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!
LIA KARL
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“We are
mind and
matter
at the same time
and float
like all the other
particles through
space.”
””#BODY #DIGITAL #ECOLOGY #PHOTOGRPAHY #VIDEO #INSTALLATION #LANGUAGE #SPACE
BIO. “I am fascinated by the idea of the invisible, the hardly perceptible, the in-between and parallel worlds. When it comes to space, be it real, imaginary or metaphysical, there is something beyond beginning and end, inside and outside, fullness and emptiness or darkness and light."
Lia Karl’s creative practice involves photography, video, happening and installation and deals within the realms of perception, collaboration, communication, environmental protection and cultures of sustainability. Since 2012 she is a co-founder of the art association See you next Thursday and co-curated the artspace Schneiderei.
Photo: © Lia Karl
Contingent horizon (2019)
HD-Underwater-Video 10’45’’ min, Loop
The underwater world is one of refracted and metamorphosed light as it travels through the density of water. This video work is an observation of the air-water-interface and part of a series of surface samples.
A great complexity lies in the threshold in between two things and it seems to speak to us, or like Jorge Luis Borges said: “[…] certain Twilights […] try to tell us something, or have said something we should not have missed, or are about to say something“.
Water is an essential element for me, I seek its closeness and power. Instead of looking into the water, I direct my gaze or that of the camera out of the water and onto the line between water and air. The refracted light and the vibrations between the worlds become visible and the possibility of silent observation arises. Hidden levels and subtle elements emerge, which could be a portal or a membrane between past and future.
Photo: © Lia Karl
Kit-Shi-O-Pe-A (2019)
Tape installation, dimensions variable
Cassiopeia is a clairvoyant and immortal character in the shape of a tortoise in the fantasy novel Momoby Michael Ende, as well as a constellation in the northern sky, circumpolar and named after a queen in Greek mythology. The term circumpolar refers to constellations and stars that are circling the north and south celestial poles without ever dipping below the horizon, they never disappear from view. The five brightest stars of Cassiopeia – Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon Cassiopeiae – form a characteristic W- or M-shaped asterism.
From the Series Lines that encode and decode conversations between artists and works. About a conversation between Jun’ichiro Ishii and Lia Karl, Sound / Space / Landscape "Ma (間) / in-between", in the frame of an exhibition collaboration in Higure 17-15 cas Gallery in Tokyo.
Homo Astralis (2019)
C-prints on flag material, 42 x 42 cm, multiple
Shot through color filter blue, bright blue, yellow, dark yellow, orange, red – stellar classification scheme OBAFGKM, (A hommage to Annie Jump Cannon)
The boundaries of our human habitat are expanding more and more into the cosmos. What is the world we are used to dominate as a species when we look into the sky and think about our place in the universe? In outer space, the human subject disappears. The lights we see in the sky are lights from the past. The universe consists only of a small part of matter and energy known to us, and little of it is visible to us. A larger part is Dark Matter and the largest part is Dark Energy, but these areas are still not yet understood. It is nature, but it is not the kind of nature that corresponds to our idea of cultivation, exploitation, and submission. How long can we maintain the refusal to relate to our environment, when will we evolve from Homo sapiens to Homo astralis? We have made another world out of this planet and the final frontiers are falling.