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!
HUI YE
MULTIMEDIA ARTIS
“Researching
and deconstructing
the relation of sound
and moving image,
exploring the
many layers of
the definition of
social
identity.”
#SOUND #DIGITAL #GENDER #IDENTITY #FABULATION #ELECTRONICS #HACKING #INSTALLATION #VIDEO #MULTIMEDIA #NEO-COLONIAL #PERFORMANCE
BIO. Hui Ye is an artist and composer based in Vienna, Austria. Her works span on different media: video/film, installation, composition and live sound performance.
In her recent projects, Hui Ye raises the question of how social identity of individual is being shaped by the different cultural/political contexts. Due to her research on the social-political aspect of sounds and music culture, she attempts to open another perspective of reflecting the function and impact of music and sounds in contemporary society.
Hui Ye received several scholarships and prizes, i.a. state scholarship for composition by BKA Austria 2015 and Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018.
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The serene garden (2019)
Video installation
Through the subtle voice of a meditation instructor, the viewer is ushered into a soothing journey encompassing peaceful rituals of gardening, shedding lights on the artificiality of nature in different cultural and historical contexts. The artist juxtaposes various garden landscapes from China and Europe as well as the process of constructing a miniature Zen garden with diverse home decorations. While emphasising the mutual affection and at times a misconstruction of garden design with often stereotypical aesthetics and traditions, the video demonstrates the absurdity of the mimicking nature in decorative products.
Photos: © Hui Ye
The full color makeup session (2016)
Video Installation
There are many makeup tutorial videos on YouTube to achieve the Asian beauty, a perfect appearance of “a female Asian gangster” (quoted from the exact word spoken by one of the YouTube makeup-tutor). In The full color makeup session, Hui Ye imitates the whole process of makeup to get the same look of the Asian beauty, transforming herself into someone else, the ideal image s of the “Asien Baby Girl” that is projected on her Asian-looking body by others. Exaggerating the desire of pursuing the beauty, while connecting it with the whole process of racial construction, her video asks how the idea of beauty are constructed, gendered, sexualized.
Photos: ©Romana Hagyo & Silke Maier-Gamauf
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Quick Code Service (2018-19)
Video installation, short film
In the documentary-style video work Quick Code Service, Hui Ye investigates the relationship between real and virtual spheres of life by reconstructing her own identity within the structures of WeChat, one of the most important digital communication apps in contemporary China. Without being physically present in the country, the artist asks her friends there to use the QR code, which represents her profile on WeChat platform, in different ways and places, thereby making her digital identity a part of the Chinese social network. In this work, she aims at reintegrating herself in a radically changed Chinese society after being absent for fourteen years in order to overcome contemporary alienation with digital means.