Category: INTERVENTIONS

HOME INVASION (2022 – ongoing)

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Home Invasion deals with questions of freedom of global circulation. There are long lists of organic substances prohibited for import by travelers, depending on where they come from and where they are going. On the other hand, matter spreads around the globe uncontrollably, fueled by movement of goods.

The Home Invasion bottle message jars are as „free“ as some movements or thoughts. They are re-labeled, refilled and smuggled, then left to be taken and to contemplate the value of matter in the right or wrong place. This abstract value is one we give to almost everything. Art may remind us of how relative it can be. What has an ideational value for one may be worthless for everyone else.

The collector of Home (Made) Invasion is also free to attribute value to her or his jar that symbolically crossed borders for them. The act of taking a picture and mailing it to the artist adds to surmount the passivity assigned to art consumers, rewards the curiosity on both sides as one of the most important drives to understand the world around us, and finally completes a circle and the swap deal. Home Invasion is also a possible answer to the question: What remains? And what was it worth?

Initiated in 2022 as part of an artist residency in Chicago, Amina Handke spreads a few Home Invasion jars in art places around the world. To this date (December 2024) a total of 12 jars – each from the artist’s country of origin, Austria, and unique in terms of shape and content – are circulating. They were originally installed in Chicago, USA (Zhou B Art Centre), Alghero, Italy (Museo Casa Manno); Venice, Italy (Austrian Biennale Pavilion), Istanbul, Turkey (Müze Gazhane) and Berlin, Germany (ZK/U). The Pictures that were sent to the artist by the finders/collectors a year later are published here:

NO.HOT_L (2022 – ongoing)

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Artistic interventions in temporary travel spaces

NO.HOT_L is a transdisciplinary artistic intervention series temporarily accomodating in holiday apartments and other transitory living spaces. Performative, installative and collaborative artistic interventions developed on site deal with phantoms and questionable aspects of “travel”, “home” and “work”. Amina Handke as artist and curator uses given space and furniture to create communicative stagings, recombinations and present-tations in the no/wo/man’s land between private and public.

Comparably, definitions of authorship are being expanded, as more artists and art related persons based both on-site and abroad are invited to collaborate and contribute. The ensemble of works, exchange and processes is the declared aim and product: The apartment is the exhibition, the exhibition a film setting, and the film is shown in the apartment. The cast of “artists” and “audience” is overlapping while exchanging informally in the Salon and connecting simultaneously with other places and times via portable devices and the internet wormhole.

Site specific, transdisciplinary, collaborational and communicational micro events

CHICAGO 22 EDITION

June 15 – 19, 2022

DFBRL8R GALLERY & ZHOUB ART FOUNDATION

ISTANBUL 22 EDITION

October 6 – 19, 2022

ISTANBUL BIENNALE PARALLEL EVENT IN COOPERATION WITH PASAJ

BERLIN 23 EDITION

November 26 – 29, 2023

IN COOPERATION WITH ZK/U AND ISTANBULBERLIN

PARIS 24 EDITION

April 12 – 16, 2024

SUPPORTED BY L’EUROPE AUTOUR DE L’EUROPE AND LE NEUVIÈME PAYS

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AAA! (2018 – ongoing)

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Actionist collective

AAA! (Almost Aged Actionists Anonymous) is an artistic self-help group with the aim of exchanging and developing intervention ideas that can easily be converted into practice by single persons. The interventions and actions deal with realities of women over 40 on the borders of public and private spaces, of legality and with role constructions and clichés.

AAA! was started in the context of the festival Wienwoche in 2018. Actionist ideas and other inspirations from informal meetings have been collected on the AAA! website since then as work-in-process.

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THE UNKNOWN (2017)

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In situ performance at the Festival Of Regions

A woman is standing alone at the side of the road – is she a hitchhiker, a prostitute, seeking help, fleeing, displaced, lost or deranged? Her looks, anyway, are inconspicuous: apparently local, conventionally dressed, no luggage other than a handbag, aged around 40. She is trying to wave down cars.

Once a car stops she does not get in but tells short excerpts from first-person accounts by women driven into various kinds of dependency through the open window. The texts are based on the film script of “It Happened Just Before” (Anja Salomonowitz, 2006).

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(2017)

Performance

22 photographic prints (40×60 cm)

additional material, overall sizes variable

In the “Fasching” (carnival) season people disguise and often hide their faces. A custom that allows different interpretations, depending on the point of view. Thus also an occasion to reflect on dress regulations and conventions, on conformity and role models; about what is familiar or strange / exotic, especially concerning the own “cultural background”.

Carinthia (Austria) as my family’s origin region is the setting for an experiment that inconspicuously confuses stigmatizing tendencies in contemporary image production, involving the local photographer Franziska David who usually works for regional media: The woman dressed in black is a stranger adapting to this and that custom and stands out even more by doing so, her veiled face being a concession to seemingly different, contradictory conventions.