In April 2021, through an open call, QM&A has selected seventeen artists to co-create and work together in two or three people groups. The final artworks will be exhibited in the AG18 gallery in November 2021.
The exhibition in the Red Carpet Showroom Karlsplatz is a representation of some artists in a variety of media: installation, photography, drawing.
Black Queer Bodies are a Protest
Digital Photograph, 40x50 cm, 2020
Ciwan Veysel
Since the beginning of the Stonewall riots in the USA, black queer and trans bodies have always been at the forefront of riots to protect LGBTQ+ community rights and against government and police violence. The systematic exposure of black queers to racism, homophobia and transphobia in Western societies is still an important problem of the racist dynamic today. The photo series “Black Queer Bodies Are a Protest” aims to reflect the healing power of the LGBTQ+ community together, how important it is to have spaces of solidarity and the existence of black queer bodies as an existential political stance and its visibility through art.
https://ciwanveysel.com/black-queers-are-a-protest-1
MOBILE LAB WORKSHOPOLOGY
Object/installation, 2016
Mary Maggic
Sometimes I tell people I’m an oestrohacker, or that I make freak science , or that I’m a deranged housewife cooking hormones in the kitchen. Despite the embedded sarcasm, it’s how I can communicate a practice which is beyond an artist working in a laboratory who inserts experiments from one white box (the laboratory) into another (the gallery). While it was important for me to “get my hands wet” in laboratory practice, it was equally, if not more important for my practice to “leave” the laboratory and interact with the bodies, environments, and discourses to which it pertains.
https://maggic.ooo/Mobile-Lab-Workshopology
https://maggic.ooo/
MYCOWEAR – REACTIVE FUNGI WEARABLE
Silk top overgrown with mushrooms & mycelium from the Phoenix Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus pulmonarius), metal hanger with shoulder pads, sisal, breadboard, wire, plugs, 2021
Maaijke Middelbeek
Slip on and plug in to sense, connect and communicate with fungi. Spend a day being fungi or getting close, perceiving the world from a fungal point of view. Fungal networks monitor a large number of data streams as part of their everyday existence. If we plug into the mycelial network (the interconnected roots of a mushroom, a vast microscopic web) and interpret the signals they use to process information, we can not only learn more about them, they’ll also sense us and the environment we move in, as we sense them. Reactive fungi wearables stimulate parallel sensing and process and exchange information between a hosting body linked with the wearable ecological unit growing mushrooms and mycelium. A fungi wearable can not survive long without the host organism or it’s incubator and will loose activity and go dormant after about 24 hours.
www.maaijkemiddelbeek.com
Blue Moon Rising
Digital photograph, 59,4x84,1cm, 2021
Xenia Snapiro
This photo is from series of my works which I’ve made in an attempt to demonstrate how people, our vision, and our perception of the world changes during the night time.
I took photographs after 9 pm, the time when the most ordinary places, or the most masked being, reveals its secret identity: bare, mysterious and inspiring.
Something that haunts our work, love, and fantasies. The hidden divinity that in fact haunts every one of us, even for an instant, at one time or another.
I associate MARY with the energy of water: destructive, powerful, but also bewitching and deep. At night, in the neon blue light, on the pieces of crushed asphalt, she isn’t dancing, she floats.
www.instagram.com/snapiro/
"Your" present
Pen drawing & digital coloring; digital print , 15x15cm, 2021
Pedro del Real
A joke on present giving and the difficulty of empathy.