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!
IPEK BURÇAK
MULTIMEDIA ARTIS
#SOUND #MATERIAL #INSTALLATION #LANGUAGE #MULTIMEDIA #PHOTOGRAPHY #VIDEO
BIO. Ipek Burçak is an artist, born in Istanbul, studied art in Kassel and in Vienna. She is 1/2 of Well Gedacht Publishing, a DIY publishing collective founded in 2019, dedicated to publications in different forms and media by artists of color. She is currently working as an artistic associate in the research project titled ‘Re_coding Algorithmic Culture’, connected with the School of Arts Kassel. Her working modes vary from video, sound, installation, publishing to media performance such as reading, listening, screening and/or a combination of these. In her works she usually forms speculative approaches to affects, anti-ableism and left-field ways of beings.
The Autistic Turn (2018-19)
Publicano, Sound, Performance
The Autistic Turn is a project which includes an artist’s book and spreads itself into other forms and media. The project deals with affective computing & idiosyncrasies of the autism spectrum in intersectional waters. Autistic turn comes after the previous turns such as the affective turn and other western feminist turns and aims to bring a fresh wave. Links, facts and non-facts emerge that in turn affect affective computing.
Tiny Dinosaurs on Titan (2019)
Video Installation
It all begins with swinging,
obviously floating on a not stable ground
Tiny dinosaurs on Titan refer to something that would be weird
Weird life is called the life form supposed to be on Titan
Life other than carbon-based
Very similar to that life existing in the deep earth undergrounds
Life forms that need methane to breath and ammonia water to drink
Titan - very cold - exotic
I hear one of the children visiting the museum saying
“Dinosaurs are still living in Africa”
In animation, there is the potential for decategorization
of things, subjects, objects.
One of the requirements for adulthood is to have a selfhood
that is managed by mastering of one self.
The children museum
showing different thesis of the future and the past
Bad Feelings pt. 2 (2016)
Interactive installation
Bad Feelings pt. II is a continuation of Bad Feelings pt. I, starring hacked McDonald’s animals toys telling about hopes and depression. The project handles bad feelings, depression, anxiety and thematizes the gaps between the societies caused by class, race, sex and ableism that affect menthal health that then in turn enlarge these gaps. The experimental interactive stories include both biographic and fictional elements. Bad Feelings pt. II is made with the support of popplattform.de, a platform for interactive comics made by Katharina Röser and Matthias Hartmann.