What spirits do we need in public space today? A ritual of transformation makes invisible bodies visible: dreams, stories, and sensations intertwine in a performance that questions existing labels and unlocks collective imagination. The process began in April 2025 with a workshop in which interested people from Braunau worked with the artists to address questions about constructed identities and personal experiences. With the help of imagination, new spirits were created for the city. The results were incorporated into the design of a performative parcours through Braunau. During the FdR, visitors will encounter unusual figures and bizarre body shapes in public space.
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Adriana Torres Topaga
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, lives and works in Linz as an artist, designer and facilitator.
She explores sensory perceptions, public space, identity constructions, and the relationship between the human body, space and technology in an experimental and interdisciplinary way. In general, her projects deal with topics such as consumption, migration, decoloniality, the relationship between humans and the environment, and the preservation of life.
The experimentation with possible technologies and formats, combined with the intention of reflecting on socio-political contexts, is expressed in various areas and formats such as wearable technology, art in public spaces, video, audio, interactive objects or spaces, as well as performances and workshops.
Since 2017 she has been conducting educational activities in the field of art coupled with critical social work at various institutions such as the University of Applied Sciences Linz, the University of Applied Sciences Bern, in various associations such as maiz – Autonomes Zentrum von & für Migrant*innen, Verein für kritische Bildung das kollektiv and in the field of video at the University of Art and Design Linz (2020). Her work has been exhibited at Galerie Forum (Wels), Afo (Linz), Kunstforum – Salzkammergut, Ars Electronica (Linz), bb15 (Linz), Studienkirche St Josef (Burghausen), CCCB Barcelona, Time-Space-Existence exhibition (as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020), among others.
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Fatima El Kosht, is an Austro-Argentinian artist based in Linz, Austria. Her interdisciplinary collaborations span the fields of music, performance, media art and installation.
As a composer and multi-instrumentalist, she performs solo or in various ensembles with a repertoire with a South American touch. She is also active in the fields of electroacoustic improvisation, sound design and field recording for visual arts, film and animation.
After completing her master’s degree in Time Based Media at the University of Art and Design Linz, she worked on numerous documentary projects about socio-cultural events in Upper Austria and abroad, including for the non-commercial platform DORF TV. She has received several prizes for her work, such as the Picture your Sound your Picture (PySyP) award from the Austrian Composers’ Association for her multilingual audiovisual performance “Las Dos Caras/Von der Dualität der Migration” (The Two Faces/On the Duality of Migration) in 2017.
One of her current projects is the multimedia installation “House of Chicharras” (House of Crickets) on the topic of “Rekonstruktion von Welten” (reconstructing worlds), an interdisciplinary composition of text, archival material, photography, a film shot in Argentina and music.
Luis Gonzaga Hoyos Escobar, born in Sahagun/Colombia, lives and works in Austria as a dance teacher for children/young people/adults and as a freelance dancer/performer. Training as a ballet dancer at the Escuela de ballet Anna Pavlova, Bogota/Colombia, studies in sports science and sports pedagogy at Pamplona University, Bogota/Colombia
Bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Stage Dance and Bachelor’s degree in Dance Pedagogy at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz, Master’s degree in Dance Pedagogy at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz. Numerous engagements as a professional dancer and dance teacher in public and private/independent cultural and educational institutions in many genres (musical, opera, operetta, classical/traditional and modern/contemporary dance, forms of expression and teaching).
As a dancer, Luis incorporates various types of movement techniques into his work. He is interested in the transformation, translation and redesign of the spaces contained in his creations. He gives life and meaning to the elements on stage with which he interacts, thus enabling them to inspire him to create movements and situations.
As an artist, he tries to live in the skin of others and explore different characters, which allows him to be different and uses this as a stage strategy to show the inner self that we all have and dare not show. His work is not only as a performer, but also as an educator, teaching children, which allows him to explore new worlds and situations that further his artistic work as a performer.
Martyna Lorenc (she/Marty) works in various artistic and activist contexts as a performing artist, educator, group leader and coordinator. Marty was born in Poland in 1987 and has been living and working in Austria and internationally since 2010. During and after her academic training in cognitive science (MSc.) and contemporary dance (BA), Marty worked as a dancer and performer with various dance companies and independent choreographers in the independent scene.
In her artistic work, she explores the realms of somatics and imagination as poetic and resilient dimensions of existence. Her works encompass various formats, from stage performances to club sessions and video installations. Martyna’s work is based on critical reflection on social conditions and centers bodies and imagination in the search for spaces of action and transformation.
Marty has been part of the art collective LAB ON STAGE since 2018 and co-founder and part of the initiative fem*voice kollektiv since 2024. Since 2020 she has been working at maiz – an autonomous center by and for female migrants – in Linz, on the conception, coordination and pedagogical support of youth projects.