In a fast-paced world, Glitching Towards Each Other by the DIVE collective invites you to slow down, play, and connect.

with

DIVE collective, Karin Cheng, Soraya Dyndocky, Rosa Wiesauer, Anna Gaberscik, Matthias Schreiber, Kristin Jackson Lerch, Nurkhon Saidasanov, Aaron Josi Sternbauer

The project creates curated environments through installations of cloth, light, digital visuals, sound, and food, where participants can engage freely, without judgement or adherence to stylistic conventions. Participants are free to explore three zones with different vibes to explore, jam, and rest. Glitching Towards Each Other is the culmination of many years of creative work and friendship, reflecting a commitment to building spaces that nurture connection, creativity, and communal presence.

PARTICIPATORY SPACE

Guided interactions with music, dance, and food will be offered during the performative installation by us. There will be three zones - Jam Zone, Chill Zone, Art Zone - with different vibes to explore art, jam to music, and rest.

ART WORKS IN SPACE

Soft and Cunt (working title), 2025, Textile Installation,

Rosa Wiesauer Soft and Cunt is a textile installation that explores trans* identity, body memory and ballroom culture. It starts with a dip – the pose on the floor, the falling into the pose, the holding of the pose. Every time you pose in a dip, you’re channelling all the femme queens who did it before (cf. Diovanna Obafunmilayo 2020, Community Talk on femme queens in ballroom). In this work, silhouettes of femme queens from ballroom culture are translated into textile objects. The materiality creates bodies that are both present and absent – traces of movement, memory and transformation.

Glitching Towards Each Other, 2025, series of digital visuals, DIVE in collaboration with Sophia Rettl

This work brings together glitchy 3D models of people and objects that are close to us. It moves between brokenness and care: pastel colors, gentle gestures, and digital errors forming a space that feels both strange and tender. It’s about friendship, shared histories, and how a group of artists keep creating together through different times and places.

A research on light, shadow, and the act of being seen, 2025, Video, Kristin Jackson Lerch in collaboration with Keimling Community

This video work brings together dance and shadow play to create minimalist and sometimes psychedelic images of movement experimentation. It grew out of working with young transgender people, thinking about visibility, privacy, and how dance can exist without “showing off the body.” Beyond this demographic, the concept also invites care and freedom in how we move and appear. It includes a reflective audio commentary by Kristin Jackson Lerch and Sophia Rettl.

ARTIST BIOS

The practice of Karin Cheng (curator, aka Kamehameharin (DJ) is shaped by the bicultural reality of her life and a fascination with in-between, multilayered perspectives and transcultural narratives. Her journey through music, Tai Chi, Ballroom and street dance has cultivated a deep foundation for creative self-expression across various mediums. Her work centres on empowerment strategies, using sound and embodiment practices for relearning, reconnecting, and fostering transformative experiences.

Anna Gaberscik is an anti-racism educator, performer, writer, director and cultural worker. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on anti-racism and challenging patriarchal, heteronormative, and white narratives and discourses. Developing and curating performances, films, and awareness workshops with an anti-racism focus, she addresses difficult issues through a critical yet creative lens. Anna’s experience in cultural management reflects this focus, curating and managing events at the intersection of culture, politics, and social justice awareness. annagaberscik.com Instagram: gaberscikanna

Soraya Dyndocky is a movement practitioner and mental health professional whose work bridges somatic awareness, care, and mindful embodiment. With a background in psychiatric health and nursing, she specializes in therapeutic communication and the early recognition and active support of individual recovery processes. As a certified skills trainer, her approach is grounded in mindfulness-based, emotion-focused, and body-oriented practices that nurture self-awareness and presence. Her practice explores how physical awareness fosters resilience, connection, and self-understanding, centering on the body as a space where care, presence, and movement intertwine.

Rosa Wiesauer is an artist, filmmaker, and costume designer based in Vienna, Austria. She studied Fine Arts (Video and Video Installation) and Art and Fashion Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her artistic practice explores themes such as femininity, the (in)visibility of trans identities, and queer aspects of Japanese popular culture. Her film TRANS*GAZE (2021) received the Golden Medusa Award for Best Depiction of the Queer Community. She currently works as a Senior Artist in Fashion & Technology at the University of Arts Linz. https://rosawiesauer.com/

Matthias Schreiber is a physiotherapist from Vienna. He is interested in body movement as a tool for empowerment and liberation, political movements for communal care, and celebratory rest and festive laziness as tools to recharge bodies drained by interlocking systems of oppression.

Kristin Jackson Lerch is a dancer and performer at the intersections of nightlife, performance art, and theatre. Her practice moves through themes of scifi-religion, prophecy, and the everyday realities of trans life, touching on questions of fetishization, violence, and medicalization. Water often appears in their work as a metaphor, but also as a living material, shaping both costume and set design. Alongside Nkeny Bakilam Nsangong, Kristin is a co-founder of trans*motion, a collective for trans-centered movement research and performance. Kristin has also appeared in films including Isa Schieche’s Die Räuberinnen (Max Öphuls-Preis 2024). Insta: @kristin.jlerch

Nurkhon Saidasanov (he/him) Freelance Artist, Rail Caterer, Content creator. A multifaceted creative, combining a passion for art, live painting-performance, and cuisine. As a content creator and painter, he works in multiple styles, often painting asynchronously with both hands, bringing energy and spontaneity to his work. He also performs on stage, blending visual art and live expression. An experienced rail caterer, he has a proven record of delivering exceptional service onboard trains, skilled in food preparation, presentation, and coordination. Dedicated, detail-oriented, and customer-focused, he strives to offer meaningful experiences whether through live painting, storytelling, or sharing the warmth of homemade flavors. IG: @________________nur

Aaron Josi Sternbauer (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist working with movement, vocal performance, and visual arts through a sensual, community-focused approach. Their work, rooted in care, queerness, and the sensorial world, aims to foster connection and relation. -

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