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!
OLIVIA JAQUES
“artistic research!
artistic research!
artistic research!”
#ARTS-BASED RESEARCH #BODY #COMMONS #PERFORMANCE
BIO.
Olivia Jaques is a Vienna-based artist&cultural worker. As her work spins around the relational, socio-political (feminist!) and the performative, most of her work is created in artistic collaborations. For 10 years+ she has been working together with Marlies Surtmann. Since 2017 they are and run the Performatorium – a laboratory for practice-oriented research of and through performative means. 2022 they have been granted the TQW Research Affiliation; 2023 they will continue their work within an INTRA artistic research project together with Charlotta Ruth. As part of a transdisciplinary artistic research team she is currently involved in a PEEK project at the University of Applied Arts.
24 hours with my curator (Klara Kiss ZIP Space) (2017)
Sitee-specific, process-based, situational art
I accepted the invitation of Angela Osterwalder/Sergio Araya, Milos Stolic and Francesca Brusa - the organisers, artists and curators of the project space Klara Kiss ZIP Space - to engage with the space. I wanted to do so in a process-oriented, discursive and performative way. The focus was on questions of (artistic) collaboration, working processes, the double role artist/organiser, authorship, all their associated boundaries, the socio-political framework of artistic production and labor conditions in and with project spaces."24 hours with my curator" consisted of an offer to the organisers, to give them my time: Each of them could benefit from 24 hours of undivided attention. Brusa accepted immediately, Osterwalder/Araya declined after much deliberation, Stolic hesitated and asked for 12 hours instead. During this time I set for myself: no phone, computer, headphones or appointments. Like an empty vessel, I wanted to get involved in the encounter,which demands a lot from both sides.
Performatorium (2017- ongoing)
laboratory, performative interventions, artistic research
Performatorium is an artist duo (Olivia Jaques and Marlies Surtmann) as well as a laboratory for practice-oriented research of and through performative means. Performance art works with the body and is to be experienced and explored through performative methods, quasi in action. Another focus of the Performatorium is the interconnectedness of the local art scene in Vienna. As an indipendent, feminist, and supportive platform, the Performatorium offers space for joint experimentation, exchange and collective performative artistic research. Up to 2020, it offered space for joint experimentation and exchange as an indipendent, feminist* platform for performance. Currently the Performatorium explores the artistic realm as a laboratory by developing artistic performative research methods, activating and updating past performances.
Photo: © Olivia Jacques
The Performative in Times of the Flapping Wings and (so called) Social Distancing (2020) Performance / Workshop
This is not a performance & workshop on society and the collective body, on the movement of a swarm of bees, the intelligence of a school of fish: The experience of quarantine has changed our perspectives on gatherings and collectiveness, when caring has turned into a certain physical distance, even isolation. This is a workshop on collaboration with the inscribed experience of the regulations concerning COVID-19, when we have unlearned to shake hands, then have decided to shake hands nevertheless while feeling the resistance of insecurity. Still carrying the aftermath of the quarantine in our post-isolated body and still-isolated mind, we think of the butterfly flapping its wings, when something trivial as a cough or a mask becomes the slight imbalance which potentially leads to a huge final (global) variation in outcome, making us even more aware of the power of each body and each movement. In isolation, more than ever, we are reminded that movement is life and life is a process.