The Saturday Hangouts take place every other day of performances as part of the Rakete festival: a programme devised by various guests to pass the time, to listen and perhaps take notes in lectures, readings, workshops, listening sessions and artist talks.

Exhibition at Typopassage

Young slam poets, word artists and lyricists take note! Here you can tell stories, rhyme, rap, whisper, scream, read or freely narrate. The only conditions are a time limit of 5 minutes, a self-written and performed text and the renunciation of props, disguise and singing.

Out of her fascinations and frustrations, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso embodies and turns around the archetypes of The Character Dancer and The Mariachi – characterised for being hyper-dramatic, hyper-virtuous and hyper-gendered. "Masterpiece" explores both their excesses in the tumult of nostalgic and Latin American associations, hijacking the dance from its legitimacy, legacy and traditions.

The performer feels her way along inner unevenness and geological unrest into landscapes. They encounter sediments and begin to reshape and decompose the physical relief. This relief is (also) the body. A body read as female, which in its materiality seeks to embody nothing other than the body, embarking on a process of excavation and detachment.

Exhibition in the designforum Wien