Freiraum Artists

in Residence

index spricht seit 2010 ein Aufenthaltsstipendium: das Freiraum-Stipendium. Über 70 KünstlerInnen diverser Kunstrichtungen haben bereits von dem Angebot profitiert.

Bisherige Stipendiat:innen:

2024
077 Vasudha Kapadia (Indien)
076 Tania Gheerbrant (Frankreich)

2023
075 Ivan Moudov (Bulgarian)
074 Jamie McGee (USA)

073 Etienne Dietzel (Deutschland)
072 Florian Wendler (Deutschland)

071 Daniela Flores Arias (Mexiko)

2022

070 Addie Ulray (USA)

069 Maria Garcia Ibanez (Spanien)

068 Sergey Zhernov (Ukraine)

067 Derzu Campos (Mexiko)

066 Iris Blauensteiner (Österreich)

065 Veronica Casellas Jimenez (Venezuela)

064 Felipe Sáez Riquelme (Chile)

063 Benyamin Reich (Israel)

2021
062 Leah Anderson (USA)

061 Adrian Melis Sosa (Cuba)

060 Maria Sabato (Argentina)

059 Ayo Akinwande (Nigeria)

2020

058 Elisabeth Pape (Germany)

057 Tim Jungmann (Germany)

056 Johanna Hühn (Germany)

2019

055 Franz Wanner (Germany)

054 Carlos Fernandez (Costa Rica)

053 Roscha A. Säidow (Germany)

052 Anna Gielas (Germany)
051 Anne Posten (USA)

050 Heather Kapplow (USA)

2018

049 Song Jing (China)

048 Ed Young (South Africa)

047 Leonie Rörich (Germany)

046 Klaus Illi (Germany)

045 Franziska Becher (Germany)

044 Sophia Hembeck (Germany)

2017

043 Jeanne Gaigher (South Africa)

042 Kelly Lloyd (USA)

041 Matyáš Chochola (Czech Republic)

040 Michaela Roudnicka (Czech Republic)
039 Kosta Tonev (Bulgaria)

2016

038 Jen Calleja (UK)

037 Xanthe Somers (South Africa)
036 Mohammad Namazi (Iran)

035 Fiona McGuigan (USA)

034 Ahmad Alrayan (Syria)

033 Tza Va (Bulgaria)

032 Bettina Wilpert (Germany)

2015

031 Delia Popa (Rumania)

030 Diego Mallo (Spain)

029 Fabian Knöbl (Austria)

028 Vanni Bianconi (UK/CH)

027 Paul Polaris (Germany/CH)

026 James Stephen Wright (UK)

2013
025 Adam Knight (UK)

024 Klaengur Gunnarsson (Island)
023 Elisa Tosoni (Italy)
022 Celeste Najt (Argentina)

021 Antonio Bigini (Italy)

2012

#20 Félicia Atkinson (Belgium)

#19 Marguerite van Sandick (Netherlands)

#18 Enzo Comin (Italy)

#17 Tino Hanekamp (Germany)

#16 Iman Ibrahim (Ethiopia)

#15 Emile Ouroumov (Bulgaria)

#14 Anna Rosa Stohldreier (Germany)

2011

013 Claudia Bröer (Germany)

012 Till Müller-Klug (Germany)

011 Ada Dorian (Germany)

010 Agnieska Kozlowska (Poland)

009 Patricia Bucher (Germany/CH)

008 Alice McCabe (UK)

2010

007 Daniela Lettner (Austria)

006 Emma Nilsson (Germany)

005 Esther Ernst (Germany/CH)

004 Bart Hoevenaars (Netherlands)

003 Sascha Hommer (Germany)

002 Piotr Jaros (Poland)

001 Simon Hari (CH)

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Book of the Dead

cleansing-and-updating

The performance includes a 1963 Seattle telephone directory (White/Yellow pages) and a landline phone on a plinth with a tall stool for the performer to sit on, the performer should be in office wear - white shirt, tie, black or grey suit - they will systematically work their way alphabetically through the directory calling home phone numbers asking for the person named in the book, in a call centre manner. They will have a few set questions to gain the most important information, is the named person alive or dead? Once the data has been collected the performer will us a black marker pen to black out those that are living leaving the numbers of those dead, if the call was inconclusive - the call rings out or the person answering the phone does not know of the listed persons status - they will be listed as dead.

‘Focusing intently upon the value of private information of the inhabitants of the city, I aim to discover different methods in which a person’s identity and activity can be recorded and monitored, juxtaposed to the other modes of data collection in digital technologies. Relating to my recent works 'Amal Ali?' and ‘Esto es un martillo / I no longer need a hammer'(Ongoing), which document how privacy is changing globally.’

“Data entry, collection, computers and stuff can be sensual, it does have a romance, it can be sexy. All these people apart, yet connected, we’re giving these faceless people immortality - tour Washington”

‘At least every fourth person that came up on the system was dead! What was even more curious was that on more than one occasion the current occupant of the number called said they died 12 years ago.’