We 30.9.2026
10.00 am - 2.00 pm
kex—kunsthalle exnergasse
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"Ha ha ha ha: Rhythms of care"
☆☆ Diffractive Dialogues - peer-to-peer artistic inquiries
As part of the Exhibition On Chewing Shoelaces: Art, Mess and Radical Kinship, artists Sophia Hörmann and Sarah Sternat will spend three days sharing their embodied practices, responding to one another, and following the traces that emerge in the encounter.
What happens when a practice of sustaining life is recontextualized in an art space? What changes when an act shifts from necessity to intention? Many forms of maintenance, support, and attentiveness unfold unnoticed, woven into everyday rhythms. What do they become once they are made visible? Through which forms can they appear? What rhythms define these practices?
Moved by these and related questions, artists Sophia Hörmann and Sarah Sternat will spend three days sharing their embodied practices, responding to one another, and following the traces that emerge in the encounter. Artist Asher will accompany the process by experimenting with forms of documentation throughout the three days and hold a conclusive practice.
This event is designed for adults. Bringing children is welcome although we can’t offer child care.
What is Diffractive Dialogues?
A format fostering critical inquiry through performative, somatic, and artistic practices. We invite both participants and facilitators to co-create knowledge in an open, collaborative space. Each gathering welcomes and values contributions from all professionals in these fields. We look forward to welcoming you!
Language: German / English
Location: 28.09.–29.09.2026 at eindorf kunstraum, Reindorfgasse 8, 1150 Vienna
30.9.2026 at kex–kunsthalle exnergasse
Please register via email here
In cooperation with Backpulver
This exhibition is created with parents, caregivers, children, and their wider communities in mind. No childcare is provided at our events, albeit plenty of understanding, paper, and crayons. Our symbols below indicate who each event is designed for.
☆ Bring the crew
This event is intended for all generations.
☆☆ Steal a moment
If you can come on your own, enjoy some uninterrupted time at this event.
If not, bring your little ones. We’re happy to have them too.
On Chewing Shoelaces: Art, Mess and Radical Kinship
Exhibiting Artists: Liesel Burisch, Club Fortuna, Nana Mandl, Jesseline Preach, Rychèl Thérin Scott, Sarah Sternat, HOOD dreamers and Im_flieger
Participating artists & facilitators: Alex Bailey, Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir, Sophia Hörmann, Krõõt Jurak, Mani Obeya, Asher Ó Gormáin, Imani Rameses, Miriam Wistreich
Curated by HOOD for Artist Parents Vienna
Here, art is made in the margins – between night feeds and school runs, between loss and life. It is made amidst leaking bodies and small sticky hands, in stolen minutes, in the gendered debris of daily life.
In a world that calls parents monstrous for wanting both autonomy and kin, On Chewing Shoelaces is a space – a rupture – where the patriarchal and ableist demands of “professionalism” and “productivity” are side-eyed.
It holds the gap between creation and care, refusing the tidy myth of the solitary artist. The exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, film, performance, collective experimentation, HOOD dreaming and a Queer Nursing book reading.
A co-working area is integrated into the exhibition setting, inviting all visitors to: sit, read, work, cry, fight, collaborate, care, radicalise kinship, chew on shoelaces – and perhaps, together, make this mess matter.
Supported by Bezirk Alsergrund, Bildrecht.
All the events as part of the exhibtion are in collaboration with Im_flieger, Backpulver and UKS Oslo
