BIOS

Anesu Dzvuke is a resident doctor based in Vienna, Austria, who aims to specialize in the field of neuro-oncology. Born in 1994, Dzvuke grew up in Gaborone and Harare, before moving to Vienna and commencing her studies at the Medical University of Vienna. A doctor by day; a spoken word poet by night. Dzvuke shares a love for both the sciences and the arts, and has been performing in the Viennese poetry scene over the past several years. In her work, Dzvuke aims to highlight the intersectionality between art and science, and the way both mediums are utilized to describe the enigma that is our world and ultimately the human condition.

Helga Klug, Mag.a Dr. in, lives and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in Vienna and is a training analyst, supervisor and university lecturer at the Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna and Berlin. Her research focusses on the interface between the social and the individual, literature and psychoanalysis as well as relational theories in psychoanalysis. She is committed to a cross-disciplinary discourse.

Publications:

• Daniela Kammerer, Helga Klug, Jeanne Wolf Bernstein (Hg.): Neu denken und handeln. Der Einfluss gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche auf die Psychoanalyse. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag 2024
• Helga Klug: Überlegungen einer Analytikerin zur Dehumanisierung des Anderen im Umgang mit Geflüchteten. In: Daniela Kammerer, Helga Klug, Jeanne Wolf Bernstein (Hg.): Neu denken und handeln. Der Einfluss gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche auf die Psychoanalyse. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag 2024
• Helga Klug, Markus Brunner, Julia Skip-Schrötter (Hg.): Zum Unbehagen in der Kultur.Psychoanalytische Erkundungen der Gegenwart. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag 2021
• Helga Klug: Und wo bleibt der Eros? Psychoanalytische Betrachtungen über das Unbehagen in der Kultur in Zeiten der Finanz- und Corona-Krise. In: Helga Klug, Markus Brunner, Julia Skip-Schrötter (Hg.): Zum Unbehagen in der Kultur. Psychoanalytische Erkundungen der Gegenwart. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag 2021
• Helga Klug: Die Finanzkrise 2008 im Unbewussten. Über die Ökonomie des Seelenlebens in Zeiten der Krise. Springer: 2020 Open Access

https://www.klug-psychotherapie.at

Lau Lukkarila (they/them) is an artist from Finland’s Bay of Bothnia. Moving across disciplines, their performative work researches will and wounds under the allures and burdens of affect and they are drawn to music, language, poignant wit and pocket knives. Lukkarila studied at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki and the Royal School of Performing Arts in Madrid. Their work has been presented at Mad House Helsinki, the Austrian Pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale 2024 (Club Liaison by Liesl Raff), HochX Munich, LOFFT Theater Leipzig, ImPulsTanz Festival, Tanzquartier Wien, brut Wien, das weisse haus, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, fjk3 and Odeon Theater. Under the name Schoßhund, they’ve released three EPs—HEAVYCRUSH (2022), HUFKLANG (2020) and Super Like (2019).

www.laulukkarila.com

Alex Franz Zehetbauer (b. 1990, Brooklyn) is a performance artist and vocalist working at the intersection of performance, music, visual arts and choreography. In his performances, he beguiles with sophisticated melodies, strange vocal escapades and unexpected twists. Critics have called him: a swamp monster, an angel, and a red-eyed demon. He studied vocal performance, choreography, acting and composition at the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam. Alex has collaborated with artists such as Phillip Gehmacher, Jen Rosenblit, Taylor Mac, Anne Juren, Richard Foreman, Marta Navaridas and Alix Eynaudi. He currently lives in Vienna. His work has been presented at: MDT, Stockholm, Sweden (2025); Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany (2025); BUZZCUT / Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK (2025); Mint, Stockholm, Sweden (2025); HochX, Munich, Germany (2025); Tanzquartier Wien, Austria (2025); Austrian Fashion Awards, Vienna (2024); Vienna Art Week, Austria (2024); Steirische Gessneralle Zürich, Switzerland (2024); Schwankhalle, Bremen, Germany (2024); Theater Rampe, Stuttgart, Germany (2024); Les Urbaines, Lausanne, Switzerland (2023); brut Wien / Wien Modern, Austria (2023); The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY (2023); among others..

www.alexfranzzehetbauer.com

Manuel Alcaraz Clemente is a Spanish percussionist, specializing in the interpretation of contemporary music. He is mainly active as a soloist, chamber and ensemble musician, as well as an educator. Manuel is currently based in Graz, Austria. As a soloist, his versatility ranges from playing classic contemporary music repertoire for percussion, to regularly working with young composers, who are recognized in the international contemporary music scene for the creation of new pieces and innovative interpretations. Since 2016, he has been the percussionist of Ensemble Schallfeld (AT) and Noviga Projekto (PT/AT) Besides his work in these formations, he freelances regularly with Contemporary Music Ensembles and Orchestras such as Klangforum Wien, Lucerne Festival Alumni, Recreation Grosses Orchester Graz, Mdi Ensemble, among many others. In addition, he has performed in several festivals including the Lucerne Festival (CH), Wien Modern (AT), Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt (DE), Klangspuren Schwaz (AT), Afekt Festival (EST), Impuls Festival and Steirischer Herbst (AT) and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (EN). He offers regularly workshops and masterclasses for composers and percussionists in Austria, Portugal, Spain and Slovenia. Manuel received his Bachelor Degree at ESMuC (Catalonia College of Music, Barcelona). In 2015, he completed his Master in solo performance at ESMAE (Oporto, Portugal). In January 2018 he completed the Master Program ‘PPCM (Practice and Performance of Contemporary Music)’, where he worked alongside the members of Klangforum Wien. The current season includes among other activities, the premiere of Pierluigi Billone’s new piece for percussion solo and ensemble, written for Manuel Alcaraz Clemente and the Ensemble Schallfeld, and financed by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung; as well as the premiere of “An Elemental Thing”, Manuel Alcaraz Clemente’s new solo project. Since 2019 Manuel is Marimba One™ Educational Artist.

https://manuelalcarazclemente.com/de/

Born in Taiwan, Chiao-Hua Chang has lived in Vienna since 2013 as a freelance musician and Erhu teacher. She not only plays traditional music but also seeks to build a cultural bridge by musically combining Eastern and Western cultures. To date, she has performed with many local and international musicians and ensembles in numerous countries. A small selection: she participated in the Sommertheater Haag production of Don Quijote, has appeared with Hans Tschiritsch and accordionist Otto Lechner at the jazz club Porgy and Bess. Currently, she is involved in the projects Three Continents, Culture Concept with Przemysław Strączek, the reading Der West-Östliche Artmann, the Orchestra of Cultures under Adrian Werum, and Colores by Eldis La Rosa. She has also brought her instrument to life at various international Free Improvisation Festivals.

Since 2000, she can look back on many years of pedagogical experience teaching Erhu. In 2001, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Erhu at Shih-Chien University. In 2008, she graduated with a Master’s degree at Tainan National University of the Arts with a thesis on the indigenous “Tsou” people. In 2017, Chiao-Hua Chang began testing and co-developing Erhu strings for Thomastik-Infeld and became part of the Thomastik-Infeld Artist Family.

VIDEOS:
https://www.dorftv.at/video/43723
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VUCdfY7JTE
https://www.dorftv.at/video/43179

Lena Fankhauser completed her studies (Bachelor and Master) at the Juilliard School of Music in New York before continuing her postgraduate studies with Thomas Riebl at the Mozarteum Salzburg. As a member, among others, of the Camerata Salzburg and as a chamber musician, numerous tours took her to many of the world’s great concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall. In addition, she has performed at the Salzburg Festival, the Carinthian Summer Festival, as well as with the orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper, Klangforum Wien, and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO). Since 2013, she has been a member of the Koehne Quartet, which specializes in contemporary music. She is a regular guest with the Munich Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. Lena Fankhauser founded the Bad Ischl Chamber Music Festival and the association (CH)AMBER for new chamber music; she is a founding member of the Chineke! Orchestra and musical advisor of Salon Souterrain, initiated by Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe. In 2020, Lena Fankhauser, together with Martin Gellner, founded the Big Island Orchestra, a Vienna-based orchestra specializing in film music and multimedia studio recordings.

https://www.lena-fankhauser.com 

Thomas Wisser works as a musician, rapper, DJ, and producer under the names Worst Messiah (an anagram of his name) and Wisdom & Slime, as an artist (with group AO& e.a.), and as a writer. He studied philosophy (theories of metaphor) and linguistics in Paris, Innsbruck, and Vienna. His works are meticulous, subtly humorous assemblages of operative patterns within their respective sign systems, marked by a propensity towards the arcane and obscure.

Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe (host/artistic direction)
As an artist, choreographer, and director, Elisabeth B. Tambwe works with different forms and genres: performance, choreography, film, interactive and generative formats, as well as with various dramaturgies and spaces such as installations and stages. She is interested in the emergence of new forms of otherness and the unique relationships and languages they produce. What do they reveal about our humanity, and how do they challenge the concept of anthropocentrism? Her projects are transdisciplinary and collective, aiming to create shared spaces of research between performance art and the social sciences.
https://www.chateaurouge.at

Benoît Jouan (research)
Benoît Jouan is a writer and illustrator. He studied fine arts and holds a university degree (Master of Visual and Plastic Arts / University of Lille III, France) and an art school diploma (National Superior Diploma of Expression of Plastic Arts – DNSEP & National Diploma of Plastic Arts – DNAP of the School of Tourcoing, France). He worked for twenty years (1999–2019) at the Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM) in Villeneuve-d’Ascq (France) as lecturer and head of art workshops (specializing in engraving) in closed institutions such as psychiatric hospitals and prisons. He has collaborated with Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe since 1998. Since 2022, he has lived and worked in Vienna.

Indra Jäger (production)
Indra Jäger, born in Frankfurt am Main, has lived in Vienna since 2000. After studying journalism and communication sciences, she co-initiated and directed the art and cultural association IM ERSTEN (2012–2016). In this field she continues to work as a producer for Dig Up Productions and is responsible for the discursive performance format Salon Souterrainas well as Elisabeth Tambwes Trilogy on Roland Barthes „A Lovers discourse“ (Speech of Love: Absence, Beyond The Overflow, SelFist). Since 2023, Indra has been working as editor and managing editor at the Austrian solutions journalism platform relevant.news, as well as a freelance research associate at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC).

David Pujadas Bosch (documentation)
David Pujadas Bosch, born in Barcelona, has lived in Vienna since 2000. From 2000–2013 he worked at IBM Austria in various areas (including Announcement Support Advisor, Quality Coordinator, Country Focal Point). From 2003–2013 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Monica Bonvicini (sculpture and performative art) and Harun Farocki (film and art). Since 2013, he has been in the film class of Thomas Heise. He works mainly with video and film, but also engages in photography, drawing, writing, as well as performance and sound installations. From 2009 to 2016 he was a regular illustrator, author, and accountant for Paradigmata – Journal for Humanity and Discourse – alongside other editorial activities such as layout, editing, and distribution.

https://davidpujadasbosch.wordpress.com