DO ARCHITECTS DANCE?
SITUATIONAL AND PERFORMATIVE INTERVENTION
Tuesday, 26 May 2026, 12:00-14:00.
Duration: 40 min.
Artists: Kollektiv KLAUS (AT/INTL). Sound: Julian Siffert (AT).
Karlsplatz, Vienna.
Kollektiv KLAUS investigate the interface of built and lived environment on Vienna’s emblematic Karlsplatz.
Engaging in a dialogue with the architecture of Karlskirche, the Vienna Museum’s new building, and the classical, modern, and postmodern university buildings of TU Wien, architectural space is perceived as an active partner of formal reflection rather than merely a backdrop. The dancers of Kollektiv KLAUS use their bodies as sensory organs – as instruments of measurement and scale – to bring the geometries of urban planning into human reach.
Kollektiv KLAUS
The KLAUS collective consists of female artists from different cultural backgrounds, generations, and disciplines. This diversity is an integral part of their artistic work and is reflected in their performances. The collective was founded in Vienna in 2014 and continuously deals with the topic of dance in public spaces. The performances are created site-specifically from a female perspective and draw attention to standardized orders of movement in public places. KLAUS deals with a wide range of topics, from social inequalities to current and socially relevant aspects, to questions of access to art by people from different cultural realities. As a women’s collective, it sends a strong signal for the visibility, equality and self-empowerment of women in society.
Curator: Lona Gaikis (DE/CAN).
Funded by the Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS) and the City Council of Vienna Stadt Wien MA7 Kultur.
