Next to our Huggy Bears Supporting program, our residency program, our public events, and our artists in residence throughout the year, we are glad to announce a new branch in our growing tree of art: Associated Artists.
Continuing and expanding our curatorial and political approach, we are now launching a new supporting strategy. We have invited two Vienna-based artists, Luigi Guerrieri and Stefano D’Alessio, to become the first Bears in the Park Associated Artists. Our aim at Bears in the Park has always been to provide long-term support to artists. With this new format of ongoing collaboration, we believe we are contributing a meaningful and sustainable framework to the Viennese art scene—one that supports continuity, artistic development, and shared growth.
As Associated Artists, Luigi and Stefano will engage in projects in close dialogue with Bears in the Park, shaping a relationship that unfolds over time rather than within a single production cycle. While they are also active as individual artists, they have embarked on a shared path with a collaborative project. For this, we offer them the time and space to develop and nurture this new work.
The Project
GIGGIDALESSIO is an interdisciplinary, multilingual duo composed of Stefano D’Alessio and Luigi Guerrieri, working with live electronics, embodied technology, performance and text. Their work combines gestural sound-making, new media, voice and physical presence to create engaging concert-performances and research projects that reflect contemporary culture phenomena with a self-ironic twist. Our first and latest project is ANGST a concert-performance about fear: existential fear, nonsensical fear, political fear, “red-scare”, the fear of the other, the fear of / love for clichés, the fear of admitting who we are, what we like, and what we don’t. AAAAHHHHH!!!
Associated Artists Bios
Luigi Guerrieri is a performance artist with a background in Anthropology. His works question deeply rooted cultural concepts mixing text, irony, physical improvisation, voice, obsessive repetitions and Auto-ethnography. When not on the stage, Luigi writes, takes care of his kids, works sporadically as a cook and posts short videos on Social Media.
Stefano D’Alessio is a media artist, performer, composer and educator at various universities across Europe. He creates audio-visual compositions, performances, and interactive installations, exploring how the internet shapes human behavior and body. His practice centers on human–machine interaction, where sound, light, image, and physical presence perform as a single organism.
Foto Credit Luigi: Rosa Knecht
Foto Credit Stefano: Francesca Centonze