Elena Lach (they/she) lives in Vienna and works as a performer, personal assistant and assistant director. They explore the queer use of public space in site-specific performance. Their participatory installation SPACE HOLDER, which aims to enable access to queer parties for neurodivergent people, has been featured at flucc and 4lthangrund. As part of the Careful Collisions Collective, they create queer-centred movement spaces for contact improvisation. Elena Lach loves questions, non-verbal communication, and practices social awkwardness as survival strategy and relational practice.