KLIMA BIENNALE WIEN “Unspeakable Worlds”
presents
CRISIS OF SENITIVITY: “Ephemeral Landscapes and Narratives”
an installation performance by: Masoumeh Jalalieh & Daniel Zimmermann
14 , 16, 19, 24 & 25 April 2026
At the center of the performance stands a simple wooden slat, a natural material and a man‑made tool, mediating between City, Man, and Nature, between human intention and natural urgency. It forms an ephemeral landscape that questions scale, freedom, and the limits of the human body; how we objectify each other’s bodies; bodies moving through ecological and political collapse, carrying residues of colonial trajectories and planetary displacement. The performance is a site where material, climate, and the body co‑produce ephemeral landscapes: suspended, interconnected, and insistently transforming.
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Im Mittelpunkt der Performance steht eine einfache Holzlatte, ein natürliches Material und zugleich ein von Menschen geschaffener, handelsüblicher Gebrauchsgegenstand. Sie vermittelt zwischen Stadt, Mensch und Natur, zwischen menschlicher Absicht und natürlicher Dringlichkeit.
Mit ihr entstehen vergängliche Landschaften, die Maßstab, Freiheit und Grenzen des menschlichen Körpers hinterfragen, ebenso wie die Art, wie wir andere Körper objektivieren. Es sind Körper, die sich durch ökologischen und politischen Zusammenbruch bewegen und die Überreste kolonialer Bahnen sowie planetarischer Vertreibung in sich tragen.
Die Performance ist ein Ort, an dem Material, Klima und Körper gemeinsam vergängliche Landschaften erschaffen: schwebend, miteinander verbunden und in stetigem Wandel.
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Masoumeh Jalalieh
Masoumeh Jalalieh is an Iranian choreographer, performer, and dancer based in Vienna. Her artistic practice explores the intersections of movement, ritual, and embodied knowledge, engaging with themes of cultural memory and political resistance. Her works, including B-or der, Time Paranoia, Decline, Bish az pish, and Carpet of Time, have been presented at venues such as Sophiensæle Berlin, STUK Leuven, Kaaistudios, Les Brigittines Brussels, Pasinger Fabrik Munich, and WUK Vienna. From 2017 to 2020, she was a principal performer with Jan Martens’ GRIP company and toured with Bára Sigfúsdóttir’s piece being across Europe and Iran. She has received grants, such as the Arbeitsstipendium Darstellende Kunst und Performance (City of Vienna) 2026, the Startstipendium (City of Vienna) 2024, and Danceweb 2021. In 2023, she founded the association Carpet of Time and began curating the festival Cook, Eat, and Clean, which takes place yearly at eindorf Kunstraum.
Daniel Zimmermann
Daniel Zimmermann, originally trained as a wood sculptor, works at the intersection of film, installation, and performance. His practice is based on a form of fictional actionism, through which he explores questions of meaning and the sustainability of human behavior.
His award-winning works have been presented internationally, including at the Berlinale, Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Lincoln Center, DeSingel, ImPulsTanz, and the Spring Performing Arts Festival. In 2020, the Kunsthaus Centre Pasquart dedicated a comprehensive retrospective to his work. https://dev.danielzimmermann.org/ [/lgc_column]