new creation 2025/26
No Place Like Home addresses the silence surrounding sexual violence within family systems, aiming to raise awareness of our collective responsibility and expose incestuous behavior hidden behind the shield of privacy. The work examines systemic abuse and manipulative mechanisms on legal, neurological, and political levels and their lifelong consequences for survivors: What values do we internalize after years of humiliation and violence? How can a body whose boundaries have been repeatedly violated reclaim its autonomy? What concepts of truth emerge when an entire environment’s main narrative is built on lies? How can home be associated with safety and security when it has been a site of crime for years?
The piece meanders through physical and psychological states that reveal the ambivalence between repulsion and attraction toward one’s own and other bodies. At times trapped in endlessly recurring spirals of memory, at times hopeful, empowered by 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
18/02/2026
Premiere at brut Vienna
19/02 – 21/02/2026
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