Practice(!)Symposium 2026 – Angewandte Performance Laboratory

AND THEN IT GOT WINGS

05.11. – 07.11. 2026

What happens when artistic practice becomes a shared space for experimentation?

And Then It Got Wings is a practice symposium by the Angewandte Performance Lab, a transversal platform for artists working across performance, choreography, visual arts, sound, research, and social practice. Growing out of several years of shared artistic experimentation, the symposium reflects on how the APL practices, methods and collaborations have developed.Through presentations, workshops, conversations, and collective experiments, the symposium invites participants to exchange methods, question conventions, and explore new forms of collaboration. Bringing together diverse artistic voices, it creates a space where practices intersect, ideas take flight, and unexpected connections emerge.

Thursday 05.11.2026

10.00	LUSCIOUS LANDING & DRAGON DREAMING	welcome	Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek	VZA7 Auditorium
11.00	WORDS OF RESONANCE	speech	Ulrike Kuch	VZA7 Auditorium
11.45	LINES OF FLIGHT / Embodying Senses & Time	Workshop	Melanie Maar / Workshop	VZA7 Auditorium
14.00	LIFE IS OTHER / Practicing Microperformativity	Talk, readings, video, screening, discussion	Sonja Bäumel, Thomas Feuerstein, Jens Hauser Maja Smrekar, Lucie Strecker	VZA7 Auditorium
17.00	INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE / Embodied or Cursed?	A material talk circle	Mariella Greil, Monica LoCascio, Rychèl Thérin Scott	VZA7 Auditorium
18.30	COSMOS ATRIUM	Performance	Melanie Maar	VZA7 Atrium
19.30	METABOLIC ASSEMBLY	Open diner and research exchange with	Sonja Bäume, Ricarda Denzer, Nikolaus Gansterer, Thomas Feuerstein, Jens Hauser, Edward Lloyd, Maja Smrekar, Mariella Greil, Lucie Strecker	VZA7 Auditorium

Friday, 06.11.2026

10.00	FACILITATING THE INTERFACE	Participatory workshop	Charlotta Ruth, Jasmin Schmitt with students	APL Studio
12.00	LUNCH BREAK AT CASHIER HALL			Otto Wagner Postsparkasse
13.00	NOTATING NOW-NESS	workshop	Nikolaus Gansterer, Janne-Camilla Lyster	APL Studio
15.00	BANDERGEWILDEN	lecture	Jeroen Peeters	APL Studio
12.00	CO-IMAGINATION	lecture & conversation	Brendon Bo O’Connor, Jasmin Schaitl	APL Studio
18.15	CO-IMAGINATION IN PRACTICE / workshopping the mind	workshop	Jasmin Schaitl
20.30	SO QUIET	performance	Daria Lytvynenko	From APL to VZA7
21.00	DIE KLEINE MAMA RECEPTION	durational improvisation, lingering and reading	Peter Kozek	VZA7 Atrium

Saturday, 07.11.2026

10.00	WINGS AND FINS	Film matinée	Peter Kozek, Martin Reinhart	VZA7 Auditorium
10.30
14.00	DRIFTING SHORES / What is a place? Is it fixed, or fluid?	workshop	Daria Lytvynenko	APL Studio
16.30	WAVES	workshop	Lucie Eidenbenz	APL Studio
18.30	GUILTY PLEASURES SAIL AWAY	workshop	Sebastian Sing, Hugo Le Brigand	APL Studio
20.00	EXPERIMENTAL VINYL	DJ set	{ö}, Misonica	APL Studio