01.08.2024- 15.09.2024

Over the next few weeks, the WUWU collective, a group of artists creating works in solidarity with the Uyghurs, will be engaged in their film project, which follows a traveller’s train journey from Moscow to Beijing in 2017 along the New Silk Road, inadvertently bearing witness to East Turkestan (known as Xinjiang, China). There, domestic tourism is promoted to hide an ongoing genocide of Uygurs. Disguised as a travelogue, the project offers an unprecedented look into an authoritarian surveillance police state and a critical study of state propaganda. The footage and photography from the trip serve as source material for experimentation during the residency, including a short film, video installations, and mixed media works.
WUWU is a play on words: 無無, 勿勿 are used interchangeably to describe the precarious state of surviving under an authoritarian regime. 無, meaning “nothing” or “lack of”, references the 2022 #a4revolution when holding up a blank piece of paper became a protest symbol of dissent in China. 勿, meaning “no” or “don’t”, alludes to the suppression of freedom in speech and movement. It also calls out the international silence on Uyghur genocide, relating to the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” Western symbolism of turning a blind eye to evil.

dictionary of Diyarbakir Military Prison

15.08.2024- 1.10.2024

During the following six weeks, Zilan İmşik will be working on a project focusing on creating a dictionary of Diyarbakir Military Prison, where mainly Kurdish political prisoners were held in the 1980s, known to have been one of the worst prisons in the world at that time. In the prison, a new language was adopted by the military. Imsik will be looking at the language that was used and how words lost their original meanings within the prison and were instead used to represent a form of torture. To do that, she will look into the testimonies of former prisoners, as well as the letters and postcards sent from the prison.
Upon completion of the dictionary, Imsik plans to create a multimedia installation of this world through the vocabulary that was used and what they represented.
The Turkish government is currently in the process of turning the prison into a “cultural centre,” and through the work, the artist wants to offer a counter-narrative to one of the states.
Zilan İmşik (b. 1996) is an artist interested in telling stories that revolve around space, memory and violence. Most of her works are based on historical events, and she predominantly works with sound, photography and video in her practice. Zilan has an MA in Documentary Photography from London College of Communication and a BA in Film. She is based in Istanbul and London.

Protestpilze by Krzysztof Wronski

Protestpilze is an outdoor sound installation by Krzysztof Wronski featuring audio emitting from a series of mushroom-like sculptures placed on the forest floor. Based on the observation that the area around Hollabrunn, Austria, continues to be developed with more and more shopping centres, the mushrooms draw attention to neglectful land management practices that favour short-term human-centric desires over long-term ecosystem needs. When open land is paved for the first time, this “seals” the soil, removing the potential for many living creatures to make the land their home. This process can be irreversible for 10.000 years, and research shows that Austria seals almost 2x more soil per year (adjusted for population) compared to the EU average. In response to the grief this causes to the non-human living creatures of Hollabrunn, the Protestpilze are planted in various parts of the Hollabrunner Kirchenwald, a recreational forest where many people go to relax and enjoy nature. As visitors move through the forest, their motion will trigger familiar and annoying sounds of the supermarket, played by the mushrooms as a form of resistance.

October 2024

Protestpilze by Krzysztof Wronski

25.04. - 16.05.2024

We warmly welcome Krzysztof Wronski, who returned to AIR InSILo to realise his new project, Protestpilze. Protestpilze is an outdoor sound installation featuring audio emitting from a series of mushroom-like sculptures placed on the forest floor. Based on the observation that the area around Hollabrunn, Austria continues to be developed with more and more shopping centres, the mushrooms draw attention to neglectful land management practices that favour short-term human-centric desires over long-term ecosystem needs. When open land is paved for the first time, this “seals” the soil, removing the potential for many living creatures to make the land their home. This process can be irreversible for 10.000 years, and research shows that Austria seals almost 2x more soil per year (adjusted for population) compared to the EU average. In response to the grief this causes to the non-human living creatures of Hollabrunn, the Protestpilze are planted in various parts of the Hollabrunner Kirchenwald, a recreational forest where many people go to relax and enjoy nature. As visitors move through the forest, their motion will trigger familiar and annoying sounds of the supermarket, played by the mushrooms as a form of resistance.

Protestpilze outdoor presentation

11.05.2024

On Saturday, May 11, from 14:00 to 16:00, we cordially invite you to an outdoor excursion to the forests of Hollabrunn and an afterparty at 16:30 in the garden of AIR InSILo.

Protestpilze is an outdoor sound installation by Krzysztof Wronski featuring audio emitting from a series of mushroom-like sculptures placed on the forest floor. Based on the observation that the area around Hollabrunn, Austria, continues to be developed with more and more shopping centres, the mushrooms draw attention to neglectful land management practices that favour short-term human-centric desires over long-term ecosystem needs. When open land is paved for the first time, this “seals” the soil, removing the potential for many living creatures to make the land their home. This process can be irreversible for 10.000 years, and research shows that Austria seals almost 2x more soil per year (adjusted for population) compared to the EU average. In response to the grief this causes to the non-human living creatures of Hollabrunn, the Protestpilze are planted in various parts of the Hollabrunner Kirchenwald, a recreational forest where many people go to relax and enjoy nature. As visitors move through the forest, their motion will trigger familiar and annoying sounds of the supermarket, played by the mushrooms as a form of resistance.

Results of the "Non-Utterance" open call

Illustration: © Esra Oskay, Eavesdropping. Chapter 2.

The summer/autumn 6-week slot finalists are:

• Zilan Imsik (UK)
• Esra Oskay (Türkiye)
• wuwu collective (USA)

The shortlisted artists are:

• Mahdi Baraghithi (Palestine)
• Shoili Kanungo (India)
• Sahand Sarhaddi (Iran)
• Alqumit Alhamad (Sweden)

The shortlisted artists, who have shown immense potential, will have preferences in future open calls and/ or will be invited directly for future projects within the framework of AIR InSILo or its fellow institutions in Austria.

During two rounds of the open call, we received 154 applications from 47 countries. We are genuinely grateful to all those who donated a solidarity fee. Even though it was not obligatory, we received 45 payments to support our Emergency program.

13.05.2024

1.03.2024

©In SILo Mag, 2024
Illustrations: Maria Safronova Wahlström

At the beginning of 2023, AIR InSILo invited artists to participate in a survey to contextualize the open call 2023/24 (Un)limited Artistic Resource concerning artists‘ wages and working conditions. The Global COVID-19 pandemic, a full-scale war on the territory of Europe, and a devastating natural disaster in Syria and Turkey were just a few examples that significantly exacerbated the life and work insecurity of people in general and artists/ cultural workers in particular during the last years. As of January 2024, 181 international artists had participated in the study voluntarily and on condition of anonymity.
The most significant insight of this research is the total average income from art alone: 4,210 Euros. With additional and non-art-related jobs, the total cumulative average income of the artist per year constitutes 10,814 Euros. It is essential to mention that the demands of the Austrian State for a freelance artist visa are around 20,000 Euros of annual income. Only 3.9% of our respondents can match this criterion.

The full text is in InSILo Mag

For the first time, AIR InSILo facilitates a virtual residency, confronting and answering to the reality of the precarity of migration, which bureaucratic, almost frozen temporality restricts not only freedom of movement but slows down creative metabolism.
Varvara Sudnik (b. 2001 in Belarus) during her virtual residency, will explore the connection between poverty, precarious artistic work, and family ties. Artistic projects often mention "family" when discussing memory and origins, not including the artist's family. Residencies and projects only allow "collectives" or "duos" that serve the institution's interests and increase production. Grants focus on social inequalities and new cultural connections but don't provide enough funding for artists' basic needs. Artists are vulnerable and unable to form strong connections due to constant movement. Art institutions offer minimal compensation, don't accommodate family members, and demand quick results. Conversations with colleagues and friends highlight scarcity and the desire to fulfil basic needs. During the residency, Varvara wants to describe the experience of need, strategies for balance, and the value of domestic responsibilities, family, and friendships. She seeks stability and depth while remaining vulnerable. On the other hand, she wants to explore strategies for change and disrupt the current order where artists are underpaid and expected to reshape society.

19.02-18.03.2024

Open Call for the Round 2024 Part II

Open call for the Round 2024 Part II:
three fully paid residency slots at AIR InSILo
(December 2024 – February 2025).

Deadline: May 9, 2024, 16.00 CEST

The current and the previous year have forced us to take a fresh look at freedom of artistic expression and recognise that it is threatened not only in countries with authoritarian regimes but also in countries with competitive democratic elections. This open call for a new residency Round 2024, which we titled "Non-Utterance", aims to capture this moment, analyse the atmosphere in the artistic environment, and explore censorship and self-censorship in art.
During the next 2024 round, AIR InSILo aims to create a safe space for the completion or reworking of an idea or an artwork that has never been realised due to the political momentum or restraints of self-censorship nature.
We are looking for artistic and curatorial projects and contributions which:
Suffered political oppression or persecution and were censored;
Were self-censored because of concern about the life and well-being of the author;
Critically reflects the topic of censorship and self-censorship;
Want to try out artistic tools that allow one to express ideas indirectly;
Are dedicated to and reflect the conditions of artistic work under oppression.
We offer:
• 3-month residence in AIR InSILo;
• A honorarium of 2250 Euros;
• A coverage of travel costs up to 700 Euros;
• A coverage of visa costs up to 80 Euros;
• Mentoring program with invited Austria-based curators;

*please see the list of eligible countries on the open-call page.

06.04 - 09.05.2024

20.12.2023

12.02-18.03.2024

We welcome our new resident, Jovana Blagojević (*1995, Smederevo), who will stay at AIR InSILo for a 5-week slot. A visual art graduate, Jovana recently immersed herself in performative and activist practice. She works with a variety of media, such as drawing and painting, graffiti, video, and video/live performances. Jovana gives group drawing and painting classes to kids and adults and occasionally does mural projects. She is also active in environmental activist projects, working with the team 1+1=3.
Jovana's project for AIR InSILo is focused on the question of values around work. When does work bring value and meaning, vs. when is it turned into meaningless, overworking, sophisticated slavery? Furthermore, it explores the virtues of leisure – which brings quality to life, as the time when we can reassess the reasons why and what we are doing. During the residence period at AIR InSILo, Jovana will continue her research on the 'crosswords' between the thoughts and sentences around work, with which we are brought up, and which shape our values of work and our need to create, and the ones that restrain us and keep us in a pointless workaholic state of mind. The research will be done through reading and through interviews with local people on the topic. The outcomes of the research will be rendered as a 'crossword' – in the form of a physical flag with selected and sewed keywords and expressions of labour.

Emirhan Akin travelled to the AIR InSILo with a particular idea in mind. But after he reached Austria on 7 October, it was no longer possible to think about artistic practice and work in the usual sense. Finding reasons to pursue art seemed inappropriate when disaster was unfolding before one’s eyes.
During his time here in Hollabrunn, Emirhan managed to make several interventions. Starting with the specified theme of labour, namely the labour of care and maintenance (something that Emirhan often had to do to sustain his living in Amsterdam), he has reformulated and reframed everyday cleaning into a meditative practice, a way of working through the darkest thoughts, conditions, especially devastating loneliness that fill the mind when one witnesses destroyed cities and looks at the ruins with bodies buried beneath. When there seems to be no energy to sort through the rubble of destruction, as well as your own horror, it feels that it will never be possible to fix anything ever again. Even by cleaning the debris and removing it from sight, it cannot be etched out of your memory.
Emirhan spends his days in the attic space above the studios, dividing and demarcating the space and literally marking dirty as dirty and clean as clean: collecting the contents of the hoover in a large white basin and organising a sterile workspace for the other artists who will arrive at the residency after him.
But here, things are not as simple as they first appear. In a subtle gesture, Emirhan “contaminates” (here, I want to put the term in quotes and use it after Mary Douglas) the space of purity. To see this, one must sit at one’s desk and see the sacred surface already polluted. I can read this message written in cunning, non-manual hieroglyphics: whoever witnesses the disaster ceases to remain innocent and cannot work from a clean slate.

A Survey: Non-Utterance

The current and the previous year have forced us to take a fresh look at freedom of artistic expression and recognise that it is threatened not only in countries with authoritarian regimes but also in countries with competitive democratic elections. This survey aims to capture this moment, analyse the atmosphere in the artistic environment, and serve as a critical basis for the new „Non-Utterance“ Open Call, which explores censorship and self-censorship in art.
It is usually those works that have been repressed that first come to the attention of researchers. At the same time, we know little about the conditions under which artists continue to make art, the strategies they employ to protect themselves and avoid drawing unwanted attention to their work, and the self-censorship that inevitably conflicts with the author's intentions. We observe the process of how artistic expression, suffering from censorship or self-censorship pressures, undergoes many changes: what became dangerous to speak about directly begins to be spoken about indirectly, starts to disguise itself, or indicates its own absence. Artists deploy new strategies to protect themselves, but some of them, even after changing their address and country, do not dare to express themselves openly or directly. This has given rise to a new and unexplored system of imagery, non-appearance, and non-expressiveness, which will be the object of our interest. The only possible strategy for studying these processes is to work directly with the artists, so we would like to start our meticulous work with a new survey.

24.02.2024

"Implicit Basis", an artist talk in esc kunst labor

"Implicit Basis", a project by Oleksandr Sirous, Danil Siabro and Dmytro Tentiuk (UKR) on the occasion of their residency at AIR InSILo.
"Our work is a metaphor for the search for all possible meanings through a chaotic system for each of us, which we assemble into a single meaning".

Mosaic speaking: “I feel dead, please animate me”
by Aria Farajnezhad

Following the two workshops and collective intervention to the racist imagery of the mosaic mural located in the Bremen central station which took place under the title “Beyond Undoing a Rediscovery”, with the help of AIR InSILo Aria Farajnezhad turned five of the reconfigured mosaic pieces of the image of the vessel into their original material, meaning ceramics. Farajnezhad used the time in the residency to develop a workshop and performative piece around these ceramics, to carry them to the city where He meets local artists/activists/actors in Austria as a point of departure to talk about working conditions, forms of producing work with poor material, and recipes for collectivity.

25.10.2023

Performance artist Emirhan Akin

9.10-16.11.2023

By rethinking the notions of work, exhaustion, and the slash between the precariat/artist, Emirhan Akin aims to unearth the embodied knowledge he has stored from the cleaning job he has been working for to sustain his art practice, to draw parallels between the durational performance pieces (eventually performance art) and the word cleaning (and it’s political, historical and societal connotations). To dissect this immigrant work (and its economy of exhaustion, which is accumulated in the muscle memory), he plans to focus on the invisibility (of both the cleaner and the end product) as in material and medium (he plans to use). Therefore, (not fixed/could potentially change) he is interested in working with sound, whether it’s a field recording of the non-spaces (areas that are overlooked, neglected, transitional in nature or might not be designed for human interaction) or a transcription of a conversation during an encounter (with human and non-human). By researching the architectural approach to the non-spaces of the city (and the residency space), he aims to intervene in those undefined areas with these sonic experiments.

01.11.2023

22.08.2023

On the Fringes of Hostility

30.09.2023

A workshop about the investigation of suburban sprawl in Lower Austria and the translation of ideas into clay with Aria Farajnezhad and Lunio.

Aria and Lunio will invite participants to observe the elements of creeping urbanization in the town of Hollabrunn, Lower Austria, and then to translate the ideas, problems, observations, and proposals into clay.
Does the land belong to the private sector? Is it open to the public? Is it only treated to serve human needs? Does the land have an agency, and how do all these alter literally and change the morphology and texture of the surface of the earth? Is it asphalted, cultivated (exploited), trimmed, etc?
The workshop will consist of two parts: field research and work on an individual project with clay, and will run from 10.00 to 19.30.
The workshop is organized on the premises of AIR InSILo and is free. The costs of the materials, refreshments, beverages, and a train ticket to Hollabrunn will be covered. The number of places is limited to seven people.

SAT 30 September
2020 Hollabrunn, Mitterweg 30,
AIR InSILo

Illustration: © Gaurav Talekar

Following the two workshops and collective intervention to the racist imagery of the mosaic mural located in the Bremen central station which took place under the title “Beyond Undoing a Rediscovery”, with the help of AIR InSILo Aria Farajnezhad turned five of the reconfigured mosaic pieces of the image of the vessel into their original material, meaning ceramics. Farajnezhad uses the time in the residency to develop a workshop and performative piece around these ceramics, to carry them to the city where He meets local artists/activists/actors in Austria as a point of departure to talk about working conditions, forms of producing work with poor material, and recipes for collectivity.

19.09-16.10.2023

After one month of hot discussions in hot conditions, we are delighted to announce new residents of AIR InSILo for the round 2023/ 2024! They are:

* Aria Farajnezhad (Germany) – September 19 – October 16, 2023;
* Emirhan Akın (The Netherlands/ Turkey) – October 9 – November 13, 2023;
* Jovana Blagojević (Serbia) – February 12 – March 18, 2024;
* Varvara Sudnik (Germany) – February 12 – March 18, 2024.

The shortlisted artists are:
* Libby Scarlett (The United Kingdom)
* Joe Snape (The United Kingdom)
* The artist preferred to withdraw their name (Germany)

All the shortlisted artists comprise the AIR InSILo network. They will have preferences in future open calls or/and be invited directly for future projects within the framework of AIR InSILo or its fellow institutions in Austria.
During this call, we received in total of 142 applications from 39 countries.

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31.05.2023

"Implicit Basis", a project by Oleksandr Sirous, Danil Siabro and Dmytro Tentiuk (UKR) on the occasion of their residency at AIR InSILo [in-silo.com] presented by the artists and by Ksenia Yurkova and Martin Breindl (AIR InSILo).
"Our work is a metaphor for the search for all possible meanings through a chaotic system for each of us, which we assemble into a single meaning".

Wednesday, 31. May 2023 - 19:00
esc medien kunst labor
Bürgergasse 5, 8010 Graz, Austria

20.06 - 20.07.2023

Open call for the Round 2023/2024:
three fully paid residency slots at AIR InSILo.

Extended deadline: July 27, 2023, 16.00 CEST

This call, the '(Un)limited artistic resource', aims to study and reflect the labour conditions of artists and cultural workers and focuses on the material side of artistic production in terms of deficiency.
During the next 2023/24 round, AIR InSILo aims to create a space for reflection and self-reflection of an artist working in a neoliberal contemporaneity.

• 5-week residence in AIR InSilo, Lower Austria;
• A honorarium of 1000 Euros
• Production costs up to 500 Euros
• A coverage of travel costs up to 300 Euros
• A coverage of transport costs up to 50 Euros
• An opportunity to stay with a partner and/or 1-2 children
• Usage of the facilities and equipment provided by the AIR InSilo
• Featuring in the InSilo Magazine

Open Studio Day and a garden party

A LINE UP
14.00 – 19.30 on display: a mock-up of the interactive installation "Implicit Basis", the result of three months of work by Alex Sirous, Danil Siabro, and Dmytro Tentiuk in AIR InSILo
14.00 -15.30 MKCMLLN (Maksym Uvarov)
15.30 – 16.30 who I why (Moritz Wunderwald)
16.30 – 17.30 Marshrutka (Margo Dubovska)
17.30 – 18.30 who I why & Marshrutka
18.30 – 18.40 a brief round tour through the residency premises, a glimpse into the artist's studios (for those who are interested in the new call for the round 2023/24 (Un)limited Artistic Resource)
18.40 – 19.30 an artist talk and a presentation of the "Implicit Basis" interactive installation project by Alex Sirous, Danil Siabro, Dmytro Tentiuk
19.30 – 21.00 _mediaklub (Dmytro Tentiuk)
Beverages and refreshments of the local art

June 24, 2023. 14.00 - 21.00
AIR InSILo, Mitterweg 30 2020, Hollabrunn, Lower Austria*

^{*A fast train from Vienna runs every hour from Wien Mitte, Praterstern or Floridsdorf direction Retz or Znojmo. The travel takes 40 min. The residence AIR InSILo is a five minutes walk from the Hollabrunn train station.}

24.06.2023

17.02.2023

10.03.2023

March 2023

A new emergency resident, Olga Pylnyk, will spend the upcoming three months working on her project "Festina Lente" – "Hurry Slowly", as translated from Latin. The artist ponders around the fast pace of life and its contemporary consumer model. In particular, in the field of fashion, that pushes a consumer to buy many times more clothes than in the last century and to wear them just a few times. Clothing acquires the status of "disposable". This model has a detrimental effect on the ecology of the planet. In her works, Olga focuses on enlarged textile weaves to demonstrate the beauty of fabrics from the inside and suggests the viewer love their clothes, not the shopping process. The gesture of hyperbolizing aims to raise attention to the problem and to propose a solution in the upcycling process.

1.09.- 30.11.2022

"ÁNOMOS, or the lawless land"

20.09-1.11.2022

The first long-term resident of the round 2022/23 is starting to work on his proposal for AIR InSILo. "ÁNOMOS, or the lawless land", is a multidisciplinary research project situated in an iconic agricultural area of Central Europe that imagines the environmental implications of the disintegration of the code that orders the land distribution among humans. Parting from an art-sci approach and using different technological tools, the project will imagine the Hollabrunn territory inhabited not by sedentary human collectivities but by nomad ones. This exercise imagines the territory before the establishment of any settlement but also identifies those 'heterotopian spaces' that exemplify in the present time the lawless condition of certain pieces of the land. Also, it reviews local legends that could give an account of the non-human presence and its resistance to the anthropogenic domain. The project aims to question the ethics behind the act of appropriation of the land and to propose a reflection on the conceptual basis that justify the instrumentation of the non-human others and the contemporary forms of collective organization.

Open Studio Days 2022

During the Open Studio Days on the 15-16th of October 2022, one can
• see the new works by an emergency resident, Olga Pylnyk. The residence of Olga is supported by the AIR InSILo, Artists at Risk (AR), and the Ministry for Art and Culture grant in Austria.
• see the films by the first long-term resident of the round 2022/23, Fernando Martín Velazco.
• see the films by the artist and curator of AIR InSILo Ksenia Yurkova
• buy artwork from the residents: textiles, ceramics, affordable prints, and original artwork. 70% of the price goes to the artist, 30% to the maintenance of the AIR InSILo and the Emergency Program.

The ground floor is accessible for wheelchairs.

AIR InSILO,
Mitterweg 30, Hollabrunn
Oct 15, 16, 2022
Sat 14:00 – 18:00
Sun 14:00 – 18:00

15-16.10.2022

20.07.2022

HZWEIO

21.05 - 14.08.2022

A battery of six blue plastic barrels with a capacity of about two hundred litres each is mounted on top of the underground freshwater reservoir behind the Alte Hofmühle, exposed to direct sunlight. Each of the barrels contains approximately one hundred empty PET bottles, which are slightly squeezed and hermetically sealed again. The plastic bottles expand with increasing temperature and contract when the environment cools down. Expansion, as well as contraction, produce a glitch of clicking and popping noises on a low volume. Microphones pick up these sounds from within the barrels and transmit them to a speaker system in a public space.
The sonic pattern follows an algorithm entirely bound to the laws of nature, of a rhythm of day and night as well as of changes of temperature due to weather conditions – in the wide angle of the sun from east to west, which is tempering the entire landscape.

SAT 21 May - SUN 14 August 2022
2020 Hollabrunn, Mühlenring 2,
water reservoir behind the museum Alte Hofmühle.

A project in the frame of the Viertelfestival NÖ Weinviertel 2022. Supported by AIR InSILo and the Gemeinde Hollabrunn.

This is Not-a-Game

The kick-off of the new round 2022/23 is made by David Sypniewski and Magda ‘Bronka‘ Braniewska, who, during the short-term residence slot, will start to work on their project ‘This is Not-a-Game,’ a comment on incremental games and their symbolism.
Incremental games make a perfect illustration of how modern marketing works. Based on deep knowledge of human atavisms, those games use our biological mechanisms that were designed by evolution to help us survive to a different, rather cynical cause – maximising income by increasing players’ impulsive consumption. Modern marketing also uses neuroscience to explore customer buying decisions and paths. The artists want to go back to the roots of the first clicker game, and go deeper into deconstruction, uncover how the market developed the original idea into a money-making machine. In other words: they want to create an honest version of an incremental game.

24-31.08.2022

Illustration: © Başak Tuna, 2021, Folding Screens

After one month of reading the applications, studying the proposals, and meeting the candidates, we are thrilled to announce new residents of AIR InSILo for the round 2022/ 2023! They are:
*Magdalena ‘Bronka’ Braniewska and David Sypniewski (Poland) – a short-term residence in August 2022
*Olha Pylnyk (Ukraine) – a three-months emergency residence in September/ November 2022
*Fernando Martín Velazco (Mexico) – a long-term residence in September/ October 2022
*Krzysztof Wronski (Denmark) – a short-term residence in January 2023
*Başak Tuna (Italy) – a mid-term residence in January/ February 2023
*Tatiana Istomina (United States) – a long-term residence in February/ March 2023
An extra emergency slot:
*Oleksandr Sirous, Igor Sokolov, Danil Siabro (Ukraine) – a three-month emergency residence in March – June 2023 – this project will be supported additionally.
The shortlisted artists are:
*Kexin Hong (The Netherlands)
*Justin Tyler Tate (Taiwan)
*Irena Borić (Slovenia)
All the shortlisted artists comprise the AIR InSILo network. They will have preferences in future open calls or/and be invited directly for future projects within the framework of AIR InSILo or its fellow institutions in Austria.
During this call, we received in total 97 applications from 38 countries.

10.05.2022

HZWEIO

21.05-14.08.2022

HZWEIO: a generative ecological sound installation by Martin Breindl and Bernhard Kathan at the water reservoir in Hollabrunn.
A battery of six blue plastic barrels with a capacity of about two hundred litres each is mounted on top of the underground freshwater reservoir behind the Alte Hofmühle, exposed to direct sunlight. Each of the barrels contains approximately one hundred empty PET bottles which are slightly squeezed and hermetically sealed again. The plastic bottles expand with increasing temperature and contract when the environment cools down. Expansion as well as contraction produce a glitch of clicking and popping noises on a low volume. Microphones pick up these sounds from within the barrels and transmit them to a speaker system in public space.
The sonic pattern follows an algorithm entirely bound to the laws of nature, of a rhythm of day and night as well as of changes of temperature due to weather conditions – in the wide angle of the sun from east to west, which is tempering the entire landscape.
Viertelfestival NÖ Weinviertel 2022
Opening: SAT May 21, 2022, 7 p.m

Illustration:
Alien Productions. Perpetuum Mobile. Airwaves, 2011. Foto © Sabine Maier

Instead of writing a lengthy statement, the curators of AIR InSILo decided to let the thoughts flow freely and used the form of a dialogue to meditate about current state of technology and the clash of two approaches, degrowth and acceleration. The full version of the debate “Accelerating Degrowth” is published in the InSILo Mag. We encourage everyone to read it before submitting the projects to the next call, which will be opened on May 15.

The AIR InSILo call for the round 2022/23 aims to meditate on the present state of technology. The task of the residence – which is a space, an entity, a future community that urges us to be aware of issues of consumption, energy, climate, and equality in a non-capitalist way – is to provide a proper environment that can maximally render the potential of the invited artists. But if we speak about technology, which strategy to choose? We focus on and put the clash of two approaches, degrowth and acceleration, in the centre of our discussion.

15.05-20.06.2022