Public rituals, reflection spaces, and participatory care in Linz & Vienna
(Sept–Dec 2025) exploring the connection between body, city, and care.
Initiated by Jaskaran Singh / trivium, it aims to bring together artists, thinkers, and communities.
Through dance, sound, writing, and conversation, the project explores how emotional and ecological knowledge lives in our bodies — and how cities themselves remember, adapt, and move.
How do we move through a city that is constantly changing — ecologically, emotionally, and socially?
Embodied City Dialogues and City in Motion transforms everyday spaces into stages for ritual, reflection, and collective care.
🔵 Program Highlights
🌀 Temporary Open Spaces / Observations
Curated gatherings combining music, movement, poetry, food rituals, and historical reflection.
– transforming ordinary places — into temporary theaters of care.
🌀 Temporary Open Days
Low-threshold writing boards in public space invite spontaneous reflection through questions such as: “What calms you?” “What moves you?”
🟢 Overview
A public art initiative unfolding across Linz and Vienna (Sept–Dec 2025), the project builds a living structure guided by the methodology of story-observation — an embodied practice that listens to the body as both archive and compass.
Through this lens, we explore how emotional knowledge manifests somatically and socially, and how public art can become a space of shared reflection.
🟢 Philosophy / Vision
Part of the long-term initiative Trans(T*).DisCity, this year’s edition continues our mission:
Connecting cities – connecting people – connecting institutions and artists.
Transdisciplinarity is not a method —
it’s a transformative culture.
“Don’t panic — listen to it.”
🌀 Methodology: Story-Observation
The project listens to bodies as living archives of emotion, ecology, and history.
Each encounter — whether a dance, a writing board, or a public ritual — is both research and reflection.
Principles:
- Embodied listening — the body as sensor and storyteller.
- Care as practice — not just support, but shared attention.
- Coexistence — not always agreement, but sustained dialogue.
- Accessibility — art that meets people where they already are.
🌿 Themes
Fashion and Ritual — clothing as emotional and social armor.
Ecology and Psychology — climate grief, adaptation, care.
Gender and Justice — intersectional and embodied perspectives.
Surveillance and Visibility — how being seen changes how we move.
An initiative by
trivium – Verein zur Förderung und Erforschung der kulturellen Intersektionalität des menschlichen Körpers
in association with partners across Linz & Vienna.