Yesterday’s small workshop at HONF, House of Natural Fiber. Click here to check out some pics:
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Work in progress starting 20.7. @ Luftsteuer, showwindow exhibition
Finnissage 7.8.!
Maria Hera about Sideways:
“My first years in Vienna I spent walking along the streets, exploring this beautiful city. I was not just interested in the architecture, parks and places, but also in the people and their stories. I have the strange habit to pay a relaxed attention on the things lying on the streets. My fantasy starts spinning around, asking questions and imagining the stories behind the leftover objects.
In the photo-series Viennese Blood, 2009 I show the surprising amount of discarded drug packaging lying in the streets. I found this phenomenon quite amazing and I asked myself whether this could be the post-modern vestiges of the city of Freud.
Who are these people leaving all this packaging behind day after day? Why do these inhabitants of Vienna feel the need to medicate themselves in such quantities? What is the cause of their sleeplessness, restlessness, and unhappiness? Is this the dark side of the easy-going Viennese Schmäh?
Every foil-covered blister pack represents some synthesised chemical which is circulating the blood-stream in our fellow citizens.
In this period I collected also lots of notes, letters, photographs, even certifications lying on the streets. For the show at Mz Balthazars Lab I would like to open again the box and let out the Voices of my Viennese fellows. Once again I want to open the dialogue and start a communication by installing this tiny stories into the window-shop of the lab, in order to bring them again into the public and open once eyes for the hidden beauty of everyday ́s life!”
!!!!!FINISSAGE 7.8.2013!!!!!!
Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory proudly welcomes our current artist-in-residence Alessa Esteban. The Mexican artist will be working in our studio at Sechshauserstraße 28, 1150 Vienna, from the 1st July to 31st August, 2013.
Fashionably Voodooooooh!
Polaroid Digitalized Photograph
Measures Variable
2010
About the artist:
“I was born in Mexico in the town where the famous tequila is made, but I grew up in the City, my mother, a very beautiful Mexican woman, always moved from one place to another so I was a little nomad. My father is originally from Russia, but I never met him. My mother use to tell me stories about him and his frozen land. My favourite writers are Russian of course.
Thanks to my mother Im such a creative person, she used to tell me bizarre stories and used to sing morbid tunes for bed. My very first gift before I knew how to walk or talk, was a box of colors, my mother really estimulated my artistic sensibility taking me every weekend to theatre and movies. Then my sisters were born and I felt very responsible for them, I started to read a lot, to have nightmares and that’s exactly how my work started.
I never stoped studying, when I was 15 years old I made a master in Dramaturgie at the BUAP university in Puebla, Mexico; I did theatre a lot, with different theatre groups, I studied literature critics and poetry at the writers house in Mexico, I still write some things but I never publish. At the end I decided to study professionally visual arts.
At the moment I’m studying at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien a multimedia and sculpture specialization at the Erwin Wurm’s class. I finished Fine Arts Academy in Mexico City on 2005, and fortunately at the same year I came to Austria with an artistic residency at Künstlerhaus Studio in SalzburgI had two ”open studio” very successful receptions in the Landesatelier-Künstlerhaus Salzburg during my stay at that time.
Next year I had a scholarship for the Summer Academy at the Salzburg’s fortress, so I kept on coming back to Austria constantly.
I studied a master in psychoanalysis in Mexico City before, for three years, studies based on freud and Lacan theories basically, 2000-2005. But also I found Melanie Klein’s view very interesting. I left the formation when I was going to start practice with patients. For me was completed the aim of knowing enough to apply it to my art work.
I had solo shows at KBK arte Contemporáneo Gallery in Mexico City and on Funk Fu Net virtual gallery created in Prague in the 2006.
My work is represented in the United Arab Emirates by Carbon12 Dubai Gallery; I was at the show “Seven Positions” on 2009.
In Mexico I exhibited in Proyectos Monclova Gallery, 2006; and I have had participated in several collective exhibits with different galleries like Ramis Barquet in New York, Garash Galería in México City, Luis Adelantado in Valencia, Art & Idea Vienna and Poly Gallery in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Some of these galleries showed my work in different art festivals like MACO, Miami Scope or WTC art fair in Beijing China, this last one with Arcaute Arte Contemporáneo Gallery.
I’ve been quite busy organizing my own projects with artists from different countries, nationalities and art medias, involving sponsorships from international cultural institutions as well as private companies, promoting a real exchange of ideas and enriching as much as possible the process of working from each artist and myself, contacting institutions and finding the support for developing cultural events based on the colective results. Being in charge of the exhibit in
Bilbao Arte foundation in Spain on 2008 together with my sister, amongst others. We perform together in various cultural and fashion events as the Twisted Sisters, developing concepts together.
I have been living and producing in Vienna, participating in several group exibitions like “site- non site” curated by Amer Abbas or the solo show “Voodoo Tales” I had in the young offspace center C17.
An upcoming show hosted by LandSalzburg represents a very special moment and oportunity to conect my origin land and the beloved country that hosted me since several years ago. I’m very glad to take place on the exhibition in Traklhaus Salzburg 2010.”
More information about the artist: http://www.alessaesteban.com.mx
Sideways
Maria Hera
Luftsteuer – show window project
Mz. Baltazars Laboratory, Sechshauserstraße 28/1150 Wien
About Maria Hera’s project for the exhibition at the Luftsteuer show window:
“My first years in Vienna I spent walking along the streets, exploring this beautiful city. I was
not just interested in the architecture, parks and places, but also in the people and their
stories. I have the strange habit to pay a relaxed attention on the things lying on the
streets. My fantasy starts spinning around, asking questions and imagining the stories
behind the leftover objects.
In the photo-series Viennese Blood, 2009 I show the surprising amount of discarded drug
packaging lying in the streets. I found this phenomenon quite amazing and I asked myself
whether this could be the post-modern vestiges of the city of Freud.
Who are these people leaving all this packaging behind day after day?
Why do these inhabitants of Vienna feel the need to medicate themselves in such
quantities?
What is the cause of their sleeplessness, restlessness, and unhappiness?
Is this the dark side of the easy-going Viennese Schmäh?
Every foil-covered blister pack represents some synthesised chemical which is circulating
the blood-stream in our fellow citizens.
In this period I collected also lots of notes, letters, photographs, even certifications lying on
the streets.
For the show at Mz Balthazars Lab I will open again the box and let out the
Voices of my Viennese fellows. Once again I want to open the dialogue and start a
communication by installing this tiny stories into the window-shop of the lab, in order to
bring them again into the public and open once eyes for the hidden beauty of everyday´s
life!”
Maria Hera, July, 2013.
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About the artist:
Maria Hera was born in 1978 in Hunedoara-Romania. 2002-2007 she studied fine arts at the University of Applied Arts and Science Hannover/DE at Prof. Sigrun Jakubaschke und Prof. Bernhard Garbert. 2007-2008 she attended the master class of Prof. Bernhardt Garbert. Since 2008 Maria Hera lives and works in Vienna.
Her artistic work is focuses on collage, installation and space intervention, photography and street art. The collages are huge papers excrescences rampling all over the walls and creates her own synthesis out of the daily barrage of media images to decode the messages they submit to us and turn them into questions rather than answers.
Selected exhibitions/projects:
Seherin2012 (Fürth-DE), Miss baltazar´s laboratory (Vienna–AT), GIVE ME THE FUTURE (Cluj Napoca-RO), GASTSPIEL2012 (Fürth-DE), Parque del Sol 12 symposium of interdisciplinary art St. (Poelten-AT), Ma soeur 100 tetes (world wide), FREE.SPACE social art FESTIVAL (Vienna-AT), Das Feuer, das der Sonne spottet (Hannover – DE), Homecoming (Hannover – DE), Frauenforscherin/feminist university calender (Vienna-AT), offen2 Kunstraum Benjamin Richard (Leipzig-DE), 99 Red Balloons (Ottawa-CA) Parco di Arte, Roveredo (Tessin-CH), course instructor Romanian Culture Institute (Vienna-AT), Meisterschüler 08, Foro Artistico (Hannover-DE), WIP, Rolleizentrum (Braunschweig-DE) Kreuz und Quer Marktkirche/Kestnergesellschaft (Hannover-DE) 3 feb 2006 Atelier Grammophon (Hannover-DE).
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About Luftsteuer show window project & Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory
The mission of the Luftsteuer Exhibition Project (2013) is to encourage and support solo exhibition projects by artists who call themselves women or trans. The exhibition program is a Mz. Baltazar’s Laboratory project, currently based in a ground-floor atelier at Sechshauserstraße 28, in 15th district, Vienna. Mz. Baltazar’s Laboratory is non-profit organization that playfully demystifies technology by opening up a world where learning new technological tools is fearless, interesting and clear for creative women of all ages. MzBL participants and organizers come from different backgrounds and mindsets to exchange equipment, knowledge, build circuits, play with DIY electronics and interactive art. We encourage each other to learn new tools and collaborate in theory and art groups, workshops and meetings, therefore creating a tech-save women community.
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Notes for editors:
Work-in-progress dates: 20th July – 7th August
Finissage Party: 7th August
Exhibition (inside) space, open during the exhibition opening and other days by appointment to mbl-orga@lists.metalab.at.
High resolution images and logos are available on request.
Contact detail/ enquires:
Curator: Christine Schörkhuber <ch_schoe@servus.at>
Web: www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/
Artist: Maria Hera. Tel: 0605478565 Email: Maria Hera maria.hera@kunstohneraum.de
marahera.blogspot.com
: : Mz Balthazar’s Laboratory in Brussels : :
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: When: Thursday 30 May – 1 June 2013, 14:00-18:00
: With: Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory, with Lale Rodgarkia-Dara (AT) & Patricia Reis (PT)
: Where: Pianofabriek Exhibition space, Rue du Fortstraat 35, 1060 Brussel, Belgium,
: (very near the Brussels Midi:Zuid train station where the Eurostar & Thalys arrive)
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: : About the workshop: Electronics & ArduinA introduction : :
This workshop aims to introduce the basics of electronics, focusing on what is essential for exploiting the open source Arduino platform, and therefore, to build things using different kinds of in and out-puts. We propose a relaxed approach in which questioning is part of the process, and we aim to provide a pleasant environment for exploring, playing with the tools and above all having fun!
The workshop is only for persons who call themselves women or trans. If you love to make things, rather than consuming them, join us!
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– Playing with electronic components and building circuits./ Soldering & wiring up. Working with Arduino & understanding code basics./ Playing with sensors./ Building an interactive device/ art piece.
: : For more information, please contact wendy atttt constantvzw.org, also about informal lodging and for other questions
This workshop is part of the Ruelles project and is supported by Constant as a Samedies event.
http://ruelles.constantvzw.org
http://www.constantvzw.org
http://www.constantvzw.org/site/Mz-Balthazar-s-Laboratory-in.html
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Mz. Baltazar’s Laboratory is a feminist hackerspace and an artist collective based in Vienna. They work with open source technology and philosophy, in a women only space, operating a non-‐ hierachic teaching and informal learning context. The lab offers women space to appropriate electronics and realize interactive art projects. In a three days workshop they will hack hardware, make noise, build angst-‐robots and program open source software. A lot of “stupid” tech questions will be asked as well as art projects will be developed together. No one is an expert, no one is only student, equipment and knowledge are shared in order to articulate yourselves through high tech in novel ways.
am Mittwoch, dem 29. Mai 2013 um 18:00
@ Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory,
Sechshauserstraße 28, 1150 Wien
Für alle, die erfahren wollen, wie mensch richtig eine Lampe anschließt, eine Steckdose auswechselt, wie Stromkreise abgesichert sind …und vieles mehr!
Wir werden uns Grundlagen von 230V Installationen aneignen, und im praktischen Teil werden wir der Elektrik im Laboratory auf den Zahn fühlen.
Keine Vorkenntnisse erforderlich, vorhandenes E-Werkzeug bitte mitbringen!
Der Workshop ist für Frauen und trans* Menschen.
Schon mal ein Handy kaputt gemacht? In diesem Workshop nehmen wir alte Handies auseinander, um mit den darin zum Vorschein kommenden Schätzen und Einzelteilen kleine, sich bewegende Kunstwerke zu bauen. Die wertvollen Metalle, Elektronikteile und Chips im Inneren der Handies werden auf diese Art einem neuen Zweck zugeführt. Es macht Spass, Technologie auf diese Art zu demystifizieren und Schaltkreise zu erfinden, die Geräusche, Licht und Bewegung erzeugen können. Bau dir bei Miss Baltazar`s Lab dein eigenes kleines Elektromüll-Haustier!
Organisiert von www.gisalab.at
in der UniGraz@Museum, 24.Mai 2013: 15-18h
Adresse:
Karl Franzens Universität
Hauptgebäude –
Universitätsplatz 3
Ana de Almeida
Uniforma
“This program is presented in the new PALPlus panoramic format, supported by the European Union”.
In 1997 RTP, the Portuguese public broadcaster started to include a few programs featured in a 16:9 format. Two white arrows would stretch the image in the television screen and the stars of the European Union flag would appear whirling, meanwhile a strong male voice off briefly presented the new format and the Union as its supporter. Afterwards the show would start.
Following the presentation of the new 16:9 analogical PALPlus format at the International Consumer Electronics Exhibition in Berlin, in 1993, the European Union approved a plan to support the production and broadcast of 16:9 programs. This standardization process was considered mainly to be an attempt of approximation to the cinematographic wide screen format.
Standardization processes are something that we are used to and that we easily relate to the European Union, quality and safety and yet uniformazation is a negatively connoted term binded with a (constantly updated) collective memory of totalitarianism.
At the Mz.Baltazar’s display I will present the first outcomes of an artistic research about the historical, political and practical aspects of image formatting.
The main question of my research is the one of in which way did the conversion to the 16:9 wide screen format, agreed upon by the European Union and the United States constituted a fundamental piece for the construction of an European identity?
The first stage of this project leads to a reflection upon the relation between image formatting decisions and the audiovisual market. Are these also practical decisions that have in view an internationalization and democratization of the image, or do they only serve economic purposes, as the production of new devices and equipments?
The power of uniformization and standardization always belonged to the biggest economical powers and 4:3 to 16:9 is a global process that shapes the production and reception of the moving image.
About the artist:
Ana de Almeida is from Lisbon, Portugal.
She lives and works in Vienna.
www.anadealmeida.com
About Windowshop project & Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory
The mission of the Luftsteuer Exhibition Project (2013) is to encourage and support solo exhibition projects by artists who call themselves women or trans. The exhibition program is a Mz. Baltazar’s Laboratory project, currently based in a ground-floor atelier at Sechshauserstraße 28, in 15th district, Vienna. Mz. Baltazar’s Laboratory is non-profit organization that playfully demystifies technology by opening up a world where learning new technological tools is fearless, interesting and clear for creative women of all ages. Mz. Baltazar’s participants and organizers come from different backgrounds and mindsets to exchange equipment, knowledge, build circuits, play with DIY electronics and interactive art. We encourage each other to learn new tools and collaborate in theory and art groups, workshops and meetings, therefore creating a tech women community.
Ein Luftsteuer – show window Projekt
Uniforma
“This program is presented in the new PALPlus panoramic format, supported by the European Union”.
1997 begann die öffentlich-rechtliche Fernsehanstalt in Portugal einige Sendungen im neuen 16:9 Format zu lancieren. Auf dem Bildschirm erschienen zwei weiße Pfeile die das Fernsehbild auseinanderziehen und die Sterne der EU-Flagge zu kreisen beginnen. Aus dem Off ertönt eine markante Männerstimme, die in kurzen Sätzen das neue Format und die EU als dessen Unterstützerin vorstellt. Danach beginnt die Show.
Die portugiesische Künstlerin Ana de Almeida erforscht in ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit Uniforma, anhand des oben beschriebenen Ereignisses im Portugiesischen Fernsehen, inwieweit Standardisierungsprozesse dazu beitragen eine gemeinsame europäische Identität zu formen. Dabei lotet sie den schmalen Grat zwischen Qualitätssicherung, Vereinfachung und Einheitlichkeit einerseits und der im Kollektiven Gedächtnis als negativ und erschreckend konnotierten Erfahrungen von Gleichmacherei und Totalitarismus aus.
Die Künstlerin
Ana de Almeida, geboren in Lissabon / PT, Studierte Mixed Media Art und Malerei am Lahti Institute of Fine Arts, Finland und Lissabon Faculty of Fine Arts, Portugal.
2011 absolvierte sie einen Master of Critical Studies an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien.
Ana de Ameida lebt und arbeitet in Wien.
Dear Baltazarians,
Today a 6pm is a Lilypad Arduino workshop by Stefanie Wuschitz
Please bring a laptop and textiles!
Sechshauserstraße 28
1150 Vienna
Material costs: 5 EUR
Heute findet ein Lilypad Workshop in Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory statt! Du kannst mit dem Lilypad-Arduino tragbare, textile Elektronik herstellen und reaktive Schaltkreise aus Stoff nähen. Bring bitte einfach Nadel, Faden und Laptop mit! Wir besorgen leitenden Stoff und Elektronikteile!
Die Türpolitik des Workshops ist:
Female and trans people only.
Nähmaschinen sehr herzlich willkommen!
Materialkosten:
5 euro