Shaken Grounds, Trembling Bodies, TQW, Vienna

Open House

The new artistic directors of Tanzquartier Wien, Isabel Lewis and Rio Rutzinger, are celebrating their debut with an Open House. For an entire week, the whole Tanzquartier will be activated across all its spaces with a variety of formats — everything is freely accessible, and everyone can try everything out! From October 6–11, a full program with free admission — featuring local artists, theorists, and musicians, with performances, labs, workshops, and concerts. Part of this event is Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies - a short film traversing volatile terrains of Campi Flegrei, Mount Vesuvius, Vulcano Island in Italy, and the retreating Pasterze glacier in Austria. Interwoven with studio scenes and reflective questions, the film explores how tremors and shifts in the environment resonate within the body and psyche. The focus is on seismic zones, where tectonic instability is increasingly shaped by human activity: climate change, groundwater extraction, mining, and waste. The film offers a poetic journey through landscapes at once ancient and contemporary, asking where—and how—we find ground when the crust beneath us is trembling. Following our presentation & impulse lecture we invite the public for a talk, somatic practice & collective drawing of a seismographic line.

www.tqw.at/veranstaltungen/opening-occasion