topic

AIL Residency Program

Activities and insights into past and present projects

Next Open Call coming in May 2026!

TOPIC CONTENT:

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.

For 2026 all residency slots are taken. Next open call for 2027 will be announced in spring 2026.

alumni in residence

28 Mar 2026, 12:00

Open Studio: Karina Fernandez and Lena Michalik

AIL is hosting two Alumni in Residence this March, this is the chance to meet both and get insights into their work and practice

Opening hours: 12:00 – 17:00

"The Ne(x)st Evolution" Photo: Karina Fernández

Karina Fernández develops installative, process-based works involving biological materials and discarded matter to address environmental questions. Her practice explores the sensory clash between organic and synthetic elements through assemblage and time-based operations, that she describes as “neo-conglomerates” — a term rooted in classical geology and oriented toward contemporary sedimentation processes in which human-produced materials become part of the environment. Karina Fernandez previously earned degrees in Fine Arts and Visual Arts in Buenos Aires, and completed her diploma in the department of Digital Arts (Ruth Schnell) in 2023 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

During the residency at AIL, Karina Fernandez develops House of Bioplastics as a material-based research lab in which bioplastic mixtures, plant fibers, and light-based setups are systematically tested and translated into spatial prototypes. The project includes the production and comparative arrangement of material samplers, objects, and large-scale bioplastic sheets in back-lit displays, the further development of a large-scale version of her previous work Bon(e)fire, as well as workshops and informal get-togethers focused on knowledge exchange around bioplastic and fiber-based processes.

[heat]mapping cold – leaving traces for what is melting, artistic experiment from the PhD project “Poetics & the Porosity of Snow – Grasping Disappearance in a Heating Data Cloud” © Lena Michalik

Lena Michalik (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher working between Vienna and Bolzano. In her work, she connects spatial practice with performance and poetry. As an alumna of the Master’s program Social Design – Arts as Urban Innovation, the residency is not only a return to the University of Applied Arts Vienna, but also to the AIL. Her collective graduation project RE:SONANZ, developed together with Leah Dorner, Maria Kanzler, and Stella Krausz, was shown in 2022 in the exhibition Sonic Sensibility in the spaces of Postsparkasse. For the project, the group received the graduation award from the federal state of Styria.

In her practice based research project Poetry & Porosity of Snow – Grasping Disappearance in a Heating Data Cloud, she is thinking with, caring for, and saying goodbye to suffering Bodies of Snow, in search of new intersectional feminist perspectives coming from the Alps. During her residency at the AIL, by thinking with snow, Michalik will inhabit the fluid and porous terrains between apparent dualisms such as urban and rural, tradition and progress, distance and proximity, up and down. She will attend to the embeddedness of her own body in the local water cycles by sensing and tracing upstream the currents to the porous Alpine Bodies of Snow. In doing so, she will critically confront technologies often used in snow hydrology, such as remote sensing and GIS, with the artistic means of figuration, poetry, and embodiment, testing whether such high-end technologies can contribute to one’s own abilities of situatedness and knowing place.

news

Alumni in Residence: Karina Fernandez

Karina Fernandez is alumni of the department of Digital Arts and will work at AIL from 2 Mar till 28 Mar 2026

Open Studio Day: 28 Mar 2026, 12:00–17:00

"The Ne(x)st Evolution" is a hybrid sculptural installation with soundscape, a material assemblage integrating organic debris, technological remnants and spatial sound to explore post-natural habitats. Photo: Karina Fernández

Karina Fernandez develops installation-based, process-oriented works using biological materials and discarded matter to address environmental issues. Her practice explores the sensory clash between organic and synthetic elements through assemblage and time-based operations, that she describes as “neo-conglomerates” — a term rooted in classical geology and oriented toward contemporary sedimentation processes in which human-produced materials become part of the environment. Karina Fernandez previously earned degrees in Fine Arts and Visual Arts in Buenos Aires, and completed her diploma in the department of Digital Arts (Ruth Schnell) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in 2023.

Bon(e)fire is a biomaterial based sculptural light object, combining translucent bioplastic, resin fragments and banana-fibre forms into a self-contained luminous installation. Photo: Tobias Zarfl

During the residency Karina will open the space for various occasions:

Every Tuesday, 11:00 –13:00

Every Thursday, 14:00–17:00

Open Lab and Informal Get-Togethers

During her residency, Karina Fernandez opens her studio doors every Tuesday and Thursday to the public. In form of open lab moments and informal get-togethers Fernandez offers insights into ongoing experiments, spatial prototypes, and material processes, encouraging dialogue with visitors.

26 Mar, 14:00–17:00

Special Edition: House of Bioplastics

with an activation by Manuela Picallo Gil

The intervention Manifesto on Fabrics reflects the working conditions of workers in the global textile industry as well as the ecological consequences of over exploitation/production and synthetic materials. Starting from production processes, Picallo Gil's work spans an arc from consumption and use to disposal and recycling.

Manuela Picallo Gil (*1985, Eisenstadt) works transmedially, from drawing and painting to sound installations and participatory formats. She investigates social exclusion, memory, and identity through personal and collective narratives, reflecting on language, migration, media, and labor in the tension between rural and urban contexts. She is part of the collective CRAFT, member of VBKÖ, and her work has been presented in art and public spaces in Austria, Mexico, Germany, and Italy.

19 Mar 2026, 15:00 – 18:00

Bioplastic Workshop

A hands-on workshop focused on the production of bioplastic, introducing material recipes, testing methods, and ecological considerations. The workshop is open to students, beginners, colleagues, and curious visitors.

Participation is limited. Please register via: nora.mayr@uni-ak.ac.at

Open Studio 28 Mar 2026, 12:00–17:00

www.karinafernandez.org

manuelapicallogil.com

news

Alumni in Residence: Lena Michalik

Lena Michalik is alumni of the department of Social Design and will work at AIL from 2 Mar till 28 Mar 2026

Open Studio Day: 28 Mar 2026, 12:00 – 17:00

Lena Michalik is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher working between Vienna and Bolzano. In her work, she connects spatial practice with performance and poetry. As an alumna of the Master’s program Social Design – Arts as Urban Innovation, the residency is not only a return to the University of Applied Arts Vienna, but also to the AIL. Her collective graduation project RE:SONANZ, developed together with Leah Dorner, Maria Kanzler, and Stella Krausz, was shown in 2022 in the exhibition Sonic Sensibility in the spaces of Postsparkasse. For the project, the group received the graduation award from the federal state of Styria.

Figurations from Above, artistic experiment from the PhD project “Poetics & the Porosity of Snow – Grasping Disappearance in a Heating Data Cloud.”, © Lena Michalik

Michalik’s general interest lies in the becoming of space, its inherent power structures and the relations between entangled entities. With a critical view, she places artistic practices of embodiment in relation to technologies and explores what emerges in-between. Currently – as a PhD scholar in the program Experimental Research through Design, Art, and Technologies at the Free University Bozen-Bolzano – she is investigating Snow. Thus, in her practice based research project Poetry & Porosity of Snow – Grasping Disappearance in a Heating Data Cloud, she is thinking with, caring for, and saying goodbye to suffering Bodies of Snow, in search of new intersectional feminist perspectives coming from the Alps.

During her residency at the AIL, by thinking with snow, Michalik will inhabit the fluid and porous terrains between apparent dualisms such as urban and rural, tradition and progress, distance and proximity, up and down. She will attend to the embeddedness of her own body in the local water cycles by sensing and tracing upstream the currents to the porous Alpine Bodies of Snow. In doing so, she will critically confront technologies often used in snow hydrology, such as remote sensing and GIS, with the artistic means of figuration, poetry, and embodiment, testing whether such high-end technologies can contribute to one’s own abilities of situatedness and knowing place.

Open Lab: Touch Point Snow

12 & 19 Mar 2026, 14:00 – 17:00

During her residency Lena Michalik opens her temoporary studio at AIL for an open practice of remembering and sharing on two afternoons. Find more information about the event here

Preview Image: Video still from Die Schneehäsin, © Franz Ludwig

lenamichalik.net

news

Alumni in Residence: Conny Frischauf

Conny Frischauf is alumni of the department of TransArts and will work at AIL from 12 Jan till 12 Feb 2026

Open Studio Day: 30 Jan 2026

Sounds of the Living with Conny Frischauf

Artist Conny Frischauf kneeling on grey stones, looking at a sheet of paper in front of them. | Image by ©

Conny Frischauf, Reading excerpts from The Echo is Real during Medienfrische Residency, 2025. Photo: Dominik Regele

Conny Frischauf is a sound and visual artist based in Vienna, Austria. They studied transdisciplinary arts (TransArts) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, regularly perform, sound, conduct workshops and lectures, repair and build audio equipment, score films and performances, host, listen, write and walk. Since 2024, they have been running Sedimente, a platform that slowly inter-layers through text, sound, space, and more.

Three people hanging a sign saying "Two Trees Make A Portal" between two trees | Image by ©

Two Trees Make A Portal. Photo: Nida Art Colony

Conny Frischauf blends situated, sound, visual practice and research while focusing on spatial entanglements and related textures. Experimentally exploring exclusionary politics of language and narration, Conny is interested in decentralized forms of relationship, encounter, and resistance. Repeatedly and throughout different media such as sound, sculpture, text, installation, and video, they are interested in threshold areas, areas of transition, the invisible, and the unspeakable.

Their transdisciplinary work dwells between situated practice, research, archival, and artistic production, with a focus on sound and listening practices to understand complex conditions of place/space through non-linear approaches.

one person standing at the shore of a river | Image by ©

Photo: Marija Jociute

During their residency Conny will work on the long term work Dwin City which deals with the Danube river and its environments between Vienna and Bratislava. This work is about collective memory, heritage, and the spaces that are inhabited in between scientific or (art) historical narratives. Driven by the question of how to gain, produce, and share the notions of knowing, not knowing, being, and acknowledging, Conny presented a first sonic outcome in summer 2025 in Vienna. Within their residency at AIL, Conny will expand Dwin City into an installative-performative body of work by adding video and architectural elements.

news

Alumni in Residence: Jona Wolf

Jona Wolf is alumni of the institute of architecture and will work at AIL from 24 Sep till 20 Oct 2025.

A workshop, performance, film screenings and open studio day will accompany this residency.

Picture of a workshop part of Gear Up! - a project responding to the violations of the right to demonstrate in Berlin funded by Amnesty International

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.

Program

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

news

Alumni in Residence: Ramiro Wong

Ramiro Wong is alumni of the department of TransArts and will work at AIL from 28 Mar till 25 Apr 2025.

Open Studio: 24 Apr, 16:00–22:00

a la mañana con_________, y a la tarde con_________, 2021. Photo: Werkstätte digitale Fotografie –dieAngewandte

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.

Notes on Displacement, 2023. Photo: Lea Sonderegger

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

news

Alumni in Residence: Suchart Wannaset

Suchart Wannaset is alumni of the department of Transmedia Art and will work at AIL from 24 Feb till 24 Mar 2025

Open Studio

hold the position to be bitten. durational performance documentation, Sweden fine art pigment print: 40x70cm, 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.

Ausstellungsansicht: don't bite me. Stadtgalerie Salzburg, Lehen, 2024

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.

Pressure. Videostill, 2024 / 16:20min

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.

Chasing Nature into Abstraction. Videostill, 3-channel Video, 57min, Thailand, 2020

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.

"Unser Gartenzaun" im Zuge einer Residency im Österreichischen Skulpturengarten in Premstätten bei Graz. Permanente Installation, Holzlatten lackiert, Metallgerüst. 2018

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.

news

Alumni in Residence: Verena Tscherner

Verena Tscherner is alumni of the department of Digital Arts and will work at AIL from 10 Jan till 7 Feb 2025.

Please note the current open call for two more Residency slots. Deadline 25 Jan 2025

Open Studio

deflate.at

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, Photos: Verena Tscherner

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.

Breathing as a connecting element. The individual breathes, the community breathes. In meditation, people consciously focus on breathing, a process that usually happens unconsciously.

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.

entangle. deflate, Photos: Tina Kult

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.

alumni in residence

Opening: 07 Feb 2018, 12:00

Running: 07 Feb 2018 – 27 Feb 2018

AD LIB. experimental music settings

Interdisciplinary experimental setting in the basement for art, music and research by Christoph Hudl

Hosted by ARTist – Alumniverein der Universität für angewandte Kunst

Christoph Hudl in his setting | Image by ©

Christoph Hudl in his always changing basement setting

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.

People in big space with different music instruments | Image by ©

Final Open Session

Open Sessions

16 Feb, 19:00
“Darkroom Session”

27 Feb, 19:00
 ” ”  Setting in progress

Photos: Eva Weber

alumni in residence

Opening: 06 Jul 2016, 12:00

Running: 06 Jul 2016 – 12 Aug 2016

Choreo-graphic Figures

Summer Lab with artist Nikolaus Gansterer, choreographer Mariella Greil and writer Emma Cocker

A cooperation of AIL and ImPulsTanz Festival in the context of the artistic research project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line

Choreo-graphic Figures

performer on floor, sorting materials, holding sheets of paper | Image by ©

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.

drawing materials sorted on floor | Image by ©

Program

FRIDAY LECTURES I

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)+

FRIDAY LECTURES II

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.

DURATIONAL PERFORMACE

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

Alumni in Residence: HALL presents soft fizz

Launched in 2020 as part of AIL.alternate during Lockdown 01

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.

Supported by ARTist – graduate assocation of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

image

Exhibition View: Toxic Temple

A processual exhibition by Kilian Jörg and Anna Lerchbaumer from 2020

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

exhibition

Opening: 22 Jun 2020, 11:00

Running: 22 Jun 2020 – 23 Jul 2020

Location: mayiintroduce-alien.com

May I introduce: Alien!
online

Depressed monkeys and sensitive dodos

Whether Bacteria, plants, humans or other animals – aliens welcome!

Our interactive exhibition invites you to explore our ALIEN universe! Take a look at the projects of contributing artists Solmaz Farhang, Alexandra Fruhstorfer, Ege Kökel, Lena Violetta Leitner and Andrea Palašti through different lenses of observation.

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!

An Online Exhibition

Whether Bacteria, plants, humans or other animals – aliens welcome!

Open to all species.

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.

image

Exhibition View: Print Weekend III

Self-Publishing Fair from 2018

Hosted and curated by Micro-publishing house Soybot

About Soybot

entrance with open book boards | Image by ©

Wall with posters and prints | Image by ©

Huge publication by Max Freund | Image by ©

full house and lots of discussions | Image by ©

sellers reading their books | Image by ©

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

AIL Residency Program

Open Studio: Karina Fernandez and Lena Michalik

Alumni in Residence: Karina Fernandez

Special Edition: House of Bioplastics

with an activation by Manuela Picallo Gil

Alumni in Residence: Lena Michalik

Alumni in Residence: Conny Frischauf

Alumni in Residence: Jona Wolf

Alumni in Residence: Ramiro Wong

Alumni in Residence: Suchart Wannaset

Alumni in Residence: Verena Tscherner

AD LIB. experimental music settings

Open Sessions

Choreo-graphic Figures

Program

FRIDAY LECTURES I

FRIDAY LECTURES II

DURATIONAL PERFORMACE

Alumni in Residence: HALL presents soft fizz

Exhibition View: Toxic Temple

May I introduce: Alien! online

An Online Exhibition

Whether Bacteria, plants, humans or other animals – aliens welcome!

Open to all species.

Exhibition View: Print Weekend III

Artists:

May I introduce: Alien!
online