AIR InSILo welcomes Dmytro Tentiuk, who will be working in the residency on the 'Implicit Basis' project till the end of June 2023, together with Danil Siabro and Olexandr Sirous. The residence, a part of the Emergency Project of AIR InSILo, is supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport and facilitated by Artists at Risk (AR).
Dmytro Tentiuk (b. 1997 in Kyiv) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and designer living and working in Kyiv. His work takes the shape of videos, installations, and audiovisual performances. By making use of new media and technology, his work investigates the border between the digital world and reality.
In 2018 Tentiuk created the project' OTY.10', focusing on the synthesis of visual and sound practices, the creation of audiovisual installations and audio performance. Dmytro has been an active sound artist since 2019. In 2019 he graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (easel graphics department), Kyiv, and at the moment, he is a postgraduate student of the Department of Theory and History of Art of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Since 2020 – a co-founder and member of the '_mediaklub' formation.
Since 2020 Tentiuk has been a member of the 'Photinus studio', a new media art formation operating since 2012 and facilitating international art exhibitions – Venice Biennale, transmediale Vorspiel, Digital Cultures (Warsaw, Poland); music and light festivals - Strichka Festival, KievLightFest and many others.

April 2023

Art Apparatus and the Technology of
(a fruit fly) Encounter
by Tatiana Istomina

22.04.2023

AIR InSILo welcomes Oleksandr Sirous, who will be working in the residency on the 'Implicit Basis' project till the end of June 2023, together with Danil Siabro and Dmytro Tentiuk. The residence, a part of the Emergency Project of AIR InSILo, is supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport and facilitated by Artists at Risk (AR).
Oleksandr Sirous (b. 1996, Kharkiv) is a new media artist, performer, and sound artist living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Sirous works with big data sets and the principles of interaction and communication in web environments and creates complex simulation environments using AI. His background in animation and comics has influenced his practice, leading to a constant search for a non-trivial approach to storytelling and composition in media works. Recently, because of his work with game engines, he has turned to video game culture, various game mechanics, and new rules of interaction, thus finding new approaches at the intersection of the already established practices in media art and video games.

April 2023

Tatiana redefines, expands and intensifies the concept of technology, applying it to the practice of art making. In this context artworks is viewed as physical apparatuses, which mediate encounters between humans and the world to generate specific versions of reality. Her project uses insights from experimental physics and biosciences to develop a theoretical framework and a physical model of an art apparatus: a sculptural/pictorial device mapping out the borderline between the notions of a mechanism and a living organism. During the residency, Tatiana focused on the practices of hand embroidery, sculpture and fruit fly (drosophila) rearing. Drosophila research is the backbone of contemporary genetic and biological sciences, but it involves ethical and philosophical problems that are largely ignored today. Tatiana’s work touches on some of these problems, including the consciousness of the fly, the power dynamics between flies and humans, the extent of free will possessed by both species, and the conditions and limits of human knowledge about living nature.

Başak Tuna's DayLight Computer

In the new video for the InSilo Mag, Başak Tuna tells how she developed a project for the AIR InSilo Residency, that she called DayLight Computer. It is simply a computer screen that works in front of a window or on a sunny day instead of using the embedded electric light. A desktop screen that is resistant to function at night times. Technically speaking; the computer screen doesn’t need the LEDs inside in order to function. The LEDs are taken out of the screen and another window behind it is opened. The screen’s light source is now the environmental light or daylight.
"Light is separate from its use, yet it eliminates time and space factors in human association in cooperation with our smart personal devices. We are no longer in need of natural time reminders to shape our schedule like daylight; instead, we have access to it twenty-four hours and seven days a week. As a consequence, physical space around the device loses its significance because the device itself highlights the information on a specific surface by one specific light source.
Quite visibly, the pandemic has sharpened the disengagement with the city, public space, mobility and with physicality; we are left living more and more fixed but more connected to our light-emitting object networks that surround us. Even though there is no apparent physical labour, the work itself is the usage of the device, thus including being exposed to the device's blue light. As experienced by everybody, with or without notice, there is always more to do, and there is always the urge to keep doing things. We are busy all the time with our glowing devices. Where does human usership's agency start, and where does it end?"

18.04.2023

Emergency resident Danil Siabro

17.04.2023

As a Lower Austrian artist-in-residence program and artistic research laboratory with an international focus, with deep regret, we take into account the provisions of the new government agreement between the ÖVP and the FPÖ in Lower Austria. The substantial parts of the working agreement between ÖVP and FPÖ are in apparent conflict with our political and moral principles: cultural advancement only makes sense and is possible in the acceptance, exchange and cooperation of people of different origins, opinions, personal, religious and ideological convictions. We are condemning the proliferation of the political populism that obscures the hate speech, uses the notion of “neutrality” as a synonym for indifference, understands the educational, cultural and scientific program as retrotopia, and eventually shapes the largest federal state of Austria as a provincial backwater. We manifest that detestation, chauvinism, and any form of discrimination have no place in our residency and program. We will continue addressing the challenges of ecological crisis, questioning unjust labour conditions, developing decentralized and diverse communities, and reflecting sustainability in general and in art production. AIR InSILo stands for diversity, cultural exchange and cooperation.

April 2023

AIR InSILo welcomes Danil Siabro, who will be working in the residency on the 'Implicit Basis' project till the end of June 2023, together with Dmytro Tentiuk and Olexandr Sirous. The residence, a part of the Emergency Project of AIR InSILo, is supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport and facilitated by Artists at Risk (AR).
Danil Siabro (b. 1998 Mykolaiv) is an interdisciplinary artist, programmer and educator living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine. Being fascinated by historical, cinematic, fictional, gamified, decentralized aspects of technology, Siabro examines 'tools' from different perspectives and enjoys exploring them in connection to a larger context with a share of humour. Often created in collaborations, his works take the forms of videos, installations, and audiovisual performances, experiment with various new media and technology, and investigate connection with the digital world and reality, which day by day is getting thinner. AIR InSILo wishes Danil Siabro a fruitful and happy time in Lower Austria and sends BIRTHDAY GREETINGS!
If you want to support and donate to the Emergency Program of AIR InSILo, please find the links here.

Illustration: © Başak Tuna, 2021, Folding Screens. Broken computer screens, metal frame.

"How long is the daily cycle of a computer?"

For AIR InSilo Residency, Basak Tuna will develop, rethink and reproduce a project titled DayLight Computer. It is a computer screen that works in front of a window or on a sunny day instead of using the embedded electric light. In other words, a desktop screen that is resistant to function at night times. Technically speaking, the computer screen doesn’t need the LEDs inside in order to function. The artist took the LEDs out of the screen and opened another window behind it. The screen’s light source is now the environmental light or daylight.
At the end of the 3-week residency, Basak will complete the concept and realization of the resisting computer screen.

23.01.-15.02.2023

Autonomous Trees by Krzysztof Wronski

23-30.01.2023

Tree Centered Design Workshop with Krzysztof Wronski

At the Tree Centered Design Workshop, participants will react to known tree challenges as well as potential scenarios that threaten tree life and explore interventions with possible or imaginary social or technical developments. Working in small groups, they will share ideas with each other and develop a new scenario that will be communicated with workshop participants in the form of a short performance. No specific skills or experience are required other than curiosity and an openness to imagine new things. The workshop will be a guided step-by-step experience conducted in English.
*Tree Centered Design is a practice focused on inviting people to collaborate and collectively explore what a design or innovation process might look like if it was focused on the needs of trees (or other life) rather than human.

27.01.2023
Fr 19:00 – 20:30
Galerie grenzART,
Sparkassegasse 1, 2020 Hollabrunn

27.01.2023

Autonomous Trees are living trees with enhanced agency and abilities, assisted by systems developed and operated by Krzysztof Wronski. Through prototypes and real-world interventions, trees are equipped with capabilities that primarily serve them and challenge relations between people and living systems struggling with the climate emergency.
A tree is presented as an authority figure serving the interests of non-humans. Physical symbolic artefacts and devices associated with human authority are installed on and around a local tree selected as a temporary agent. These represent industrial components utilised on autonomous vehicles and security apparatus. People, subjected to the tree's authority, can interact with the tree by accessing an arboreal chatbot on their phones. The chatbot enables a conversation between humans and trees — during which visitors hear the tree's perspective and receive an assessment and fine as punishment for the collective harm they cause to living systems.

In the new video for the InSilo Mag, Ksenia Yurkova talks about how the theory of affect influences her artistic practice and how she is trying to expand the understanding of affects through the artistic means of photography, video, and performance. She touches upon the notions of identity shaped by trauma, neuroplasticity, and radical transformation and how all of these can help in her performative interactions with those who suffered political violence.
The artist talk took place at the Improper Walls gallery space in Vienna on March 18, 2022.

18.03.2022

Becoming One, Being Plural

31.01.2022

Funds collected for the Emergency Program

We are continuing to fundraise for the Emergency Program of AIR InSILo. During March and April, the residence is hosting and subsidising artists and cultural workers: Tereza Barabash and her son (Lviv, UA), Yuliia Pendrak and her daughter (Lviv, UA), Daria Hetmanova (Mariupol, UA).
We are thankful to our donors - private individuals and public institutions! But we need your further help to continue supporting those fleeing war.
To run the Emergency Program, we need 1700 Euros per person monthly. To help us, you can purchase artworks from the online store of AIR InSILo. You can subscribe to the PATREON or donate directly via PayPal. All the links - via the button.

5.04.2022

In the new video for the InSILo Magazine, the artist Jungeun Lee speaks about her installation 'Becoming One, Being Plural' that visualises and sonifies the relations between microorganisms and humans. In AIR InSILo, the artist researched various types of water sources such as lakes, rivers, and swamps and built ecospheres, to convert the movement of microorganisms into sound and amplify them in order to give a voice to many of those unheard and invisible. In a time when our planet is threatened, the ecosphere represents a contemporary oasis. These ecosystems work like time-capsules: they contain dormant resources and myriad other species with whom we share life on this planet; they contain enormous biodiversity and are inhabited by numerous plant and animal species and various communities of living microorganisms. The work will be presented in November 2022, in FLUC Wien.

Artists Szymon Kula and Jennetta Petch are speaking about their research around the boundaries of sustainability of artistic production and showing the results of an ongoing project that was started in rural France, in Embrun, over the winter of 2020 and was continued in AIR InSILo in winter 2021. The project is carried out by the investigation of how one can use materials to adapt to the chaos of the environmental crisis and what materials can do to help us to exist and even thrive in a chaotic world, as well as how making can provide a sense of structure in time and space.
At AIR InSILo, Kula & Petch expand the vocabulary of ancient processes and modern techniques; they research local crafts and incorporate them into their practice, creating hybrid objects that are a product of different localities, difficult to anchor in a particular time period, drawing on historical references from a perspective of the future. The special focus is put on upcycling, recycling and repurposing to create multilayered installations.

16.02.2022

TIST Collective - new artists-in-residence

05.-13.03.2022

In March 2022, AIR InSILo hosts a collective of two artists/ curators, Yulia Tikhomirova and Michele Liparesi - TIST (This Is So Temporary) from Bologna, Italy. TIST manifests the necessity to build a creative, open and inclusive artistic process outside of traditional, institutional and, alas! capitalistic system of production.
The artist-run space TIST is situated in an old fabric shed in an industrial peripheral zone of the city and offers studios for young artists, an exposition space, a community garden, workshop facilities and a leisure zone. The project grew up out of disagreement with the continuous and growing concentration of art production in the hands of a few institutions financed both by public and private money, where the same small group of people, in practice, decide what contemporary art should be and exclude any possibility to differentiate the discourse, the content and the politics of art.

Degrees -
A Solo Exhibition by Ksenia yurkova

On March 9, Ksenia Yurkova is opening her personal exhibition in the frames of FOTO WIEN Festival.
On a junction of theory and art practice, through the means of photography and moving image, the project DEGREES (2021) dives into the framework of contemporary affect theory and approaches the question on personal, collective, and transitive levels. At every stage, the work is challenged to find artistic means of expression of the concept, which is considered to be undetectable directly.

Improper Walls Gallery,
Reindorfgasse 42, Wien
Vernissage Mar 9, 2022, 18:00
Exhibition Mar 10 – Mar 25
Wed, Thu, Fri 15:00 – 19:00
Friday, Mar 18 – Artist talk

10-25.03.2022

<Biotope- Metamorphic Symbiosis> by Jungeun Lee

The first long-term resident of 2022 is Jungeun Lee, who is working on her Biotope- Metamorphic Symbiosis installation that visualizes and sonifies the relations between microorganisms and humans. In AIR InSILo, the artist plans to research various types of water sources such as lakes, rivers, and swamps and build ecospheres, to convert the movement of microorganisms into sound and amplify them. Movements and vitality of snails scratching moss on the wall, hydra hanging upside down on the plants using long tentacles, and stone leech hunting for food larger than their bodies will be collected by using motion tracking and transferred to the audience through an amplifier. The project takes a challenge to give a voice to many of those unheard and invisible. When our planet is threatened, the ecosphere represents a contemporary oasis. These ecosystems are like time capsules. The ecosphere contains dormant resources and myriad other species with whom we share life on this planet. They contain enormous biodiversity and are inhabited by numerous plant and animal species and various communities of living microorganisms.

Martin Breindl‘s and Bernhard Kathan‘s new version of their generative sound installation HZWEIO at the festival minus20degree in Flachau, Salzburg, from Jan. 20th to 22nd, 2022: A sculpture consisting of six-blue plastic barrels with a capacity of about two hundred litres each is set up in front of the local church in Flachau, exposed to direct sunlight. Each of the barrels contains about one hundred empty PET bottles, which are slightly pinched 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 variety of click and plop noises [glitch] on a low volume. Microphones pick up these sounds from within the barrels and transmit them to a loudspeaker 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 in temperature due to weather conditions.

9-31.01.2022

open studio days Report

20.12.2021

During the Open Studio Days X-Mas in AIR InSILo, artists Szymon Kula and Jennetta Petch presented their latest work, The Boundaries of Sustainability which was accomplished during six weeks of the residence. The full photo documentation is available on the page of the project.

20-22.01.2022

12.11.2021

How the
world works interview

29.11.2021

How the World Works by Maria Safronova Wahlström and Johannes Wahlström intend to describe the rapidly changing world that we and our societies are surrounded by, and that became more visible in connection with the pandemic. How the World Works is based on the UN Sustainability Goals 2030 and interviews of the people active in the fields affected by the proposed changes. The answers will form the basis for a series of graphic works that playfully highlight the topics that we all too often resign ourselves to considering too complicated to understand. The project aims to connect the research on current political and economic issues with a simple and playful graphic form, which can be exhibited and distributed in art contexts and schools.
The full version of the interview is available only to the PATRONS

Open Studio Days X-Mas in AIR InSILo
18-19th of December 2021, in Hollabrunn.

• a sneak peek to the artists' studios of Szymon Kula and Jennetta Petch
• new artworks by the residence artists: from the affordable prints to the original pieces (visit our online store to choose)
• glühwein by AIR InSilo
Opening hours: 18, 19 December 2021
- 14 to 17
The ground floor is accessible for wheelchairs

18-19.12.2021

When we reach the sum of 5100 Euros, we can invite our first guest artist to become a part of the emergency programme. The minimum stay of the artist is for three months.

To host one artist for three months, we need a budget of:
1. An independent space to live and work (possible together with the family)
as an in-kind contribution of AIR InSilo
2. Covered travel (300 Euros within Europe, 600 Euros -- from the outside of Europe)
3. Transport (300 Euros for three months)
4. Artistic fee (1950 Euros for three months)
5. Material costs/ Production money (1050 Euros for three months)
6. Operational costs (600 Euros per three months)
7. Curator's/ assistant's fee (600 Euros per three months)

TOTAL: 5100 Euros -- or 1700 Euros per month which we need to collect to invite our first guest.

Become a PATRON today

Scoby Spin Cycle

The first OPEN CALL artist of AIR InSILo is Mary Maggic who, during the last week in October, will work on the SCOBY SPIN CYCLE. It is a post-anthropocentric performative art installation and absurd machine object that optimizes the industrial production of SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) made from a kombucha bioreactor that is kept in constant rotation by the physical and demanding labour of a human subject on a gym exercise machine. The project reflects on the role of technology in human and non-human relationships of resource extraction and exploitation and human technological desires for fitness, perfection, and optimization. Can feminist practices of care and kinship re-insert the necessary intimacy within multi-species relationships that have been largely and historically driven by capitalism?

23-31.10.2021

open studio
days
Report

16-17.10.2021

During the residency, the artists will continue their research around the boundaries of sustainability of artistic production by developing an ongoing project that was started in rural France, in Embrun, over the winter of 2020. It will be carried out by the investigation of how one can use materials to adapt to the chaos of the environmental crisis and what materials can do to help us to exist and even thrive in a chaotic world, as well as how making can provide a sense of structure in time and space.

9.11-20.12.2021

Plane Catcher/ Flugzeug-fallen
by Martin Breindl

AIR InSILo’s artist and curator Martin Breindl will present his project Plane Catcher, an installation consisting of fifty-five assemblages of model aeroplanes and irons and a video projection (shot and edited by Ksenia Yurkova), created between 2018 and 2021. Plane Catcher is an impulsive alphabet, a system of signs washed up from childhood against the background of a higher law that brings art theory and practices into harmony. The whole series will be displayed for the first time in the barn of the very house where Martin grew up – and now AIR InSilo – putting all the past debris into order like after a plane crash.

open studio days and Emergency
Program

During the Open Studio Days on the 16-17th of October 2021, one can become a supporter of the Emergency Program of AIR InSILo by
• buying artwork from the residents: from the affordable prints to the original artwork (see the catalogues). 70% of the price goes to the artist, 30% to the maintenance of the AIR InSILo and the Emergency Program
• buying organic goods from the garden of AIR InSilo
• becoming a Patron of the Emergency Program
• inviting your friends and spreading the word

16-17.10.2021

All Nonsense Cancels Itself

09.10.2021

In AIR InSILo, the invited artist and writer Bernhard Kathan will work on his sound piece All Nonsense Cancels Itself, which will be presented during the Open Studio Days on 16-17 October. The piece is dedicated to Daniel Paul Schreber (1842 - 1911), who is considered the most prominent case in the history of psychiatry thanks to his book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Among many others, Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, Elias Canetti, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari occupied themselves with his bizarre imagery.
It is commonly thought that doctors are trying to understand the patients. Kathan reveals that Schreber's story teaches us the opposite: in fact, the patients are required to understand the doctors who are treating them.
Kathan recontextualizes the Memoirs of My Nervous Illness and, by means of sound and graphic art, reveals meaning in the chaos. By refusing to see Schreber as a "case", just a madman, he points out that the patient to facilitate his doctors was by purpose producing all the signs he was expected to.

16-17.10.2021

Finally, the selection is done, and we are happy to announce the first residents of AIR InSILo! They are:
• Mary Maggic (Austria) for the short-term residence in October 2021
• Szymon Kula and Jennetta Petch (Poland/ UK) for the long-term residence in November – December 2021
• Hung-Fei Wu (Taiwan) for the long-term residence in January – February 2022
Due to the very high quality of the submissions, we made an exception and launched an additional slot for
• the TIST Collective /Yulia Tikhomirova and Michele Liparesi/ (Italy) for the short-term residence in March 2022
The shortlisted artists
• Marina Shamova (Russia)
• Damla Yalçin (Turkey)
• Jungeun Lee (South Korea)
• Oksana Rudko (Russia)
• Elena Redaelli (Italy)
• Laura Fernandez Antolin (Spain)
• Juan Gugger (France)
• eeefff (Belarus/ Russia)
will form the waiting list of AIR InSILo and will have preferences in the future open calls or/and will be invited directly for the future projects within the framework of AIR InSILo or its fellow institutions in Austria.
This year, we have received 22 applications for short-term residence and 114 applications for long-term residence from 47 countries.

30.09.2021

How the
world works

04.10.2021

How the World Works by Maria Safronova Wahlström and Johannes Wahlström intends to describe the rapidly changing world that we and our societies are surrounded by; and that became more visible in connection with the pandemic. How the World Works is based on the UN Sustainability Goals 2030 and interviews of the people active in the fields affected by the proposed changes. The answers will form the basis for a series of graphic works that playfully highlight the topics that we all too often resign ourselves to considering too complicated to understand. The project aims to connect the research on current political and economic issues with a simple and playful graphic form, which can be exhibited and distributed in art contexts as well as in schools.

open studio days

Open Studio Days in AIR InSILo
16-17th of October 2021, in Hollabrunn.

• the novel residency space in Hollabrunn
• an exhibition "Flugzeugfallen" by Martin Breindl in assistance by Ksenia Yurkova
• a sound-piece "Aller Unsinn hebt sich auf" by the resident of AIR InSILo, artist and philosopher, Bernhard Kathan
• artworks by the residence artists: from the affordable prints to the original artwork (download the full catalogue at in-silo.com)
• organic goods from the garden of AIR InSilo
Opening hours: 16, 17 October 2021 - 14 to 18
The ground floor is accessible for the wheel-chair

16-17.10.2021

Martin Breindl, Flugzeugfalle #19 Der rote Baron, 2019
Foto: Ksenia Yurkova

Long-term residency open-call

15.08-15.09.2021

Short-term residency open-call

Understanding artistic creation as a basic need, we are inviting artists, curators, and researchers to contribute their thoughts and energy to conceptualise the takes on the sustainability of individuum’s lives and ethical challenges and boundaries of sustainability of artistic production; to think of artistic production as non-commodity; to imagine alternative economic systems to sustain artistic production; to define boundaries of living space and workspace, leisure time and work time; to meditate on open-source appropriate technologies and open-design; to find the ways of collaborations of disjoint decentralized communities.

15.08-15.09.2021

The inauguration call of AIR InSilo is inspired by the ideas of Leopold Kohr (1909 – 1994), a prominent but underrated Austrian philosopher, whose concept ‘Small is Beautiful’ has saturated the thinking of subsequent researchers and influenced the notions of decentralization with inclinations to localism and post-development theory, degrowth theory, bioregionalism, and a principle of sustainability.

The Patreon page of AIR InSilo is dedicated to the emergency programme (in collaboration with the international programme Artists at Risk). Its goal is to host artists in critical life situations, as well as to invite and host artists who had lost their income or who suffer difficult life circumstances due to the crisis. The residency aims to focus its attention on female artists with children, on artists from countries where governments didn’t allocate sufficient support programs, and primarily on the ones who suffer persecution from the home country governments.

01.06.2021

to the call

to the call