JUNGE AKADEMIE: Open Studios | Offene Ateliers

Several times a year, the JUNGE AKADEMIE opens its studios in Hanseatenweg for all-day open studios with presentations by current scholarship holders. The spacious, two-storey studios designed by architect Werner Düttmann with a view of the Tiergarten are used by the scholarship holders as an exhibition space to show existing and emerging works and provide insights into the panorama of their ideas and projects.

With presentations by Maithu Bùi, Josephine Macken and Steloolive.

Maithu Bùi's(Human Machine Fellow) ongoing research on networks of violence explores how technologies embody polytomies intertwined with endless wars, home automation and border security. Polytomies represent nodes in branching models where at least three or more branches emanate from one point, indicating relationships between clusters, such as between smart devices and ecological systems. The Operation Deminer project examines the exploitation of marginalized creatures and technologies in the removal of mines and explosives and their impact on the environment. fromBattlefields toRoboders examines reductive technologies that have migrated to artificial borders after being tested and used in wars. Robotic Domicides deals with the dichotomy of potential crime scenes in intelligent houses and intelligent violence outside these houses.

With lines, surfaces and temporality of materials, scholarship holder Josephine Macken ( music section) explores approaches to notation via materials in her practice as a composer and instrumentalist, conceiving scores not as representations of static objects in space, but as dynamic unfoldings in time. Visitors will experience the studio in its lived, dynamic state with exhibited works in various stages of completion: half-built (sometimes half-sounding) instruments, scores on fabrics suspended from railings and lighting fixtures, or works that function as instructions for the production of scores. In this way, the studio becomes an intimate space for listening. With interventions by the artist.

At the heart of the work of composer and sound artist Steloolive (music section) is a tireless passion for the evolution of sound. He combines different influences and transcends the boundaries of genres and expectations. For the Open Studio, he is expanding his ongoing "smell project" with The Art of Listening with the Eyes and Smelling with the Ears. As part of the residency, he explores the experimental practice of the abstract 'smellscape' through a fusion of image and sound in an installation format. With this project, Steloolive questions sensory perception and deepens our understanding of the world that surrounds us.