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!
STARSKY
“A projection is an invisible space
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bundled rays of light,
bundled rays of light,
unveiled
only
through resistance.”
only
through resistance.”
#COMMONS #INSTALLATION #SPACE
BIO. Julia Zdarsky is a contemporary artist born in Wien (AT) in 1967. Since 1991 she is a visualiser* / projection artist / pioneer of projection art. Since 2000 nobody* / activist in public space / projections guerill. Since 2001 femartivist / light opponent / critical art in political space. Since 2006 mother, eternal single mother and only bread winner.
Winner of the 2019 Gabrielle Heidecker Preis and in 2018 Marianne.von.Willemer-Preis for digital media. In 1996 she earned the Acknowledgment Award for graduation project radzebutz. Between 2011 and 2012 Starksy was a guest professor at the art university of Linz, in the Time based media course.
Photos: © Julia Zdarsky
Trau di ! eine feministische Projektionsguerilla Tour across Traunsee / a feminist projection gueilla tour at traunsee lake (2019)
Installation and tour ( in cooperation with FIFTITU%)
Trau di ! Is an evening boat tour together acroos traunsee lake. On board we have got activists, audience and projection guerilla, that let‘s her feminist text intervention bang against the high cliffs of Traunstein mountain. The texts glide across the rough water surface of the lake, they emerge, submerge, disappear. They disrupt and construct the surounding landscape, that they break through, fragement, make dynamic. Their playful diffraction creates interferences of landscape and projection, highlights, moving light poems of self determination escaping, resistance and vision. A song to autonomy – to all resistant and critical people, who question conditions of governance and dominance, stand against ideologies of inequality, and dedicate their lives to the axe(l) of good.
100 Jahre in 100 Minuten / 100 years in 100 minutes (2021)
Polymedia living Installation (in cooperation with ÖH | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
On the occasion of the 100 years anniversary of women‘s right to vote 100 years in 100 minutes seizes the occasion of women‘s right to vote in order to take a short trip through the last 100 years. We are taking in a new perspective on the development of rights as well as women*‘s actual livelihood, as well as significant changes of women*-relevant parameters.
The installation raises questions, reflects, offers an interim result, creates constellations between the past, present and future, positions itself to utopias, aiming to open up spaces for thoughts and opportunities, for reflection and discussion, and trying to write itself into a public discourse. In the middle of this political situation, in which women‘s* rights are again up for debate, before they have even been able to rise above the illusion of equality, it is an urgent task to give visibility and voice to this agenda.
The projection is formulated in short text miniatures, as analogue large scale images of light, and developed as scroll-films, a digital set of animated text modules intended for projections, with a diversity of live-controlers, for a dense poly-media live performance.These analogue and digital modules can be presented in different degrees of complexity and in diverse constellations, not only in public space but also at events of collaborators or other contexts.
We say farewell to patriarchy, to the barbaric times and total surrender, we put our focus on the vision, and celebrate loudly and visibly the beginning of Golden Times together. A diverse program is awaiting you, different toys and interaction for all agents, apparata, audiences, space-taking analogue large scale image projections, videos and animations, guerilla projections, music, sound installations, texts, fiery speeches, performances, installations, a wonderful exhibition, a small living room for hanging out and watching, Guldings as a new form of payment and currency, a feminism machine, a vulva throne with selfie-station: you as well can be the queen! Be who ever you want to be! Stroll around the street ballad for information and check out presentations of different feminist initiatives and organisations and artistic creations of 100 years of herstory.
Contributing artists, speakers, performers, initiatives:
AAA – Anonyme Ältere Aktivistinnen | ABZ*AUSTRIA | Agnes Peschta | Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki | Amina Lehner | Anita Gröbl | Artificial Museum | Barbis Ruder | BDFÖ | Berenice Pahl | Birge Krondorfer | Carina Maier | Changes for Women | Cynthia Schwertzig | Doris Jauk-Hinz | eop | Eva Grün | evaversum | feminismus & krawall | FIFTITU% | Kristina Foggensteiner | FranziskAnna | Frauenberaten Frauen | Frauendomäne | Frauenhetz | Frauenring | Frauenvolksbegehren | Gertrude Moser-Wagner | Heidemarie Ambrosch | Intakt | Käthe Knittler | Kerstin Hruza | Leonie Reese | Lisbeth Trallori | Litto | Maren Rahmann | Margit Appel | Maria Bergstötter | Marion Löffler | mediaOpera | Miriam Jesacher | Mz* Baltazar‘s Laboratory | Nadia Lisbeth Trallori | OBRA | Petra Unger | Plattform 20.000 Frauen | Rebekka Hochreiter | resa lut | Romana Hagyo | KalYpso | Ruth Wodak | Silke Maier-Gamauf | starsky | Stichwort Archiv | Sweet Susie | Tiana Katinka | united queendoms | Oona Valarie Serbest | Wiener Frauen*Spaziergänge uvm …
We are the Golden Revolution ! : polymediale living Installation | Semper Depot, Vienna, 2021 :
https://starsky.at/100-jahre-in-100-minuten-008/
https://100jahre.starsky.at/008-goldene-revolution/
Photos: © Osaka
Niemand mischt sich ein / Nobody interferes (2018)
Polymedia installation, exhibition and discourse space at künstlerhaus 1050 vienna
Nobody interferes is a polymedia format consisting of an open working and discourse space, an exhibition, a cinema, interactive toys and media stations, a projection room, impulse talks, workshops and a protest. All parts are networked with each other and depend on each other. Together they result in an open and multi-layered format that invites you to get involved.
open workspace | discourse space | impulse space | process |
Visitors to the Künstlerhaus may expect to find an exhibition, but suddenly find themselves in an open work process in which they are invited to participate and participate in a variety of ways. work tables, equipped with slips of paper, pens, computers, printers, projectors, ... are standing around, surrounded by various seating arrangements and sofas that invite you to linger, plans, sketches and notes lie on the floor and walls, actors work at workstations and work steps of the project processes on site and are at the same time communicators who moderate and coordinate those unforeseeable processes. On certain days, activists, NGOs, civil organizations and charismatic, headstrong individuals are invited to hold impulse talks in this room, to introduce relevant topics, contribute content, places or routes. Both in advance and on site, allies are sought for international networking with related people, organizations stations and projects.
In this process, the content as well as forms of action are being generated, the places and routes for the guerrilla projections conceived, formalized, materialized, organised, prepared and set up. The highlights of this open process are the guerrilla tours through public space and their reflection back into the exhibition space in the form of documentation and specific artifacts.
2018 the Marianne.von.Willemer Prize for digital media: https://starsky.at/willemer-preis/
for the project nobody interferes! Künstlerhaus Vienna, 2018 : https://niemand.starsky.at/