Bodies speak, individually and together, listening, breathing, reading, responding to one another:

The spoken word performance “Bodies in Summer” was created in the writing lab of the same name at KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd. How does one approach the body through language? What do I feel and hear when I listen to my inner self, when I feel into it, how do I share my sensations? How does language itself become a kind of body that gestures, conveys a character? Together, using various methods, we observed and listened to our own and others’ bodies and now bring them to life in our spoken word performance.

A project by Lisa Spalt and KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd for the 2025 theme “The Unevenness of Change” and was presented on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.

Project participants: Silvia Bartoš, Susanne Blaimschein, Teya Cissé-Ndaw, Gerti Dobetsberger, Margit Gusenbauer, Anna Höglhammer, Aleksa Jović, Johanna Kubassa, Veronika Lesniak, Susanne M., Manuela Oberhamberger, Erika Schwyhla, Felicitas Tholey, Magdalena Wieser, Anke Wimmer, Christine Wöss

Thanks to Freies Radio Freistadt for their collaboration! The program can be heard here.