FESTIVALS
Becoming Stickiness:
SPRING STRETCH
12 May - 31 May, 2026
8B®1, Weiglgasse 8/B1/R1 – 1150 Vienna @kuntsverein
Opening: 12 May 19:00
Exhibition: 16 - 31 May (Thursday - Saturday, 3 - 7 pm)
*The exhibition is closed on 14 and 15 May.
For Mai Ling’s third and final program in the series Becoming Stickiness: Protocols for Survival, the festival Spring Stretch dives into spring and its transformative and regenerative energy through an exhibition and a series of workshops, performances, talks, reading sessions, interventions, and gatherings. Extending Mai Ling’s rhizomatic relations of friendships, kinships, and alliances, it honours plural relations and practices of collective resilience and survival.
The programme brings together works and practices that reflect on the complexities of language, memory, labor, and belongings that have been shaped by diasporic, migratory lived experiences and various means of knowledge transfer. Some works engage with traditional and indigenous techniques as well as mythology as a medium for storytelling, sharing, and dreaming. Others invite us to listen gently to the surrounding landscapes that nurture multispecies entanglement, collectively imagining agroecological futures. Further, the festival explores dispersed histories of displacement, marginalized ghostly matters, as well as in-between states of life and death, while attending to fragility, resilience, and transformation. It also touches upon representations of gendered and colonial violence, while calling for a collective effort to resist and stick together.
Spring Stretch is accompanied by Mai Ling’s ever-transforming mobile kitchen, which acts as a platform for gatherings, imagining communal cooking, collective public eating, and cultural memories around them.
With Leonardiansyah Allenda, Ivanka Custodio and Judy Fugoso, Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders, Tang Han, Marcos Kueh, Jessica J. Lee, Yen Noh, So Young Park, Ziliä Qansurá, SAE Greenhouse, Shireen Seno, He Shen and Chanyoung Park, and Tofu Stand
19:00 Opening
19:15 Performance “IN BETWEEN SEANCES” by Yen Noh
In Between Seances is a multi-phased project that engages the Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s work as an apparatus for collective study. Its homonymous, evolving installation initially served as a study site that enacted a sonic, visual, and textual archaeology of Cha’s experimental novel DICTEE (1982) in the context of her larger oeuvre. As part of the installation, a study score transposed from the novel enabled various collective and collaborative experiments on site. Combining autobiography with historical, ethnographical, auto-ethnographical elements, DICTEE persistently unsettles established narratives of Asian diaspora, while evoking seemingly distant voices of anti-colonial and feminist struggles. In Between Seances (re)activates this space and builds collectivities at a surging moment of hyper-visible identity politics and the weaponization of language.
16:00 - 19:00 Collective Carpet Making Workshop by Ziliä Qansurá
The hands-on workshop with artist Ziliä Qansurá explores the meditative and communal process of felting. Using hot water, soap, and collaborative effort, participants will transform fibers into dense forms that reflect bodily structures and landscapes of memory. Rooted in Bashqort indigenous craft traditions, the workshop invites reflection on identity, migration, and exile while celebrating resilience, transformation, and belonging. No prior experience is required—just bring curiosity and a willingness to create collectively from fragments, gestures, and stories. The session includes a talk by the artist.
Saturday 16 May
13:00 - 14:30 Reading Group with SAE Greenhouse, together, we read….
centering decolonial feminist perspectives on agroecology, this reading session invites you into a shared practice of listening, grounding, and reflecting. we open a space for slow and radical thinking on existence, resistance, and the worlds we cultivate together. here, we explore post‑growth imaginaries of food as a common, carried through stories of land, seeds, water, and ancestral knowledge. we learn for/from collective forms of resistance and liberation, and we open ourselves to the imaginative possibilities that nourish agroecological futures.
15:00 - 19:00 Workshop “Itinerary of Collaboration” by He Shen and Chanyoung Park
This workshop begins from an evolving itinerary of collaboration that evokes relations, connections, and inspirations, shared among Chanyoung, Shen, and many others—sometimes prompted by cooking tofu, at other times by accents and spoken words. We ask how our entangled trajectories might become a creative resource that nurtures plural futurities.
14:00 - 16:00 Talk by Jessica J. Lee
Writer and environmental historian Jessica J. Lee shares her creative journey and research into the entangled ecologies between plants and human migration. She traces the story of plants considered “out of place”—weeds, colonial specimens, and transplanted crops—meditating on border crossing and (un)belonging to reimagine the entwined futures.
19:00 - 20:00 Site-Specific Collective Soundwalk, “notes of a sleepless cicada” by Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders
What waits underground before it sings? notes of a sleepless cicada is a site-specific, collective soundwalk that moves between the lines of memory and collective daydreaming. Inspired by the cicada as a symbol of resurrection in Chinese mythology, the walk invites participants to listen closely to their surroundings and to what lies beneath the surface. The walk starts at the Kunstverein and moves along the park to an area where we can rest collectively.
*Please bring a phone to scan the QR code, as well as headphones/earphones with you.
14:00 - 15:00 Artist Talk by Marcos Kueh
Marcos Kueh’s practice centres on textiles as a medium for storytelling, drawing from Borneo’s ancestral weaving traditions to explore themes of identity, labour, and globalisation. He uses weaving to encode contemporary myths from everyday life, just as the ancestors of Borneo did with their dreams and legends before the arrival of written alphabets and writing tools from the West. The artist will join online.
15:30 - 16:30 Screening, Mai Ling Picks
19:00 Performance “nachhallendes Fleisch, vertraute Zeiten” by So Young Park
nachhallendes Fleisch, vertraute Zeiten unfolds as a process of observing, touching and sensing one’s own aging body, where care becomes a central method of preparing for one’s funeral. The performance traces how its body and skin wear over time, and how the body begins to resemble itself. It approaches death through acts of maintenance, attention, and endurance, allowing care to become a mode of encountering Warm-Death. Within this process of preparation, Between eyelids and pupils emerges as a continuation of these accumulated gestures, taking the form of a floral wreath for one's own funeral.
14:00 - 18:00 Hair Cuts by Leonardiansyah Allenda
Hair cuts by Amsterdam-based artist and professional hairstylist Leonardiansyah Allenda will be happening at the gallery on Saturday May 30 and Sunday May 31. All sessions are approximately 1 hour - 1.5 hours in duration and are tip-what-you-can; all funds go directly to the artist. Please remember to wash your hair before your session :)
Spots are limited! Please book your session at https://www.airian.info/mailing
15:00 - 18:00 “To Make Pa Litaw (To Surface)" by Tibok (Ivanka Custodio and Judy Fugoso)
A food delicacy workshop performance that collectively creates space for reflecting ways we may reclaim the pleasures of making, consuming, and sharing food—so that these become a practice that affirms life, community, and resistance. In this piece, we invite everyone to warm up, open their palms, taste buds, and move their fingers and limbs.
13:00 - 17:00 Hair Cuts by Leonardiansyah Allenda
14:00 - 17:00 Collective Cooking at Mobile Kitchen x Tofu Stand
Tofu Stand, a Berlin-based Chinese collective, shares the wider scope of their collective practice — spanning activism, self-publishing, somatic work, and explorations of how we move and transform together.
As the festival arrives at its final gathering, Mai Ling also invites participants to activate the Mai Ling mobile kitchen. Bring your own ingredients and recipes, along with the stories and memories they carry, as we gather to cook, share, and create collective rituals of eating together!
Supported by SHIFTHosted by Kuntsverein at 8B®1
Spring Stretch is accompanied by Mai Ling’s ever-transforming mobile kitchen, which acts as a platform for gatherings, imagining communal cooking, collective public eating, and cultural memories around them.
With Leonardiansyah Allenda, Ivanka Custodio and Judy Fugoso, Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders, Tang Han, Marcos Kueh, Jessica J. Lee, Yen Noh, So Young Park, Ziliä Qansurá, SAE Greenhouse, Shireen Seno, He Shen and Chanyoung Park, and Tofu Stand
PROGRAM
︎Festival Week 1︎
Tuesday 12 May
19:00 Opening
19:15 Performance “IN BETWEEN SEANCES” by Yen Noh
In Between Seances is a multi-phased project that engages the Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s work as an apparatus for collective study. Its homonymous, evolving installation initially served as a study site that enacted a sonic, visual, and textual archaeology of Cha’s experimental novel DICTEE (1982) in the context of her larger oeuvre. As part of the installation, a study score transposed from the novel enabled various collective and collaborative experiments on site. Combining autobiography with historical, ethnographical, auto-ethnographical elements, DICTEE persistently unsettles established narratives of Asian diaspora, while evoking seemingly distant voices of anti-colonial and feminist struggles. In Between Seances (re)activates this space and builds collectivities at a surging moment of hyper-visible identity politics and the weaponization of language.
Wednesday 13 May
16:00 - 19:00 Collective Carpet Making Workshop by Ziliä Qansurá
The hands-on workshop with artist Ziliä Qansurá explores the meditative and communal process of felting. Using hot water, soap, and collaborative effort, participants will transform fibers into dense forms that reflect bodily structures and landscapes of memory. Rooted in Bashqort indigenous craft traditions, the workshop invites reflection on identity, migration, and exile while celebrating resilience, transformation, and belonging. No prior experience is required—just bring curiosity and a willingness to create collectively from fragments, gestures, and stories. The session includes a talk by the artist.
Saturday 16 May
13:00 - 14:30 Reading Group with SAE Greenhouse, together, we read….centering decolonial feminist perspectives on agroecology, this reading session invites you into a shared practice of listening, grounding, and reflecting. we open a space for slow and radical thinking on existence, resistance, and the worlds we cultivate together. here, we explore post‑growth imaginaries of food as a common, carried through stories of land, seeds, water, and ancestral knowledge. we learn for/from collective forms of resistance and liberation, and we open ourselves to the imaginative possibilities that nourish agroecological futures.
15:00 - 19:00 Workshop “Itinerary of Collaboration” by He Shen and Chanyoung Park
This workshop begins from an evolving itinerary of collaboration that evokes relations, connections, and inspirations, shared among Chanyoung, Shen, and many others—sometimes prompted by cooking tofu, at other times by accents and spoken words. We ask how our entangled trajectories might become a creative resource that nurtures plural futurities.
Sunday 17 May
14:00 - 16:00 Talk by Jessica J. Lee
Writer and environmental historian Jessica J. Lee shares her creative journey and research into the entangled ecologies between plants and human migration. She traces the story of plants considered “out of place”—weeds, colonial specimens, and transplanted crops—meditating on border crossing and (un)belonging to reimagine the entwined futures.
︎Festival Week 2︎
Friday 22 May
19:00 - 20:00 Site-Specific Collective Soundwalk, “notes of a sleepless cicada” by Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders
What waits underground before it sings? notes of a sleepless cicada is a site-specific, collective soundwalk that moves between the lines of memory and collective daydreaming. Inspired by the cicada as a symbol of resurrection in Chinese mythology, the walk invites participants to listen closely to their surroundings and to what lies beneath the surface. The walk starts at the Kunstverein and moves along the park to an area where we can rest collectively.
*Please bring a phone to scan the QR code, as well as headphones/earphones with you.
Sunday 24 May
14:00 - 15:00 Artist Talk by Marcos Kueh
Marcos Kueh’s practice centres on textiles as a medium for storytelling, drawing from Borneo’s ancestral weaving traditions to explore themes of identity, labour, and globalisation. He uses weaving to encode contemporary myths from everyday life, just as the ancestors of Borneo did with their dreams and legends before the arrival of written alphabets and writing tools from the West. The artist will join online.
15:30 - 16:30 Screening, Mai Ling Picks
Tang Han, “Miss Ginkgo: Chapter 1” (2021) 4:37 min
Tang Han, “Miss Ginkgo: Chapter 2” (2022) 6:13 min
Miss Ginkgo is a video series that utilizes the aesthetics of an explainer video to delve beyond a general introduction to the ginkgo, exploring the cultural and historical relationship between ginkgo and humans through easily understandable short stories. The Chapter 1 introduces how to find the trees and pick up ginkgo nuts in the city, and how to prepare them for cooking, and explores the gender selection of the ginkgo tree as a street tree, as well as the controllable and uncontrollable aspects that are subject to human need. The Chapter 2 examines the origin and mistranslation of the Latin name "Ginkgo," how the tree was brought over from East Asia by a European naturalist during the beginning of globalization in the 18th century, and a few tidbits about the naming process.
Tang Han, “Ginkgo and Other Times” (2023) 15:00 min
Humans live on the same planet as ginkgo — a living fossil that has been around for 200 million years. Ginkgo may be nothing more than a street tree integrated into the city; urban planners often choose it because of its prominent ability to adapt to various climates and resist pollution and pests. Through the exploration of the ginkgo tree and taking inspiration from ecological ethics in nature writing and ancient Chinese folk tales, Tang Han’s film Ginkgo and Other Times critically examines shifting human greed, the interconnectedness between humans and non-humans, and contemplates the continuity of life and the temporality of the ginkgo in relation to that of other existences.
Shireen Seno, “To Pick a Flower” (2021), 17min
My mother used to tell me that our dining table was as old as I am. I wonder how old the tree was when it was cut down to be turned into our table. I am fascinated in this kind of transmutation from the natural world to the human one, and how a tree takes on new lives long after it has been cut down. This video essay incorporates archival photographs from the American Colonial Era in the Philippines (1898–1946), exploring the sticky relationship between humans and nature and their entanglements with empire. Taking plants and trees as starting points, it aims to reflect on the intertwined roots of photography and capitalism in the Philippines.
︎Festival Week 3︎
Friday 29 May
19:00 Performance “nachhallendes Fleisch, vertraute Zeiten” by So Young Park
nachhallendes Fleisch, vertraute Zeiten unfolds as a process of observing, touching and sensing one’s own aging body, where care becomes a central method of preparing for one’s funeral. The performance traces how its body and skin wear over time, and how the body begins to resemble itself. It approaches death through acts of maintenance, attention, and endurance, allowing care to become a mode of encountering Warm-Death. Within this process of preparation, Between eyelids and pupils emerges as a continuation of these accumulated gestures, taking the form of a floral wreath for one's own funeral.
Saturday 30 May
14:00 - 18:00 Hair Cuts by Leonardiansyah Allenda
Hair cuts by Amsterdam-based artist and professional hairstylist Leonardiansyah Allenda will be happening at the gallery on Saturday May 30 and Sunday May 31. All sessions are approximately 1 hour - 1.5 hours in duration and are tip-what-you-can; all funds go directly to the artist. Please remember to wash your hair before your session :)
Spots are limited! Please book your session at https://www.airian.info/mailing
15:00 - 18:00 “To Make Pa Litaw (To Surface)" by Tibok (Ivanka Custodio and Judy Fugoso)
A food delicacy workshop performance that collectively creates space for reflecting ways we may reclaim the pleasures of making, consuming, and sharing food—so that these become a practice that affirms life, community, and resistance. In this piece, we invite everyone to warm up, open their palms, taste buds, and move their fingers and limbs.
Sunday 31 May
13:00 - 17:00 Hair Cuts by Leonardiansyah Allenda
14:00 - 17:00 Collective Cooking at Mobile Kitchen x Tofu Stand
Tofu Stand, a Berlin-based Chinese collective, shares the wider scope of their collective practice — spanning activism, self-publishing, somatic work, and explorations of how we move and transform together.
As the festival arrives at its final gathering, Mai Ling also invites participants to activate the Mai Ling mobile kitchen. Bring your own ingredients and recipes, along with the stories and memories they carry, as we gather to cook, share, and create collective rituals of eating together!
Supported by SHIFTHosted by Kuntsverein at 8B®1
Becoming Stickiness:
SLOW STEW
8-9 November 14:00-21:00 AMBi- Praxis für intersektionales Wohlbefinden
Seidengasse 32/2 1070 Wien
For the Autumn Festival of Mai Ling’s year-long Protocols for Survival, we harvest the energy of our Summer Festival’s planting, rooting, and fertilizing, to offer a program of collective replenishing and fermenting.
How can we honour our roots, lineages, materials, and multi-species that nourish us? Through a decolonial lens, we challenge the ‘wellness industry’ and structures of individualistic consumption and self-optimization. Engaging with healing practices that question the assumptions of ‘self-care’, we gather to critically reflect on notions of integration, appropriation, and invasive-ness. We especially invite BIPOC friends to gather with us to share strategies of endurance and flourishing. There will be sessions held for BIPOCs exclusively, tending to spaces of rest and reflection. Other gatherings will welcome all, inviting everyone to join with a spirit of respect and curiosity. By slowly stewing together, we explore ways to ‘recharge’ with intention, respect, and mutual responsibility.
The project is supported by SHIFT in collaboration with AMBI SPACE
PROGRAM
Saturday 8 November
14:00 – 15:30 – Gather Warmth, Cycle Qi with Oi Pui Hoang, Serena Lee, and Aki Lee
Integrating movement and traditional Chinese medicine, we will explore how we ‘read the body’ through daily practices of maintaining and circulating qi energy by listening to the cycles of yinyang energy. By ‘reading the body’ via acupoints, ancient qi gong prescription and medicinal soup, we learn to nurture and maintain moisture and warmth for Autumn and Winter. These practices offer an embodied philosophy of interconnectedness — ways of caring for and ‘regulating’ our diverse bodies in relation to our environment, beyond the dictates of optimizing the individual self.
15:45 – 17:00 – Daydreaming with Hyo Lee
Let us daydream together, like going on a collective day trip. What could then linger out of our daydream into the realm of reality, like a souvenir of some sort? This 90-minute daydreaming session explores the potentiality of daydreaming as a political and collective practice, as well as a practice of care — for oneself, others, and the world. There will be talking, conversing, and asking questions, but for the most part, we will simply be daydreaming. Easy. Cozy. We try.
17:15 – 19:00 – Nuad Sound Bath with Suchart Wannaset, Sound by Chattip (Pumpui) Metchanun
Join Suchart and Pumpui for a meditative journey that weaves together sound, herbs, fermented extracts and touch. The workshop begins with a soothing sound meditation, inviting deep presence and connection. Together, we will mix Thai and local Austrian herbs and ferments as a collective activity to create Luk Pra Kob — warm herbal compresses wrapped in white cloth. Using elements of Nuad, traditional Thai massage, participants will gently apply the compresses to one another, sharing warmth, stories, and mindful soothing touch while immersed in resonant sounds. This 75-minute workshop offers a holistic experience of relaxation, cultural exchange, and sensory healing.
Sunday 9 November
14:00 – 15:30 – Decolonizing Self-Care Workshop with Nandi and Niki (BIPOC only)
Sunanda Mesquita and Niki Flierman of Ambi Space offer a workshop that incorporates sharing knowledge on Āyurvedic and TCM massage and tapping techniques which will be practiced on oneself as well as each other all in the spirit of re-membering and sharing individual and collective self-healing/care techniques for BIPoCs. @ambi_space, @decolonial_joy, @shiatsu_niki
15:45 – 17:00 – Sticky Reads & Discussion with Mai Ling and Slow Stew Friends (BIPOC only)
Mai Ling Sticky Reads is a relaxed reading session that explores intersectional feminist thoughts in a cozy, informal atmosphere. We’ll gather to read aloud from the Festival Reader, a collection of writing and texts that have inspired and nourished the practices of both the guests, collaborators, and the Mai Ling collective. As we move through the texts, we will reflect on the invisible energy of ‘fermentation’ as a process of transformation with multispecies relationships in natureculture. Weaving together voices and ideas, we welcome pauses for reflection, questions, curiosity, emotion, and care, allowing space for shared understanding to take root. An open discussion will follow the reading with homemade fermented drinks.
17:15 – 18:30 – Interactive Poetry Reading with Kiều Trinh
Trinh invites the listeners to interact with their reading by drawing. There will be moments of quiet listening, and others guided by music, offering space to process and integrate what has been heard. Paper and colours will be available, inviting listeners to express whatever feelings or images arise in response, engaging not only through thought, but through the body and the senses. @k.ieu.trinh
18:45 – 20:00 – Mobilizing a Stew: Sticky Kitchen Workshop with Mary Maggic and Mai Ling
Mai Ling invites the public to cook a stew together while re-imagining what a mobile kitchen is or could become. How does a multi-ingredient stew reflect a multi-storied kitchen? We will collect stories and ideas on how a migratory kitchen could be imagined, while sharing a preview of Mai Ling’s own Sticky Kitchen 2026.
Photos by Miao Fangping
Becoming Stickiness:
Sticky Solstice Species
Saturday 21 June 2025, 15:00-21:00
Feld der LaaerBergBauerInnen / Löwygrube Park
1100 Vienna (closest S-Bahn Grillgasse, and Bus station Männertreugasse) https://www.lbb.wien/
Summer solstice marks the midway point between planting and harvest. In many cultures, it marks an evening of magic — rekinning with land, soil, community, and one’s roots. Mai Ling, a Vienna-based collective of artists, researchers, and cultural workers of the Asian diaspora, have turned to nature as their teacher—using weeding, composting, and tending to soil as an art practice and a means for collective resilience. Join Mai Ling’s first of their three-part Stickiness Festival on 21 June 2025 at the community farm in Laaerberg together with LaaerBergBauerInnen, Vienna. Collectively, we will engage with the sticky entanglements of place, belonging, care, and resilience with nature as our healer and guide.
The project is supported by SHIFT in collaboration with SOMMERFEST at Feld der LaaerBergBauerInnen, Löwygrube Park
PROGRAM
15:30 Tea Workshop and Reading Session
Yin-Yang Tea Rituals and Mai Ling Reads
17:00 Performance
Sticky Spices
17:30 Field Tour & Foraging Workshop
Laaerbergbau and Herb Forage
18:30 Somatic Workshop
Ba Duan Jin (Eight Pieces of Brocade)
Throughout the Day
Flying Kite (intermittent experiment)
Mai Ling Reads – Reading Corner (open all day after the performance)
STICK TOGETHER FESTIVAL
Mai Ling has explored an artistic strategy and discourse with the theme of “stickiness” as collective resistance and pleasure to foster community, kinship, and healing among Asian FLINT* and beyond. Stickiness, often associated with disgust, has a subversive potential to reclaim the collective agency. By “sticking together,” we challenge the perception of “Asia” as the exotic decorative Other, and the dirty and sticky entanglements of food, migration, coloniality, and imagination.
On the 25 and 26th of June, a series of somatic and sensory workshops bring together various practitioners outside of and based in Vienna, from architecture, gastronomy, somatics, and biohacking. With Niki Flierman, Serena Lee, Mary Maggic, Maya Minder, He Shen, and Fransisca Tan, we explore “stickiness” with different sticky and fermented foods. On the 27th at Flucc, the last day of the festival, they will share knowledge of “stickiness” as a necessary practice for survival and care, followed by a presentation by Venuri Perera. Then, we will share, eat, and digest our favorite sticky foods while enjoying karaoke together with MC Gerard Rabara! The festival concludes with a party with a DJ collective Hotpotposse!
PROGRAM
DAY 1 | 25.06.2024
Location: Bloch-Bauer-Promenade 13, 1100 Wien Workshop #1 (10 am - 1pm)
Why Pungency is an Internal Pleasure: Kimchi-Shiatsu Workshop with Maya Minder and Niki Flierman
Kimchi is an internal family business. It is translated intergenerational and therefore stays within the practice of oral inheritance of cooking practices. Whether actually taste and smell is a culturally inherited education, our abilities of tasting food by taste buds stay the same in the canon of human sensorium. Within our 5 taste buds, spiciness is the only one that actually is not a sensory of taste, but tiny bruises caused by the molecule caspacine. We inherit the appreciation of smells as we witnessed them in our environment and childhood. Pain as a sensation of food is part of a gastro-somatic history of food cultures. Why is spiciness and pungency so deeply inscribed in Korean food culture? What is adaptation and integration of tastes in a globalised world? This workshop tries to manifest a short gastro-somatic overview of the pungency of Kimchi by hands-on learning of Kimchi fermentation. Together with the shiatsu practitioner Niki and the food artist Maya Minder the topic of somatic food experience will be explored inside a multi sensory approach. Shiatsu uses pain in the body and pressure-points for emotional release. We will dive into the various excercices and pressure points to activate our inner emotion barriers.
Workshop #2 (2 pm - 5 pm)
Grounding & Sensory Exploration by Fransisca Tan and Serena Lee
An initial grounding workshop will help participants settle in and become more mindful, encouraging a heightened awareness of their physical and mental states. Through sensory exploration, attendees will learn to observe and sense their own experiences, setting a foundation for the days to come. What to Bring: Participants are asked to bring two food items of their choice.
DAY 2 | 26.06.2024
Location: Bloch-Bauer-Promenade 13, 1100 WienWorkshop #3 (11am - 1 pm)
Crafting Scents and Preserving Moments with Fransisca Tan
After training to explore all our heightened senses on day 1 we will continue our journey by setting a focus on our sense of touch and smell. By providing material and tools participants are invited to playfully engage with extracting scents and sticky preservation through body sculpting rice paper. Participants are guided to share and preserve their community-based rituals and somatic memories for the final showcase on Thursday. Alternatively, this workshop can also accompany your activities throughout the day in order to preserve individual experiences and revisit crafting a scent at the end of the day. Participants can additionally bring ingredients from home that they wish to transform into an aroma.
Workshop #4 (2pm - 5pm)
Tofubodyology: Tofu-making and Calisthenics Workshop with He Shen and Mary Maggic
Once a traditional component in East and Southeast Asian cuisine, tofu is now consumed worldwide. The global travel of making tofu was marked by the first tofu factory in Europe, after the two Opium Wars (1839 – 1860) in China, indicating a new level of the Western colonising East Asia. Also, tofu’s popularity has always been haunted by the fear of effeminacy or infertility due to the planted-based oestrogen that the soybeans contain. Hence, the craft of making tofu and its circulation in the Western world is deeply entangled with coloniality and gender conformity. This workshop reclaims the craft as a decolonial queer feminist ritual, a collective body-building through making. Together with He Shen and Mary Maggic, we will embody our Asianness and entangled femininity and masculinity.
*Lunch break always at 1-2pm.
The workshops are realized with the support by Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA7).
DAY 3 | 27.06.2024
Location: Flucc Deck Terasse2 pm - 4pm Workshop/Intervention by Venuri Perera
Venuri Perera has been investigating anonymous situations in public spaces as a negotiation towards the social construction of gaze. In this workshop, the artist invites us to unpack these forms of “othered” in our bodies with tools for discarding and morphing. We will interact with public space around Flucc in Praterstern to question how anonymity can never be separated from the construction of views on gender, race, language, cultural politics, and colonialism.
Please bring a scarf or textile with which you can cover your face to be anonymous!
4 pm Sticky Picnic at Prater / Self-organized BYOS (Bring Your Own Stickiness)
7 pm Roundtable “Sticky Sharing” with Maya Minder, He Shen, Fransisca Tan, and Mary Maggic
Four practitioners from different fields, such as art and science, bio-hacking, architecture, and gastronomy, will share their experiments with fermented foods to exchange the subversive potential of stickiness.
8:30 pm K&K (Kitchen & Karaoke) with MC Gerard Rabara
Enjoy a karaoke party with various Asian sticky fermented foods that are collectively made during the workshops on previous days, such as kimchi, tofu, kudzu dessert, rice cakes, and more!
10pm - 1am DJ set by HotpotposseLet’s stick together!