How can a photographic approach to an urban vacant space be developed performatively and analogously as part of a collective activation in the form of an art action? What intermediate zones and dimensions of slowness, movement, and disappearance in space and time can be revealed? The project »about:blank___friction lines«, initiated by the Expanded Garden collective, refers to a sealed 4.4-hectare area in the St. Marx urban development zone in Vienna. This site is set to be replaced by a large event hall. The multisensory survey plays with scales in relation to sealing and land use, as well as territoriality and emptiness, in a performative way.This action is recorded photo graphically with pinhole cameras and long exposures.
About the artist:
Irene Lucas, visual and social practice artist
solarmanufaktur.at
Johanna Tatzgern, visual artist and performer. Born in Wiener Neustadt, 1978–1984 Travels to England, Greece, Israel, Sudan, and India, 1988–1995 Studies at the University of Applied Arts, Department of Painting and Graphic Arts, 1999 Founded the association Goldfuß unlimited – Realization of interdisciplinary projects, since 2006 Dance Ability trainer, since 2014 Trager practitioner, 2008–2010 Teaching at Impulstanz Vienna.
www.goldfussunlimited.com
Ilse Chlan, visual artist, lives and works in Vienna. Ilse Chlan’s artistic work encompasses multimedia installations, video, digital photography, photo objects, and painting.
www.ilsechlan.at
Christoph Euler is a visual artist specializing in photography, drawing, and camera work.For many years, he has been collaborating with Irene Lucas (SP) on long-term projects such as Supervision of Paradise (Madrid, 2005), Corridor Breaks (Manifesta8/Murcia, 2010), and Expanded Garden (since 2018), with a focus on artistic research that often involves transdisciplinary investigations of public space and its ongoing social transformation.
expandedgarden.net
Anouk Lucas, visual artist and performer
https://vimeo.com/anouklucas