Lena Michalik
I am an artist and researcher living in Vienna,
born by the sea, raised in the mountains and tempered by metropolitan cities.
In my work I merge my backgrounds architecture, crafting and performance into a new practice with which I deconstruct and explore material and immaterial spaces aiming to examine their social and ecological potentials. I focus on listening and sensing and utilize a range of media to encourage imagination and new perspectives.
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01 RE:SONANZ
What happens when four people gather in a room for 100 days in a row and listen to each
other unconditionally, while having the pressure of producing an art project / graduation project?
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Performance,
Sound,
Installation,
Text
02 In the Shadow of the Everyday
With the dawn, centres shift. Previously densely populated areas disperse and regroup. Quiet places become loud and loud places become sonic deserts.
The focus shifts and perception sharpens. Spaces for encounter and movement, paths and valves open up.
In the nocturnal shadows of everyday settings, we take in the streets - together.
- Can you hear the foxes go to sleep? -
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Happening
03
Connecting through something
that
makes you want to turn away
Is one dead while sneezing?
Perfromative investigations in the act of seneezing
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Performance,
Sound,
Text
04 PROTEST-Blow Up!
The thought of a giant blown-up megaphone with a fluttering paper tongue sounded amazing!
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Object;
Exhibition Design
05 Nocturnal Dance
Empathizing with dying nocturnal insects.
What does it take to disrupt our own mode of movement, to interfere with arriving and resting?
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object
06 Sour Possibilities
Seeking entanglements between bacteria, fungi and humans in times of crisis - artistic experiments with fermentation.
Are we just a bag filled with microorganisms, eating, digesting, feeling and living and dying?
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Video,
Installation
07 Avatar Pleasures
Oh my!
Our Avatars got stuck on Social Media!
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Animation
08 Steiermark Schau 23
Exploring ecosystems and biodiversity through drawings.
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2023
Drawing
09 Familie Kirschgarten
A comedy on paper.
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2021
Painting
10 When I open up my messy archives
It is as if all sense of seemingly unrelated things that I myself have collected over the past years, days and seconds…..would be newly elicited.
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2023
Performance,
Sound,
Text