The Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL)

The Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL) is a transversal platform for promoting performative art forms at the Angewandte.

*** Satzung ***The APL brings together various departments under the umbrella of performative practices. It aims to promote and develop a contemporary understanding of embodiment, local context, lived experience and multisensory approaches in artistic production. As a research environment, the APL brings together internal and international expertise on body-based and hybrid performative methods and makes it accessible to students, researchers and the wider public. *** Satzung ***

Performative practices and notions of performativity are recognized as full-fledged aspects of contemporary art and design. It is in this perspective that key-actors of the University of Applied Arts Vienna are launching the Angewandte Performance Lab (APL). The APL is a transversal artistic research and education platform that focusses on the relationship between the body, perception, and the arts and society in a post-digital context. Its purpose is to serve as an incubator to promote performance as an artistic medium and as a field of research.

By combining in-house and international expertise, the APL offers body training practices; digital performance workshops; conferences, symposia, and publications; master classes and presentations by guest artists; project development; and a forum for public presentations.

The APL supports the diversity of distinctive approaches while facilitating their convergence through interdepartmental collaboration in:

The APL initiated this dialogue in the year 2019.

Initiated and coordinated by the vice rectorat for research and diversity: Barbara Putz-Plecko

developing working group
Daniel Aschwanden (2019-2021), Ricarda Denzer (since 2021), Nikolaus Gansterer (since 2019), Philipp Gehmacher (2021 – 2022), Asher O’Gorman (since 2021), Mariella Greil (since 2019), Peter Kozek (since 2019), Martin Kusch (2019-2021), Daria Lytvynenko (since 2022),Timothy Nouzak (2022-2026), Marie-Claude Poulin (2019-2021), Jianan Qu (2022-2024), Ulla Rauter (2020-2021) Barbis Ruder (2019-2024), Charlotta Ruth (since 2020) Jasmin Schaitl (since 2019), Lucie Strecker (since 2019)

current working group 2026:
Ricarda Denzer, Nikolaus Gansterer, Asher O’Gorman, Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek, Daria Lytvynenko, Charlotta Ruth, Jasmin Schaitl, Lucie Strecker