seoul, Korea. She lives and works in Korea and Vienna. Through her human body and transparent layers, she works by reinterpreting the narcissism and idolatry of modern society.