Queer Performance Festival Vienna 2025: S_P_I_T_

Festival: S_P_I_T_

Thu 05. & Sat 07.06., Queer Performance Festival Vienna

With: Helena Araújo, K. Bailed, BORA, Isabelle Edi, Denise Kottlett, Lazy Life, Iris Omari Ansong, Luara Raio, Valentino Skarwan, Crystal Wall

"Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places." – Donna Haraway

The sixth edition of "S_P_I_T_" follows Donna Haraway’s call to create new forms of kinship and solidarity – beyond traditional family structures and biological assignments. The festival explores alternative models of social organisation and ponders the question of how we can find new ways of becoming allies, "making kin" and taking joint responsibility. Because we need vision as well as the courage to reduce privileges and share resources fairly.

"S_P_I_T_" presents local and international artists in a hybrid mix of performance, music and discourse and sees itself as a platform for the intersection of queer identities that defy discriminatory structures. The festival invites queer discourses to unfold and be experienced so as to initiate new, long-term alliances and possibility spaces by making use of their resistance and resilience.

Curated by Lisa Holzinger and Denise Kottlett.