Intra-Actions Installation
in Palazzo Mora and Opera-Aperta in Palazzo Michiel
Zentrum Didaktik für Kunst und interdisziplinären
Unterricht
Intra-Actions: Existence is not an individual matter
The spatial
installation Intra-Actions. Existence is not an individual matter at Palazzo Mora is the contribution of the Center for Didactics
of Art and Interdisciplinary Education of the University of Applied Arts Vienna to the Academic Biennale di Venezia 2022,
curated by the European Cultural Center.
The installation was developed
collaboratively with staff, alumni and students of the Center for Art Didactics and Interdisciplinary Education, staff of
the Science Visualization Lab (Prof. Alfred Vendl), students of the Digital Art Department (Prof. Ruth Schnell), and alumni
of the University of Applied Arts from various departments, as well as cooperation partners.
As
a quantum physicist, Barad raises interesting questions not only for physics, but also for art, design, technology. Her work
engages with both the human and the non-human, including apparatuses of whatever kind. She considers things not in their singularity,
but in their interdependence, calls this method Intra-Actions. A multi-particle system of quantum physics – which as a whole
assumes a well-defined state without being able to assign each of the subsystems its own state – is applied to humanity and
expresses a new way of interpreting Interdisciplinarity. Intra-Actions show the Entanglement of people and nature, the material
and the artificial. According to Barad individuals do not exist prior to their interactions, but emerge through and as part
of their intertwined internal relationships. Understanding this approach, it becomes clear that entangling with the Other
describes the absence of one’s own existence, for existence is not an individual matter.
The installation
shows an ongoing approach towards the most diverse positions on the theme Time, Space and Existence. It expresses an Agential
Realism, which stands for the growing awareness that we cannot separate culture, materiality, technology, nature and existence.
It consists of a burnt tree whose branches are connected via cables and whose only remaining leaves are screens. The screens
show selected positions of artists’ works. The organic structure of the wood in connection with technology and digitalization
is also metaphoric. In relation to the digital content shown on the screens, there are ongoing intra-actions between tree
and screens. The space installation draws attention to both the interconnections of deforestation, climate change and the
exploitation of energy resources, and to the importance of art in this context. Here, art, as a seismograph of society, implies
the power of renewal. A fragrance gives positive vibes and hope for the future and with pieces of coal for drawing on the
walls, everyone can become involved.
Realization: C. Gröbner, P. Scharler, M. Bachinger, R. Mateus-Berr,
S. Bösker
The installation is accompanied by artist talks, performances and workshops, the so-called
Opera Aperta and will be medially mediated and live-streamed by the oldest daily newspaper still published in the world: The
Wiener Zeitung (feat. by Wolfgang Renner). The programme is co-created in collaboration with Georg Russegger (Academy of Fine
Arts Vienna). Topics discussed are: Art, Education & Democracy; Art & The Social Impact; Digital Humanism, Collaboration
& Sustainability; Art & Media Ethics, Visual Competences; Art & Diversity.
All participants:
Ruth
Mateus-Berr (Project Lead), Manuel Cyrill Bachinger, Pamela Bartar, Sophie Bösker, Andreas Broger, Barbara Brunmair, Christina
Carli, Lio Ebenstein, Wagner Felipe dos Santos, Dietmar Flosdorf, Magdalena Marie Friedl, Harald Friedl, Julia Fromm, Martina
Fröschl, Lara Girotto, Natascha Gerold, Eva Greisberger, Constantin Gröbner, L. Vanessa Gruber, Agnes Haider, Ida Hausner,
Helmut Hlavacs, Maurício Ianês, Fares Kayali, Lisa Kielmeier, Heinrich Kovar, Eva König, Nicole Krenn, Anita Lawitschka, Moritz
Matschke, Cori Maués, Igor Lintz-Maués, Aneta Luberda, Lukács Lászlo, Ferdinand Nagele, Irina Nalis, Heinrich Viktor Nagy,
Pavel Naydenov, Shahab Nedaei, Ivan Pantelić, Verena Plutzar, Wolfgang Renner, Franz Reisecker, Ursula Reisenberger, Gabriela
Urrutia Reyes, Rosa Roedelius, Elke Roesler, Bernd Rohrauer, Pia Scharler, Michaela Schober, Tatia Skhirtladze, Sabina Taschner-Mandl,
Eleni Tomazou, Lisa Truttmann, Alfred Vendl, Raphael Vorraber, Christina Weiler, Heliane Wiesauer-Reiterer, Ruth Zimmermann,
Romana Zöchling
24.11.2022
Workshop
Turning
The World Upside Down – Let’s celebrate life
10–12 a.m. @ Palazzo Michiel
When we speak of inclusion
of people with disabilities, we mostly consider increasing their visibility and their right to a place in society. With the
interdisciplinary project TURNING THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN we investigate the possibilities of collaborations between artists
and people with mental disabilities. The aim of our work is not for artists to bring their work to the world of people with
disabilities – rather people with disabilities should
bring their unique perspectives, approaches, and questions
to the table and in that way change the perspectives and processes of the artists. Our aim is an exchange of competences between
equals. We established a theater/performance ensemble of artists with disabilities in collaboration with art association GRIESSNER
STADL, LEBENSHILFE MURAU, the theater director FRANZ_XAVER MAYR and costume designer KORBINIAN SCHMIDT.
We celebrate
life. We dress up in costumes and parade through the city, listen to our favorite songs, set off smoke bombs and bawl around.
Why don’t you come along?
24.11.2022
Workshop
Let’s
talk about death
2–4 p.m. @ Palazzo Michiel
25.11.2022
Open
Stage Diskussion on Art and Diversity
13–15 p.m. @ Palazzo Michiel
The open stage
workshop is a pre-event to the Opera Aperta Streams. It acts as a platform for a vivid and progressive format of reflection
and discussion.
The open space workshop will be moderated and will apply methods from “the art of hosting” in a
“bar-camp” framework. The participants are invited to discuss the topic “Art, Education and Democracy“ with invited experts
from inter- and transdisciplinary fields (stakeholders, artists, scientists, curators, and organizers). Curated questions
from the discussion will fuel the Opera Aperta Stream in the evening. Besides that, the outcomes of the discussion will also
be published in a dossier of the Wiener Zeitung.
25.11.2022 Open Stage STREAM on Art and Diversity
7–9
p.m. @ Palazzo Michiel
ART AND DIVERSITY
EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTER, PALAZZO
MICHIEL, CANNAREGIO
4391, 30121 VENEZIA
The Opera Aperta Streams are panel-discussions hosting interdisciplinary experts
and artefacts to present, discuss and reflect. The panel is dedicated to the multi-perspectivity of contemporary art and the
constructivism of education as an attribute of democracy. The aim is to reflect on the meaning of art and education in so-called
post-democratic times. The invited panelists are:
Barbra Brunmair, Priv. Doz.
Dr. St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute
Rita Isiba , BSc, MBA,
Aphropean Partners, Applied Human Rights, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Ruth Mateus-Berr,
Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Mag. art. Head of Center for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Education, University of Applied
Arts Vienna
The event will be online and offline available and will be in English language.
insitu ani·motion Palazzo Mora, Palazzo Bembo, Marinaressa Gardens 11-12 June 10:00 – 18:00
Ivan Pantelić & Bernd Rohrauer from the Center for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Education, University
of Applied Arts Vienna, are presenting various performative participatory stop motion-based spatial interventions.
The touch of a heartbeat Palazzo Mora 12 June 16:00 – 17:00
Four musicians
from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna have come together and play their own compositions and improvisations
for piano, saxophone, viola and drums.
