new creation 2025/26

No Place Like Home

The performance “No Place Like Home” explores the silence and compliance surrounding child sexual abuse within family systems, aiming to bring discourse about domestic violence out of the private sphere and heighten awareness of collective responsibility.

Countless cases of sexualized domestic violence remain hidden because victims have too much at stake, lack legal protection, aren’t believed, or cannot recognize the violence as such when perpetrators are shielded by their environment and acts are minimized or denied. This work examines these manipulative mechanisms and their lifelong consequences for survivors: What values and norms do we internalize when experiencing years of humiliation and violence in our own homes, when everyone knows yet everyone remains silent? How can a body whose boundaries were repeatedly violated reclaim its autonomy and feel like home again? How can a home be associated with safety when it was the site of crime for years? The transdisciplinary performance interweaves poetic and explicit language, seeking physical and psychological states that reveal the ambiguity between revulsion and attraction toward one’s own and other bodies—sometimes trapped in endlessly repeating spirals of memory interfering with new situations, sometimes hopeful through the endless possibilities and empowerment of queer desire.

Dates

31/05 – 01/06/2025

Sneak peek work excerpt at Independent Space Index Festival at im_flieger Vienna

12/09/2025

WiP showing at Tanzhaus Zürich

14/11/2025

WiP showing at im_flieger Vienna

11/02/2026

Premiere at brut Vienna

12/02 – 16/02/206

Shows at brut Vienna

Credits

Artistic Direction/Composition/Performance Malika Fankha

Performance Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen

Dramaturgy Asher O’Gorman

Production Management mollusca production

Residency Partners im_flieger Vienna, Tanzhaus Zürich

Co-production brut Wien

Supported by the Cultural Counsil of the city of Vienna MA 7

upcoming events 2024

03/03/24

DRY ICE, Performance, Aerowaves

07/ – 08/03/24

DRY ICE, Performance, Aerowaves

13/04/24

MALENCIAGA @ HALLELUJAH BERLIN, DJ Set

19/04/24

Poly Mono Chrom, Schnittbogen, Fashion Show

03/05/24

PCCC* @ spektakel Vienna, Stand Up

13/05/24

MALENCIAGA @ Huggy Bears, DJ & Live

25/05/24

MALENCIAGA @ Wiener Festwochen, Rote Bar

21/06/24

SENSE FICTION SOLSTICE RAVE @Celeste

TECHNICOLOR DREAMZ

Trailer out now: Watch it here.

„our responsibility is to keep the mind open.“ adrienne maree brown

Technicolor Dreamz speculates on a future where synesthesia – a perceptive phenomenon in which the senses merge in unusual ways when reacting to stimuli – acts as a utopian, fictional superpower. As a counter-concept to mainstream science fiction narratives that worship technological progress, highlighted through themes of oppression and power, this work shifts its focus back to empathy and sensuousness among all species and life forms.

DATES

26 – 28/10/2022 Premiere and shows at Tanzhaus Zürich

04 – 06/11/2022 Premiere and shows at brut wien

CREDITS

Artistic Direction/Performance: Malika Fankha
Video: Tina Kult
Costume: Goran Bugaric
Make-up/Headpiece: Valerie Reding
Silicon Objects: Nagi Gianni
Lights: Marek Lamprecht
Sound: Dark Euphoria feat. Bernd Ammann
Sound Layout: Matthias Brunner (Tanzhaus) & Philipp Schäfer (brut)
Videomapping: Dario Stefanek
Research: Andrej Barla
Movement Coach: Karin Pauer
Outside Eye: Stefan Roehrle
Production: mollusca productions
Dramaturgical Advisor: Lea Moro
Coproduction: FANKS, Tanzhaus Zürich, brut Wien
Photocredit: Tina Kult

With the kind support of the City of Zurich’s Department Of Cultural Affairs, City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Canton of Zurich Fachstelle Kultur, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Cultural Foundation, the Swiss Embassy in Austria and Bears In The Park.

Special thanks to Sebastijan Geč and Asher O’Gorman.

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::NEWS::NEWS::NEWS::

“Oxy Moron – A Cyborg Utopia”

Belgian Premiere

at kunstencentrum BUDA Kortrijk

September 4th, 2021 at 18:00

in the course of the 15th anniversary festival
“COME CLOSER”

info & tickets

Photo © Valerie Reding

“Oxy Moron” is a play of multiple selves and their constant, seamless shape-shift between fiction and reality, magic and science, present and future. Using the modern day cyborg as a metaphorical narrative that unites both human appearance and machine-like behaviour, the work juggles with stereotypes and challenges different concepts of a perceived norm. Identities, corporealities and social status pass through a precarious transformation between self-empowerment, self-enhancement, self-optimization and self-deformation questioning the significance of the physical and the human in a digital age.

TRAILER

CREDITS

Artistic direction, performance: Malika Fankha
Makeup/Costume/Stage: Valerie Reding
Makeup on tour: Yannick Zurcher
Sound: Dark Euphoria feat. AC/BOY
Technical Direction, Lights: David Baumgartner
Technical Assistance: Andrej Barla
Dramaturgy: Anna Mendelssohn & Denice Bourbon
Dramaturgy on tour: Stefan Roehrle
Outside Eye: Simone Aughterlony
Movement Coach: Asher O’Gorman
Production Management: mollusca Productions
Dramaturgical Production Advice: Marc Streit
Coproduction: FANKS Productions/Malika Fankha, Tanzhaus Zürich, Brut Wien imagetanz Festival

Residency partners: Workspacebrussels/Kaaitheater (BE), Campo Ghent (BE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), im_flieger Vienna (A), Huggy Bears (A), Counterpulse San Francisco (USA)

Oxy Moron is supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Pro Helvetia, Stadt Wien Kultur MA 7, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, Nestlé Fondation pour l’Art and the Swiss Embassy in Vienna

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new collab with ImPulsTanz and Klangforum Wien

L U M I N O S A I

©TimTom

July 29th, 19:00 and July 31st, 2021 14:00 & 19:00
at ehem. Gustinos Ambrosi Museum, Scherzergasse 1a, 1020 Vienna

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Luminosa I is a utopian ritual, a synesthetic trip to a place where the human condition is only one of many and our sense of self is ever-changing. It is a future scenario that does not worship technological achievement and monolithic thought as its master narrative but celebrates a new sense of togetherness and exchange among various species. The ability to be malleable and transformative becomes a survival strategy, a tool to evolve on a sensory level, to invent new intimacies, pleasures and frictions.

CREDITS

Artistic Direction, Performance: Malika Fankha
Composition: Mikolaj Laskowski
Music: Klangforum Wien feat. Dark Euphoria
Dramaturgy: Asher O’Gorman
Sound Research: Andrej Barla
Lights: Gerald Pappenberger
Costume: Valerie Reding & Goran Bugaric
Makeup & Hair: Cleverson Ronaldo Cosmo
Masks: Valerie Reding & Ana Rajcevic
Moss Objects: Pauline Bouzek
Production Management; ImPulsTanz/Johannes Maile
Coproduced by: ImPulsTanz & FANKS Productions
Supported by: Prohelvetia

L A V A

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To all lovers who had to disguise and justify their longing, those who could withstand the resistance against their way of expressing desire, to those who keep challenging a monolithic depiction of intimacy despite the viscous restrictions of societal norms. To all the broken and glorious hearts who keep reimagining what we call “human” and “natural”. Let LAVA transform fear into possibility and peril into exuberance.

O D E

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An ODE to desire, to the multitudes of sexualities and sensory pleasures, to the moments we fully inhabit the illusion of a shared experience trying to evade solitude. Both elegiac and tempestuous, ODE is a synesthetic meditation on craving connection with other bodies, textures and spheres.

K A R M A

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KARMA is a song about abundant consumerism of online content, new age spiritualism and the emotional and social culture around it. As a stream of buzzwords in random order and rapid succession, it tries to bridge the gap between an over-engineered reality and the desire to reclaim a connection with nature, or whatever is left of it.

Written and composed by Dark Euphoria feat. Mirza Kebo for the performance AWOL (Absence Without Leave)

CREDITS

Artistic direction, performance: Malika Fankha
Costume: Goran Bugaric
Makeup: Valerie Reding & Cleverson Ronaldo Cosmo
Objects: Ana Rajcevic
Lights: Marek Lamprecht & David Baumgartner
Sound: Dark Euphoria feat. Mirza Kebo
Video: Timotheus Tomicek & Jannik Schleicher
Dramaturgical Advice: Anna Mendelssohn, Denice Bourbon
Choreographic Assistance: Asher O’Gorman
Production: mollusca productions
Dramaturgical Production Advice: Marc Streit
Coproduction: FANKS, Tanzhaus Zürich, brut Wien
Residency partners: SoArt Millstättersee (A), BUDA Kortrijk (BE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), Huggy Bears (A), “The Artists Are Present” Brunnenpassage Wien (A)

AWOL is supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich, Stadt Wien Kultur MA 7, BMKOES, Prohelvetia, Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels, ACT OUT (initiated by IG Freie Theater, supported by BMEIA) and Embassy of Switzerland in Austria

K A R M A

music video out now

Written and composed by Dark Euphoria feat. Mirza Kebo for the performance AWOL (Absence Without Leave)

CREDITS

new work 2021

AWOL

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In her new production AWOL (Absent Without Leave) Malika Fankha explores the synergies between humans and natures’s mystical creatures. Elves, trolls and all kinds of hybrid forms of living might resemble the human shape yet manage to evade the notion of normativity. Due to their queer and volatile essence they challenge our thinking in stereotypes and dualities and embody the concept of identity as a malleable force. The work questions the hierarchy of corporealities in the physical, spiritual and virtual realms and advocates new ways of coexistence and kindred among species. In Awolonia, a place better than reality, residents are mercurially utopian, they keep secrets, shift shapes, change names, and appear in myriad disguises. They uncover and liberate their desires and torments, transgress boundaries, they slip into and out of dangerous and vulnerable places in an ongoing craving for connection, haunting the liminal spaces between imagined and artificially constructed borders.

SHOWS/RESIDENCIES

15.06. – 20.06.2020: Residency at Brunnenpassage Wien (A)

01.09. – 01.10.2020: Residency at SoArt Millstättersee (A)

15.10. – 02.11.2020: Residency at BUDA Kortrijk (BE)

30.11. – 20.12.2020: Residency at Tanzhaus Zürich (CH)

11.02. – 16.02.2021: Premiere and shows at brut Wien (A)

30.04. – 02.05.2021: Shows at Tanzhaus Zürich (CH)

CREDITS