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EXPLORING HUMAN AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN IMAGINATION AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY
WITH MOTHERBOARD AND SALON HYBRID
Healing Common Ground Conference - Collective Practices of Terrestrial Belonging
Curated by Juliana Furthner, Elisabeth Oberleitner& Stephanie Winter
Venue: MOTHERBOARD, Castellezgasse 26–38, 1020 Vienna
The Healing Common Ground Conference responds to social fragmentation and emotional numbness by opening spaces for healing, relational, ecological, and artistic care, as well as for a forward-looking togetherness, inviting the audience into a shared practice.
The project addresses the question “How to be terrestrial” and turns its gaze toward the soils, waters, plants, animals, and more-than-human worlds that sustain life.
It initiates a field of speculative kinships beyond patriarchal and capitalist norms, where care is understood as collective responsibility and belonging as a fluid, inclusive practice. This process requires an unlearning of patriarchal structures and a critical disentangling of logics of power and ownership in order to develop new forms of living together.
Healing Common Ground is conceived as a multi-phase project that begins in autumn 2025 with a research laboratory. Within this lab, perspectives are explored together with artists and audiences through participatory experiments and interdisciplinary methods. First impulses around care, un/learning, and speculative kinship will be gathered and shared in community settings.
A patchwork carpet functions simultaneously as ground, archive, and workspace, becoming an artistic tool. Each seam and every added material makes processes of collective practice visible, transforming the textile artwork into a living archive. The starting point is an empty room, which step by step turns into this growing chronicle and will be presented in its full complexity at the conference.
Through close collaboration between local, national, and international contributors, a strong network will emerge that extends beyond the conference itself. All sharing sessions will be documented as a podcast, making the collective experiences accessible in the long term.
The project points to what holds us together: the earth beneath our feet, the ecological systems we inhabit, and the relational infrastructures of care that reach beyond the human.
PERFORMANCES AND RITUALS
Rozi Mákó ‘Soundscape for Healing Common Ground’, 2025
Rozi Mákó’s slow, mysterious soundscape set the tone for the opening, an initiation into darkness as a site of renewal. As guests signed a symbolic contract and tasted the bitterness of licorice, her deep, immersive sounds guided them into a dim space where light, fog, and a moving textile ‘ground’ appeared. The performance created a layered sensory environment, where sound, light, and movement merged into an enigmatic presence. Rozi Mákó is a Hungarian composer & musician.
Stephanie Winter - Textile Ground & Performance, 2025
Stephanie Winter (Salon Hybrid) is founder of the Motherboard art space in Vienna, conceived and initiated Healing Common Ground, creating the textile ‘ground’ in collaboration with her team and performing as part of the ensemble. She mixed the night’s elixirs, shaping a Multi-sensory environment where sound, movement, and material converged. Winter’s practice operates at the intersection of installation, performance, and participatory formats, exploring transformation, ecology, posthumanism, and interspecies connectedness through collaborative artistic laboratories.
Marta Purusha, Vocal Performance, 2025
Vienna-based musician, yoga & meditation teacher Marta Purusha filled the darkened space with a deep, resonant voice, moving through the center of the textile ‘ground’ as she sang. Her performance marked a mystical and luminous highlight within the process.
Crystin Moritz ‘Hybrids, AI Video, 2025
in collaboration with artist Karl Karner.
In Hybrids, photographer & AI artist Crystin Moritz presents a video, weaving her distinctive visual sensibility into a fluid dialogue between the human, the natural, and the technological. The work unfolds as a poetic flux on transformation, depicting hybrid beings that hover between organic life and synthetic creation. Drawings and sculptural elements by artist Karl Karner are interwoven, subtly extending its imagery into physical space and echoing its themes of metamorphosis and coexistence.
Crystin Moritz, Hybrids (still), 2025
Performance at the opening of Healing Common Ground
Crystin Moritz hangs a framed still from her video Hybrids as a first gesture into the void of the empty space. The act marks the beginning of an evolving process, a living archive that will gradually unfold over time.
FRANCESCA ALDEGANI, Performance, 2025
Aldegani combines researches of Shinto/animist visions with ecofeminism and the universe of transcendental meditation.
She focuses on the intuitive and ritualistic aspects behind artistic conception.
At the opening, Francesca emerged from beneath the textile ‘ground’ carrying an altar piece, which she placed on the floor as part of a gradual, performative process, burning dragon’s blood in the act. She also unveiled a flag inscribed with “eat fire, drink light”, marking a poetic extension of the work into the space.
Francesca Aldegani is a visual artist, living and working in Vienna.
Healing Common Ground Conference - Collective Practices of Terrestrial Belonging
Curated by Juliana Furthner, Elisabeth Oberleitner& Stephanie Winter
Venue: MOTHERBOARD, Castellezgasse 26–38, 1020 Vienna
The Healing Common Ground Conference responds to social fragmentation and emotional numbness by opening spaces for healing, relational, ecological, and artistic care, as well as for a forward-looking togetherness, inviting the audience into a shared practice.
The project addresses the question “How to be terrestrial” and turns its gaze toward the soils, waters, plants, animals, and more-than-human worlds that sustain life.
It initiates a field of speculative kinships beyond patriarchal and capitalist norms, where care is understood as collective responsibility and belonging as a fluid, inclusive practice. This process requires an unlearning of patriarchal structures and a critical disentangling of logics of power and ownership in order to develop new forms of living together.
Healing Common Ground is conceived as a multi-phase project that begins in autumn 2025 with a research laboratory. Within this lab, perspectives are explored together with artists and audiences through participatory experiments and interdisciplinary methods. First impulses around care, un/learning, and speculative kinship will be gathered and shared in community settings.
A patchwork carpet functions simultaneously as ground, archive, and workspace, becoming an artistic tool. Each seam and every added material makes processes of collective practice visible, transforming the textile artwork into a living archive. The starting point is an empty room, which step by step turns into this growing chronicle and will be presented in its full complexity at the conference.
Through close collaboration between local, national, and international contributors, a strong network will emerge that extends beyond the conference itself. All sharing sessions will be documented as a podcast, making the collective experiences accessible in the long term.
The project points to what holds us together: the earth beneath our feet, the ecological systems we inhabit, and the relational infrastructures of care that reach beyond the human.
PERFORMANCES AND RITUALS
Rozi Mákó ‘Soundscape for Healing Common Ground’, 2025
Rozi Mákó’s slow, mysterious soundscape set the tone for the opening, an initiation into darkness as a site of renewal. As guests signed a symbolic contract and tasted the bitterness of licorice, her deep, immersive sounds guided them into a dim space where light, fog, and a moving textile ‘ground’ appeared. The performance created a layered sensory environment, where sound, light, and movement merged into an enigmatic presence. Rozi Mákó is a Hungarian composer & musician.
Stephanie Winter - Textile Ground & Performance, 2025
Stephanie Winter (Salon Hybrid) is founder of the Motherboard art space in Vienna, conceived and initiated Healing Common Ground, creating the textile ‘ground’ in collaboration with her team and performing as part of the ensemble. She mixed the night’s elixirs, shaping a Multi-sensory environment where sound, movement, and material converged. Winter’s practice operates at the intersection of installation, performance, and participatory formats, exploring transformation, ecology, posthumanism, and interspecies connectedness through collaborative artistic laboratories.
Marta Purusha, Vocal Performance, 2025
Vienna-based musician, yoga & meditation teacher Marta Purusha filled the darkened space with a deep, resonant voice, moving through the center of the textile ‘ground’ as she sang. Her performance marked a mystical and luminous highlight within the process.
Crystin Moritz ‘Hybrids, AI Video, 2025
in collaboration with artist Karl Karner.
In Hybrids, photographer & AI artist Crystin Moritz presents a video, weaving her distinctive visual sensibility into a fluid dialogue between the human, the natural, and the technological. The work unfolds as a poetic flux on transformation, depicting hybrid beings that hover between organic life and synthetic creation. Drawings and sculptural elements by artist Karl Karner are interwoven, subtly extending its imagery into physical space and echoing its themes of metamorphosis and coexistence.
Crystin Moritz, Hybrids (still), 2025
Performance at the opening of Healing Common Ground
Crystin Moritz hangs a framed still from her video Hybrids as a first gesture into the void of the empty space. The act marks the beginning of an evolving process, a living archive that will gradually unfold over time.
FRANCESCA ALDEGANI, Performance, 2025
Aldegani combines researches of Shinto/animist visions with ecofeminism and the universe of transcendental meditation.
She focuses on the intuitive and ritualistic aspects behind artistic conception.
At the opening, Francesca emerged from beneath the textile ‘ground’ carrying an altar piece, which she placed on the floor as part of a gradual, performative process, burning dragon’s blood in the act. She also unveiled a flag inscribed with “eat fire, drink light”, marking a poetic extension of the work into the space.
Francesca Aldegani is a visual artist, living and working in Vienna.
MOTHERBOARD is a feminist & caring space for art, theory & practice dreamed & hosted by SALON HYBRID
WITH MOTHERBOARD AND SALON HYBRID
Healing Common Ground Conference - Collective Practices of Terrestrial Belonging
Curated by Juliana Furthner, Elisabeth Oberleitner& Stephanie Winter
Venue: MOTHERBOARD, Castellezgasse 26–38, 1020 Vienna
The Healing Common Ground Conference responds to social fragmentation and emotional numbness by opening spaces for healing, relational, ecological, and artistic care, as well as for a forward-looking togetherness, inviting the audience into a shared practice.
The project addresses the question “How to be terrestrial” and turns its gaze toward the soils, waters, plants, animals, and more-than-human worlds that sustain life.
It initiates a field of speculative kinships beyond patriarchal and capitalist norms, where care is understood as collective responsibility and belonging as a fluid, inclusive practice. This process requires an unlearning of patriarchal structures and a critical disentangling of logics of power and ownership in order to develop new forms of living together.
Healing Common Ground is conceived as a multi-phase project that begins in autumn 2025 with a research laboratory. Within this lab, perspectives are explored together with artists and audiences through participatory experiments and interdisciplinary methods. First impulses around care, un/learning, and speculative kinship will be gathered and shared in community settings.
A patchwork carpet functions simultaneously as ground, archive, and workspace, becoming an artistic tool. Each seam and every added material makes processes of collective practice visible, transforming the textile artwork into a living archive. The starting point is an empty room, which step by step turns into this growing chronicle and will be presented in its full complexity at the conference.
Through close collaboration between local, national, and international contributors, a strong network will emerge that extends beyond the conference itself. All sharing sessions will be documented as a podcast, making the collective experiences accessible in the long term.
The project points to what holds us together: the earth beneath our feet, the ecological systems we inhabit, and the relational infrastructures of care that reach beyond the human.
PERFORMANCES AND RITUALS
Rozi Mákó ‘Soundscape for Healing Common Ground’, 2025
Rozi Mákó’s slow, mysterious soundscape set the tone for the opening, an initiation into darkness as a site of renewal. As guests signed a symbolic contract and tasted the bitterness of licorice, her deep, immersive sounds guided them into a dim space where light, fog, and a moving textile ‘ground’ appeared. The performance created a layered sensory environment, where sound, light, and movement merged into an enigmatic presence. Rozi Mákó is a Hungarian composer & musician.
Stephanie Winter - Textile Ground & Performance, 2025
Stephanie Winter (Salon Hybrid) is founder of the Motherboard art space in Vienna, conceived and initiated Healing Common Ground, creating the textile ‘ground’ in collaboration with her team and performing as part of the ensemble. She mixed the night’s elixirs, shaping a Multi-sensory environment where sound, movement, and material converged. Winter’s practice operates at the intersection of installation, performance, and participatory formats, exploring transformation, ecology, posthumanism, and interspecies connectedness through collaborative artistic laboratories.
Marta Purusha, Vocal Performance, 2025
Vienna-based musician, yoga & meditation teacher Marta Purusha filled the darkened space with a deep, resonant voice, moving through the center of the textile ‘ground’ as she sang. Her performance marked a mystical and luminous highlight within the process.
Crystin Moritz ‘Hybrids, AI Video, 2025
in collaboration with artist Karl Karner.
In Hybrids, photographer & AI artist Crystin Moritz presents a video, weaving her distinctive visual sensibility into a fluid dialogue between the human, the natural, and the technological. The work unfolds as a poetic flux on transformation, depicting hybrid beings that hover between organic life and synthetic creation. Drawings and sculptural elements by artist Karl Karner are interwoven, subtly extending its imagery into physical space and echoing its themes of metamorphosis and coexistence.
Crystin Moritz, Hybrids (still), 2025
Performance at the opening of Healing Common Ground
Crystin Moritz hangs a framed still from her video Hybrids as a first gesture into the void of the empty space. The act marks the beginning of an evolving process, a living archive that will gradually unfold over time.
FRANCESCA ALDEGANI, Performance, 2025
Aldegani combines researches of Shinto/animist visions with ecofeminism and the universe of transcendental meditation.
She focuses on the intuitive and ritualistic aspects behind artistic conception.
At the opening, Francesca emerged from beneath the textile ‘ground’ carrying an altar piece, which she placed on the floor as part of a gradual, performative process, burning dragon’s blood in the act. She also unveiled a flag inscribed with “eat fire, drink light”, marking a poetic extension of the work into the space.
Francesca Aldegani is a visual artist, living and working in Vienna.
Healing Common Ground Conference - Collective Practices of Terrestrial Belonging
Curated by Juliana Furthner, Elisabeth Oberleitner& Stephanie Winter
Venue: MOTHERBOARD, Castellezgasse 26–38, 1020 Vienna
The Healing Common Ground Conference responds to social fragmentation and emotional numbness by opening spaces for healing, relational, ecological, and artistic care, as well as for a forward-looking togetherness, inviting the audience into a shared practice.
The project addresses the question “How to be terrestrial” and turns its gaze toward the soils, waters, plants, animals, and more-than-human worlds that sustain life.
It initiates a field of speculative kinships beyond patriarchal and capitalist norms, where care is understood as collective responsibility and belonging as a fluid, inclusive practice. This process requires an unlearning of patriarchal structures and a critical disentangling of logics of power and ownership in order to develop new forms of living together.
Healing Common Ground is conceived as a multi-phase project that begins in autumn 2025 with a research laboratory. Within this lab, perspectives are explored together with artists and audiences through participatory experiments and interdisciplinary methods. First impulses around care, un/learning, and speculative kinship will be gathered and shared in community settings.
A patchwork carpet functions simultaneously as ground, archive, and workspace, becoming an artistic tool. Each seam and every added material makes processes of collective practice visible, transforming the textile artwork into a living archive. The starting point is an empty room, which step by step turns into this growing chronicle and will be presented in its full complexity at the conference.
Through close collaboration between local, national, and international contributors, a strong network will emerge that extends beyond the conference itself. All sharing sessions will be documented as a podcast, making the collective experiences accessible in the long term.
The project points to what holds us together: the earth beneath our feet, the ecological systems we inhabit, and the relational infrastructures of care that reach beyond the human.
PERFORMANCES AND RITUALS
Rozi Mákó ‘Soundscape for Healing Common Ground’, 2025
Rozi Mákó’s slow, mysterious soundscape set the tone for the opening, an initiation into darkness as a site of renewal. As guests signed a symbolic contract and tasted the bitterness of licorice, her deep, immersive sounds guided them into a dim space where light, fog, and a moving textile ‘ground’ appeared. The performance created a layered sensory environment, where sound, light, and movement merged into an enigmatic presence. Rozi Mákó is a Hungarian composer & musician.
Stephanie Winter - Textile Ground & Performance, 2025
Stephanie Winter (Salon Hybrid) is founder of the Motherboard art space in Vienna, conceived and initiated Healing Common Ground, creating the textile ‘ground’ in collaboration with her team and performing as part of the ensemble. She mixed the night’s elixirs, shaping a Multi-sensory environment where sound, movement, and material converged. Winter’s practice operates at the intersection of installation, performance, and participatory formats, exploring transformation, ecology, posthumanism, and interspecies connectedness through collaborative artistic laboratories.
Marta Purusha, Vocal Performance, 2025
Vienna-based musician, yoga & meditation teacher Marta Purusha filled the darkened space with a deep, resonant voice, moving through the center of the textile ‘ground’ as she sang. Her performance marked a mystical and luminous highlight within the process.
Crystin Moritz ‘Hybrids, AI Video, 2025
in collaboration with artist Karl Karner.
In Hybrids, photographer & AI artist Crystin Moritz presents a video, weaving her distinctive visual sensibility into a fluid dialogue between the human, the natural, and the technological. The work unfolds as a poetic flux on transformation, depicting hybrid beings that hover between organic life and synthetic creation. Drawings and sculptural elements by artist Karl Karner are interwoven, subtly extending its imagery into physical space and echoing its themes of metamorphosis and coexistence.
Crystin Moritz, Hybrids (still), 2025
Performance at the opening of Healing Common Ground
Crystin Moritz hangs a framed still from her video Hybrids as a first gesture into the void of the empty space. The act marks the beginning of an evolving process, a living archive that will gradually unfold over time.
FRANCESCA ALDEGANI, Performance, 2025
Aldegani combines researches of Shinto/animist visions with ecofeminism and the universe of transcendental meditation.
She focuses on the intuitive and ritualistic aspects behind artistic conception.
At the opening, Francesca emerged from beneath the textile ‘ground’ carrying an altar piece, which she placed on the floor as part of a gradual, performative process, burning dragon’s blood in the act. She also unveiled a flag inscribed with “eat fire, drink light”, marking a poetic extension of the work into the space.
Francesca Aldegani is a visual artist, living and working in Vienna.
MOTHERBOARD is a feminist & caring space for art, theory & practice dreamed & hosted by SALON HYBRID
WITH MOTHERBOARD AND SALON HYBRID
Healing Common Ground Conference - Collective Practices of Terrestrial Belonging
Curated by Juliana Furthner, Elisabeth Oberleitner& Stephanie Winter
Venue: MOTHERBOARD, Castellezgasse 26–38, 1020 Vienna
The Healing Common Ground Conference responds to social fragmentation and emotional numbness by opening spaces for healing, relational, ecological, and artistic care, as well as for a forward-looking togetherness, inviting the audience into a shared practice.
The project addresses the question “How to be terrestrial” and turns its gaze toward the soils, waters, plants, animals, and more-than-human worlds that sustain life.
It initiates a field of speculative kinships beyond patriarchal and capitalist norms, where care is understood as collective responsibility and belonging as a fluid, inclusive practice. This process requires an unlearning of patriarchal structures and a critical disentangling of logics of power and ownership in order to develop new forms of living together.
Healing Common Ground is conceived as a multi-phase project that begins in autumn 2025 with a research laboratory. Within this lab, perspectives are explored together with artists and audiences through participatory experiments and interdisciplinary methods. First impulses around care, un/learning, and speculative kinship will be gathered and shared in community settings.
A patchwork carpet functions simultaneously as ground, archive, and workspace, becoming an artistic tool. Each seam and every added material makes processes of collective practice visible, transforming the textile artwork into a living archive. The starting point is an empty room, which step by step turns into this growing chronicle and will be presented in its full complexity at the conference.
Through close collaboration between local, national, and international contributors, a strong network will emerge that extends beyond the conference itself. All sharing sessions will be documented as a podcast, making the collective experiences accessible in the long term.
The project points to what holds us together: the earth beneath our feet, the ecological systems we inhabit, and the relational infrastructures of care that reach beyond the human.
PERFORMANCES AND RITUALS
Rozi Mákó ‘Soundscape for Healing Common Ground’, 2025
Rozi Mákó’s slow, mysterious soundscape set the tone for the opening, an initiation into darkness as a site of renewal. As guests signed a symbolic contract and tasted the bitterness of licorice, her deep, immersive sounds guided them into a dim space where light, fog, and a moving textile ‘ground’ appeared. The performance created a layered sensory environment, where sound, light, and movement merged into an enigmatic presence. Rozi Mákó is a Hungarian composer & musician.
Stephanie Winter - Textile Ground & Performance, 2025
Stephanie Winter (Salon Hybrid) is founder of the Motherboard art space in Vienna, conceived and initiated Healing Common Ground, creating the textile ‘ground’ in collaboration with her team and performing as part of the ensemble. She mixed the night’s elixirs, shaping a Multi-sensory environment where sound, movement, and material converged. Winter’s practice operates at the intersection of installation, performance, and participatory formats, exploring transformation, ecology, posthumanism, and interspecies connectedness through collaborative artistic laboratories.
Marta Purusha, Vocal Performance, 2025
Vienna-based musician, yoga & meditation teacher Marta Purusha filled the darkened space with a deep, resonant voice, moving through the center of the textile ‘ground’ as she sang. Her performance marked a mystical and luminous highlight within the process.
Crystin Moritz ‘Hybrids, AI Video, 2025
in collaboration with artist Karl Karner.
In Hybrids, photographer & AI artist Crystin Moritz presents a video, weaving her distinctive visual sensibility into a fluid dialogue between the human, the natural, and the technological. The work unfolds as a poetic flux on transformation, depicting hybrid beings that hover between organic life and synthetic creation. Drawings and sculptural elements by artist Karl Karner are interwoven, subtly extending its imagery into physical space and echoing its themes of metamorphosis and coexistence.
Crystin Moritz, Hybrids (still), 2025
Performance at the opening of Healing Common Ground
Crystin Moritz hangs a framed still from her video Hybrids as a first gesture into the void of the empty space. The act marks the beginning of an evolving process, a living archive that will gradually unfold over time.
FRANCESCA ALDEGANI, Performance, 2025
Aldegani combines researches of Shinto/animist visions with ecofeminism and the universe of transcendental meditation.
She focuses on the intuitive and ritualistic aspects behind artistic conception.
At the opening, Francesca emerged from beneath the textile ‘ground’ carrying an altar piece, which she placed on the floor as part of a gradual, performative process, burning dragon’s blood in the act. She also unveiled a flag inscribed with “eat fire, drink light”, marking a poetic extension of the work into the space.
Francesca Aldegani is a visual artist, living and working in Vienna.
Healing Common Ground Conference - Collective Practices of Terrestrial Belonging
Curated by Juliana Furthner, Elisabeth Oberleitner& Stephanie Winter
Venue: MOTHERBOARD, Castellezgasse 26–38, 1020 Vienna
The Healing Common Ground Conference responds to social fragmentation and emotional numbness by opening spaces for healing, relational, ecological, and artistic care, as well as for a forward-looking togetherness, inviting the audience into a shared practice.
The project addresses the question “How to be terrestrial” and turns its gaze toward the soils, waters, plants, animals, and more-than-human worlds that sustain life.
It initiates a field of speculative kinships beyond patriarchal and capitalist norms, where care is understood as collective responsibility and belonging as a fluid, inclusive practice. This process requires an unlearning of patriarchal structures and a critical disentangling of logics of power and ownership in order to develop new forms of living together.
Healing Common Ground is conceived as a multi-phase project that begins in autumn 2025 with a research laboratory. Within this lab, perspectives are explored together with artists and audiences through participatory experiments and interdisciplinary methods. First impulses around care, un/learning, and speculative kinship will be gathered and shared in community settings.
A patchwork carpet functions simultaneously as ground, archive, and workspace, becoming an artistic tool. Each seam and every added material makes processes of collective practice visible, transforming the textile artwork into a living archive. The starting point is an empty room, which step by step turns into this growing chronicle and will be presented in its full complexity at the conference.
Through close collaboration between local, national, and international contributors, a strong network will emerge that extends beyond the conference itself. All sharing sessions will be documented as a podcast, making the collective experiences accessible in the long term.
The project points to what holds us together: the earth beneath our feet, the ecological systems we inhabit, and the relational infrastructures of care that reach beyond the human.
PERFORMANCES AND RITUALS
Rozi Mákó ‘Soundscape for Healing Common Ground’, 2025
Rozi Mákó’s slow, mysterious soundscape set the tone for the opening, an initiation into darkness as a site of renewal. As guests signed a symbolic contract and tasted the bitterness of licorice, her deep, immersive sounds guided them into a dim space where light, fog, and a moving textile ‘ground’ appeared. The performance created a layered sensory environment, where sound, light, and movement merged into an enigmatic presence. Rozi Mákó is a Hungarian composer & musician.
Stephanie Winter - Textile Ground & Performance, 2025
Stephanie Winter (Salon Hybrid) is founder of the Motherboard art space in Vienna, conceived and initiated Healing Common Ground, creating the textile ‘ground’ in collaboration with her team and performing as part of the ensemble. She mixed the night’s elixirs, shaping a Multi-sensory environment where sound, movement, and material converged. Winter’s practice operates at the intersection of installation, performance, and participatory formats, exploring transformation, ecology, posthumanism, and interspecies connectedness through collaborative artistic laboratories.
Marta Purusha, Vocal Performance, 2025
Vienna-based musician, yoga & meditation teacher Marta Purusha filled the darkened space with a deep, resonant voice, moving through the center of the textile ‘ground’ as she sang. Her performance marked a mystical and luminous highlight within the process.
Crystin Moritz ‘Hybrids, AI Video, 2025
in collaboration with artist Karl Karner.
In Hybrids, photographer & AI artist Crystin Moritz presents a video, weaving her distinctive visual sensibility into a fluid dialogue between the human, the natural, and the technological. The work unfolds as a poetic flux on transformation, depicting hybrid beings that hover between organic life and synthetic creation. Drawings and sculptural elements by artist Karl Karner are interwoven, subtly extending its imagery into physical space and echoing its themes of metamorphosis and coexistence.
Crystin Moritz, Hybrids (still), 2025
Performance at the opening of Healing Common Ground
Crystin Moritz hangs a framed still from her video Hybrids as a first gesture into the void of the empty space. The act marks the beginning of an evolving process, a living archive that will gradually unfold over time.
FRANCESCA ALDEGANI, Performance, 2025
Aldegani combines researches of Shinto/animist visions with ecofeminism and the universe of transcendental meditation.
She focuses on the intuitive and ritualistic aspects behind artistic conception.
At the opening, Francesca emerged from beneath the textile ‘ground’ carrying an altar piece, which she placed on the floor as part of a gradual, performative process, burning dragon’s blood in the act. She also unveiled a flag inscribed with “eat fire, drink light”, marking a poetic extension of the work into the space.
Francesca Aldegani is a visual artist, living and working in Vienna.
MOTHERBOARD is a feminist & caring space for art, theory & practice dreamed & hosted by SALON HYBRID
WITH MOTHERBOARD AND SALON HYBRID
Healing Common Ground Conference - Collective Practices of Terrestrial Belonging
Curated by Juliana Furthner, Elisabeth Oberleitner& Stephanie Winter
Venue: MOTHERBOARD, Castellezgasse 26–38, 1020 Vienna
The Healing Common Ground Conference responds to social fragmentation and emotional numbness by opening spaces for healing, relational, ecological, and artistic care, as well as for a forward-looking togetherness, inviting the audience into a shared practice.
The project addresses the question “How to be terrestrial” and turns its gaze toward the soils, waters, plants, animals, and more-than-human worlds that sustain life.
It initiates a field of speculative kinships beyond patriarchal and capitalist norms, where care is understood as collective responsibility and belonging as a fluid, inclusive practice. This process requires an unlearning of patriarchal structures and a critical disentangling of logics of power and ownership in order to develop new forms of living together.
Healing Common Ground is conceived as a multi-phase project that begins in autumn 2025 with a research laboratory. Within this lab, perspectives are explored together with artists and audiences through participatory experiments and interdisciplinary methods. First impulses around care, un/learning, and speculative kinship will be gathered and shared in community settings.
A patchwork carpet functions simultaneously as ground, archive, and workspace, becoming an artistic tool. Each seam and every added material makes processes of collective practice visible, transforming the textile artwork into a living archive. The starting point is an empty room, which step by step turns into this growing chronicle and will be presented in its full complexity at the conference.
Through close collaboration between local, national, and international contributors, a strong network will emerge that extends beyond the conference itself. All sharing sessions will be documented as a podcast, making the collective experiences accessible in the long term.
The project points to what holds us together: the earth beneath our feet, the ecological systems we inhabit, and the relational infrastructures of care that reach beyond the human.
PERFORMANCES AND RITUALS
Rozi Mákó ‘Soundscape for Healing Common Ground’, 2025
Rozi Mákó’s slow, mysterious soundscape set the tone for the opening, an initiation into darkness as a site of renewal. As guests signed a symbolic contract and tasted the bitterness of licorice, her deep, immersive sounds guided them into a dim space where light, fog, and a moving textile ‘ground’ appeared. The performance created a layered sensory environment, where sound, light, and movement merged into an enigmatic presence. Rozi Mákó is a Hungarian composer & musician.
Stephanie Winter - Textile Ground & Performance, 2025
Stephanie Winter (Salon Hybrid) is founder of the Motherboard art space in Vienna, conceived and initiated Healing Common Ground, creating the textile ‘ground’ in collaboration with her team and performing as part of the ensemble. She mixed the night’s elixirs, shaping a Multi-sensory environment where sound, movement, and material converged. Winter’s practice operates at the intersection of installation, performance, and participatory formats, exploring transformation, ecology, posthumanism, and interspecies connectedness through collaborative artistic laboratories.
Marta Purusha, Vocal Performance, 2025
Vienna-based musician, yoga & meditation teacher Marta Purusha filled the darkened space with a deep, resonant voice, moving through the center of the textile ‘ground’ as she sang. Her performance marked a mystical and luminous highlight within the process.
Crystin Moritz ‘Hybrids, AI Video, 2025
in collaboration with artist Karl Karner.
In Hybrids, photographer & AI artist Crystin Moritz presents a video, weaving her distinctive visual sensibility into a fluid dialogue between the human, the natural, and the technological. The work unfolds as a poetic flux on transformation, depicting hybrid beings that hover between organic life and synthetic creation. Drawings and sculptural elements by artist Karl Karner are interwoven, subtly extending its imagery into physical space and echoing its themes of metamorphosis and coexistence.
Crystin Moritz, Hybrids (still), 2025
Performance at the opening of Healing Common Ground
Crystin Moritz hangs a framed still from her video Hybrids as a first gesture into the void of the empty space. The act marks the beginning of an evolving process, a living archive that will gradually unfold over time.
FRANCESCA ALDEGANI, Performance, 2025
Aldegani combines researches of Shinto/animist visions with ecofeminism and the universe of transcendental meditation.
She focuses on the intuitive and ritualistic aspects behind artistic conception.
At the opening, Francesca emerged from beneath the textile ‘ground’ carrying an altar piece, which she placed on the floor as part of a gradual, performative process, burning dragon’s blood in the act. She also unveiled a flag inscribed with “eat fire, drink light”, marking a poetic extension of the work into the space.
Francesca Aldegani is a visual artist, living and working in Vienna.
Healing Common Ground Conference - Collective Practices of Terrestrial Belonging
Curated by Juliana Furthner, Elisabeth Oberleitner& Stephanie Winter
Venue: MOTHERBOARD, Castellezgasse 26–38, 1020 Vienna
The Healing Common Ground Conference responds to social fragmentation and emotional numbness by opening spaces for healing, relational, ecological, and artistic care, as well as for a forward-looking togetherness, inviting the audience into a shared practice.
The project addresses the question “How to be terrestrial” and turns its gaze toward the soils, waters, plants, animals, and more-than-human worlds that sustain life.
It initiates a field of speculative kinships beyond patriarchal and capitalist norms, where care is understood as collective responsibility and belonging as a fluid, inclusive practice. This process requires an unlearning of patriarchal structures and a critical disentangling of logics of power and ownership in order to develop new forms of living together.
Healing Common Ground is conceived as a multi-phase project that begins in autumn 2025 with a research laboratory. Within this lab, perspectives are explored together with artists and audiences through participatory experiments and interdisciplinary methods. First impulses around care, un/learning, and speculative kinship will be gathered and shared in community settings.
A patchwork carpet functions simultaneously as ground, archive, and workspace, becoming an artistic tool. Each seam and every added material makes processes of collective practice visible, transforming the textile artwork into a living archive. The starting point is an empty room, which step by step turns into this growing chronicle and will be presented in its full complexity at the conference.
Through close collaboration between local, national, and international contributors, a strong network will emerge that extends beyond the conference itself. All sharing sessions will be documented as a podcast, making the collective experiences accessible in the long term.
The project points to what holds us together: the earth beneath our feet, the ecological systems we inhabit, and the relational infrastructures of care that reach beyond the human.
PERFORMANCES AND RITUALS
Rozi Mákó ‘Soundscape for Healing Common Ground’, 2025
Rozi Mákó’s slow, mysterious soundscape set the tone for the opening, an initiation into darkness as a site of renewal. As guests signed a symbolic contract and tasted the bitterness of licorice, her deep, immersive sounds guided them into a dim space where light, fog, and a moving textile ‘ground’ appeared. The performance created a layered sensory environment, where sound, light, and movement merged into an enigmatic presence. Rozi Mákó is a Hungarian composer & musician.
Stephanie Winter - Textile Ground & Performance, 2025
Stephanie Winter (Salon Hybrid) is founder of the Motherboard art space in Vienna, conceived and initiated Healing Common Ground, creating the textile ‘ground’ in collaboration with her team and performing as part of the ensemble. She mixed the night’s elixirs, shaping a Multi-sensory environment where sound, movement, and material converged. Winter’s practice operates at the intersection of installation, performance, and participatory formats, exploring transformation, ecology, posthumanism, and interspecies connectedness through collaborative artistic laboratories.
Marta Purusha, Vocal Performance, 2025
Vienna-based musician, yoga & meditation teacher Marta Purusha filled the darkened space with a deep, resonant voice, moving through the center of the textile ‘ground’ as she sang. Her performance marked a mystical and luminous highlight within the process.
Crystin Moritz ‘Hybrids, AI Video, 2025
in collaboration with artist Karl Karner.
In Hybrids, photographer & AI artist Crystin Moritz presents a video, weaving her distinctive visual sensibility into a fluid dialogue between the human, the natural, and the technological. The work unfolds as a poetic flux on transformation, depicting hybrid beings that hover between organic life and synthetic creation. Drawings and sculptural elements by artist Karl Karner are interwoven, subtly extending its imagery into physical space and echoing its themes of metamorphosis and coexistence.
Crystin Moritz, Hybrids (still), 2025
Performance at the opening of Healing Common Ground
Crystin Moritz hangs a framed still from her video Hybrids as a first gesture into the void of the empty space. The act marks the beginning of an evolving process, a living archive that will gradually unfold over time.
FRANCESCA ALDEGANI, Performance, 2025
Aldegani combines researches of Shinto/animist visions with ecofeminism and the universe of transcendental meditation.
She focuses on the intuitive and ritualistic aspects behind artistic conception.
At the opening, Francesca emerged from beneath the textile ‘ground’ carrying an altar piece, which she placed on the floor as part of a gradual, performative process, burning dragon’s blood in the act. She also unveiled a flag inscribed with “eat fire, drink light”, marking a poetic extension of the work into the space.
Francesca Aldegani is a visual artist, living and working in Vienna.
MOTHERBOARD is a feminist & caring space for art, theory & practice dreamed & hosted by SALON HYBRID