Artist-in-Residence Orit Ishay (ISR) recommended by EIKON - MuseumsQuartier Wien
focus of my work: Vienna seems like a great opportunity for me as it is charged with all the elements I’m interested in. Which projects are you currently working on? I can say for sure that after a certain [...] combines moments of poetry and musical sessions of street musicians from Tel Aviv and from the the MuseumsQuartier entrance nearby. In this short video I suggest looking at and reading about moments of social [...] answered; every place in this city is a must-see! Every place I’ve been to is quite fascinating. The MuseumsQuartier is one of the main places where you can be inspired by art and meet other artists. This place
"Frankie’s name is a reference to frankness" - MuseumsQuartier Wien
trauma. I’m also interested in collaborative practices, such as artists who work with communities or create interventions and interactions that respond to social and political situations. I’m inspired [...] blurred. To which media theoreticians do you refer in your practice? It changes according the project I’m working on, and often it’s not necessarily media theoreticians that I refer to. For example, Frankie
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how this fact impacts our lives. This is a really interesting topic for me at the moment, and since I’m dealing with intimate matters I find it quite challenging as well. What is your production process
“The art world really is stupid in a way…” - MuseumsQuartier Wien
me with their expertise. Do you want to highlight any other of your new projects? Another project I’m working on deals with the idea of Direct Global Democracy – so it’s pretty much about Utopia: how people
"I am very impatient. That's why I make these patient films." - MuseumsQuartier Wien
one museum space to another, in this case to the TONSPUR_passage at MuseumsQuartier. It’s both an extension and a conversation. I’m hoping to question the definition of art itself, to expand it. The work [...] place to film, I’m very interested in this graveyard that is outside in that industrial area, where dead bodies have been washed up from the river. The Graveyard of the Nameless Yes, and I’m sure there are [...] photographs of digits, the first seven digits of π, one of the most important number in mathematics. Here I’m trying to connect mathematics to natural history and to art. Do you see yourself as a sound artist
“Go for the big elements, try to combine them.” - MuseumsQuartier Wien
afraid to use color because they are afraid to destroy the whole composition. I’m not afraid of colorful backgrounds and I’m not afraid of big size, either. Big size? I think that art, when integrated very [...] collage is a rather old one, it has existed since the early years of the last century, correct me if I’m wrong. What makes your collages “modern”? Collage is a part of Dada. Surrealist artists have made extensive [...] abstract instead! I have seen these projections on the MQ buildings and I find them a little bit cheap, I’m sorry to say. A building has to be physically covered by an image. Your series “Resisting Interpretation”
"A frame is never just a frame." - MuseumsQuartier Wien
title of this exhibition is “Faceless” and my work is not showing any hidden or disguised faces. So I’m very happy that within the frame of the other works you easily get the link to my questions: personal [...] curated by Bogomir Doringer in support of Brigitte Felderer at freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONL / MuseumsQuartier Wien. #faceless Workshop "lookalike" with Marco Pezzotta (ITA) Date: Saturday, October 26, 2013
Theo-Mass LEXILEICTOUS on superpowers - MuseumsQuartier Wien
public space. Wearing a mask changes my personality. When I’m not wearing a mask I’m Alexis. When I’m wearing my masks I transform into Theo-Mass. I’m a completely different person. It’s like gaining power [...] work with don’t know what I look like – I’m always "faceless" in my way. OK, you scared some people, but you don’t use your anonymity to do something forbidden? I’m creating Theo-Mass, not someone anonymous [...] Theo-Mass is taking part in the exhibition “Faceless part II.” You’re a superhero. Yes, that’s what I am. I’m not a superhero like Superman or Batman out of a Hollywood film. I grew up in Cyprus, a small island
Rebel rebel, Yuths! - MuseumsQuartier Wien
someone studying at Saint Martin’s might create. I try to do something else, inspired by my lifestyle. I’m trying not to be boring. Photo: Eva Ellersdorfer-Meissnerová I think you’re doing quite well. Hopefully [...] place where I live is actually an hour from Milan. Torino is a very nice place for art and design. But I’m moving to Milan in October. Because it’s known for ... It’s known for its big fashion scene, yeah. [...] showed two of your knitted masks at the exhibition “Faceless part I.” What does the mask mean to you? I’m a person living in a society where you can have difficulties being who you want to be. That’s when
"Maybe you should turn it on yourself" - MuseumsQuartier Wien
period of 4 years exclusively. It was much more effective to use my own body. If I’m using my body I’m the objective, I’m myself, I have control over it. If I work with others, I take control over someone’s [...] that the Kunsthistorische Museum has such a remarkable collection. But modern-day Arcimboldo … well … I’m fascinated by portraiture. For a long time I’ve been dealing with my own body. Originally when I started [...] am covering my face with my hair. So he’s really interested in those. But well, what you see here I’m doing particularly for the show. My body will be in the picture, but you will only see something small