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"Tashweesh" (Arabic for ‘Noise interference’) is an interdisciplinary art festival that focuses on bringing together feminist movements, creating a platform for artistic practices and research concerning intersectional feminism in Europe, South West Asia and North Africa. With stops at L'Art Rue in Tunis in September and at Beursschouwbourg in Brussels in early October, Tashweesh will come to Tanzquartier Wien from 07. to 15. October.

In recent discussions on gender justice, there has been increasing focus on transnational feminist networks as facilitating ‘solidarity across borders’. In the face of growing global interdependence, the hope is that a transnational citizen’s movement could potentially galvanise global cooperation in overcoming gender violence and promoting gender equality.

In this multi-media performance, Rima Najdi explores birth and revolution in tandem. Drawing from the remembered, felt experiences of mothers in labour and protesters in the street, "I Grew an Alien Inside of Me" asks how the body can subvert, circumscribe, and repurpose meanings of the event

After the one-time projection of Signe Baumane’s "Rocks in My Pockets", all other films will be shown in a loop.

Through friendship and performance games, Salma Said and Miriam Coretta Schulte take us on a journey in their constructed futuristic video world. In a space designed by artist Jasmina Metwaly, between video projections and car tires, they explore the subversive video archive 858 of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and the potential of choreographic mnemonic techniques. They travel with the audience through times and spaces on the sound of musician Leila Moon.

The second week of "Tashweesh" will kick off with the opening of an exhibition at TQW Studios. Festival curators Tania El Khoury and Bochra Triki have invited artistic duo Randa Mirza and Lara Tabet as well as Rana Feghali, while the Austrian Association of Women Artists has selected works by Nour Shantout on behalf of TQW.

This heightened moment, when body and music unite, is a door to ecstasy and enchanted sensuality. In "TARAB", the last part of a trilogy, Ulduz Ahmadzadeh focuses on unexplored and, in some places, forbidden movement material and odd rhythmic patterns of Pre-Islamic, Middle Eastern cultural heritage.

The tongue will trace the taste of dishes weaved along stories of a kitchen that is “dispossessed”; the hands will trace the handprints on stoneware ceramic designed to host, add and interact. The tongue tracing the hand tracing the earth takes the guests to an experiential dinner setting that will be sensorial on multiple levels, from auditory to textural to gastronomic.

The author and artist Miriam Stoney will create the new installation of the Performance Passage. On the occasion of the opening, Stoney invites the audience to the second edition of "Because you remind me of you" – a series of performative readings with guests.

On the occasion of his new book, "Performing Mourning, Laments in Contemporary Art", the Vienna-based dance dramaturg Guy Cools will discuss contemporary art practices in literature, visual and performing arts that use mourning as a source for activism.

"Seek Bromance" is a cinematic performance showing a transformative relationship between two transmasculines with very different attitudes about what masculinity can be.