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!
JELENA MICI
“Do the best you can until you know better.
Then when you
know better,
do better.”
#INSTALLATION #INTERACTIVE #MULTIMEDIA #PERFORMANCE #SCULPTURE
BIO.
Jelena Micić (*1986, Knjaževac) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2020) at the Textual sculpture class (Mentor Heimo Zobernig). MA in Philosophy (2012) and Graduated philologist of Scandinavian languages (2010) University of Belgrade. Awarded with Dimitrije Bašičević Award (2021), Würdigungspreis der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien for Excellent Artistic Theses (2020), Ö1 Talentestipendium Bildende Kunst (2018) and kültür gemma! Fellowship (2018). Micić is interested in socio-political aspects of color (systems). Founder of the informal group UMETNIK*.
Lives and works in Vienna as a freelance artist and artistic director of the WIENWOCHE festival for art and activism.
was ich mache (2020)
Performative archive demonstration
was ich mache is an archive of ongoing color studies. Color investigations span from material collecting and ordering to perceptual experiments and socio-political aspects of color (systems).
Archive: Bojne probe (series). 2018. Painting: Acrylic on canvas. 30 x 30 cm / 40 x 40 cm I love Sol, but he loves Josef (series). 2018. Drawing: Oil pastel on paper. 29,7 x 42 cm / 29,7 x 21 cm FARBENLEHRE. 2016-2020. Readymade installation. Dimensions variable Territory (series). 2016.
Photography: Digital print on alu dibond. 100 x 150 cm Palette of My Homeland (series). 2017.
Painting: Soil on canvas (Beljuga, Leskun, Crvenica, Franz, "Plodnjača, X, Nikola". 30 x 20 cm
Color Catcher (series). 2019. Installation: Washing paper, pigment. ~26 x 12 cm
Bojna polja. 2016-2020.
Installation: Fruit and vegetable net, thread. 2,75 x 3,60 m / 5,2 x 3,5 m No-Yellow. 2018.
Installation: Vegetable net, thread. 12,2 x 3,5 m Plastik ist plastisch. 2019/2020. Object: Single-use plastic. Dimensions variable
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Farbenlehre (2016-2021)
Ready-made installation
The everyday professional cleaning process is based on the existence of the specific color rules implemented to achieve a higher level of hygiene. Rags in different colors, which are used for cleaning and maintenance of the upper surfaces, should not be mixed, as the previously standardized color of the rag is assigned to certain elements of the office.
"The 4-color-system" is based on the fact that the red rag is always and exclusively being used for the toilet and surrounding tiles, yellow for the basin, glass and elements around the sink, green for the kitchen and blue for the office furniture as well as the elements within the room.Incorporating my working experience and appropriating the "science of colors" into my color theory, I make readymade installations based on selected segments of common office rooms (toilet (+) bathroom, kitchen, working/conference room).
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Bojna polja (2016-2022)
Installation
Bojna polja (Color/Battle Fields) is a spatial installation consisting of collected and structured porous plastic nets with different characteristics and colors. Nets that envelop and limit a certain portion of fruit/vegetable appear in a specific, industry-defined color system and size from which arises a set of hand-bonded spatial compositions limited by features of the selected/rejected material. Playful spatial paintings in form of translucent color walls, structure the space of the gallery, directing and limiting visitorsʼ movement. Works are repeatedly adjusted to the dimensions of the space and carry visible traces of adaptation(s).
Installation: Fruit and vegetable net, thread. 2,75 x 3,60 m / 5,2 x 3,5 m No-Yellow. 2018.
Installation: Vegetable net, thread. 12,2 x 3,5 m Plastik ist plastisch. 2019/2020. Object: Single-use plastic. Dimensions variable
Farbenlehre (2016-2021)
Ready-made installation
The everyday professional cleaning process is based on the existence of the specific color rules implemented to achieve a higher level of hygiene. Rags in different colors, which are used for cleaning and maintenance of the upper surfaces, should not be mixed, as the previously standardized color of the rag is assigned to certain elements of the office.
"The 4-color-system" is based on the fact that the red rag is always and exclusively being used for the toilet and surrounding tiles, yellow for the basin, glass and elements around the sink, green for the kitchen and blue for the office furniture as well as the elements within the room.Incorporating my working experience and appropriating the "science of colors" into my color theory, I make readymade installations based on selected segments of common office rooms (toilet (+) bathroom, kitchen, working/conference room).
Bojna polja (2016-2022)
Installation
Bojna polja (Color/Battle Fields) is a spatial installation consisting of collected and structured porous plastic nets with different characteristics and colors. Nets that envelop and limit a certain portion of fruit/vegetable appear in a specific, industry-defined color system and size from which arises a set of hand-bonded spatial compositions limited by features of the selected/rejected material. Playful spatial paintings in form of translucent color walls, structure the space of the gallery, directing and limiting visitorsʼ movement. Works are repeatedly adjusted to the dimensions of the space and carry visible traces of adaptation(s).