ANA DE ALMEIDA
“Ficou
a ver
passar
navios.”
#ARTS-BASED RESEARCH #ARCHITECTURE #COMMONS #INSTALLATION #SPACE #MULTIMEDIA #IDENTITY #PERFORMANCE
#NEO-COLONIAL #VIDEO #GENDER
BIO. Ana de Almeida (b.1987) is an artist and author from Lisbon, currently based in Vienna. She is a member of the artists’
collective dienstag abendof
of VBKÖ and of the Interndinner collective against precarization of work in the cultural field. Her artistic practice addresses memory and remembering processes, narrative constructions that connect space and subject, and plurispatial and multilayered narratives in general.
Ana de Almeida is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna, pursuing a doctoral thesis about the production of images in the 1974—1989 inter-revolutionary space between the Carnation and the Velvet Revolutions.
Ana de Almeida is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna, pursuing a doctoral thesis about the production of images in the 1974—1989 inter-revolutionary space between the Carnation and the Velvet Revolutions.
Ana de Almeida, Alicja Rogalskaand & Vanja Smiljanic
NOVA. Future thoughts on surviving together (2020 AT)
Live Action Role Play
In the future, gender inequality was erased. Nova is a multitude of newly born, radically inclusive and self-managed communities. Heterogeneous in their forms of commoning and social organization, Nova share a vow to never let oppression in any form rise again. Nova. Future thoughts on surviving together is a feminist futurist LARP - Live Action Role Play by Ana de Almeida, Alicja Rogalska and Vanja Smiljanić; directed towards feminist and queer-feminist activists based in Vienna. NOVA is a day of speculative gaming aimed at sharing survival strategies, exercising solidarity and intersectionality, creating solidarity networks and forming new alliances between different emancipatory movements. Together, we created a piece of feminist political fiction - a work in progress and a world free of patriarchal oppression in the making.
With: VBKÖ, Saloon Wien, Kunst & Kind, Latinxs Unidxs, Kültür Gemma, Cine Collective, Mala Sirena, female:pressure.
A Casa / The House The flat / Die Fläche (2018 PT)
MDF, stucco-lustro, stereo sound 42'5'' looped
Likewise a sculpture, A Casa (The House) shares the aesthetic and architectonic language of the House Wittgenstein in Vienna. The two volumes are a transposition and folding down of two of its architectonic elements: a window and the vestibule door. They serve as display for documental material such as letters and photos and incorporate an audio piece with interviews led by the artist. The surface is covered by stucco-lustro, a coating technique proliferating in Vienna on the turn to the 20th century, similar to how could the original coating of the walls of the House Wittgenstein have looked like before they were painted white after World War II. The highlighting of the stucco-lustro architectonic detail points out to a fundamental discovery for the understanding of the house as aesthetic experiment in which the house interiors, composed by materials which evoke extreme hardness, seem to dematerialize through the highly reflecting properties of the stucco walls.
Photos: © Ana de Almeida & Stephanie Misa
Untitled (Yellow) (2017 PT)
Wall, yellow paint, memorabilia, diashow, stereo sound
A cooperation between Ana de Almeida (PT/AT) and Stephanie Misa (PH/AT) . This is a project about landscape as formal and informal disposition of elements. Coordinates. An arrangement, a hierarchy: borders and de-limitations, transpositions and transgressions, frames and their inside-outside, margins, and of course landscape — of the geographical, political, personal, and emotional nature. Edouard Glissant’s Traité du Tout-Monde. (Poétique IV), calls it archipelagic thinking, a group of islands that lends its topography to an alternative imaginary: a reassessment of the insularity of bound cultures, of nation-states, and the heaviness of “continental thought”. The archipelago is an alternative imaginary, one that posits that identity could be as a conglomeration of islands (composed of many, yet is one). Identity formation, embodiment, complex colonial histories, evolution, interconnectedness, diaspora and change — Oh to dispell the oppressive idea of nationalistic wholeness!
ANNA WATZINGER
TranZ
_something between space and time,
Prozessgestalt
_moving sculpture,
Binärkörper
_bodyscreen,
Rainbow
_
the beauty of fractionizing things
#ARTS-BASED RESEARCH #BIO #BODY #COMMONS #DIGITAL #ECOLOGY #EXISTENTIAL #FABULATION #HACKING #LANGUAGE #INSTALLATION #INTERACTIVE #MULTIMEDIA #ONTOLOGY #PERFORMANCE #SCIENCE #SPACE #SCULPTURE #VIDEO
BIO.
Anna Watzinger, based in Vienna (A), holds a diploma in sculpture from the Vienna Art School and a degree in digital/media art from the University of Applied Arts Vienna and works within various media, subjects and projects, focusing on this liquid space of encounter of different things and phenomenon. She showed her work in many places in Vienna and abroad, including an artist in residency; received an award of KÖR and was/is member of different art collectives. She is one of these artists who lives for art but not living from art ;)
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Images: © Anna Watzinger
www.smartrainbow7punkt0.systems (2021)
Website, 3D home is interactive, in cooperation with Laurus Edelbacher
The source of the smart rainbow 7.0 website www.smartrainbow7punkt0.systems respresents the multimedia installation smart rainbow 7.0. Those links the error display of (older) macOS operating computer systems (“rotating rainbow cursor") with both the meteorological phenomenon of the rainbow and the topic of global warming by using the consisting elements of the rainbow, (frozen, colored) water and (electric) light for „downloading“ the „rotating rainbow error cursor“ via seven ice sculptures into the real, technical upgraded space of a freezer box.
In line with the third participation of smart rainbow 7.0 at the exhibition “Καιρός – recall of earth III“ by Sophia Panteliadou at AIL Vienna, the entire installation including all complementary material (in progress), were precisely "smart rainbow 7.0 – conceptually fractionized” "uploaded” into the virtual online space. Hence these 7 rotating error cursors or floating light particles, which function as the seven chapters of the website, represent each a color of the rainbow, assigned to a media category/form of appearance, whereupon related content is successively uploaded on the media specific online platform/cloud in the www, embedded via inline frame on the website or provided via hyperlink if x-frame lock is active.
Semantic Visuals of INSOMNIA 2.0_
© Anna Watzinger
Video frames © Patryk Senwicki & Anna Watzinger incl. editing
INSOMNIA 2.0_THINGS THINKING DATA DEMONS (2019 - 2020)
Sensory Installation
INSOMNIA 2.0_ is a sensory installation that deals by means of personal (chronic sleep disorders, sleep laboratory), system-critical (24/7 sleepless, monitored 2. 0 society) and atmospheric (#cleanDEEPSkinSCREEN) layers of insomnia, inherent topics (bed-disease-body-functions-monitoring, sleep-dream, object-subject, minimal emotional housing) and possible causes of it (personal/smartphone and collective off-online state/corporate - surveillance) and tries to translate these _ THINGS THINKING DATA DEMONS into a material+technical up to atmospheric adequate appearance of insomnia and surveillance by analyzing the multi-layered sleep laboratory examination.
All the excitations of Insomnia 2.0_ are based on the artist's sleep phase curve; these generate the movement of the bed and serve as a template for the overall editing of the 10-channel surveillance monitor video composition of the bed body. The user, lying on the Insomnia 2.0_ bed, literally touches the quality/sleep phases of the artist's sleep.
Download whole content: https://fedora.phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/fedora/get/o:37287/bdef:Content/get
© Anna Watzinger
© Anna Watzinger
THE MALUS DOMESTICA ARCHIVE (2010 - ongoing)
Transmedial
THE MALUS DOMESTICA ARCHIVE is a field research and archive in progress on the phenomenon, materiality and topic of the fruit apple. It represents an artistic field of experimentation and work-in-progress laboratory, in which the countless possible forms and levels of meaning of a thing are beeing explored by choosing the example of the apple. The apple as the main actor, material and projection screen of multifaceted processes of investigation and editing becomes the general and particular object of desire.
On a meta-level, this approach can be understood as a half serious and ironic search for "the soul of the apple" and in doing so the fundamental question of the being of things ("Das Ding dingt", Martin Heidegger; Sein und Zeit) is raising. The ensoulment of (supposed) things as a way out of the crisis....
In memory of the generality of modernity and the relativism of postmodernity, may one even dare to formulate something truthful about something? Or must one in view of the transhumanism literally become an apple in order to be able to give answers about beeing an apple?
The fictitious goal would be: "all about the apple"! And the apple as a projection screen for enlightenment! (apple zen ;) But in any case, the apple as the r e a l big data…
more info: https://annawatzinger.com/the-malus-domestica-archive/