Silke Grabinger's works and concepts combine contemporary dance with performative art and robotics. Her particular focus is critical examination of social phenomena, artistic paradigms and the function and position of the audience.
She was first introduced to breakdancing in her youth, and as "B-Girl SILK"and in various teams, she achieved success in numerous international competitions. She promoted hip-hop culture through the B-Girl Circle project. After dancing in the Cirque du Soleil production "LOVE" from 2006 to 2008 and working with choreographers Dave St-Pierre (CAN), Margie Gillis (CAN) and Daniel Ezralow (USA), she created her first solo dance piece "[SILK]" with Pilottanzt (AT) in 2008.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in raum&designstrategien, she was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Design for a group exhibition. She completed her studies with a Master of Arts in time-based media. In her contemporary work, she has been a test subject for various choreographers, including Anne Juren, Benoit Lachambre, Astrid Endruweit & Michael Laub, Oleg Soulimenko, Hubert Lepka of lawine torren, cabaret artist Dirk Stermannand, filmmaker Arash T. Riahi, each for ten minutes. She developed a dance notation for musicians and collaborated with the composer Bernhard Lang (AT) on the performance piece "Moving Architecture", which was based on the architecture of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York and premiered there. She is currently developing this transfer of compositional models into moving art forms with the series "Compositional transer inbodied". In the same year, she founded her second dance company, SILK Fluegge, parallel to SILK Cie. with the intention of developing dance and performance productions as an experimental field for different disciplines. In 2021 she opened KLISCOPE, a former chapel, as a creative space for new experiments and visions.
She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Art and Design Linz(AT) and CCI, UAL London on the topic of robotics &performance in the context of media art and AI with a focus on the transfer of meaning to moving bodies. Since 2018, she has been working with robotics in collaboration with ARS Electronica and Creative Robotics.
SILK Fluegge is an artist collective for contemporary dance and art. The artistic work of the collective includes performances in theatres, interventions in museums and public spaces and arts and cultural mediation.
SILK Fluegge got honoured with the “STELLA 15” an Award for an outstanding theatre production for young people in the year 2015, the “women’s award 2018”, the “Recognition award for intercultural youth and children development work 2015” and the “Recognition award for stage art of the province of Upper Austria 2013” for our several performances and artistic work in the last years.
SILK Fluegge is supported by Stadt Linz, Bundeskanzleramt and Land Oberösterreich. SILK Fluegge is part of Assitej Austria.
SILK Cie. is a company for contemporary dance and art. The collective of artists is located at the intersection of contemporary performing art and space/design strategies. A crucial focus of the company’s work lies on the critical engagement with social phenomena, artistic paradigms and the function and situatedness of the audience.
KLISCOPE, a former chapel in Linz, is not only the main production area of SILK Fluegge but offers a variety of usage possibilities. The listed building is used for rehearsals and performances, as well as weekly breaking and B-girling classes for children and teenagers through the KLISCOPE Academy. In addition, two rooms of different sizes are available for rent for events, projects, artist residencies, performances, and more. You can find all the details about rentals here.
SILK KLISCOPE: Glimpfingerstraße 8 Eingang SÜD, 4020 Linz
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SILK Cie. / SILK Fluegge / SILK KLISCOPE - interdisciplinary performative art which reaches out to humans and robots
