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WhAt mOves wHen the rhizOme tranSforMs?
A:
NotHing stAYs whEre it wAs
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Venus Flytrap #2 [TOUCH ME NOT!]
Fri. 20 November 2026, 18:00
Sat. 21 November 2026, 18:00
Haus FALK, OG 3. Tabakfabrik Linz, Peter-Behrens-Platz 3
q: WhAt mOves wHen the rhizOme tranSforMs?
a: NotHing stAYs whEre it wAs
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Rhizomaniacs is an artist-driven project initiated by qujOchÖ in collaboration with Noise Meetup in Linz. It is an evolving network for experimental art, sound, and audiovisual practices. Inspired by the idea of the rhizome, it brings together artists, musicians, sound researchers, and other creative practitioners through an open, non-hierarchical, and collaborative structure.
This year's edition is Venus FLYTRAP#2 [Touch-Me-Not], a 2-day program focusing on the body, movement, and space. We understand movement not simply as a dance practice, but as a way of connecting with ourselves, other beings, and the spaces around us. The body becomes a meeting point for sound, music, images, code, performance, and interaction, spanning from individual movement and physical awareness to collective experiences on the dance floor.
This edition specially features Makaan, a community platform and record label supporting artists from SWANA+ whose voices are too often unheard. They have no center, they have no base—above gender, without borders, exactly like a rhizome.
Thanks to Kunstverein Art Magazin for the support.
participating artists:
[Andreea Vlăduț (RO/AT), ANAHITA SHAMSAEI (IR), ARAAM (IR), Cyrill Lim (CH/AT), Daniel Haas (AT), DJ Magdala (PT), drkmbnt (AT), Heike Kaltenbrunner (AT), I-ID (IR), Jakob Florian Luckeneder (AT), Kevin Blackistone (US), Lilith-Isa Samer (AT), Martin Janda (DE), Marc9 (AT), Mascha Illich (UA), 2MAJ (IR), Muri Anda (AT), Nazanin Soleimani (IR)]
program:
20 Nov 2026
7:00 pm – Exhibition Tour
8:00 pm – "Aerial Feelers" Andreea Vladut (RO/AT) + Cyrill Lim (CH/AT) [Participatory LIVE Performance]
8:30 pm – "phosphorous 1" Lilith-Isa Samer (AT) + Daniel Haas (AT) [Live]
9:30 pm – "Álgosrythmic Deviations" Kevin Blackistone (US/AT) [Live]
10:00 pm – "deadBatteryMusic" drkmbnt (AT) [Live]
10:30 pm – "Faceshift" Rhizomaniacs: Muri Anda, Mascha Illich & DJ Magdala [Hybrid DJ Set]
21 Nov 2026
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – "Movement by Naz" Nazanin Soleimani (IR) [Workshop]
7:00 pm – Exhibition Tour
8:00 pm – "Stories Through Sound" Anahita Shamsaei (IR), Makaan [Listening Session and Talk]
9:15 pm – 2MAJ (IR) [Projector, Makaan]
10:15 pm – ARAAM (IR) [DJ Set]
12:15 am – Anahita Shamsaei (IR) [DJ Set]
2:15 am – I-ID (IR) [DJ Set]
exhibiting artists:
Aerial Feelers – Andreea Vlăduț / Cyrill Lim
A collaborative site-specific performance looking for noises, stations, sounds, interferences, connections using a long copper wire as an antenna of a crystal radio
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So close, so fast – Heike Kaltenbrunner
A reactive sound sculpture consisting of of an organ pipe that reacts to physical proximity, echoing the feeling of uneasiness with human touch.
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Alien Harmonies 2.0 – Jakob Luckeneder
A multi-user soundscape sculpture, impossible to explore on your own. The strange cube is littered with brass plates and a shifting soundscape.
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Touch.Feel – Lilith-Isa Samer
A sound installation using large sheets of latex onto which videos of stony landscapes are projected, triggering sounds of water, grass, leaves, and stone through sensors on the latex and a concatenative synthesis process.
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Tracing Motion – Martin Janda
A work exploring the relationships between sound, physical space, movement, and technology, investigating how sensory experiences shape perception.
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workshops & listening sessions in collaboration with MAKAAN
Movement by Naz – Nazanin Soleimani (IR), @ 21.11., 16:00
A 60-minute workshop exploring movement as something that belongs to everyone. Drawing on Animal Flow, martial arts and functional movement, participants will explore strength, mobility, balance and body awareness through simple, accessible exercises. Her practice encourages people to reconnect with their bodies, build confidence and move with greater awareness.
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Stories Through Sound – Anahita Shamsaei (IR), MAKAAN @ 21.11, 20:00
Every culture communicates narratives through sound. This listening session explores a curated selection of music from Algeria, India, Iran, and the broader SWANA+ region, chosen by Makaan residents. Accompanying each piece, the creators share short stories detailing personal memories, traditional instruments, and cultural roots. This collective experience invites participants to listen together, engage in discussion, and uncover rare sounds.
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MAKAAN
Makaan means "place" or "home." Growing up, when our parents travelled away, we'd call our friends and say, "My house is a Makaan now." It meant one thing: the house had become a place where we could gather, listen to music, dance and simply be together.
That feeling never left us.
Today, Makaan is a community platform and record label supporting artists from SWANA+ whose voices are too often unheard because of censorship, conflict, displacement, borders and unequal access to the music industry. The "+" matters to us. It reflects our belief that culture cannot be contained by political borders. It includes neighbouring regions, diasporic communities and artists connected through migration, shared histories and cultural exchange. Makaan's roots are regional, but its philosophy is borderless. Makaan grew out of my years working alongside refugees, undocumented migrants and displaced communities with different UN agencies. Again and again, I saw that people could lose almost everything, but they never stopped carrying music with them.
Music became memories. Identity. Home. That's why Makaan exists. We believe culture does more than entertain. It creates belonging, restores dignity and brings people together when language, borders and politics divide us.
Makaan isn't just a record label. It's a place where artists find one another. Where stories are shared. Where visibility creates visibility.
-> MAKAAN 1
-> MAKAAN 2
Anahita Shamsaei
Born in Sheffield and raised in Tehran, Iran, Anahita Shamsaei (IR) is a London-based DJ, producer, humanitarian practitioner and founder of Makaan. Her work brings together techno, migration, cultural exchange and community. Years spent working alongside refugees and displaced communities continue to shape Makaan and its belief that music can create belonging across borders. For Anahita, becoming a DJ was also about visibility. She wanted to show that women belong in techno and to use music as a way of challenging patriarchal structures and creating spacefor others.
ARAAM
ARAAM (IR) is a Tehran-based underground DJ and producer and one of Makaan residents. His sound is rooted in raw energy, hypnotic textures, and immersive sonic journeys. With more than 15 years of experience behind him, he has become a respected and consistent presence within the underground scene, known for turning every space into an experience through carefully crafted sets.
His connection to music began at an early age, driven by a deep curiosity for the process of creating sound. Rather than relying on loops or pre-made samples, Araam takes a hands-on approach, building his beats, textures, and sounds from the ground up. This dedication gives his productions a distinct identity—personal, powerful, and unmistakably his own.
A longstanding figure in the underground community, Araam brings the same passion and commitment to every performance. For him, DJing goes beyond simply playing records; it is about creating an atmosphere, building tension, and taking people somewhere through sound.
-> ARAAM
2MAJ
2MAJ (IR) is a Makaan resident based in Istanbul. For this residency, they join us through a projected audiovisual contribution. Not every artist has the freedom to cross a border. The projector isn't there because it's convenient. It's there because artists deserve to be seen, even when they can't be physically present.
-> 2MAJ
Nazanin Soleimani
Nazanin Soleimani (IR) is a London-based movement coach, Animal Flow Level 2 instructor and founder of Movement by Naz. With over 15 years of personal movement practice and a background in martial arts, functional training, kettlebells and fascia-focused movement education, her work explores the body beyond conventional fitness.
Her approach, which she calls Movement of Remembering, is rooted in the idea that movement is something we already carry within us. Through ground-based movement, strength, mobility, coordination, balance and play, she creates accessible experiences that encourage people to reconnect with their bodies and develop greater awareness and confidence in the way they move. For Naz, movement is not about performing or achieving a particular shape. It is a form of expression, exploration and connection — and something that belongs to every body.
-> Nazanin Soleimani
Andreea Vlăduț
Andreea Vlăduț (RO/AT) is a Romanian multimedia artist based in Linz, Austria. She graduated from the Time-based Media department at Kunstuniversität Linz, specializing in electronic music, audio-video installations, and performance art. Her practice is rooted in collective processes and long-term collaborations, often taking the form of participatory and research-based formats. Currently, she explores the transformative potential of sound and ritualistic practices in altering perceptions and challenging dominant and normative narrative frameworks.
Cyrill Lim
Cyrill Lim (CH/AT) is an independent visual artist, performer and sound artist. His activities take him all over Europe. Projects he is involved in are located at the intersection between music and theatre, art and research, media installation and social environment. At the centre of his work is not the finished product, but the creation of temporary spaces in which processes, experiments, and exchanges can take place.
Daniel Haas
Daniel Haas (AT) – also known as Sturmherta – is a musician, sound artist, and experimentalist who focuses on related fields such as digital sound synthesis methods, chaotic systems, and the translation of sound waves into different domains, making them visible, tangible, or experienceable in other forms. He experiments with sound as a mechanical force and as a physical phenomenon in space. His works take shape as performances or installations that merge the visible and the audible, playing with the limits of human perception through stimulation or deprivation. They deliver intense, physical experiences, often through raw and brutal sonic constructions or glaring light and imagery that challenge and overwhelm the mind, or leave us in total darkness – suspending the audience between sensory overload and absolute void, and pushing them into states of heightened awareness and altered perception.
DJ Magdala
Magdalena Borges (PT), aka DJ Magdala, is a multidisciplinary visual artist who began exploring mixing as a natural creative extension to experience in the dance floor. Challenging the boundaries of genre, she creates an atmosphere, fusing her references from techno, bass music, batida and baile funk to create an electrifying sonic narrative.
drkmbnt
drkmbnt is a project by Wolfgang “Fadi” Dorninger, in which he assembles experimental, mostly hand-soldered sound tools into small ensembles for special occasions. For Venus Flytrap, he’s bringing his deadBatteryMusic unit, consisting of two CMOS chips that he reconfigures repeatedly during the performance. One moment, heavy beats thunder from the speakers; the next, drones or other rhythmic patterns take over.
Face Shift
Face Shift is a performance driven by sensation—how we feel in real time.
The recent Rihzomaniacs project, moves across DJing, noise, broken rhythms, sound, and live analogue synthesis, tracing the unstable link between mind and body.
We shift from dance to mania, pushing to the edge of rupture.
Sound fragments and frequencies collide—build, distort, infect—locking the body into motion.
I‑ID
I-ID /aɪ 'maɪnəs aɪ'di/ (IR) is a Linz-based nonbinary interdisciplinary artist / painter / DJ / sound designer, working across sound / signal / image / noise / color / rhythm / code. Currently a master’s student in Time-based Media at the University of Arts Linz and a member of the Linz-based art collective qujOchÖ.
-> I-ID 1
-> I-ID 2
Heike Kaltenbrunner
Heike Kaltenbrunner (AT) works as Sound and media-artist and Cranial Osteopath. As a trained artist with a degree from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, she also studied at UDK Berlin / Faculty of Design and at UNI-K – Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, Sound Art, and Sound Research. The connecting element of all her work, both in the artistic and in the therapeutic field, is her interest in the human capacity for perception and her fascination with the small and large phenomena of the cosmos. Paradigmatic examples of this are the sound installations about life and death of Neutron Stars and TV-sets, looks like music, and close/distant.
Jakob Florian Luckeneder
Jakob Florian Luckeneder (AT) is a Linz-born, Austrian-based interdisciplinary multimedia artist with main focus on video games, narratives and playful experiences.
Kevin Blackistone
Kevin Blackistone (US/AT) is a media artist and researcher using immersive, tangible, participatory and performative elements. He investigates the networks of cross-interactions between our human organism(s), its habitats & inhabitants, and their technological interrelations from cultural, medical and ecological perspectives. These works are produced using technologies including animation, biosensors, kinetics, sound, physical interfaces, AI and combinatory approaches thereof.
Lilith-Isa Samer
Lilith-Isa Samer (AT) is a media and sound artist who focuses on the playful aspect of sound and collaborative music making. Experimenting with different materials, her goal is to bring back intimacy to digital sound making.
Martin Janda
Martin Janda (CZ) is a multimedia artist and composer working across electronic and instrumental music, sound installations, live coding, and audiovisual performance. His practice explores the relationships between sound, physical space, movement, and technology, often using unconventional environments and interactive systems as materials for artistic expression. Through collaborations with dancers and performers, site-specific installations, and works engaging with historical narratives and social structures, he investigates how sensory experiences can shape perception and create dialogue between people, spaces, and ideas. While rooted in experimental sound and performance, his practice is increasingly expanding towards visual art, exploring new ways of working with image, space, and material.
Marc 9
Marc 9 (AT) builds mechanical and electronic sound instruments. He is part of the art group Time's Up.
Mascha Illich
Mascha Illich is a Linz-based noise and sound artist whose work centres on raw, improvised sonic exploration. Using self-built synthesisers and custom electronic instruments, she creates harsh, minimal soundscapes that emphasize texture, distortion, and immediacy. Her performances are shaped by a stripped-down aesthetic, in which subtle shifts in tone and intensity unfold in real time, reflecting a deeply physical and process-driven approach to sound. Illich’s practice is situated at the intersection of experimental music and DIY electronics, contributing a distinctive and uncompromising voice to the contemporary noise scene.
→ Mascha Illich
Muri Anda
Muri Anda is a Linz-based artist, noise maker, and bird nerd. Her practice moves freely through underground ecologies of sound, conceptual work, and improvised performance. It is grounded in dynamics and momentum, in the interplay between the organic and the synthetic, in deconstruction and re-creation — a sonic cycle of chaos, order, and chaos again. Her performances are a visceral blend of free improvisation, punk, and obnoxious noise, always searching for new forms to emerge from the remains.
→ Muri Anda #1 → Muri Anda #2 → Muri Anda #3