A Journey in Between

An Interactive and Performative Event

Avik Debdas

SM REYAD

Elisabeth von Samsonow

Transcultural Emancipation & Raashish India

Hosted by Pramila Lama, Emran Sohel & Ursula Maria Probst

In der Kubatur des Kabinetts extended

We are welcoming our guests, very spontaneously we decided to make a special event for our friends from India and Bangladesh, who are travelling in Europa and making with us A JOURNEY IN BETWEEN. An evening on which we want to activate all our senses through, taste, smell, sound, touching and moving. Everybody is invited to participate or make own performances or just relax and enjoy. We invited friends and open the space for everybody - we will listen to you and enjoying our togetherness…

Avik Debdas, Lingering Remnants, Sublime can be..., 2025, An Interactive and Performative Talk

Lingering Remnants brings together Avik’s roles as artist and curator, tracing his journey from engineering to art through interactive gestures that invite audience participation. Plurality, memory, and ecology flow through sound, smell, taste, and moving images, weaving fragments and gestures into a shared story. The session becomes a space where remnants of experience, gesture, and thought converge, inviting the audience to listen, respond, and imagine a collective future.

S M REYAD, Journey in Between, 2025, Performance

Just as the journey begins and ends, you don’t know when or how it started. But this journey is a return — back to where I belong, to my village, to the place where waves crash against the banks of my beloved mangrove, to the embrace of the soil whose scent I know best.

Eiisabeth vn Samsonow, HOW I BECAME A MOUNTAIN, BUT THEN, 2025 Performance

The piece narrates and puts to test the affective architecture the artist identified with when the land was threatened to be turned into a windmill industrial site. She takes on the position of the mountain as the subject that will protest, defend itself and finally heal the whole region

Transcultural Emancipation & Raashish India, 2025, Rooted Bodies, Performative Installation + Live Performance

Sound has a profound effect on our body, mind and emotions. Since the discovery of sound, music and singing, we have continually pushed the boundaries of how the healing power of sounds and frequencies can be used. Specific sound frequencies influence human brain waves and promote healing of the body and mind.

Avik Debdas is an artist and curator whose practice bridges artistic enquiry with a background in engineering. He is currently pursuing his curatorial residency at ZKM | Cetrer for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, for his project Plurality of Water, supported by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen). He is an Associate Curator – Exhibition & Research at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi. His work engages ecological, political, and community-rooted dialogues through art, curation, and public initiatives. Avik has led curatorial projects such as Slow is the New Urgent, microSPILLS, and Rolling Museum.

S M REYAD is an independent Visual Artist. National Higher Diploma in Artistic Expression – Master of Arts, M2. Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Besançon, France. DUEF (University Diploma in French Studies). CLA – Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. Bachelor & Master of Fine Arts (Painting. Institute of Fine Arts – University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Pramila Lama is a visual artist from Nepal who currently lives in Vienna. As an interdisciplinary artist, her work focuses on themes such as gender inequality, memory, identity, human relationships and storytelling. Her goal is to challenge prevailing beliefs and blind practices.

Emran Sohel is an interdisciplinary artist from Bangladesh living in Vienna whose work arises from his interpretations of local and global contexts surrounding modernism, postmodernism and other contemporary conditions that defy categorisation. His focus is on how time, space, forms, materials and political, cultural and social behaviour influence people's feelings. He navigates the tension between natural and man-made environments, as well as between personal and social timelines, and observes the hidden lives of plants and objects. Emran places particular emphasis on performance and art in public spaces, as he believes that performance art has become a neo-platform for critical social and cultural practice in public spaces. He has explored various forms of expression, including painting, assemblage, sculptural installations, performance and interactive projects. He is one of the founding members of the collective artist group DAAGI in Bangladesh and participates in the collective initiative ‘Shoni Mongol Adda,’ which focuses on the exchange of ideas and discussions with the local community. In addition, he co-founded the art café ‘ReeLi (ঋঌ),’ which deals with art actions as performative acts.

Elisabeth von Samsonow is Professor em. at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, she is an ecofeminist artist and activist, her recent performances focus on conversations with the land she and her colleages have founded as "The Dissident Goddesses' Land" in Lower Austria.

Raashish India, alias Ashish Ratore, is a multidisciplinary artist from Rajasthan, India. As a teenager, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. He uses art as a remedy and firmly believes that art aids mental healing. His research focuses on behavioural art, closeness to nature, and political, social and communicative distance. He has participated in art festivals and residencies and organised workshops in schools and universities in India and abroad.

Transcultural Emancipation emerged in 2013 from collaborative projects with KulturKontakt Austria and is now dedicated to transcultural work through artistic projects and association work. Performers from Southeast Asia are involved in the projects.

Ursula Maria Probst Cultural worker, performer, artistic director for contemporary art FLUCC. Centre for Arts and Communities, curator, art critic, lecturer, art historian, urban researcher focusing on gender, biodiversity, the healing power of art and community projects. Since 2018, AIR and research project BODY EMBEDDING with Hongwei Duan with performances in Myanmar, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Mexico, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, China, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India.