Where do the boundaries of being human begin and what comes after that? To what extent do knowledge systems construct boundaries between life forms and hide their multiple intersections and potentials? chimeric tendencies is a multimedia performance focusing on the possibilities and complexities of queerness and being categorised in order to open up alternative, utopian, hybrid worlds. The project has been shown in its process in autumn 2024. Now a second phase of development has started, that will be explored during the residency at fAUNA.

Xava Mikosch (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist currently based in Berlin with a focus on film, creative writing and performance. Various media therefore play a central role in their artistic work, as well as addressing and questioning post-colonial, socio-political processes. In addition to receiving the Dance-WEB scholarship, they worked together with Rey Joichl and Kristin Jackson Lerch as part of the Trans*motion association. Their work thematises transition processes in relation to dysphoria and exclusion, but also queer community, collectivity and security.

Rey Joichl (he/them) is a dancer and performer who grew up between Vienna and Lima. After spending most of his childhood and youth going in and out of dance schools he found his way back to performance by entering the ballroom culture. The ballroom culture led Rey to rediscover his love of dance and to the founding of his the creation of his alien drag persona El Maricòn. As El Maricòn, he has performed on various stages stages all over Vienna and has set himself the goal of continuing to tell stories through movement, sound, make-up and 4 costumes. Together with Xava Mikosch and Kristin Lerch, Rey founded a trio in the summer of 2023, in which the three artists.

Philisha Kay (she/her) Philisha Kay’s artistic practice is invested in (de-)constructing subjectivity in its articulation as sexed embodiment and gendered identity. Her writing and performances playfully engage with language, including body language, to create counter-strategies for selfing; formulations that reframe market society’s prescription to self-determination. By mending materialities and recoding meanings, she falls things into different places, pointing towards the indefinite direction of signification. Philisha lives in Berlin and is a proud member of dgtl fmnsm, a queer feminist collective working at the intersections of digital media, performative technologies, and political activism.