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Since it’s beginning one of AIL’s aim is to foster connections beyond the University’s structure and therefore support Alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. With the new ‘AIL Residency Program’, starting 2025, the AIL promotes and makes visible the artistic work and interdisciplinary research of alumni of the University of Applied Arts outside the traditional exhibition scene.
09 Oct 2025, 20:00
Throughout their residency, current Alumni in Residence Jona Wolf is making the studio space as accessible as possible. They will activate it by screening films by other trans artists and hosting a workshop and performance
An evening where you'll discover how this drag queen was born and continues to be reborn with every show.
This act shows the transition from getting ready as one person to becoming another at the final performance. Inspired by the book Becoming Michelle Obama.
Laziza Vuitton is a drag queen performing in Slovakia and Vienna. She started two years ago, and her career is becoming more and more successful. She lip-syncs, sings live, and dances. She creates most of her costumes and choreographs her own performances. She even has her own music video. "She is a firework queen on a glitter parade."
Jona Wolf studied architecture at Studio Greg Lynn and Studio Wolf D. Prix and graduated in 2015. Jona Wolf is Alumni in Residence at AIL in September and October. During their residency at AIL, Jona will create a series of works exploring how cultural body norms and beauty standards reinforce the gender binary. The project aims to empower the gender fluidity of trans people while also raising awareness of how gender norms affect and restrict everyone in society.
18 Oct 2025, 11:00
Jona Wolf studied architecture at Studio Greg Lynn and Studio Wolf D. Prix, graduating in 2015. Using digital tools like 3D animation and CNC fabrication, they develop temporary spaces, objects and installations.
Their practice focuses on re-imagining and transforming educational models and collaborative creation. They are actively engaged in community building and activism, with a focus on empowering marginalised groups and resistance to state oppression. Jona is part of The Palace Collective, which currently runs an urban community project in Berlin.
During their residency at AIL, Jona Wolf will create a series of works exploring how cultural body norms and beauty standards reinforce the gender binary. The project aims to empower the gender fluidity of trans people while also raising awareness of how gender norms affect and restrict everyone in society. Throughout the residency, Jona is making the space as accessible as possible to foster a collective experience and to gather community.
This is the last event in this series, opening up the temporary studio of Jona Wolf.
30 Sep 2025, 20:00
Throughout their residency, current Alumni in Residence Jona Wolf is making the studio space as accessible as possible. They will activate it by screening films by other trans artists and hosting a workshop and performance
Jona Wolf studied architecture at Studio Greg Lynn and Studio Wolf D. Prix and graduated in 2015. Jona Wolf is Alumni in Residence at AIL in September and October. During their residency at AIL, Jona will create a series of works exploring how cultural body norms and beauty standards reinforce the gender binary. The project aims to empower the gender fluidity of trans people while also raising awareness of how gender norms affect and restrict everyone in society.
Dir: Caio Amado Soares
Doubt creeps in as Cosmo, a space traveller, addresses his gender identity. In need of clarity and change, he wants to risk crossing the Butterfly Nebula. His spaceship, on the other hand, has a personality of her own. Cosmo will need to negotiate change with a certain loss of control.
Dir: Agniia Galdanova
Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism - and put her life in danger.
07 Oct 2025, 16:00
Please note: all spots for the workshop are taken. Join the Screening afterwards, starting 20:00
Trans people are required to submit a ‘Trans-CV’, amongst other documents, to access gender-affirming surgery in Germany. This practice is deeply discriminatory. The CV is supposed to provide proof of being trans from early childhood – like playing with ponies instead of cars, or preferring baggy jeans over ballet skirts. State-appointed assessors look for stereotypical and rigid ideas of gender, as if clothing, hobbies, or preferences were strictly binary.
But reality is more complex. Most people’s lives, cis or trans, don’t fit into such narrow categories.
In this workshop, we will explore these stereotypes and how they shape our lives. Together, we’ll write our own ‘CVs’ relating to gendered expectations. Cis participants will write a CV for the gender they don’t identify with, while trans participants choose which perspective they’d like to take.
The goal is to spark conversation about how gender norms limit everyone, and to highlight the fluidity of gender in each of us.
No prior knowledge or tools needed
About the facilitator:
Jona (he/they) is a visual artist and workshop facilitator with a background in architecture. Jona is queer, white, able-bodied, and transmasculine.
Participants: Max. 15 participants, please register via short mail to alexandra.graupner@uni-ak.ac.at
Jona Wolf studied architecture at Studio Greg Lynn and Studio Wolf D. Prix and graduated in 2015. Jona is Alumni in Residence at AIL in September and October. During their residency at AIL, Jona will create a series of works exploring how cultural body norms and beauty standards reinforce the gender binary. The project aims to empower the gender fluidity of trans people while also raising awareness of how gender norms affect and restrict everyone in society.
Throughout their residency, current Alumni in Residence Jona Wolf is making the studio space as accessible as possible. They will activate it by screening films by other trans artists and hosting a workshop and performance.
Preview photo: Picture of a workshop facilitated together with Miriam Poletti and absrtaqt. Photo by Simona Radici
07 Oct 2025, 20:00
Throughout their residency, current Alumni in Residence Jona Wolf is making the studio space as accessible as possible. They will activate it by screening films by other trans artists and hosting a workshop and performance
Dir: Mirha-Soleil Ross, Xanthra Phillippa
"We are two gender queens, gender outlaws, trans-dykes, gender troublemakers" so begins this intimate portrait of the video makers, two kick-ass radical transgender activists living in Toronto. Jeanne and Xanthra publish Gendertrash, a transgender zine, and give the dish on gay male misogyny and all of its complex articulations in contemporary gay culture.
Dir: Adamska Elizaveta Rakhilkina
"Face/Off intertwines the narrative of monstrosity – Ruin, Release, Rebirth, the narrative similar to the transsexual cutting as caring. The video is a carousel of Monsters: fictional – Frankenstein, Onryō or the Japanese vengeful spirits – and real – the great late French sex symbol Alain Delon with his ruthless beauty and grandezza, and the maelstrom of doctors guarding the gates to facial reconstructive surgery under the umbrella of ‘gender-affirming care.’ Face/Off weaves in texts on monstrosity from Stryker and Preciado while threading auto-theory of my own phrenological experience in the surgeon’s office in the pursuit of the facial masculinization surgery, stitching my own Frankensteinian monster. Let the trans-flesh become the trans-image."
Dir: Evo Smilla S. Sidney, Sol Amanda Wendel
Prod: Ane Sofie Vennize Andersen
Trans Hero explores gender and identity seen through the eyes of transgender children and children with gender-diverse parents. In a soft, dreamlike scenography, we meet a group of Danish kids between the ages 5-13. Throughout the movie, we’re invited into their minds as we learn about the joys, sorrows and challenges that come with growing up and into your authentic self, no matter the cost. Trans Hero is directed by trans and non-binary debut directors Sol A. Wendel and Evo Smilla S. Sidney. The crew behind the film consists almost exclusively of transgender, non-binary and femme individuals.
Jona Wolf studied architecture at Studio Greg Lynn and Studio Wolf D. Prix and graduated in 2015. Jona Wolf is Alumni in Residence at AIL in September and October. During their residency at AIL, Jona will create a series of works exploring how cultural body norms and beauty standards reinforce the gender binary. The project aims to empower the gender fluidity of trans people while also raising awareness of how gender norms affect and restrict everyone in society.
A workshop, performance, film screenings and open studio day will accompany this residency.
Jona Wolf studied architecture in Studio Greg Lynn and Studio Wolf D. Prix, graduating in 2015. Using digital tools like 3D animation and CNC fabrication, they develop temporary spaces, objects and installations.
Their practice focuses on re-imagining and transforming educational models and collaborative creation. They are actively engaged in community building and activism, with a focus on empowering marginalised groups and resistance to state oppression. Jona is part of The Palace Collective, which currently runs an urban community project in Berlin.
During their residency at AIL, Jona will create a series of works exploring how cultural body norms and beauty standards reinforce the gender binary. The project aims to empower the gender fluidity of trans people while also raising awareness of how gender norms affect and restrict everyone in society.
Throughout the residency, Jona is making the space as accessible as possible. They will activate it by screening films by other trans artists and hosting workshops.
30 Sep, 20:00
Film Screening
Mishaps in Spacetime, 2025, Dir: Caio Amado Soares
Queendom, 2023, Dir: Agniia Galdanova
7 Oct, 16:00
Workshop with Jona Wolf
Rewriting Gender
Please register via mail to alexandra.graupner@uni-ak.ac.at
20:00
Film Screening
Gender Troublemakers, 1993, Dir: Mirha-Soleil Ross, Xanthra Phillippa
Face/Off, 2024, incl. Q&A with director Adamska Elizaveta Rakhilkina
Trans Hero, 2024, Dir: Evo Smilla S. Sidney, Sol Amanda Wendel
9 Oct, 20:00
Performance
Becoming Laziza
with Laziza Vuitton
18 Oct, 11:00–20:00
Open Studio Day
Open Studio: 24 Apr, 16:00–22:00
Ramiro Wong (born in Lima, Peru in 1987) is a transdisciplinary and research-based artist. His work addresses political and socio-cultural questions of identity construction. Local narratives and individual experiences serve as the starting point for what he calls dynamics of displacement: a process in which identity is formed, understood and deconstructed in different historical and geographical contexts. Wong’s current work explores how these processes have been sustained by seemingly innocuous habits of consumption, reproduction and rebranding over the course of a 500-year-old tradition that the artist calls Aesthetics of Othering.
Wong’s artistic approach is interested in translation, representation and the politics of invisibilisation as an integral part and narrative of installations and performances. Both in its temporal iteration and in its object-based effects, Wong’s work is not intended to illustrate circumstances but to stimulate actions that lead to a conversation in which participants witness each other’s experiences.
During the course of the AIL Artists in Residency Program, Wong will explore the themes of survival and resilience through Sonnet: An Installation in 14 Parts. He will begin by researching the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict (1980—2000) and gathering materials such as repurposed lead-acid car batteries to power lighting installations.
Experimentation will follow, as Wong tests different light sources and soundscapes, constructing small-scale models and refining the technical aspects of the work. As the residency progresses, he will assemble the final installation, integrating 14 pieces that narrate moments of endurance in broken systems. Through adjustments and feedback, the project will take its final shape, inviting dialogue on the intersections of history and contemporary struggles. The time at AIL will mark a crucial phase in the development of Sonnet, preparing it for future exhibitions and expanded iterations.
Celebrations. Video Assamblage, 2020
What have I escaped? Where, anyway, would I go escape?* Installation/Performance, 2021
Portfolio. Performance Installation/Video, 2021
Born in Thailand, Suchart Wannaset moved to Vienna at the age of 7. After graduating from ‘die Graphische’ school of media and photography in 2010, he attended a photography masterclass in Paris with Oliviero Toscani in 2011. In 2014 Wannaset decided to apply to the University of Applied Arts in Vienna to study Transmedia Art after being inspired by the work of Professor Brigitte Kowanz, who was the head of the department. He graduated in 2020 with a 57-minute, 3-channel diploma film shot in his birthplace. Suchart Wannaset's collective works with the Mai Ling collective and individual works have been shown at the Secession Vienna, Brunnenpassage, Tanzquartier Vienna, Parallel, the Austrian Sculpture Park Museum Joanneum, Belveder 21 and Stadtgalerie Salzburg, among others.
Within his artistic practice Wannaset explores the multi-faceted relationship between culture and nature. The shaping of natural landscapes by humans has far-reaching consequences regarding the relationship to each other as well as changes and preservation. The search for nature and so-called ‘border zones’ is an essential part of Wannaset’s artistic work. His works address social, cultural, queer and ecological phenomena, the concepts of which he implements transmedially with the help of video, sculpture, performance and photography.
During his AIL residency, Suchart Wannaset will continue developing his art project Pressure, which sits at the intersection of art and science. Combining kinetic sculptures, video, and sound works, Pressure artistically explores and contributes to the little-known research on the effects of noise on insects – highlighting the harmful effects of noise and light pollution, along with habitat loss caused by suburban expansion in Vienna.
In the video, the artist searches for the pure insect sounds of his childhood, only to find that much has changed. His kinetic sculptures – anthropomorphic insects – add a heavy, imposing presence, symbolizing the exhaustion imposed on these creatures and their environment by human activity. A sound database, compiled during his field recordings, documents the seemingly endless search for undisturbed natural sounds.
Throughout the residency, Wannaset will further refine his large-scale insect sculptures and expand the research on his database of insect sound recordings. Additionally, he will make the database interactive, allowing studio visitors to create soundscapes using their smartphones.
Since it’s beginning one of AIL’s aim is to foster connections beyond the University’s structure and therefore support Alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. With the new ‘AIL Residency Program’, starting 2025, the AIL promotes and makes visible the artistic work and interdisciplinary research of alumni of the University of Applied Arts outside the traditional exhibition scene.
Please note the current open call for two more Residency slots. Deadline 25 Jan 2025
Since it’s beginning one of AIL’s aim is to foster connections beyond the University’s structure and therefore support Alumni of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. With the new ‘AIL Residency Program’, starting 2025, the AIL promotes and makes visible the artistic work and interdisciplinary research of alumni of the University of Applied Arts outside the traditional exhibition scene. First artist in resident is Verena Tscherner, alumni of the department of Digital Arts.
Born in Tyrol, Verena Tscherner came to Vienna shortly after graduating from high school. She studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (MDW), where she graduated in 2014. Afterwards she studied at the Friedl Kubelka School, School for Artistic Photography in Vienna, which she graduated in 2019 with a diploma. Then she studied digital art with Univ.-Prof. Mag.art. Ruth Schnell and UBERMORGEN at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and graduated in June 2024. She lives and works as a freelance artist in Vienna.
During her residency at AIL Verena Tscherner will produce a new installation for her upcoming exhibition at Frau* schafft Raum. She will experiment with different breathing patterns of the deflateables. At the same time Tscherner will further work with directional speakers and wants to try different texts, voices, atmospherical sounds and music to see how these sounds may alter the room they are placed in. She will also have her first deflateable inhale deflate set up at her temporary studio at AIL. Tscherner is interested to open up a dialogue about contemporary art and how it affects the observer.
Verena Tscherner experiments with the idea of the vacuum as a way to capture a moment, as a delay of decay, as „holding one‘s breath.“ The aspects of air and vacuum are increasingly gaining new, expanded meanings in her artistic process. inhale. deflate marked the beginning of her engagement with the genre of sculpture and spatial installation. In her diploma thesis entangle. deflate she combined 3D-printed objects with a large-scale deflateable and a sound installation. This large-scale deflateable is sculpturally placed in the space. It takes on an organic character as air is repeatedly added or removed from it using a timer.
inhale. deflate is an artwork that explores the depths of human emotions while simultaneously raising the question of how deeply we can empathize with another person‘s perspective. It addresses the issue of social isolation and how to approach it in art, as well as how to convey it to someone who has rarely experienced this feeling. How can we grow together and develop more compassion for one another? Art has the power to communicate emotions in a very direct and
intuitive way, while at the same time doing so in an entirely metaphorical manner. It asks questions and leaves all the answers to the viewer. It is unique, universal, independent, and at the same time individual.
The deflateable consciously and unconsciously soothes the breathing of the viewers. A space for relaxed togetherness can emerge, a space for collective consciousness opens. The contents are absorbed emotionally and unconsciously into one‘s awareness, to then continue working in the subconscious, to be reflected upon alone or with others at the right moment. Deflateable, an object is deprived of air to allow it a kind of „exhale.“ As a result, the objects within begin to move, approaching the viewers, only to withdraw again. The sculpture is artificially „brought to life“ in order to connect with the viewer through their own empathy. A cycle of tension (vacuuming) and relaxation (letting go through stopping the vacuuming) emerges, imitating the living in order to turn the viewers‘ gaze inward. The body itself becomes an individual instrument of insight.
In 2020, the Canadian Women’s Foundation introduced the emergency signal for domestic violence. This hand signal consists of three consecutive gestures and can be discreetly used during face-to-face contact. The installation entangle. deflate engages the senses and draws the viewer’s attention to this issue, making its significance understandable on various levels. Each digital copy of a real hand forms an enclave, connected to all the others through an irregular alternation between air and vacuum. This creates a communal foundation for fostering solidarity.
Opening: 20 Mar 2025, 13:00
Running: 20 Mar 2025 – 31 Jul 2025
Drawing on the history of the ‘Postsparkasse’ as a former bank, AIL invited five artists to engage with a concept known for its economic context.
Presented in the small vitrine of the Otto Wagner Postsparkasse five graduates of the University of Applied Arts Vienna open a window into the diverse artistic practices and languages of Angewandte alumni, offering a range of perspectives that explore parallels, contrasts, or extensions within the given thematic framework.
In his work Manuel Cyrill Bachinger deals with auditory and visual forms of expression and often with transformative processes that manifest themselves in experimental and installation-based ways. In doing so, our perception and understanding of phenomena and technologies are challenged and encouraged to reflect on our interaction with them. Manuel Cyrill Bachinger is alumni of the department of Digital Art and graduated in 2024.
Bartosz Dolhun graduated 2016 in Drawing and Printmaking, and now focuses on object-oriented work. His sculptures combine materials, especially wood, starting with found objects and developing intuitively. His work emphasizes processes, using diverse techniques. The use of 'low-cost' materials contrasts their value with craftsmanship. This focus on process extends to his installative works, where the production journey becomes integral.
Annika Eschmann studied Transdisciplinary Arts and Drawing & Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and graduated in 2020; and also studied Contemporary Art Practices at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore. Annika’s artistic practice is rooted in drawing and printmaking, exploring processes of translation and abstraction in images. It investigates their influence, limitations, and potential as well as the meanings generated and transformed through these reproductive processes.
Karina Fernandez holds a Master’s degrees in Fine Arts and Visual Arts (UNA, Buenos Aires), and graduated at the department of Digital Art in 2023. Born in Buenos Aires, she lives and works in Vienna today. Her transdisciplinary practice addresses global issues such as environmental degradation and consumerism, operating at the verge of bio and multimedia art through site-specific, kinetic, and interactive works. Her installations feature plants, fibers, light, water, sound, bioplastics, motors, and microcomputers.
Miloš Vučićević is an artist and researcher whose work explores the intricate intersections of ecology and migration. With a passion for understanding the delicate balance between human movement and environmental change, and its impact on people, he delves into the stories and experiences that shape his own perspective and the world he documents. Most of his interests are associated with the political and social paradigms that exist in society, where he endeavours to express his ideas through performative, object-oriented, and video-based works. Miloš Vučićević graduated at the department of Art&Science in 2023.
A project by AIL, supported by ARTist.
Concept and production:
Nora Mayr, Eva Weber (AIL)
Jury:
Elisabeth Falkensteiner, Nora Mayr, Eva Weber (AIL)
Opening: 07 Feb 2018, 12:00
Running: 07 Feb 2018 – 27 Feb 2018
Hosted by ARTist – Alumniverein der Universität für angewandte Kunst
In February 2018, AIL’s large basement area will turn into an interdisciplinary experimental setting for art, music and research in the context of AlumNights.
You can be an integral part of this by either being an audience member or active participant at the AD LIB: EVENTS. Based on specific parameters, you can choose your own session settings or register for specific games on the website adlib.at.
16 Feb, 19:00
“Darkroom Session”
27 Feb, 19:00
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Setting in progress
Photos: Eva Weber
Opening: 06 Jul 2016, 12:00
Running: 06 Jul 2016 – 12 Aug 2016
A cooperation of AIL and ImPulsTanz Festival in the context of the artistic research project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line
In conversation with ‘sputniks’ Alex Arteaga, Lilia Mestre, Christine de Smedt and guests, the lab will reflect on choreo-graphic qualities of translation processes, changes in perception and language forms. Expanding on previous research into forms of notation and ‘radical scores of attention’, the focus of this project will now be on experimental publication formats presented in different lectures, workshops and performances.
In cooperation with AIL and ImPulsTanz Festival, the summer lab will take place in the context of the artistic research project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line by artist Nikolaus Gansterer, choreographer Mariella Greil and writer Emma Cocker.
22 July, 18:00
two special guests of Intensive I will give public lectures at AILab, Vienna. Admission free.
– Dieter Mersch: ‘Figuration/Defiguration. On the dialectics of Choreo-Graphy’
– P. A. Skantze: ‘I’m A Strange Kind of In-Between Thing’
Moderated by Chris Standfest (ImPulsTanz)+
29 July, 18:00
two special guests of Intensive II will give public lectures at AILab, Vienna. Admission free.
– Brandon LaBelle: ‘This Weakness That I Am’
– Alva Noe: ‘Writing Ourselves’
Moderated by Chris Standfest (ImPulsTanz),
in conversation with the team and the guests of Choreo-graphic Figures research project.
The PEEK-research project Choreo-graphic Figures by Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil is supported by the FWF Austrian Science Fund.
2 August, 16:00
Choreo-graphic Figures: Body Diagrams
Comprising performative, discursive and installation based elements, Choreo-graphic Figures: Body Diagrams unfolds as a six- hour durational Radical Score of Attention, where members of the public are invited to come and go, to dwell and linger.
(Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Emma Cocker, Alex Arteaga, Lilia Mestre, Christine de Smedt, Jörg Piringer, Werner Moebius…)
Photo 1: Choreo-graphic Figures
Photo 2: Martina Lajczak
Video work by Benjamin Tomasi and Samuel Schaab aka HALL
HALL transfers the concept of their site-specific sound performance for the AIL to a video work. Step by step, the corners of an imaginary space are explored. Sound triggers images and actions generate sounds. Instruments, objects, light & fluids interrogate each other in the seminary-like concatenation of this probing.
HALL combines visual and tonal strategies, deconstructs them and creates minimal performative sound settings from these fragments. Each performance is a new composition for the space in which it takes place. Synthesizers, rhythm machines, flame drones, flashes of light and fragments of speech, objects, smoke and silence combine to create a semi-narrative event.
A cooperation with ARTist – Alumni Association of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
As part of Vienna Design Week 2023 AIL and ARTist, the alumni association of the University of Applied Arts, put up for sale a selection of works and Supersachen (awesome things) by former students.
Around 100 pieces of work – ranging from design objects, artworks, products, unique pieces and small editions – from 41 alumni were presented in this pop up shop project.
The leading questions are: What do former students work on these days? What ‘treasure’ do you want to take with you? Which Angewandte souvenir could you pick? Where do special editions, unique items, test products and side projects end up? Which works of art are in search of a new home and might be the cornerstones of a new and singular art and design collection?
With contributions by:
Georg Adam, Zeynep Aksöz und Mark Balzar, Sonja Bischur, Laura Dominici, Lara Erel, Bernhard Faiss, Juliane Fink, Max Freund, Jakob Glasner, Simone Göstl (sicago), Martin Grödl & Moritz Resl (Process Studio), Theresa Hattinger, Anna Holly (hollyaroh), Norma Kiskan, Matthias Krinzinger, Daniela Kröhnert (DARK), Ivana Lazić, Julia Neckel, Silvia Pachler, Wolfgang M. Pachler, Nayeun Park, Kerstin Pfleger und Peter Paulhart (Reduce Design), Johanna Pichlbauer, Simon Platzgummer, Jakob Posch (Aito), Katja Protchenko, Mona Rith, Hedwig Rotter, Simon Sailer, Georg Sampl, Emanuel Scheib, Laura Schreiber, Vanessa Schreiner, Alessia Scuderi, Raphael Volkmer und Max Scheidl, zusammen mit Julian Jankovic und Florian Schäfer (FANTOPLAST), Astrid Seme, Szidonia Szep, Tanja Taborin, Valerie Tiefenbacher, Vera Wiedermann, Bettina Willnauer, Petra Zimmermann, Sicc.Zine (Lukas Brunner, Merlin Dickie Marlene Heidinger, Silvia Knödlstorfer, Lenz Mosbacher, Miryana Sarandeva)
This ‘Werkshop’ is supposed to act as a blueprint for similar future editions that will take place on a regular basis and might become an integral part of the University of Applied Arts.
All images: Paul Pibernig
Project management and concept:
Edda Thürriedl, Eva Weber
Display Architecture: Wolfgang Fiel
Graphic Design Display: Atelier Dreibholz
Alumni in Residence / Hosted by ARTist – Alumniverein der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Leached soils, acidified seas, polluted atmospheres. We are haunted by the repressed. We can no longer escape its poison. LET’S GET SICK WITH IT!
A shrine for the inner contradictions, absurdities and risks we are indulging into on a daily basis. A solidarization with the facts.
We enter wastelands instead of unspoiled soil and let the artifacts speak for themselves. Colourful assemblages of things that connect the known cosmos, shaky grounds of new divinity and acrid smells that carry us into the sublime. Landfills are the new temples. In a sadistic manner we inhale the here and now. Transformative forces are released. Free radicals. Rituals to unmask the chaos beneath the smooth surface.
What changes when we religiously worship the power of toxicity? Can a cosmic connection be achieved in our time of disaster through a cult of pollution?
In a processual exhibition, Anna Lerchbaumer and Kilian Jörg venerate the beauty of the oil stains, the sublimity of technoscrap, the enlightenment of radioactivity and the transcendence of extinction. Perhaps our new gods will be smelly zombies. LET`S MEET AT THE END OF THE WORLD and let’s dance in the intoxication of poisoning!
Kilian Jörg is a philosopher and artist, nomadically traveling between Vienna, Berlin and Brussels. He is the founder of the collective philosophy unbound and is mainly concerned with ecological epistemology, as well as the transdisciplinary interfaces between philosophy and art. Latest publications: with Jorinde Schulz: The Club Machine (Berghain), Textem 2018; Backlash - Essays on the Resilience of Modernity, Textem Spring 2020.
Sound and video artist Anna Lerchbaumer ( *1989 in Innsbruck, Austria) takes a humorous as well as critical approach to our technological developments. Anna creates sound performances and expansive installations in which sculptural aspects play an important role. She spans a field between visual art, music and performance. Objects become instruments, balloons become performers, and field recordings become spatial installations.
An examination of the monstrous hopes we project into new technologies and an exploration of the artistic possibilities they offer. It makes the poetic audible and visible in the everyday and the inconspicuous. A change of perspective, a desecration of electrical devices and a way to loop around the big findings.
Shaped by country air, technology and culture in constant exchange with friends, things and artists as well as a member of Anulla. Her work has been shown at the Galaxy Museum in China, Headquarters and Krinzinger Projects in Vienna, among others.
Photos: Anna Lerchbaumer, Eva Weber, Eleni Boutsika Palles
Opening: 22 Jun 2020, 11:00
Running: 22 Jun 2020 – 23 Jul 2020
Location: mayiintroduce-alien.com
Whether Bacteria, plants, humans or other animals – aliens welcome!
We share with you why migrated plants have to register at the integration centre and why it is a scandal that depressed orangutans do not possess e-cards. And that our houses are not equipped barrier-free for raccoons and pigs is simply outrageous!
In our exhibition we build entanglements across the borders
The exhibition was accompanied by a series of online talks, AILien Talk zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst. All talks were held in English.
Watch the talks here:
Von träumenden Fischen im Reagenzglas…
Von Frauchen zu Herrchen – wer ist hier das Haustier?
Serbische Affen und Japanische Knöteriche – hier spricht man Deutsch!
May I introduce: Alien! is a project by Alexandra Fruhstorfer and Lena Violetta Leitner in collaboration with Angewandte Innovation Lab in AIL.alternate mode.
It was featured as a part of the Angewandte Festival.
Alexandra Fruhstorfer and Lena Violetta Leitner are alumni of Angewandte.
Hosted and curated by Micro-publishing house Soybot
Artists:
Döner Club, Franz the lonely Austrionaut, House Books, Hurrican Press, Kudla Werkstatt, Look back and laugh, MCSV, Poverty, Riso Paradiso, Soybot, uganda maszage books, Zina, and many more.
Print Weekend III: In Austria±s talent-crushing-machinery Vienna, we will host a special event on 24–25 Mar 2018. The focus will be on self-help comics and coaching illustrations. Together, we will immerse ourselves in the cozy world of color gradients, lost between self-publishing therapy and cosmic bodies, grasping for a sense of self, drinks included.
UFO tourism and Riso print self-help group Soybot Brittenau will curate – boys and girls, prints and pleasure. Come and join us!
Curated by: Soybot
Concept and project management: Eva Weber
Photos: Ludschi