Love Me Tender, Love Me Queer // book presentation
16.10.2025, 18:30h QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA
Otto Wagner Areal, C- Gebäude, former “Direktion”, staircase 2, mezzanine floor,
Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien
With authors Ema Benčiková, Denice Bourbon and Ruthia Jenrbekova, accompanied by Track Selector Tubi Malcharzik.
The book Love Me Tender, Love Me Queer is an exploration of queer love in its many forms: as political defiance, as the foundation for community, as a celebration of plurality, and as a practice of freedom. Through a multigenerational lens, it puts in dialogue interview fragments from queer individuals living in Vienna with reflections by artists and writers from different geographical locations and theoretical positionings.
Moderated by the editors Marie-Christin Rissinger & Frida Robles.
Participants:
Ema Benčíková (she/they, based in Vienna) studies critical phenomenology of trans and crip embodiment, mutual aid initiatives, and performativity of disability, through the lens of queer theory. Her theater work is focused on community building and empowering marginalized people. She curated the exhibition “Care Webs and Cuddles” at Kunsthalle Exnergasse. Currently, they are conducting embodied research on caring practices in the context of personal assistance with people with disabilities.
Denice Bourbon (she/her, based in Vienna) is a lesbian/queer feminist performance artist, singer, author, presenter, curator, and stand up comedian. She uses humor and entertainment as an activist tool to draw attention to political issues. In 2017 she co-founded the queer comedy club PCCC*, which she has been running alone since 2020 as a presenter, office genius and comedy mother. Denice Bourbon is very loud, prude and pretty decadent.
Ruthia Jenrbekova (she/her, based in Almaty and Vienna) is an artist and researcher from Kazakhstan. Holding an MA in Ecology she works as an intermedial author, performer, cultural organiser and impostor. She is a co-founder of a ghostly institution named Kreolex zentre (together with Maria Vilkovisky). Her fields of interest are queer ecology, material semiotics, arts-based methodologies, transfeminism.
Frida Robles Ponce (she/her, based in Vienna) is an artist and curator. She engages in processes of self-questioning and healing, understanding the personal as political. Her artistic practice varies from public art installations to performances to textual work. She lectures at the Theater, Film and Media Studies of the University of Vienna and is a PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Frida Robles Ponce (she/her, based in Vienna) is an artist and curator. She engages in processes of self-questioning and healing, understanding the personal as political. Her artistic practice varies from public art installations to performances to textual work. She lectures at the Theater, Film and Media Studies of the University of Vienna and is a PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Tubi Malcharzik (they/them) is a performer, dramaturg, and DJ based between Vienna and Hannover. Through an artistic-research approach, their performance projects, video works, and audio walks explore queer memory, Polish-German migration histories, and seemingly impossible duets. As part of aua&angst, they have DJed at Hyperreality, Unsafe+Sounds, transmediale (Berlin), and Dyke Night (Witten).
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