Volkskundemuseum Wien
Otto Wagner Areal, Pavillon 1
Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien
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Hidden meanings and appropriations of archived materials are reimagined through an expanded, performative concept of culture. Artistic research serves to re and decontextualize these materials and examine their relevance today.
The engagement with folklore – in the tensions and parallels between urban and rural, Southern African and Central European, historical and contemporary – illuminates power structures, folkloristic appropriations, colonialism, and the construction of "folk culture” in multiple contexts
The artistic process generates new narratives, traditions, and rituals that acknowledge the past and view the archive as a space of possibility for the future. The aim is to liberate archived materials from frozen political, commercial, and populist appropriation – not through a pursuit of purity, but by enabling new voices, contexts, and uses.
As part of the Through the Dark microfestival at the Volkskundemuseum Wien, a live installation will take place on September 13 in Pavilion 1 of the Otte-Wagner complex, in the bunker/cellar space. Research findings and artistic responses – including objects, drawings, audio recordings with Austrian and Southern African artists, and philosophical interventions – will form the basis of this open, multimedia live studio. The resulting installation will remain accessible until it is reconfigured in November.
I was looking for something… and The ZoNE are kindly supported by:
Das Andere Heimatmuseum / Schloss Lind, SalvatorHaus, The Centre for the Less Good Idea, the Austrian Cultural Forum Pretoria, and the Federal Ministry of the Republic of Austria for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport.
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THE ZoNE is a self-defining, self-manufacturing, and self-subverting collaborative matrix that exists and thrives beyond confining scaffolds. It is both art and science. And it is neither. It speaks whereof we cannot speak, exploring the undefinable through paradox and practice.This transdisciplinary collective is searching to define a third space of explorative (re)framing, a conceptual and performative dimension that is less rigid and more connected than the current intellectual and institutional holding spaces for so-called high arts and pure sciences. A meeting place, where experimenters and explorers are not defined by titles or disciplines, but by what their lived experience and current expertise and interests contribute to articulating urgent questions and inventing forms with coherent agency.
Founded by Bronwyn Lace (artist & performer); Johannes Jaeger (biologist & philosopher), Marcus Neustetter (artist & activator), Basak Senova, (designer, curator, & researcher) they engage in a practice-led research program that explores, questions, and displaces the traditional domains of curatorial, artistic, and scientific processes.
BIOGRAPHIES of the participating team
Bronwyn Lace (1980, Francistown, Botswana) is a visual and performance artist. Site specificity and responsiveness are central to her practice. Lace’s focus is on the collaborative relationships between art and other fields, including physics, history, museology, philosophy and literature. In 2016 Lace joined William Kentridge in the founding and animating of the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, South Africa, today Lace is the Centre’s steering force and its international liaison arm and lives and works between Johannesburg and Vienna.
Marcus Neustetter (1976, Johannesburg, South Africa) is interested in cross-disciplinary practice, site-specificity, socially engaged interventions and the intersection of art and activism. His artworks and projects across Africa, Europe, America and Asia search for a balance between poetic form and asking critical questions. Ideas often circle the intersection of art, science and technology in an attempt to find new perspectives on his process. Neustetter is the co-director of The Trinity Session since 2000 in South Africa and an adjunct professor with the Nelson Mandela University. He currently moves between his studios in Johannesburg and Vienna.
Johannes Jaeger (1973, Chur, Switzerland) is a freelance researcher, philosopher, and educator. Originally trained as an evolutionary systems biologist, he is currently the leader of a research project called "Pushing the Boundaries," funded by the John Templeton Foundation (USA) and hosted at the Dept of Philosophy of the University of Vienna. He is also associate faculty at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) in Vienna and a scholar of the Ronin Institute. He builds transdisciplinary bridges between biology, AI research, philosophy, and the arts. His current research interests concern the nature of the organism, its agency and evolution, the differences between living & artificial systems (and their symbiosis), as well as the practice of open science. He lives outside Vienna with his family and their cat.
The engagement with folklore – in the tensions and parallels between urban and rural, Southern African and Central European, historical and contemporary – illuminates power structures, folkloristic appropriations, colonialism, and the construction of "folk culture” in multiple contexts
The artistic process generates new narratives, traditions, and rituals that acknowledge the past and view the archive as a space of possibility for the future. The aim is to liberate archived materials from frozen political, commercial, and populist appropriation – not through a pursuit of purity, but by enabling new voices, contexts, and uses.
As part of the Through the Dark microfestival at the Volkskundemuseum Wien, a live installation will take place on September 13 in Pavilion 1 of the Otte-Wagner complex, in the bunker/cellar space. Research findings and artistic responses – including objects, drawings, audio recordings with Austrian and Southern African artists, and philosophical interventions – will form the basis of this open, multimedia live studio. The resulting installation will remain accessible until it is reconfigured in November.
I was looking for something… and The ZoNE are kindly supported by:
Das Andere Heimatmuseum / Schloss Lind, SalvatorHaus, The Centre for the Less Good Idea, the Austrian Cultural Forum Pretoria, and the Federal Ministry of the Republic of Austria for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport.
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THE ZoNE is a self-defining, self-manufacturing, and self-subverting collaborative matrix that exists and thrives beyond confining scaffolds. It is both art and science. And it is neither. It speaks whereof we cannot speak, exploring the undefinable through paradox and practice.This transdisciplinary collective is searching to define a third space of explorative (re)framing, a conceptual and performative dimension that is less rigid and more connected than the current intellectual and institutional holding spaces for so-called high arts and pure sciences. A meeting place, where experimenters and explorers are not defined by titles or disciplines, but by what their lived experience and current expertise and interests contribute to articulating urgent questions and inventing forms with coherent agency.
Founded by Bronwyn Lace (artist & performer); Johannes Jaeger (biologist & philosopher), Marcus Neustetter (artist & activator), Basak Senova, (designer, curator, & researcher) they engage in a practice-led research program that explores, questions, and displaces the traditional domains of curatorial, artistic, and scientific processes.
BIOGRAPHIES of the participating team
Bronwyn Lace (1980, Francistown, Botswana) is a visual and performance artist. Site specificity and responsiveness are central to her practice. Lace’s focus is on the collaborative relationships between art and other fields, including physics, history, museology, philosophy and literature. In 2016 Lace joined William Kentridge in the founding and animating of the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, South Africa, today Lace is the Centre’s steering force and its international liaison arm and lives and works between Johannesburg and Vienna.
Marcus Neustetter (1976, Johannesburg, South Africa) is interested in cross-disciplinary practice, site-specificity, socially engaged interventions and the intersection of art and activism. His artworks and projects across Africa, Europe, America and Asia search for a balance between poetic form and asking critical questions. Ideas often circle the intersection of art, science and technology in an attempt to find new perspectives on his process. Neustetter is the co-director of The Trinity Session since 2000 in South Africa and an adjunct professor with the Nelson Mandela University. He currently moves between his studios in Johannesburg and Vienna.
Johannes Jaeger (1973, Chur, Switzerland) is a freelance researcher, philosopher, and educator. Originally trained as an evolutionary systems biologist, he is currently the leader of a research project called "Pushing the Boundaries," funded by the John Templeton Foundation (USA) and hosted at the Dept of Philosophy of the University of Vienna. He is also associate faculty at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) in Vienna and a scholar of the Ronin Institute. He builds transdisciplinary bridges between biology, AI research, philosophy, and the arts. His current research interests concern the nature of the organism, its agency and evolution, the differences between living & artificial systems (and their symbiosis), as well as the practice of open science. He lives outside Vienna with his family and their cat.
