Claudia Heu

Claudia Heu is a Lecturer at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK) within the Faculty of Performing Arts since November 2013. Her practice bridges artistic performance, social engagement, and transdisciplinary research across Europe, Mongolia, and the USA.

Her research focuses on performance art at the intersection of reality and fiction, exploring themes through site-specific installations, participatory theater, and social interventions. Key projects include:

• Metabolism – Ecologies of Collaboration (Im_Flieger Vienna): Transmedia research on collaborative systems
• Tsam dance research in Khamaryn Khiid (Gobi Desert) examining women's roles
• Alga Bolokh – On Disappearance: Urban study of Ulaanbaatar's social realities
• We are our times (with Roland Schmidt): Art-sustainable living-resistance communities

Her artistic output trends reveal a consistent engagement with urban transformation and collective action, utilizing diverse collaborators from sex workers to urban planners. Works have been presented at Wiener Festwochen, Impulstanzfestival, Tanzquartier Vienna, and international venues including Kaaistudios Brussels and Moving Pattern Festival NYC.

No scientific awards are documented in available materials.

As an educator and artist-researcher, Heu emphasizes embodied practice and community-based knowledge production. Her teaching integrates conflict resolution, choreography, and performance methodologies developed through collaborations with institutions like Urban Nomads and Tricklock Company. Current grants support her Gobi Desert research and transmedia projects.

She maintains active laboratory practices through Im_Flieger Vienna and collaborates with international networks including Erasmus+ partners. Her work with the former artist collective CABULA6 (2000-2011) established foundations for current community-engaged methodologies.