About Us
XAOS Queer Care Club has been created by and for people with chronic health challenges and the care and support networks that are formed to hold us.
Recognising that care networks transcend geographical borders and normative concepts of commitment, relationships and interdependencies, entangle different positionalities XAOS is deeply intersectional and transformative.
We are constantly practicing to find adaptive and accessible ways of working and creating together that can change and evolve to resonate with our needs, dreams and desires.
XAOS is rooted within the ecologies of queer, trans, intersex and non-binary lived experiences in post-migration realities, situated at the entanglements of health and dis/ability, community care and queer feminist remapping of worlds, committed to accessibility, intersectionality and collectivity.
XAOS has been envisioned to become the nourishing soil that sustains the well-being of our corporealities, minds, and hearts through conversations, collective de/learning, kin counselling, community-led research, artistic practices, and the sharing of the wonders and messiness of our scattered, intertwined and sometimes conflicting experiences within our complex constellations of care.
By exploring ever-changing ways of becoming and decomposing, XAOS cultivates spaces where practices of care are politicised, reimagined, and transformed.
Team
damijan stranner (they/them)
facilitator, educator, and trauma counsellor based between vienna and athens. they weave trauma-informed, somatic, and participatory practices to create multilingual, intersectional queer and transfeminist learning spaces. their work centers collective care, grief, vulnerability, and the messiness and wonders of our intertwined lives.
Iva Marković
project manager, organizer, writer, performer, and translator from Yugoslavia, currently based in Vienna. Navigating daily between four languages—and the distinct realities each one carries—she explores themes of everyday solidarity, collective living, and the complexities of property and belonging.
andrea ancira (they/she)
editor and cultural organiser from Mexico, currently based in Vienna. Their practice moves across archival work, writing, editing, translation, and political organising. Since 2016, they have been co-creating within tumbalacasa ediciones, a queer-feminist independent publishing platform. They are also also part of the Feministisches* Bloco Descolonial in Vienna, where they co-organise actions to raise awareness of and counter gender-based violence.
Tyan Fritschy (they)
fritschy.cc
knowledge laborer with a philosophical, pedagogical, curatorial and social practice. Currently, they write a dissertation on property formation and gender-sexuality at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and teach at various (art) universities. They are interested in questions of mental health and marginalisation while they are exploring the liberatory potentialities of psychoanalysis. They live and work in Vienna.