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Taking place on Saturday, May 9, 2026, in the iconic In Paradiso Restaurant in the Giardini della Biennale in Venice, Italy, the daytime event will feature a performance by acclaimed Austrian artist Doris Uhlich and a discussion between philosopher and author Paul B. Preciado, the head of tranzit.at Georg Schöllhammer, and Tereza Stejskalová, the director of tranzit.cz. The event celebrates the publication of the anthology tranzit 20+, which chronicles the first two decades of the tranzit.org network of initiatives in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Cluj, Iași, Bucharest, and Bratislava. Admission to the event is free of charge, and capacity is limited.

Paul B. Preciado will speak with Tereza Stejskalová and Georg Schöllhammer about the urgencies of the present—about bodies, institutions, and the conditions under which knowledge and freedom can still be produced. Doris Uhlich will present La/goo/n, a performance in which bodily boundaries become fluid, opening associative spaces for other forms of living. Moving between fascination and discomfort, empathy and abjection, the work invites audiences to navigate freely through a shifting field of sculptural, landscape-like, and processual intensities.

Doris Uhlich is a Vienna-based choreographer and performer. In her productions, she often questions conventional formats and body images, works with people with diverse biographies and corporeal inscriptions, explores the potential of nudity beyond eroticization and provocation, examines the relationship between humans and machines in a multifaceted way, and grapples with the future of the human body in the age of its surgical and genetic enhancement. She has received numerous prizes and awards, most recently the 2024 Austrian Art Prize of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service, and Sport (BMKÖS) in the Performing Arts category, and her work SONNE was awarded the 2024 Austrian Music Theatre Prize for Best Dance Production. Uhlich also teaches internationally and holds teaching positions at several universities, including the Max Reinhardt Seminar at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and the master’s program in Contemporary Arts Practice (CAP) at the Artistic Research Center of mdw in Vienna.

Paul B. Preciado is the author of An Apartment on Uranus, Counter-Sexual Manifesto, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics, and Pornotopia, for which he was awarded the Sade Prize in France. He was the head of research at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) and the director of its Independent Studies Program (PEI) from 2011 to 2014. From 2014 to 2017 he was the curator of public programs of documenta 14. He is currently the resident philosopher at the Centre Pompidou and lives in Paris, France.

Georg Schöllhammer is an editor, writer, and curator based in Vienna. He is the founding editor of springerin and head of tranzit.at. Schöllhammer has worked internationally on projects like documenta 12, Manifesta 8, the Venice Biennale, the Gyumri Biennial, The School of Kyiv, Sweet Sixties, L’internationale, Former West, and the Vienna Fair, and he initiated Office Ukraine. He is the founder of the Július Koller Society.

Tereza Stejskalová is a curator and researcher based in Prague, Czech Republic. She is the director of tranzit.cz and a cofounder of the Biennale Matter of Art. Between 2018 and 2022 she worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 2017 she initiated the Feminist Art Institution, a coalition of cultural institutions in the Czech Republic and Slovakia united by a code of practice. She has collaborated on many exhibitions and projects all around Europe. She publishes texts in academic and non-academic journals and is an editor of several publications.