As the evening moves through the park, Holding Each Other Up – Practices of Care brings together performance, poetry, rap, music, humour and collectiv... Mehr

As the evening moves through the park, Holding Each Other Up – Practices of Care brings together performance, poetry, rap, music, humour and collective presence in an atmosphere shaped by encounter, vulnerability, resistance and joy.

Across different generations, artistic languages and life experiences, the invited artists explore what it means to support one another while navigating unstable times — and how friendships, humour, music, political imagination and artistic expression can help us keep going.

The stage becomes a temporary meeting point: a place where intimate stories meet sharp lyrics, where vulnerability exists next to laughter, where emerging voices share space with long-term artistic practices, and where listening to one another becomes part of the performance itself.

Moving through spoken word, poetry, performance, sound and music, the evening invites audiences to drift through different energies and perspectives together: to sit, listen, laugh, reflect, feel, stay, and eventually dance.

Rather than offering fixed answers, Holding Each Other Up creates space for shared presence, unexpected connections and collective moments that remind us that even in uncertain times, we do not move through the world alone.

This format is a co-creation between Zoe Gudović and Gudrun Schmidinger (Kultursommer Plus).


Zoe Gudović
A transdisciplinary artist, author, feminist, and activist from Belgrade, based in Vienna. Since the 1990s, she has worked at the intersection of art and activism, addressing violence, care, class, and feminist and queer emancipation through performance, installation, sound, and participatory formats. She is the author of Personal Lexicon: Lesbian Artists of the Post-Yugoslav Space ± Generation X and creator of long-term projects including Toilet Installations, the Drag King persona Zed Zeldich Zed, and the feminist radio show Ženergija.

Negin Rezaie
(she/non) is an Indigenous Bakhtiari and Qashqai performance and multidisciplinary artist based in Vienna. Her practice engages with queer feminist archival materials, collective memory and artistic, cultural and educational strategies, while contributing to the development of artistic and cultural ecosystems.

Elsa
is a Vienna-based rapper from Berlin. Since entering Vienna’s battle rap scene recently, her writing and freestyling has been shaped by the energy of dissing and delivering unhinged punchlines. Outsmarting the cis-hetero male gaze embedded in the local hip hop community, she offers a refreshing new perspective; fueled by a queer-feminist edge and an unapologetic attitude.
Instagram: elsa_sportlieb

Menna
ist Poetin und Spoken Word Artist aus Wien. In ihren Texten beschäftigt sie sich vor allem mit Mental Health, Feminismus und schreibt viel Persönliches. Nicht immer autobiografisch, aber emotional nahbar.
2020 veröffentlichte sie ihr Debütbuch „tausend ein wort“ im Selbstverlag. 2025 erschien ihr Gedicht „16 Tage“ im Sammelband „Literatursalon Falingo. Band 1“ (Falingo Books), der im Rahmen einer Veranstaltung im Literaturhaus Wien vorgestellt wurde. Ab und zu performt sie mit eigenen Texten auf Bühnen, unter anderem beim Rooftop Slam von FOMP, einem Verein für Bühnenkultur in Wien und Niederösterreich.
Derzeit studiert sie Komparatistik im Master an der Universität Wien. Neben Literatur begeistert sie auch Astronomie sowie die japanische Kultur und Sprache.

Boban Ristic
ist ein serbischer Rom, ein Wiener und seit dem Jahr 2024 Student der Sprachkunst an der Angewandten. Im Jahr 2023 erhielt er das Literatur-Startstipendium und schreibt seither an seinem Debütroman mit dem Arbeitstitel "Das Leben des Goran Gorki", aus dem er vorlesen wird.

Susana Ojeda (COL/AUT)
is a filmmaker, artist, anthropologist, and activist based in Vienna. She is the co-founder of estudio elgozo, a platform dedicated to audiovisual projects grounded in decolonial, ecofeminist, and social justice perspectives. She explores through films, installations, workshops, and rituals, reconnecting humans with more-than-humans and honoring ancestral knowledge. Since 2023, she has served as co-president of the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ). More recently, she co-founded discos elgozo, a record label that builds bridges between independent Colombian music and transnational contexts.




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