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!
TINA KULT
“Through the power of
narrative,
humor
and
aesthetics,
I use art as a tool
to create
sensory experiences
that give the
opportunity to think
change.”
#ANIMATION #AUGMENTED REALITY #DIGITAL #INSTALLATION #BODY #INTERACTIVE #MULTIMEDIA #SOUND #VIDEO
BIO. Tina Kult (1991, Semipalatinsk, KAZ) is a media artist who lives and works in Vienna. She studies Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and spent a guest year in the experimental film class at the UdK Berlin. She is co-founder of the collective The (new) Constellation and experiments in her work with a wide range of media such as virtual/ augmented reality, 3D, or animation. Among others, her work has been shown at Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (2018), Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (2017) and Art+Text, Budapest (2017).
Photos: © The (new) Constellation
Glue in Reality (2018)
Augmented reality installation
Our daily distractions are our new rituals. Economic and political concepts, as well as religious ideas, still shape our faith today. Due to new networking opportunities, people are more than ever busy inventing new doctrines and updating their mythology to address important questions about body, soul, spirituality, life and death. Glue in Reality is a series of augmented reality installations. Each work consists of an installation, a wall trigger and an app, with which the user can dive into a virtual sculpture. Higher beings, such as The Gluten Shaman, The Anti-Aging Prophet or The Datasoul appear. They are embedded in a landscape of their own materiality. Hashtags fly around and a voice speaks of self-optimization, consumption and the latest dietary trends. The users are invited to experience the different levels of the works performatively through their own movement. The works were created in the collective The (new) Constellation with Agnes Varnai and Tímea Strott. More information: www.glueinreality.com
Photos: ©Tina Kult
Tempelhofer Freiheit (2017)
Interactive video installation
Tempelhofer Freiheit invites the viewer to participate in an innovative karaoke experience that coalesces 1990’s music, animation and socio-political issues. The He-Man cover of the song „What’s Up?“ by 4NonBlondes accompanies a video depicting a refugee couple in the Berlin subway near the station of the former Berlin Tempelhof airport. Whilst the crass cartoon superhero version of the classic tune starkly contrasts with the seriousness of present global migration issues, the social commentary of the song lyrics appropriately question the state of society, asking „What’s going on?“. Text: Bahar Ahu Sağin
Photos: © Mira Klug, Tina Kult
IM VORBEI (2019)
poster series in public space
Tina Kult’s posters were created from views of a constructed micro-settlement in 3D space for whose textures she used her own photographs, altered them and added different transparencies and layers. The rasterization of the facade views creates a generalization of the image of the community building, which is broken up by the individual details of the flower boxes and reflections in the window. Text: Clara Hofmann (translation from German by the artist)