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!
ROMANA HAGYO
&
SILKE MAIER-GAMAUF
“Take it
Leave it.”
#BODY #COMMONS #GENDER #INSTALLATION #PHOTOGRAPHY #SPACE
BIO. Romana Hagyo and Silke Maier-Gamauf have been working in shared authorship since 2014 on artistic projects that focus on the relationship between space and gender *. The projects include staged photography, room installations, workshops, and city tours. Between 2018 and 2020 they presented their projects in Architekturforum Oberösterreich, Notgalerie Vienna, Künstlerhaus Friese Hamburg and in Mz* Balthazar’s Vienna. In 2019 they received the Gabriele-Heidecker-Award of the city of Linz. In 2020 the artistic research: Romana Hagyo in künstlerischer Zusammenarbeit mit Silke Maier-Gamauf: Über das Wohnen im Bilde sein, was published (Passagen Verlag Vienna).
Photos: © Romana Hagyo & Silke Maier-Gamauf
Audiowalk Seestadt (2020 AT)
Installation, photography
he installation "Audiowalk Seestadt" had been part of "Kunstland Nord" (2019), a public art project in the urban expansion area Aspern in Vienna (Austria). The club chairman of the Liberal Party Austria (a far right party) posted on his FB-page on 26.6.2019 a video that shows him during the dismantling of one of the fictitious street signs that were part of the installation Audiowalk Seestadt (wurm in: Der Standard.at from 27.6.2019). He described the dismantling as “an act of civil disobedience, which is also an art event”. This disassembly of an artwork has a dangerous role model effect of “self-justice”, Not only on the occasion of this incident, but also in view of the frequent reports of hatred in social media the question arises: In which society do we want to live? The documentation of the fictious street signs and the dismantling has been shown in an installation in Gallery Forum (Zagreb)
In Hülle und Fülle (2020)
Installation, photography
The project deals in a playful way with the connotation of clothing and gender-related conventions. Gender identities can be created or questioned through clothing. In this way, the relationship between body, clothing and space is made the subject. The German phrase “in Hülle und Fülle“ signifies „enough and to share”, literally translated “in shape and abundance”. The term “shell” is being associated with clothing. The association of bodies and "abundance" is multifaceted. Abundance describes in this photo series the numerous presence of ascriptions and readings of bodies, which are often gender connotated and according to social standards. The photographic series stages serve as the basis for spatial installations that ironically reflect the title of the work.
Abrieb und Lagenlook (2020)
Installation, photography
Abrieb und Lagenlook focuses on gender and culturally encoded categorizations of the human body through a queer lens. It connects this perspective with the relation to our bodies and our clothes. Bodies here function as sites for negotiation, appropriation, labeling, where new experiments, different viewpoints and ambiguities can emerge. The title addresses the endlessness of this endeavor with some subtle sense of humor. During photographic interventions in public space the artists wear clothes that completely cover them, that are twisted and entangled. Through re-shaping, developing and moving, the audience’s familiar perception and observation of a body is challenged, which enforces a blunt uncertainty upon the viewer. This art piece wants to be read as an ironic exploration into the body’s articulation through clothing and plays with form, deformation and the monstrous.