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Veza Fernández is a dance, voice and performance artist based in Vienna. Her work tackles the poetics and politics of voice expression as a place of relationship, imagination and transformation. She combines singing, writing, dancing and talking as physical forms of study, experiment and performance. Her pieces are sensitive and intense, creating a polyphonous gathering of voices and presences eager to be moved. Veza Fernández’s background includes philology, education, theatre, music and contemporary dance – areas that influence her artistic research and way of working in art production and presentation in diverse ways. Her work has strong local roots and penetrates from the underground scene into larger dance and theatre institutions. Veza Fernández holds a master’s degree in Choreography from DAS Graduate School (Amsterdam Academy for Theatre and Dance). Her work has been shown, among other places, at brut Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, Sophiensæle Berlin, Gessnerallee Zurich, de Singel Antwerp and La Casa Encendida Madrid. www.vezafernandez.com

Tony Wagner (he/they) is a musician and artist working at the intersection of avant-garde composition, experimental sound and trans-disciplinary performance. His practice encompasses solo compositions under his own name, collaborative projects with the duo Snake Boots and the collective Transformative Narratives, as well as original scores for film, theatre, and performance. Tony Wagner’s compositions have been presented across various performance, theatre, and experimental music contexts. Beyond his artistic practice, he contributes to Vienna’s music scene as co-manager of the music platform Tender Matter.

Catol Teixeira is a dancer and choreographer based between Geneva and Rio de Janeiro. Born in Porto Alegre and raised in Rio, they developed a compositional practice rooted in translation, transitioning and the act of invocations. They studied contemporary dance at La Manufacture in Lausanne and Work.Master at Haute école d’art et de design Genève (HEAD). Their choreographies have been presented at venues and festivals including Pavillon ADC (Geneva), Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne (Lausanne), Tanzquartier Wien, Festival Actoral (Marseille), Santarcangelo Festival, and Festival d’Avignon. Their work explores forms of coexistence and relationship through collaborative processes and kuir (‘queer’) and trans-(dis)orientations.

Chaos Clay is a Marseille-based artist, curator, DJ, and producer. They create space-times for multiple and fluid embodiments, exploring the cultural productions of queer and racialised communities through sound, performance, and installation. Their practice brings together theoretical and popular forms of knowledge through an Afrofuturist perspective. Chaos Clay holds a master’s degree in CCC – Critical Curatorial Cybermedia Studies from Haute école d’art et de design Genève (HEAD) and a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. They have presented their work at venues including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Swiss Institute (New York), and Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne).

Wojciech Grudziński is a Polish artist, choreographer and dancer based between Warsaw and Amsterdam. His practice explores power dynamics in theatre and dance, examining gestures, habits, and the social conditions that shape movement and our understanding of the body. He studied at the Warsaw State Ballet School, CODARTS Rotterdam, and DAS Theatre Amsterdam. His recent work CUTE & AWKWARD was presented at ImPulsTanz Festival 2026. He is an associated artist at Frascati in Amsterdam.

Based in Vienna Gawdesque celebrates their African heritage and its global branches through the music they play; genres of West and South African origin, the African diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean to create an eclectic blend of sounds to lift community spirit, lubricate the spinal joints and invites joyful dancing. Together with JTiwa they are a resident DJ of the Vienna based Afro-Event Crew Vinity. Notable places they’ve deejayed at include Klub Halal x Wiener Festwochen 2026, the opening party of WIENWOCHE 2025, TRANS-DIMENSIONAL 2025, blechsonne Festival 2024, donauinselfest 2024, YOUKI Festival 2024 and eddy Festival 2024. The artist’s name Gawdesque honours the power of the creative spirit – ‘the god-esque in us’ – and serves as a personal affirmation of said spirit.

Seba Kayan is a music producer, DJ and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Drawing from her Kurdish heritage and Austrian upbringing, she creates electronic music that connects diasporic sonic traditions with contemporary club culture. Her work challenges Western-dominated narratives in electronic music by weaving sounds from Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Anatolia into techno and rave contexts. She was nominated for the Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the category Electronic/Dance in 2026 and performs internationally at festivals, in clubs and at cultural institutions, including the donaufestival, the Jupiter Disco (New York), the Grelle Forelle and the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York.

DJ Keshi is a Vienna-based DJ with Iranian-Kurdish heritage working between underground club culture and experimental sound practices. Her genre-fluid sets move through bass-heavy club contexts, breakbeats, atmospheric textures, and vocal fragments, connecting them into dynamic, shifting narratives. Shaped by themes of displacement, resistance, and belonging, her work connects fragmented memories with collective experience and the emotional spectrum of the dancefloor. She understands the dancefloor as a space of encounter and liberation, where bodies can move freely, connect, and experience collectivity through sound.