Interview with Anika Hirt & Dan Wilcox - MuseumsQuartier Wien
messages. We met the artists at their studio for a little chat about the robot and their take on media art, technology and its future. Q21 Artists-in-Residence Anika Hirt (GER) and Dan Wilcox (USA) are spending [...] messages. We met the artists at their studio for a little chat about the robot and their take on media art, technology and its future. You are right in the middle of building the ‘Trust Me’ for Roböxotica – [...] first time you are working with a political message? Dan: In general we both don’t really do political art but now we’re just trying to connect with things that are going on, especially in respect to where
Exhibition “WELT KOMPAKT?” at the MuseumsQuartier Wien - MuseumsQuartier Wien
*Artists-in-Residence Q21/MQ **Artist-in-Residence Austrian Federal Chancellery and KulturKontakt Austria Curator: Ursula Maria Probst “WELT KOMPAKT?” is organized in cooperation with the Arts and Culture Division [...] of artistic processes. They deal with a re-formulation of notions of democracy and a re-transfer of art into life, applying various methods of visualization with their inherent processes in media such as [...] journeys to Latin America, meetings in Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro, with artists and activists whose art practices deal with questions of decolonialization. “The people will keep protesting until there is
The aesthetics of dominance - MuseumsQuartier Wien
failure. Your work features strong political connotations. How important is political activism in art to you? The production of images which give the desired meaning to the appearance of those in power [...] endeavours. Petra Gerschner, aus der Serie: history is a work in process, 2007/2016 To what extent is your art trying to deal with real political events and how important do you consider an aesthetic approach in [...] Conversation with Gülsen Bal Interview Elena Cologni – Lived Dialectics: Movement and Rest Interview with MQ Artist-in-Residence Ursula Neugebauer Interview with Artist-in-Residence Mel Arranz Interview with
Who’s behind the MQ facade? - MuseumsQuartier Wien
Interview Who’s behind the MQ facade? 08.09.2016 Share Share - Facebook Share - Twitter The MQ facade is getting a face lift and street artist Anthony Lister created a gigantic piece for the scaffold. [...] He was invited by Sebastian Schager, curator of the Street Art Passage Vienna who met Lister for a chat. The MQ facade is getting a face lift and street artist Anthony Lister created a gigantic piece [...] museum right there. It felt fitting to do this here, kind of like an ode to him. Anthony, your art, your street art, your artistic work is free for everyone. You walk by, you see it and you can consume it without
Roberto Uribe Castro - MuseumsQuartier Wien
Vienna represented by the majestic buildings on the Wiener Ringstraße (ring road), like the Museum of Art History and the Museum of Natural History. - What I call „the workers‘ Vienna“, spread in social housing [...] “It’s possible to challenge people to think differently” Guest article Leyla Cárdenas Interview with MQ Artist-in-Residence Ursula Neugebauer Interview with Artist-in-Residence Mel Arranz Interview with
Elena Cologni – Lived Dialectics: Movement and Rest - MuseumsQuartier Wien
is constrained, and we respond to it accordingly. MQ can be an interesting example and metaphor for this. Paradoxically, it is also a space ‘for’ art, an institution supporting creativity and investigation [...] &2) , taking in consideration the things I mentioned above and the inside and outside areas of MQ. While MQ was built fairly recently on the former grounds of the imperial stables to become a cultural quarter [...] witnessed outside of these gates? Possibly audiences are aware of the performativity of their role within MQ, but punks, for instance, meet outside, and very few of them come through the gates and arches. Even
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Nasan Tur in Conversation with Gülsen Bal - MuseumsQuartier Wien
importance. I guess the challenge will be to invoke the difference between “politically produced art” and “art produced politically.” What are the determining factors in your exploration of political ideologies [...] exhibition “What is left?” curated by Gülsen Bal and Walter Seidl at frei_raum Q21 exhibition space/MQ, Nasan Tur shows his installation “Once upon a time”. The artist explores political ideologies, subliminal [...] touch upon these particularities concerning what happens in our daily lives as such? Tur : Through my art I contribute an alternative approach to topics and issues we are facing today and certainly also in
Who is Gita Blak? - MuseumsQuartier Wien
What are your experiences in the „art world“ – is it hard to claim space? (Is there only place for those who bring it with them?) Well, we all know that contemporary art is a place of silent elitism and [...] contact with art for various reasons, mostly class structure. In a lot of projects that I create I try to dismantle that or at least criticize it. But I do think we live in times where the role of art is rapidly [...] follow her through town. Read more Behind the scenes VIENNA ART WEEK 2017: Studio Visit Interview Vision trumps everything Interview with MQ Artist-in-Residence Ursula Neugebauer Interview with Artist
Josh Harle: Warrior or Pornographer? - MuseumsQuartier Wien
the Research Institute for Arts & Technology speaks to him about his practice. Josh Harle is the current Artist-in-Residence of Q21 recommended by the Research Institute for Arts and Technology at MuseumsQuartier [...] a particular ideological perspective. And how did you find your way into art from computer science? I didn’t go straight into art from computer science, I went into philosophy and the humanities first. [...] You worked as a researcher at an art school on counter terrorism for the Australian government. Why did they want the perspective of an artist? I worked between art and architecture at the National Institute