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!
LiISA GROßKOPF
“I
menstruate
on your patriarchy. “
#PHOTOGRPAHY #VIDEO #INSTALLATION #MULTIMEDIA
BIO. Lisa Großkopf, born in 1989 in Vienna, studied at the University of Art and Design Linz, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
In her interdisciplinary artistic practice, she explores the macro and micro systems in which she operates as an artist, citizen, consumer, and other roles, while doing almost everything except painting.
Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are held in private and public collections. Lisa Großkopf received the Start Scholarship for Photography, the Gabriele Heidecker Prize, and was nominated for the Follow Fluxus Scholarship from the Naussische Art Association, and the Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize.
Photo: © Lisa Großkopf
Das Glück des Zufalls (2023)
Installation
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.
Photos: © Lisa Großkopf
The Photographic Studio (2016-23)
: Installation / Photography
Lisa Großkopf stages fictitious photogrqphic studios in the storefronts of former shops, which at first glance look completely ordinary. However, upon closer inspection, we find that the “Photo Studio” project subversively examines the social norms of contemporary society. Through subtle interventions or striking modifications, Großkopf creates unsettling shifts that disrupt traditional notions of gender roles, identities, the concept of family, and the ideal of beauty.
Given that conventional photographic studios often convey a conservative family model and reproduce traditional gender roles, the artist in her project focuses on increasing social diversification. Since each of the documented shop windows has been installed in a real space for some time, Lisa Großkopf invites a broad public to engage in a dialogue about current societal changes in viewing and perceiving the world.
Photos and Videos: © Lisa Großkopf
Noticeable Unnoticeable (2018-19)
Performative Action / Videoinstallation
In the performative action “Noticeably Unnoticeable” Lisa Großkopf explores the current trend of self-optimization. To attain perfection in her day job as a museum supervisor she took various measures ranging from physical training to acquiring professional qualifications and profound expertise. She invested her entire income in her self-compiled education plan. In this way, the ambivalent relationship of artistic and non-artistic work becomes evident. The performance as well as the documentation of this process blurs the border between symbolic representation and economic reality.