#artistQ21: Artists-in-Residence - July 2017

Schillerpalais — Berlin. Ritual’s theme: Intersection between do-it-yourself technologies and ancesterfuturist knowledge (19-20/02/2016). Organization and video/photo by Fabiane M. Borges)

Fabiane M. Borges (BRA)

Fabiane M. Borges is a Brazilian artist, clinical psychologist and essayist based in Rio de Janeiro. She is one of the articulators of the technoshamanism network. As part of the exhibition WELT KOMPAKT? curated by Ursula Maria Probst at frei_raum Q21 exhibition space, her videos of two performances show the relation between the ideas and experiences that connect technology and deep knowledge as shamanism or immersive process.

Photo: Francesco Agostini

Roberto Paci Dalò (ITA)

Italian artist Roberto Paci Dalò – musician, visual artist, film maker, radio maker, theatre director & playwriter – active for years on the international scene, creates his work starting with sound and drawing, then expanding to sculpture, installation, music, film, performance, radio and collaborative projects, between institution, the independent scene, and pop culture.
During his residency he will create a sound installation for the TONSPUR_passage, opening on July 30, 17:00.

Réka Katona (HUN)

Réka Katona graduated as an art historian and literature scholar (Budapest ELTE). Afterwards she begun her PhD in Theory of Education PhD. She started to employ Theatre of the Oppressed methodology in 2011, which in 2014-2015 she thoroughly studied in Barcelona (La Xixa Theatre, Ma(g)dalenas Movement). She has worked in the Artists in School Project supported by tranzit.org/ERSTE Stiftung. She was the founder member of the first women only Theatre of the Oppressed group in Hungary, the Magdalenas Budapest. As a researcher she is publishing papers about Theatre of the Oppressed groups and performances in Hungary.

Matt Kindt (USA)

Matt Kindt is the New York Times Best-Selling writer and artist of the comics and graphic novels Dept. H, Grass Kings, Mind MGMT, Revolver, 3 Story, Super Spy, 2 Sisters, and Pistolwhip, as well as Justice League of America (DC), Spider-Man (Marvel), Unity, Ninjak, Rai, and Divinity (Valiant). He has been nominated for 4 Eisner and 6 Harvey Awards (and won once). His work has been published in French, Spanish, Italian, German and Korean.

Matt Kindt will be signing books at the Sommerfest of Bunbury's Comics, July 15 from 2-6pm at Lindengasse 34, 1070 Vienna.

Diane Obomsawin (CAN)

OBOM (Diane Obomsawin) has parallel careers as a renowned graphic novelist and animator. In both film and print, she creates characters that inhabit a funny offbeat world, a gently absurd universe filled with tenderness. She has published books with the Canadian publishing houses L'Oie de Cravan and Drawn & Quarterly. Her most recent animated short film "I Like Girls", won the Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival in 2016 and was shown at Tricky Women Festival in 2017.
Her exhibition and booklet "Busy Nights" - three stories based on her dream diary, will be on show at KABINETT comic passage as of July 11. OBOM will also hold a lecture on her unique work as illustrator, graphic novelist and filmmaker on July 20 at Raum D.

Selena Savić (SRB)

Selena Savić is an architect, designer and researcher, interested in architectural qualities of (wireless) communication technologies and the way it mediates the space we inhabit. Combined with the background in urban planning and research in the cities, her interests gave rise to a practice of interrogative design of objects and spaces. Some of her work, exhibited at numerous shows and festivals, can be found here.

Ivana Pegan Baće (HRV)

Ivana Pegan Baće is a multimedia artist born in 1971 in Doboj. Having grown up and lived in Banja Luka, she studied sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo till 1992, graduated at Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1996 at the department of sculpture.
Since 1998 she lives in Dubrovnik.
Her works belong to the Dubrovnik circle of contemporary artists, mostly formed around the action of the Art Workshop Lazareti, where it is possible to discern some similarities in the understanding of expression methods and themes, but first of all the conscience of the specific context of Dubrovnik, its heritage and its present.

© Lushsux

LUSHSUX (AUS)

Lushsux is an artist from Melbourne, Australia, widely recognized for his large murals on the streets, walls and other structures. His work has been repeatedly characterized as provocative, confrontational and comical; offering shameless commentary on topics as well as prominent figures that are trending at this very moment.
During his residency he will create new artworks for the STREET ART PASSAGE VIENNA, opening on July 27.