with Sabine Güldenfuß, Ursula Krinzinger, Manfred Wiplinger, Margarethe Makovec, Stefan Riebel, Andrei Siclodi, Andreas Spegl, Thomas Burger, Gerhard Jagersberger © Serena Fanara
Away Laboratory – Discussion and Exchanges on Art Residencies
In the Laboratory, Away Art Residencies brings together experts from the fields of art, culture, science and policy-making to explore the topic of art residencies from their specific perspectives, to discuss the relevance and opportunities of this promotional instrument and to think about the function of protected and development artistic spaces in the future.
In addition to think tanks, public lectures and workshops in the symposium, the Away Laboratory also used unusual formats in 2016: During speed dating, artists met representatives of international art residency programs. Personal experiences recorded in residency diaries were recited in a poetry slam for the wider public. The Away Laboratory was designed and implemented in cooperation with Katja Stecher.
Topics and participants of the symposium Learning from Each Other:
#1: The romance of the atelier will probably disappear in time.
#2: Which residency and why? / Who becomes an artist-in-residence and how?
#3: Real / imagined spaces / Curators as nomads and networkers? / Which terms and functions need to be re-defined? / Artist residencies from the artists’ point of view / From landscape to laboratory.
#4: Theories of strangeness / Working in the global art world / Visions – desires – changes.
Erich Berger (artist), Claudia Büttner (art historian), Juraj Čarný (curator), Susan Hapgood (executive director of ISCP New York), Friedemann Heckel (curator), Stefanie Hessler (curator of TBA21 Academy), Katrin Hornek (artist), Marko Lulić (artist), Kai Maier-Rothe (artist), Vera Mey (curator), Wolfgang Müller-Funk (literary and cultural scientist), Nicola Müllerschön (art and culture program manager, KfW Stiftung Frankfurt), Jörn Schafaff (art historian), Andreas Spiegl (media theorist and lecturer), Sofie Thorsen (artist), Sabine B. Vogel (art critic), representatives of national and international residency programs.
Topics and participants of the Think Tanks
#1: The studio abroad – an artistic turning point in a foreign country?
#2: Artist residencies – Learning from each other.
#3: A look behind the scenes – who becomes an artist-in-residence and how?
Iris Andraschek (artist), Thomas Burger (BMKOES), Sabine Güldenfuß (program coordinator, AIR Krems), Georgia Holz (art historian and independent curator), Gerhard Jagersberger (BMKOES), Christiane Kada (Province of Styria, Department for Culture - Grants and Awards), Nika Kupyrova (artist), Barbara Mahlknecht (curator and lecturer), Margarethe Makovec (director, <rotor>), Olga Okunev (BMKOES), Wendelin Pressl (artist), Stefan Riebel (artist and director of Institut für Alles Mögliche), Hansel Sato (artist, IG Bildende Kunst), Peter J. Schneemann (art historian and author, University of Bern), Andrei Siclodi (curator und director of Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen), Andreas Spiegl (media theorist and lecturer), Katja Stecher (co-curator of the Away Laboratory), Bärbel Vischer (MAK Schindler Scholarship Program), Manfred Wiplinger (Galerie Krinzinger/Krinzinger Residencies).
The professional positions indicated refer to the context of the event held in 2016.
Every residency is different, but what they all have in common is the sense of my work being relevant, recognized.
– Roberta Lima
