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The Emergency Program of the AIR InSILo collaborates with the international program Artists at Risk and aims to host artists in critical life situations, as well as independently invites and hosts artists who have lost their income or who suffer difficult life circumstances due to the crisis. At this moment, due to the war in Ukraine.
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Art apparatus and the technology
of a (fruit fly) encounter
of a (fruit fly) encounter
17.02.2023
In February and March Tatiana Istomina will work on her project ‘Art apparatus and the technology of a (fruit fly) encounter.’ Tatiana wants to redefine, expand and intensify the concept of technology, applying it to the practice of art making. In this context artworks should be 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 focuses on the practices of hand embroidery 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 will touch 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.
Survey: (Un)limited artistic resource
10.03.2023
AIR InSILo invites you to take part in a survey which aims to contextualise the upcoming open call 2023/24 (Un)limited Artistic Resource. As usual, AIR InSIlo will offer five fully paid slots and one emergency slot. Everyone who participates in the survey will receive an early reminder.
The Global COVID-19 pandemic, a full-scale war on the territory of Europe, and a devastating natural disaster in Syria and Turkey – are 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. The conditions of artistic work can be described by the term 'precariat,' which means a newly formed class whose hallmark is a lack of job security, continuous search for employment (on average, one artist applies for 50-70 open calls, spending around up to 300 unpaid hours annually) and funding. The notion of artistic creativity continues to be romanticised to exploit the creators' pursuit of fame and success. It leads to the tragic stories of self-exploitations, burnout and severe inequality, where only 1-3% of successful artists get more than 50% of profits. AIR InSILo aims to create a space for reflection and self-reflection of an artist working in a neoliberal contemporaneity. What is more important: the time spent to master the work or the time given to fill in the open calls submissions; the ethical usage of materials or the belief in the dominant importance of artistic expression; a work for own name/ brand or work in the collective?
The Global COVID-19 pandemic, a full-scale war on the territory of Europe, and a devastating natural disaster in Syria and Turkey – are 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. The conditions of artistic work can be described by the term 'precariat,' which means a newly formed class whose hallmark is a lack of job security, continuous search for employment (on average, one artist applies for 50-70 open calls, spending around up to 300 unpaid hours annually) and funding. The notion of artistic creativity continues to be romanticised to exploit the creators' pursuit of fame and success. It leads to the tragic stories of self-exploitations, burnout and severe inequality, where only 1-3% of successful artists get more than 50% of profits. AIR InSILo aims to create a space for reflection and self-reflection of an artist working in a neoliberal contemporaneity. What is more important: the time spent to master the work or the time given to fill in the open calls submissions; the ethical usage of materials or the belief in the dominant importance of artistic expression; a work for own name/ brand or work in the collective?
"ÁNOMOS, Or The Lawless Land"
In his project, Fernando Martín Velazco is trying to find remains of a mysterious nomadic society Zweibein-Federlos whose traces were registered in Weinviertel in the vicinity of Hollabrunn.
"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 non-human others and the contemporary forms of collective organization.
"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 non-human others and the contemporary forms of collective organization.
March 2023
DayLight Computer by Başak Tuna
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.
"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
*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.
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.
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
"Festina Lente" by Olga Pylnyk
"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
• 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
Application Round 2022/23
Results
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.
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.
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.
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
Accelerating Degrowth
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
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.
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.
Open call for the 2022/2023 round
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
Bodies in Resonance
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.
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.
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
April 2022:
1770
Euros
1770
Euros
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.
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
Boundaries of sustainability interview
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.
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
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/ Bernhard Kathan, HZWEIO
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
November Fundraising
How the
world works interview
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
The full version of the interview is available only to the PATRONS
open studio days X-Mas
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
18-19th 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
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
days
Report
16-17.10.2021
long-term residents Jennetta Petch and Szymon Kula
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
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
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
• 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.
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.
• 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
Residents' Selection
How the
world works
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
16-17th 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
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.
Patreon
for the emergency Program
for the emergency Program
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
Cinema Week and AIR InSilo Pre-launch Party
27.12.2020-03.01.2021
visit of Question Me & Answer Collective
03.07.2021
interview with the curator of AIR InSilo
-by Justina Špeirokaité
(Curator at Improper Walls)
My personal interest about the cultural scene in Russia and how it is influenced by politics, was growing for some time, especially after the last summer events in Belarus. And although Belarus and Russia are countries neighboring my home land Lithuania, I realise I know almost nothing of what art and culture breath there.
To find out more, I decided to talk to Ksenia Yurkova, a curator and artist, who recently moved to Austria, and can tell us more about it based on her own experiences.
(Curator at Improper Walls)
My personal interest about the cultural scene in Russia and how it is influenced by politics, was growing for some time, especially after the last summer events in Belarus. And although Belarus and Russia are countries neighboring my home land Lithuania, I realise I know almost nothing of what art and culture breath there.
To find out more, I decided to talk to Ksenia Yurkova, a curator and artist, who recently moved to Austria, and can tell us more about it based on her own experiences.
28.02.2021
QM&A wants to shorten the process of network-building and foster exchange between artists who have been based in Vienna for a long time and those who have newly arrived. Active network-building constitutes a vital aspect of this initiative, which is achieved by various programs and events.
An informal pre-opening for the friends and everyone interested.
Since we are still facing some Corona restrictions, we decided to prolong the pre-launch party for one week. And created time-slots to make it maximum comfortable and safe.
Since we are still facing some Corona restrictions, we decided to prolong the pre-launch party for one week. And created time-slots to make it maximum comfortable and safe.
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