Zahra Khorshidi / Mahsa Asgari / Toranj Mashayekhi’s / Julia Dorninger

ARTISTs IN RESIDENCY – NOVEMBER 2025

Der blinde Fleck (The Blind Spot) is an interdisciplinary project by four artists that addresses the eponymous phenomenon of gaps in perception and communication within the context of complex sociopolitical situations. Moving between reality and fiction, the work combines sound, installation, and performance, where real and fictional materials intersect to create a multilayered experiential space.
The project invites the audience to experience moments in which perception, memory, and narrative order are destabilized.

Zahra Khorshidi, visual artist, and Mahsa Asgari, dramaturge, have been collaborating since 2022 on interdisciplinary and experimental art projects that engage with the theoretical and historical contexts of queer and feminist movements in conflict zones.
Their joint works have been presented at Belvedere 21 Museum in Vienna, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and at Paris Lodron University Salzburg.
For the project Der blinde Fleck, they are collaborating with Toranj Mashayekhi, musician and conductor, and Julia Dorninger, artist.

Toranj Mashayekhi’s musical career includes solo piano performances, chamber music, choir conducting, and teaching. She actively seeks ways to challenge traditional concert formats, including experiments with unconventional performance settings, the use of multimedia elements, and the exploration of alternative spaces for musical presentation.

Julia Dorninger, artist and curator, focuses in her research and practice on spatial production, extended drawing processes, and embodied knowledge. In projects such as Narratives of urban space and (Re)mapping traumatized landscapes, she investigates how spatial narratives are shaped by social, cultural, and traumatic layers. Her works have been shown at Künstlerhaus Wien, 21er Haus, MAK, and Kunstforum Bank Austria.

 



Roya Keshavarz

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY – AUGUST 2025

Project – Context

The Weight of Breath is a lecture performance and the starting point for a forthcoming feature documentary that, through a personal lens shaped by displacement and maternal instincts, explores themes of trauma, a child’s illness, bodily consciousness, and resistance. By centering the body as a narrative hub, the work explores the reconstruction of fractured identity through the sensorial: movement becomes form, repetition becomes a path to variation and seriality, and artistic practice becomes a means of survival.

BIO
Roya Keshavarz (b. 1988, Tehran) is a visual artist, filmmaker, community organizer, and activist. Her work explores the body, disability, and the social systems that influence both.
She began her artistic journey as a sculptor and later earned a graduate degree in Film from the University of Anglia Ruskin in the UK, where she focused on experimental documentary.
Through her work, Keshavarz aims to slow down time, create space for multiple perspectives, allow emotions to lead, and uncover the systems that shape our experiences.
Keshavarz has participated in the AAIR Antwerp Residency in collaboration with Kooshk Residency, and has exhibited her work in international venues and galleries such as Farvahar Gallery, Mohsen Gallery, Hinterland Gallery, Hepworth Museum and more.



Misael Tonatiuh RS

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY – AUGUST 2025

Project – Context
Context is a performance project that explores how human actions shift in meaning when removed from their original setting. Using video references and archival material as starting points, the work develops a physical vocabulary that undergoes constant mutation — a language built from fragments, distortions, and repetition.
Throughout the piece, the body moves from interpreting gestures to becoming part of imagined landscapes. These transitions open space for questions around perception, transformation, and how we embody what surrounds us.
Context unfolds in three parts, blending movement, installation, and performative elements. It reflects on how systems shape our behaviors, and how bodies can resist, dissolve, or reconfigure themselves in response.

BIO
Misael Tonatiuh RS. is a Mexican performer and choreographer based Vienna / Salzburg. He studied at the ENDCC in Mexico City and later at SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. His current artistic practice investigates the body as a site of transformation, merging fictional environments, digital tools, and visual composition. He is part of Andrea K. Schlehwein’s netzwerk AKS and Tanz*Hotel, where he continues to develop his artistic language through collaborations and early-stage creations.



Israel Martínez

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY – JUNE 2025

Stealth is a way to breathe deeply – Performance in the frame of the Residency in eindorf

A performative lecture based on children’s games, aural dusts, silence capsules, sound choreographies and notes on stealth.
Why do we often have a negative conception of silence when it can be a bridge to our quietness and a starting point for respect and dialogue with Mother Nature and our communities?

BIO

Israel Martínez (Guadalajara, Mexico. 1979) works from listening to the sound and visual arts, often with influences from literature, creating works and projects materialized in multichannel audio installations, video, photography, actions and text, trying to generate critical social reflections and to explore some aesthetic and political possibilities of silence.

In 2007, he was granted an Award of Distinction in Prix Ars Electronica, and in 2019, he was a winner of the CTM Radio Lab Call in Berlin. He has had solo and group exhibitions in spaces such as Museo Reina Sofía, MuseumsQuartier, MACBA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, daadgalerie, Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Moscow Biennale, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, MUAC, Museo Jumex, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Casa del Lago UNAM, MUCA Roma, Museo del Chopo, Bienal FEMSA, among others mainly in Europe and Mexico.

In 2012 he was part of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, and in 2014 of the residence program of MQW – MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. He has published discography and editorial work through Sub Rosa, Errant Bodies Press, Aagoo, The Wire, Hatje Cantz, Abolipop Records and Suplex.
www.israelm.com



Danilo Andrés

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY – AUGUST 2024

SOMATIC VOICE & HORROR – Residency in eindorf

In “SOMATIC VOICE & HORROR”, dance and guttural voice come together to create an expansive, concertante and at the same time installative work. Danilo Andrés is particularly interested in the intersection of vocal techniques from punk and metal music in combination with guttural singing with origin in ancient magical-ritualistic contexts, including fry scream, false chord scream, Tibetan guttural singing and mantras. What is essential for them is the aspect of repetition – in the sense of the mantra – and its energetic power to make the body dance and sing at the same time. Sounds vibrate beyond the boundaries of one’s own skin; unconventional and expressive situations that challenge the anatomical logic of the body and shape it as an open skin, making possible a kind of monstrosity of the body as a sci-fi view of identity and existence.
Danilo Andrés creates images, scenes and soundscapes with multiple bodies and voices, influenced by black magic, animism, voodoo, sorcery and rituals. As if the dancers‘ body were possessed by supernatural beings and spirits, while they perform secret songs and dances. In doing so, they dissolve the boundaries between the human and the non-human.
SOMATIC VOICE & HORROR is part of Danilo’s research for a new dance production.

CONTEXT

In their artistic work as a performer and choreographer, non-binary Latin-American artist Danilo Andrés, who lives in Berlin, explores the development of the body in a queer context. This project is dedicated to the investigation and theorization of the body, identity, representation and performance, which distance themselves from references and normative forms of judgement.
In Danilo’s country of origin, Latin America, working with the voice is an important instrument for rituals and ceremonies of healing in the context of the indigenous people and their traditions. The shamans as mediums develop the ability to speak and sing in different voices. Danilo will draw on these origins as inspiration to use the voice as an instrument of the spirit and the body in the sense of energy and movement.

BIO

Danilo Andrés is a choreographer/visual artist & voice artist based in Berlin. Their work in visual, sonic and performance art has always been interrelated by incorporating multiple forms of media, such as sculptural headpieces, costumes, and video. Since 2014, they have collaborated with artistic institutions in Berlin, including Akademie der Künste and Neuköllner Oper, along with their work as a solo performer/dancer in cooperation with other choreographers like Felix Ruckert and Okwui Okpokwasili. Most recently, in 2023, they presented their solo installation BICHO RARO at Sophiensaele Berlin. They create mainly solo pieces and use their multidimensional skills as a visual artist, performer, and choreographer to research the development of the body in a queer context. Since 2024, Danilo Andrés has been teaching their class „Practices of Animation of the Matter“ in Tanzquartier Vienna.

http://daniloandres.com/
instagram: @daniloandrestrauko
https://vimeo.com/user164441313



Mario Wandu

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY – NOVEMBER 2023

artist in residency in november 2023 and artists exhibiting in “Citizen of myself & El espanto de Tonalli”

Mario Wandu
(Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 1989)
Visual artist, he has exhibited his work nationally in group exhibitions in spaces such as Guadalajara90210 (GDL) Radio 29 Cs (CDMX) Feria Material Vol. 8 CDMX MURA (GDL) Museo de la Ciudad (GDL) Salón Demetria (GDL) and in solo exhibitions at Artere-A Y (GDL) Museo Insular (SMA GTO).
He is a curator and educator. Some of his important curatorial and management projects are: Happy Lanscape for Feria Material, Malos Artistas for FIAC, Queer as German Folk + La Okupa Cuir and Geniale Dilettanten for BEZIRK and Goethe-Institut, Festival Androgina for Museo Cabañas, Cyclepedia for Bicycle Film Festival, as well as UNFLUX FEST and the international performance show Arte Acción, for SalaVeinte22. Space where he worked as a curator.
Mario was coordinator of the research for the Museological Plan of Globo Museo de la Niñez, Educator of Museo Cabañas and member of the editorial board of Periódico Mural.
He is co-author and co-curator of „Save The Artist“, „Laboratorio de Arte San Juan de Dios“, „Downtown Extitución“, „La Voz Floripondia“, „Astilla Arte Actual“ and „Manifiesta México“.
Mario has had the support and recognition of:
-Feria de Arte Material in 2021and 2022.
-Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo in 2020.
-Grodman Award from the Fundación Universidad de Guadalajara in 2019.
-Project 2019
-PACMyC 2017
-PECDA, 2017 and 2013



Cuaco Navarro

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY – NOVEMBER 2023

artist in residency in november 2023 and artists exhibiting in “Citizen of myself & El espanto de Tonalli”

Cuaco Navarro
(Guadalajara, Jal.1982)
Visual artist and creator of contemporary art content, he works with mediums such as drawing, photography, installation, video and actions. His work leans towards the processual with nihilistic, sarcastic, critical and contemplative themes. He has made site-specific interventions, as well as exhibitions nationally and internationally for both institutions and independent spaces.
He is a teacher of arts and humanities and creator of workshops on current art topics, he has developed curatorial works such as „Unflux“ 2012, „Follow me“ 2014, and „Casual Cruelty“, „Calzada Libertad“ 2015 „Save the artist“ 2018, La Okupa Cuir 2019. „After party“ 2021 „Happy Landscape“ „Stems and Pentagrams“ „Mas alla de lo Natural“ 2022 „Splash“ and „Nadie Aterriza“ 2023 for the fair Material. He has done scenography, art direction, artist registration, illustrations for independent publishers and collaboration with musicians and sound artists.
Director of Astilla Arte Actual virtual space dedicated to the management, promotion and creation of site-specific content, co-author of LASJDD Art-Education project, collaborator of „Letters to a young photographer“ mail-art project between children from the state of Hidalgo and Guadalajara, Creator of Save the artist, a processual piece of welfare performance that hosts and produces projects by other artists. He is a grantee of PECDA CONACULTA 2013 and 2017, PACMyC 2013 and Proyecta GDL, 2015, 2018, PAC 2020 and Material Art Fair 2021. He is currently studying the Master of Lifelong Learning in Arts and Artistic Professions at UC3M-CBA.



Robert Steijn

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY – APRIL 2023 / NOVEMBER 2023

Robert Steijn (1958) is based in amsterdam and mexico city as a choreographer, director, dramaturge, performer and writer. Robert Steijn, performer, choreographer. Together with the Mexican choreographer Ricardo Rubio he runs the School of tender thinking, combining spirituality, art and healing practices, inspired by plant medicine and trance rituals. Their last performances are the avocado project and tunes for the living. His last solo is called Esoteric dancing(Vienna, 2021). Lately he has worked with the choreographers Inger-Reidun Olsen, Marianne Skjeldal, Elle van Campenhout, Jasmina Krizaj, Simon Wehrli, Maria Hassabi, Lisa Hinterreither, Salome Schneebeli, Sophia Rodriguez, Jaskaran Anand, Marta Izquierdo, Agnes Schneidewind, Johanna Nielson, Zoumana Meïté, Asher Lev and Irina Lavrovic. Currently he collaborated with Daniel Zimmermann at a movie called Der Wurf.



Payman Abdali

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY – JANUARY 2023

Payman Abdali born in July 1965 in Tehran, Iran. I finished high school in Las Vegas, Nevada, and graduated from California State University of Sacramento in 1990. On October 27, 1987, I gave the first „Electronic Music Recital“ at CSUS, which I consider the beginning of my professional musical activities. In 1989, I co-founded the music production company XDOT25 in San Francisco, CA. And the rest is an uninterrupted wonderful life in music.



Masoumeh Jalalieh
associated artist

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY – DECEMBER 2022

Masoumeh Jalalieh is a Vienna-based choreographer and dancer with a background in physical theater (mime), graphic design, and illustration.
Her approach to dance is undoubtedly interwoven with her homeland Iran’s society, culture, and ritual carpet. ‘I carry my origins with me, and thus communicate myself, my country, and its people through my artistic statements.’
As a contemporary artist, she likes to research interdisciplinary codes in images, sounds, and movement. ‘The body is a complicated collection of all elements of nature, such as time, space, speed, etc. I explore those through movement. This way, I communicate my imagination using the ultimate language human beings have at their disposal.’