Angewandte Performance Lab (APL)

#premiovienna  Join us at bears in the park this Sunday as Premio Vienna artist in residency Antonio Perticara shares his research.  Antonio Perticara @antonio.perticara Bruno (2026) Performance (approx. 30’) Part of a double bill evening: @elenarivoltini performs at 6pm @antonio.perticara performs at 5pm 🗓️ May 17, 5pm 📍 Bears in the Park @bearsinthe.park Eyzinggasse 12/2, 1110 Wien (Corner Otto-Herschmanngasse) ✨ Free entry Antonio's personal story intersects with that of the greatest wrestler in history, the hero of his childhood: Bruno Sammartino. Bruno is a pataphysical story that questions and plays with the logics of infotainment and propaganda. Antonio Perticara is a visual and performance artist. Drawing on conspiracism, communicative guerrilla tactics and entertainment, his practice attempts to hijack and reassemble dominant narratives to imagine personal and collective counter-histories. Premio Vienna is an international residency jointly organised by the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna through its Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL), as well as Bears in the Park. A six-month residency (Nov 2025–May 2026) is supporting two emerging Italian artists in performance and related contemporary practices. @iicvienna   @bearsinthe.park @dieangewandte

#premiovienna Join us at bears in the park this Sunday as Premio Vienna artist in residency Elena Rivoltini shares her research. 🪻🌿 Elena Rivoltini @elenarivoltini 𝓘𝓷𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓸 Performance (approx. 30’) Part of a double bill evening: @antonio.perticara performs at 5pm Elena Rivoltini performs at 6pm 🗓️ May 17, 6pm 📍 Bears in the Park @bearsinthe.park Eyzinggasse 12/2, 1110 Wien (Corner Otto-Herschmanngasse) ✨ Free entry 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰 is a foraging séance for voice, somatic surrealism and hand-gathered Viennese wild herbs. Emerging from 𝘪𝘯 and 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰 (singing), 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰 unfolds as a speculative psalmody that rewrites personal archives and herbaria, staging the mouth as a porous threshold between inside and outside bodies. in dialogue with Asher O’Gorman (outside eye) @asherogorman and Gertrude Henzl (Lebensmittelproduzentin und Wildpflanzensammlerin)  Elena Rivoltini is a performer, sound artist, forager and curator whose practice engages voice, archives and embodied methodologies. Her works weave somatic speculation, poetics of listening and edible ecologies. She is the founder of Archive of Voices, a project on anarchival poetics and the hauntology of voices, and curator of CASASTUDIO, a Milan-based space for alternative pedagogies and radical softness. She has collaborated with Santarcangelo Festival, Venice Biennale of Music and Theater, Triennale Milano, Centrale Fies, Kunsthal 44Møen, LAC Lugano, Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisboa and Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles. 📷 Paola Lesslhumer @paolalesslhumer Premio Vienna is an international residency jointly organised by the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna through its Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL), as well as Bears in the Park. A six-month residency (Nov 2025–May 2026) is supporting two emerging Italian artists in performance and related contemporary practices. @iicvienna @bearsinthe.park @dieangewandte

#APLwednesdaypractice  Your invited to the last Wednesday Practice of this semester. PHYGITAL FLESH - re-habituating user archetypes [ live portal No.7 ] Clara Hirschmanner Playful Encounters of the Third Kind 🗓️ May 13, 17:00-18:30 📍APL studio  Societies are losing the idea of community. There is talk of division. Yet play brings people together. How do we use it to create resilient social structures? How do we deal with differences? What fantastical roles do we slip into for distance – or belonging? This practice focuses on play as a means of shifting our perspective on our everyday surroundings and the temporary communities it creates. Often for just a moment. Usually with strangers. Almost always in a positive sense. In these interactive and playful methodologies we reveal what language alone cannot convey. Clara Hirschmanner is an interdisciplinary artist, who focuses on the intersection between game design and social design. In her work she specializes in creating artistic formats in the public space, which are often site-specific. She is part of the collective play:vienna, and has shown her work internationally. She is teaching and researching at the department Experimental Game Cultures at the University of Applied Arts. This semester Wednesday Practices are embedded within the project 'PHYGITAL FLESH - re-habituating user archetypes'. For more info see link in bio 🔗 Wednesday Practice at the Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL) is an open physical session—everyone is welcome to join. Each week, invited artists share their practice while using the space to experiment, test, and develop new ideas live. Wednesday practice is free of charge and open to all 👐 No reg necessary  Wednesday Practice Summer 26 is curated by @charlottaruth and @asherogorman   Graphics @klimentina.li

Join us for the sharing of Premio Vienna residency artists Elena Rivoltini and Antonio Perticara on May 17th. Premio Vienna is an international residency programme organised by the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna @iicvienna , and @angewandteperformancelab , in collaboration with Bears in the Park. Over six months, the programme supports emerging Italian artists working in performance and related contemporary practices. At the end of this period of research and development, Elena and Antonio will present their current work-in-progress at Bears in the Park. The public is warmly invited to attend. Sunday, May 17, 5pm at Bears in the Park Eyzinggasse 12/2, 1110 Wien (Corner Otto-Herschmanngasse) Free entry Premio Vienna Artists Antonio Perticara @antonio.perticara Bruno Performance (approx. 30’) Antonio’s personal story intersects with that of the greatest wrestler in history, his childhood hero Bruno Sammartino. Bruno is a pataphysical story that questions and plays with the logics of infotainment and propaganda. Elena Rivoltini @elenarivoltini 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰 Performance (approx. 30’)” 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰 is a foraging séance for voice, somatic surrealism and hand-gathered Viennese wild herbs. Emerging from 𝘪𝘯 and 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰 (singing), 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰 unfolds as a speculative psalmody that rewrites personal archives and herbaria, staging the mouth as a porous threshold between inside and outside bodies. For the artist bios please visit our website. Photo Credit Elena: Paola Lesslhumer

#APLsupports #APLrecommends Shaken Grounds Seismography of Precarious Presences Opening: 04 May 2026, 18:00 Running: 15 Apr 2026 – 26 May 2026 📍@ail_vienna What holds us together, when the world is more than we can comprehend? This research project brings together artists, scientists, and curators to explore how seismic disturbances of the Earth shape perception, bodies, and collective forms of living together. Shaken Grounds. Seismography of Precarious Presences is a transdisciplinary artistic research project that explores the interconnections between geological, social, and psychological upheavals. Starting point is the observation that not only natural processes but also human interventions such as climate change and technological interventions influence seismic dynamics and alter the stability of our environment. At the center is the question of how these tremors inscribe themselves in bodies, environments, and social contexts. Seismography is understood here not only as a scientific method, but as an artistic practice of perception and relating. In this context, a “trembling thought” (Édouard Glissant) emerges, one that detaches itself from the notion of solid ground and engages with movements, shifts, and transitions. With contributions by: Bjarki Bragason, Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Victor Jaschke, Peter Kozek, Anna Líndal, Werner Moebius, Lucie Strecker @nikolausgansterer @peter.kozek @i.remember.all.my.life @doubleleapfrog The exhibition presents findings from the research project Shaken Grounds. Seismography of Precarious Presences (funded by Austrian Science Fund (FWF): AR 780. DOI: 10.55776) and also marks the launch of the Creative Europe project Shaken Grounds: Art as Seismography (funded by the European Union). @fwf_at @creativeeurope

#APLwednesdaypractice  PHYGITAL FLESH - re-habituating user archetypes [ live portal No.6 ] Sara De Santis Constraints as Partners 🗓️ May 6, 17:00-18:30 📍APL studio  What emerges when the body meets technological imperfection as a co-creator? How does movement change when it is shaped by what cannot be fully seen, captured, or controlled? What if constraint doesn’t limit movement—but ignites it? This practice explores how limitations can become productive artistic conditions rather than obstacles to overcome. Participants work with technical boundaries—a camera's narrow frame, delayed feedback, and limited projection area—as active constraints that ask the body to adapt, respond, and invent. Rather than treating technological imperfection as failure, it considers it as a space where attention, timing, and presence become more precise.  Sara De Santis (she/her) works across performance, digital art, and site-specific contexts, developing transdisciplinary formats that connect embodied knowledge with social and cultural questions. Trained in Anthropology and Choreography in Rome, she integrates somatic practices into her artistic and pedagogical work. She is an artist and lecturer at the Digital Arts department at University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2019, she co-founded Backpulver, a platform for peer exchange and professional development in contemporary dance. Facilitation language: English 📷 Emanuel Andel This semester Wednesday Practices are embedded within the project 'PHYGITAL FLESH - re-habituating user archetypes'. For more info see link in bio 🔗 Wednesday Practice at the Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL) is an open physical session everyone is welcome to join. Each week, invited artists share their practice while using the space to experiment, test, and develop new ideas. Wednesday practice is free of charge and open to all 👐 No reg necessary  barrier free facilities: https://www.dieangewandte.at/en/service/the_angewandte_barrier_free Wednesday Practice Summer 26 is curated by @charlottaruth and @asherogorman   Graphics @klimentina.li

#APLwednesdaypractice Archiving Wednesday Practice 👀  Thanks to @elenarivoltini for feeding us 🪻🌿👄 and for all the nibbling participants 💚 Elena Rivoltini Speculative Foraging PHYGITAL FLESH – re-habituating user archetypes [ live portal No.4] The practice unfolded as a somatic speculative meditation, where digital metaphors met subtle vocal and bodily perception, centering the mouth as a site of sensing and imagination. Participants created anatomical selfies, transforming their phones into laryngoscopes and ephemeral plates for bright, lush foraged greens. Through a playful “fake foraging” ritual, herbs became interfaces for memory, association, and shared imaginaries. Reframing foraging as researching (googling, connecting, ingesting), we rewrote our relationship with the phone by cultivating new phygital rituals and sensory narratives. It was a magical practice—vivid, sensory, and gently transformative. Elena Rivoltini (she/her) is a performer, sound artist, forager and curator. Her research draws on a feminist, ecological and situated approach, focusing on voice, archives and embodied practices. She explores vocal techniques, breathing and proprioception, queering visions and senses. Founder of @archiveofvoices_ , a curatorial project exploring anarchival poetics and hauntology of voices, she is also the curator of @casastudio_______ , a space for alternative pedagogies and radical softness. More to come this Wednesday with @sung_gu_ Wednesday practice is free of charge and open to all 👐 No reg necessary  Wednesday Practice Summer Semester 26 is curated by @charlottaruth and @asherogorman

#APLwednesdaypractice  PHYGITAL FLESH - re-habituating user archetypes [ live portal No.5 ] Sunggu Hong Dense Relationality; We may know too much and too little 🗓️ April 29, 17:00-18:30 📍APL studio  This practice leads us to question ourselves by examining how we have been constantly shaped by non-human beings in terms of relations. -Machines and Robots are already part of our everyday lives and even of our bodies. As we create, develop and care for them, so do they for us. As we wish for and expect something from them, it seems that they, too. We no longer rub our hands to make fire and look at the sky to tell the time since we’ve already captured that vast space into our handheld pockets. As we’ve been changing them, they’ve been changing our thoughts, our way of imagination and our movement. We may be related to one another more deeply than we imagine. As we teach them, they teach us. As we question them, they question us. We may be raising each other. Sunggu Hong (he/him) is a Vienna-based artist working in visual and performing arts. “Relation” is a central concept in his practice, through which he asks: “How we should/could live together within interdependent and entangled relationships” and “Why alienation and hatred emerges within these complex relationships” Currently he explores the relationship between Human and Non-Human from decolonial perspective, asking “How are we raised by one another?” Website: /de Facilitation language: English 📷 Joanna Pianka This semester Wednesday Practices are embedded within the project 'PHYGITAL FLESH - re-habituating user archetypes'. For more info see link in bio 🔗 Wednesday Practice at the Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL) is an open physical session everyone is welcome to join. Each week, invited artists share their practice while using the space to experiment, test, and develop new ideas. Wednesday practice is free of charge and open to all 👐 No reg necessary  barrier free facilities: https://www.dieangewandte.at/en/service/the_angewandte_barrier_free Wednesday Practice Summer 26 is curated by @charlottaruth and @asherogorman   Graphics @klimentina.li

#APLwednesdaypractice Looking back 👀 Nina Sandino Echoes PHYGITAL FLESH – re-habituating user archetypes [ live portal No.3 ] We gathered at APL studio for Echoes, a live portal facilitated by Nina Sandino @mairinina Together, we stepped out of the urgency of the digital stream and into a space of sensing, slowing, and remembering—tuning into forms of intelligence that move beyond the linear rhythms of “progress.” Embracing indigenous technologies and shared presence, the practice opened a passage between worlds: human and more-than-human. Part of the ongoing PHYGITAL FLESH series, this session continued the collective exploration of re-habituating our physical-digital behaviors—gently undoing patterns, inviting play, and reconnecting with embodied agency. Nina Sandino (she/they) Nicaraguan eco social designer and movement artivist with interest in creating immersive experiences, deeply inspired by magical realism. Their work centers on Afro-Indigenous queer futurism and the transmission of ancestral, communal knowledge. Grounded in principles of holistic resistance, their practice positions rest, pleasure, and joy as radical strategies for personal and collective empowerment.  More to come this Wednesday with @elenarivoltini Wednesday practice is free of charge and open to all 👐 No reg necessary  Wednesday Practice Summer Semester 26 is curated by @charlottaruth and @asherogorman

Phygital Flesh aftermath Borrowing the space‑time of traditional Easter rituals, PHYGITAL FLESH GARDEN opens its gates on 04.04 at 4 PM, unfolding into a night of resurrection. After a 40 day rehabituation we arrive with food for thought at the culminating event - a celebration of the human mind‑body complex and the magic here and now of communication. All user archetypes welcome! Welcomed by the PHYGITAL FLESH team and accompanied by an internet that is about 33* years old, we - users of all kinds - are invited to reimagine our digital habits, exo..rcise our sins, search for other rituals: easter eggs, behaviors, possibilities… or simply browse through the garden in a pace away from the normal buzz. Artistic Direction: Asher O’Gorman, Charlotta Ruth, Klimentina Li Sound: Paul Ebhart With Artistic Contributions by: Ronja Kappl, Pavel Naydenov, Clark Phillips, Jasmin Schaitl, Paul Ebhart @ronjakappl @pavel.naydenov @clarkrichardphillips @jasminschaitl @ebhardy A coproduction of Flat Corner Kunstverein & Angewandte Performance Lab Funded by Ma7 City of Vienna Kindly Supported by brut Wien, Support Kunst und Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna Thanks to: Isabelle Vevera / ZID Photos @ronjakappl

#APLwednesdaypractice  #APLarchive Looking back 👀 Thanks to Jasmin Schaitl for sharing her practice  The Offline Mind ✨ @jasminschaitl Big thanks to all the enthusiastic bodies who joined 💕 Wednesday Practice PHYGITAL FLESH - re-habituating user archetypes [ live portal No.2 ] Jasmin guided us through a subtle yet deeply affecting exploration of our relationship to the object we call “phone.” Beginning with a positive memory, we were invited to translate this experience through body and mind—shifting it from something stored in the device to something we can carry with and within ourselves. Through performative and mindful exercises, we attuned to the physical presence of the phone, allowing new associations and sensations to emerge. As attention moved away from habitual, digital use, different layers of the object revealed themselves—intimate, strange, familiar. By the end of the practice, the phone itself had not changed, yet its meaning felt reconfigured… perhaps even renamed. Jasmin, an artistic researcher, visual artist, and performer, works at the intersection of touch, neuroscience, and contemplative practices. Her approach—both attentive and quietly radical—opened a space to sense what often remains invisible yet deeply embodied. This Wednesday Practice is part of the ongoing project PHYGITAL FLESH – re-habituating user archetypes, a series of live portals and instruction-based prompts unfolding over 40+ days. Together, they invite a rewilding of our physical-digital behaviors—loosening algorithmic patterns, exposing dependencies, and making space for playful, embodied agency to re-emerge. A co-production of Flat Corner Kunstverein and Angewandte Performance Lab. Kindly supported by MA7 – City of Vienna. Wednesday practice is free of charge and open to all 👐 No reg necessary  Wednesday Practice Summer 26 is curated by @charlottaruth and @asherogorman

The practice unfolds as a somatic speculative meditation, where digital metaphors meet subtle vocal and bodily perception, centering the mouth as a site of sensing and imagination. Participants create anatomical selfies, transforming their phones into laryngoscopes and ephemeral plates for edible wild herbs. Through a playful “fake foraging” ritual, herbs become interfaces for memory, association, and shared imaginaries. Reframing foraging as researching (googling, connecting, ingesting), we rewrite our relationship with the phone by cultivating new phygital rituals and sensory narratives. 📸 @paolalesslhumer PHYGITAL FLESH - re-habituating user archetypes [ live portal No.4 ] Elena Rivoltini Speculative Foraging 🗓️ April 22, 17:00-18:30 📍APL studio, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna Wednesday practice is free of charge and open to all, no reg necessary  A co-production of Flat Corner Kunstverein and @angewandteperformancelab Kindly supported by MA7 – City of Vienna and @brut_wien Wednesday Practice at the Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL) is an open physical session—everyone is welcome to join. Each week, invited artists share their practice while using the space to experiment, test, and develop new ideas live.
This semester, Wednesday Practice unfolds within Phygital Flesh – Re-Habituating User Archetypes: a 40+ day process across online and offline environments, exploring how we embody and reshape social web archetypes in hybrid worlds. Summer Semester 2026 curated by @charlottaruth and @asherogorman