Einleitung
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The Akademie Hallein is a “think island” and playground for interdisciplinary thinking for future, innovations and society. We connect people and generate innovations, ideas and impulses. In this multimedia report you will find out more about the idea behind the Akademie Hallein and get to know the Artists in Residence of 2024!
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In September 2024 the AkademieAIR happened for the seventh time. Three artists are invited to get inspired, to initiate their thoughts and ideas. The goal being to produce a contribution to the YslandBook. The YslandBook is a collaborative writing/creation process. The AkademieAIR happens parallel to Schmiede Hallein. Please click on the photos to go to the respective chapter or simply keep scrolling to get to know all the artists at this year's Akademie Hallein.
Find a list of all contributors and AkademieAIRs here.
Find a list of all contributors and AkademieAIRs here.
Monique Besten
Artist portraitMonique Besten
Monique Besten is a walking artist, author, performer, historian, and activist. And she is the founder of the Bureau of Slow Endeavours.
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"A lot of the things I do focus on slow ways of being"Monique's approach
Slowness has always been at the heart of Monique’s work, becoming even more important when she began to use walking as her main artistic medium. Her long distance journeys are a way to connect with and collect stories from people on the road. She always wears and transforms a business suit on her walks as a critique of capitalism.
The Bureau of Slow Endeavours The project
The Schmiede24 theme gave Monique Besten the impulse to „start“ the Bureau of Slow
Endeavours (BurSE): a new long-term artistic research project on slow
ways of being, focusing on collaboration, creation, and education. Her mobile lab is a synergy between humans and symbiotic cultures.
"Through writing, I start to understand what I am doing as an artist"The residency
Monique is a participant at Schmiede for the third time. But for the first time, as an artist in residence, she has the opportunity to extend her stay. And then write about it.
Beate Ronacher
Artist portraitBeate Ronacher
Beate Ronacher‘s installations, paintings, and performances explore
material and body. Found objects from nature to cultural and consumer
goods, work processes to ritual gestures, become fields of artistic
research.
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"The gesture of falling is central to my performances."Beate's approach
An important part of Beate Ronacher's work are so-called "Liegeperformances" (reclining performances), in which she addresses the structural inequalities in the art industry. This has become a starting point for further work in recent years.
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Beate Ronacher is involved in several ways at the Schmiede 2024. On the one hand, she is showing a series of works in the Hallein art space Pro Arte. On the site of "Alte Saline", she is working on an exhibition of her paintings and sculptures. And then, of course, a text is being created for the YslandBook.
"When is art recognized as work? And paid as work?"The residency
What is work? What does it mean to be productive? And what is the relationship between the two when it comes to art? The Schmiede's motto "Sloth" inspired Beate Ronacher to take part in the residency and led her to engage with these questions.
Miriam Schmidtke
Artist portraitMiriam Schmidtke
Miriam Schmidtke is a media artist, theater maker, and writer based in Berlin and Vienna. Her work critically examines patriarchal structures, power dynamics, bias, and exclusion within the culture of late capitalism. Ongoing themes in her work are labor, representation, objectification, and self-determination across digital and physical spaces.
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"Our everyday performance remains trapped in Fordism."Miriam's approach
What role does repetition and routine play in our hyper-individual world of apparent sovereignty? And what does this promise of freedom have to do with the subject's state in late capitalism? Miriam Schmidtke regularly deals with these questions and they run like a thread through her work.
The Manifesto of Post-PhlegmatismThe project
During her residency, Miriam explores sleep through the lens of our hyper-connected post-Internet world. Sleep requires letting go and detaching from our devices, offering a potential escape from the relentless connectivity of modern life. Can this effort succeed in a conscious withdrawal from systems of exploitation and control?
"This residency is a playground of ideas."The residency
The privilege of time, the change of location and the possibility to seek contact to others. For Miriam Schmidtke, these factors are the central aspects of her residency. In this interview, she tells us what she expects from her stay at the Schmiede.
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